5 decades
European football, decade by decade
All 58 squads in the draft, grouped by when they played — from the European Cup of the 1980s, before the group stage existed, to a season that hasn't finished yet.
Each era page carries every squad of that decade, what each side won, which countries the decade belonged to, and what the ratings say about drafting from it. Four of the five decades also have a draft mode that narrows the wheel to exactly those squads; the 1980s has none, which makes its page the only place those five sides sit together.
Looking for one club across the decades instead? The club pages follow the 14 clubs with more than one squad in the database.
The eras
Nine squads, nine different clubs — the only decade here where no club appears twice, and the only one still being written.
The strongest decade in the database by some distance, and the one nobody has to be told about — Messi and Ronaldo, at 97 and 96, in the same ten years.
Fourteen squads and the decade's most crowded top end — five English sides, four Italian, four Spanish, and one Porto team that beat all of them to it.
Sixteen squads, the largest era in the database — the decade European football changed its format, its economics and its map, all at once.
Five squads from five different countries — the only decade in the database where that is true, and the one the draft modes don't cover.