Cristiano Ronaldo has been ranked as the 212th most attractive footballer in the Premier League, according to a new study.
Scientific research from RantCasino.com has looked at every player ahead of the 2022/23 season and applied the 'golden ratio' - a mathematical symmetry algorithm, that influences the human’s perception of attractiveness.
It gave every player a final percentage score and those closest to 100% were deemed the most attractive.
It's important to remember that physique, height and, well, how good each player is at football isn't included in the study. Facial features only.
So, what were the results?
Well, as mentioned, Ronaldo ranked pretty lowly in 212th with a ratio of 52.81%.
The study isn't particularly kind to heartthrob Jack Grealish either as he's down in 167th with a golden ratio of 60.14%.
Arsenal's Ben White, who is also considered one of the best-looking players in the league, is in 111th with 66.09%.
So, who is the sexiest footballer in the Premier League?
That award goes to Bournemouth's Jack Stacey.
The defender, 26, has played 81 times in all competitions for the Cherries since signing from Luton in 2019. Last season, he appeared in 22 Championship matches as they earned promotion back to the Premier League.
Stacey's 89.53% golden ratio beat Brighton's Teddy Jenks, who came second. The 20-year-old is yet to appear in the Premier League for the Seagulls having spent last season on loan at Aberdeen.
Brighton also have the third best-looking player in the league in the more well-known Leandro Trossard.
Trossard scored eight goals in 34 Premier League matches for Brighton last season and his good looks mean he's no doubt capable of scoring off the pitch as well... sorry!
There aren't too many big names in the top 10 - although Leeds' Diego Llorente and Bournemouth's Jefferson Lerma feature.
Two Manchester City youngsters in Oscar Bobb and Joshua Wilson-Esbrand also make the top 10.
There are a few high-profile stars in the top 20 as Philippe Coutinho (11th), Kieran Tierney (14th), Kevin De Bruyne (16th) and Luis Diaz (18th) feature.
So, without further ado, check out the ranking of every Premier League footballer based on how 'sexy' they are.
We'll treat you to images of the 10 most aesthetically pleasing players before you can check out the rest of the list.
But remember, beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
For more information on the methodology of the scientific study, please scroll to the bottom of the article.
- Jack Stacey
2. Teddy Jenks
3. Leandro Trossard
4. Oscar Bobb
5. Diego Llorente
6. Jefferson Lerma
7. Joachim Andersen
8. Zan-Luk Leban
9. Joshua Wilson-Esbrand
10. Gavin Bazunu
- Philippe Coutinho
- Matt Clarke
- Matthew Cox
- Kieran Tierney
- Nikola Vlasic
- Kevin De Bruyne
- Emiliano Buendía
- Luis Díaz
- Adam Armstrong
- Jeremy Sarmiento
- Aleksandar Mitrovic
- Raúl Jiménez
- Martin Ødegaard
- Fábio Carvalho
- Will Hughes
- Aaron Ramsdale
- Robin Olsen
- Asmir Begovic
- Çaglar Söyüncü
- Ethan Fitzhugh
- Chiquinho
- Takehiro Tomiyasu
- Maxwell Haygarth
- Adam Lallana
- Craig Dawson
- Álvaro Fernández
- Joe Bryan
- James Ward-Prowse
- Liam Delap
- Shane Flynn
- Timo Werner
- Cafú
- Alex McCarthy
- Philip Billing
- Curtis Jones
- Aymeric Laporte
- Adam Webster
- Kyle Walker
- Ben Pearson
- Lewis Cook
- Rico Henry
- Vitaly Janelt
- Ilkay Gündogan
- Pierre-Emile Højbjerg
- Kristoffer Ajer
- Gabriel Martinelli
- Hwang Hee-Chan
- Jarrod Bowen
- Andrew Robertson
- Solly March
- Harry Wilson
- Yves Bissouma
- Josh Onomah
- Pablo Fornals
- Scott McKenna
- Jannik Vestergaard
- Wesley Fofana
- Levi Colwill
- Lorent Tolaj
- Finley Stevens
- Xande Silva
- Michael Keane
- Richarlison
- Ruben Loftus-Cheek
- Zanka
- Emiliano Martínez
- Willy Caballero
- Dejan Kulusevski
- Luke Thomas
- Fraser Forster
- Adam Forshaw
- Jordan Pickford
- Jarell Quansah
- Timothy Castagne
- Maximilian Kilman
- James McArthur
- Ederson
- Chris Mepham
- John McGinn
- Jacob Ramsey
- Ryan Christie
- Ryan Fredericks
- Lyanco
- David de Gea
- Myles Peart-Harris
- Antonee Robinson
- Calum Chambers
- Ryan Bertrand
- Sam Johnstone
- Tim Ream
- Thiago
- Matthew Craig
- Scott Carson
- Phil Foden
- Ryan Yates
- Mads Roerslev
- Cristian Romero
- Emile Smith Rowe
- Declan Rice
- Sam Packham
- Ben White
- Sergio Reguilón
- Richie Laryea
- Andreas Pereira
- Victor Lindelöf
- Tomas Soucek
- Dane Scarlett
- Alexander Iwobi
- Luke Ayling
- Karl Darlow
- Yoane Wissa
- Marcel Lavinier
- Thiago Silva
- Vicente Guaita
- Emiliano Marcondes
- Daniel Oyegoke
- Sam Surridge
- Issa Diop
- Mohamed Salah
- Matt Doherty
- Rob Holding
- Jamie Vardy
- Cédric Soares
- Valentino Livramento
- Jonny Evans
- Joel Ward
- Neal Maupay
- Lukasz Fabianski
- Harry Maguire
- Bernd Leno
- Rúben Neves
- David Brooks
- Daniel Podence
- Oriol Romeu
- Tyler Morton
- Kai Havertz
- Manuel Lanzini
- Nathan Aké
- Tom Cairney
- Gabriel Jesus
- Pascal Groß
- Leon Bailey
- Stuart Dallas
- Rayan Aït-Nouri
- Christian Eriksen
- Remi Matthews
- Harrison Reed
- Dominic Calvert-Lewin
- Alphonse Areola
- Tom Davies
- André Gomes
- Hakim Ziyech
- David Raya
- Patrick Bamford
- Jack Grealish
- Diogo Jota
- Marcus Rashford
- Yerry Mina
- Jason Steele
- Lloyd Kelly
- Granit Xhaka
- James Maddison
- Alfie Whiteman
- Maksim Paskotsi
- Matty Cash
- Raphaël Varane
- Jonny
- Rodri
- Rodrigo
- Eric Dier
- Ben Godfrey
- Bernardo Silva
- Riyad Mahrez
- Jack Butland
- César Azpilicueta
- Romain Perraud
- Ollie Watkins
- Nathan Redmond
- Ben Chilwell
- Jamaal Lascelles
- Tom Heaton
- Nathaniel Clyne
- Siriki Dembélé
- Marcus Bettinelli
- Conor Coady
- José Sá
- Hamza Choudhury
- Tyrone Mings
- William Smallbone
- Liam Cooper
- Morgan Sanson
- Caoimhin Kelleher
- João Cancelo
- Demarai Gray
- Ivan Toney
- Alexis Mac Allister
- Joe Rodon
- Marçal
- James Justin
- Scott McTominay
- Michael Olise
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Hugo Lloris
- Harry Winks
- John Stones
- Lewis Gordon
- Joël Veltman
- Sergi Canós
- Mathias Jensen
- Pontus Jansson
- Jean-Philippe Gbamin
- Pedro Neto
- Pascal Struijk
- Eric Bailly
- Nathan Patterson
- Japhet Tanganga
- Bruno Fernandes
- Reece Hannam
- Jadon Sancho
- Christian Nørgaard
- Marcos Alonso
- Luka Milivojevic
- João Moutinho
- Darren Randolph
- Alisson
- Vladimír Coufal
- Gabriel Magalhães
- Alex Telles
- Michail Antonio
- Luke Shaw
- Danny Ings
- Rodrigo Bentancur
- Mason Mount
- Robin Koch
- Marc Albrighton
- Rúben Dias
- Trent Alexander-Arnold
- Jaidon Anthony
- Jan Bednarek
- Nathan Collins
- Chem Campbell
- James Milner
- Jairo Riedewald
- Crysencio Summerville
- Ricardo Pereira
- Lucas Moura
- Jack Harrison
- Andros Townsend
- Kelechi Iheanacho
- Mateo Kovacic
- Frank Onyeka
- Youri Tielemans
- Dominic Solanke
- Douglas Luiz
- Reece James
- Mateusz Klich
- Marc Cucurella
- Jordan Henderson
- Emerson Royal
- Bryan Mbeumo
- Terence Kongolo
- Bobby De Cordova-Reid
- James Tarkowski
- Saman Ghoddos
- Kasper Schmeichel
- Stuart Armstrong
- Allan
- Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
- Junior Firpo
- Jorginho
- Raheem Sterling
- Salomón Rondón
- Josh Dasilva
Check out the methodology below:
1. RantCasino.com extracted official images of every Premier League footballer for the upcoming 2022/2023 season to establish through a mathematical equation which footballers are considered the most attractive. Source utilised: https://www.premierleague.com/players?se=489&cl=-1
2. Only the front-facing headshots containing no face coverings or headgear were used to perform the golden ratio calculation in order to avoid any discrepancies. Players with no available photos from the official Premier League site were instead found through their team’s official website and images not available on the team’s site were excluded from the study. Please note that the club of each player is classified as their parent club, not their loan club.
3. Please also note that players are classified as ‘Premier League’ footballers for their club irrespective of how many Premier League appearances they have made for them. They will be classified as Premier League players if their parent club is a Premier League team at the time of the study, in line with the official data provided by the Premier League.
4. To rank each player’s attractiveness, the mathematical formula of the golden ratio was utilised using Python library to detect different facial landmarks across the human face.
5. A specialised in-house formula was designed to obtain an approximation of the golden ratio for each athlete’s facial features in accordance with facial landmarks from the image analysis recognition library.
6. The golden ratio formula was determined using the line distance between the landmarking on specific facial features. The line distance figures were processed through the golden ratio formula for the entire face.
7. Based on the golden ratio, the perfect score should be calculated as close as possible to 1.61803398875.
8. After the facial features were processed, each player was given a percentage as final scores acquired according to the facial landmarks data. The percentage determines how close each individual athlete's faces are to perfection – the closer to 100%, the more attractive the player is, therefore, ranking highly. These scores were then rounded up to two decimal points.
9. Data was collected and amalgamated for 283 Premier League football players. Some images could not be processed and data was unavailable for some players whilst a few were further excluded from the final rank due to processing errors.
10. The data was collected on the 21st July 2022 and is subject to change.