Relative age effect (RAE) known as the birth date effect phenomena that widely used in identifying the individual talents and skills which early born have greater advantages compare to later born individuals. The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship of RAE between European football leagues team rankings. For this study it involved a total of 946 football players (n=946) from every top four European football league which included the English Premier League (EPL) (United Kingdom), Serie A (Italy), La Liga (Spain) and Bundesliga (Germany). The secondary data were collected from every football league official website and categorized into four different quartiles (Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4). The cut-off date started at 1st of January for Italy, Spain, Germany and England according to the equality principles that was established by FIFA. Then, the Chi-square (χ2) test assisted for birth month distribution into four different quartiles in order to gain frequencies in each.....

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