Abstract
Purpose. To determine the parameters of club migration of highly skilled legionary footballers when forming national teams for participation in official international competitions.
 Materials and methods. Population: 496 highly skilled football players ‒ participants of the 2022 World Cup group stage qualifiers.
 Results. The winning national teams with high UEFA coefficients have a smaller percentage of legionnaires than the group of winning teams with lower UEFA coefficients: 45.05% (coefficient 3.8) and 85.94% (coefficient 14.8), respectively. The indicators of dual citizenship have no significant impact on the formation of national teams, although the national teams of Wales, Turkey, and Scotland showed rather high values ‒ 9 (32.14%), 7 (28.00%), and 5 (20.00 %) of football players, respectively. Legionary footballers from the top six European leagues (England, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Portugal) account for 87.50% of the total number of legionnaires who participated in the 2022 World Cup group stage qualifiers.
 Conclusions. Migration processes have an impact on the development of football at various levels of functioning: children and youth, reserve, student, amateur, semi-professional, and professional. Club migration, which is typical of highly skilled legionary footballers, has an indirect impact on the formation of national teams.
Highlights
Modern problems of training highly skilled football players are inextricably linked with the nature of their development at various levels of functioning: children and youth, reserve, amateur, semi-professional, and professional
Legionary footballers from the top six European leagues (England, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Portugal) account for 87.50% of the total number of legionnaires who participated in the 2022 World Cup group stage qualifiers
Club migration, which is typical of highly skilled legionary footballers, has an indirect impact on the formation of national teams
Summary
Modern problems of training highly skilled football players are inextricably linked with the nature of their development at various levels of functioning: children and youth, reserve, amateur, semi-professional, and professional. In modern European football and in the United States, footballers’ migration has become widespread at the semi-professional level – in youth teams, minor professional leagues, student championships, etc. These processes have an impact on the formation of teams, both at the club and national team levels. This, in turn, increases the relevance of correcting the training of national teams, taking into account the ratio of football players representing professional clubs of national and foreign championships (leagues) in their composition. It is important to take into account the athlete’s individual characteristics, which are related to the nature and speed of recovery processes in their body (Mykhaliuk, Sivolap, Horokhovskyi, Potapenko, 2021)
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