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Which Footballers Hairstyles do we Love the Most?
With the 2024/25 football season reaching the business end of proceedings, trophies will soon be lifted, along with teams getting relegated or promoted across the football pyramid.
Then again, there is a different kind of business that we are going to focus on and that is the business of hairstyles within the Premier League - a topic that is far more interesting that first thought and especially because the promotion has so many style icons.
Whether it be Jack Grealish's floppy curtains or Mohamed Salah's curls, footballers tend to lead the way when it comes to hair inspiration. Following some of the questionable cuts and styles from the season so far, we wanted to dig into the data to see which footballers’ cuts we’re wanting to replicate the most by analysing Google search results.
Premier League Players With The Best Hair Styles?
In order to find out the Premier League player with the best hairstyle, we took the 100 highest paid players in the division at the start of the season and put their names into Google. From there, we found out the top 50 players when it comes to search quantity:
| Player | Annual Searches | Club |
|---|---|---|
| Ben White | 614160 | Arsenal |
| Jack Grealish | 121200 | Manchester City |
| Mohamed Salah | 42120 | Liverpool |
| Phil Foden | 39960 | Manchester City |
| Erling Haaland | 34680 | Manchester City |
| Gabriel Jesus | 28680 | Arsenal |
| Raheem Sterling | 24120 | Arsenal |
| Virgil van Dijk | 22560 | Liverpool |
| Kevin De Bruyne | 19800 | Manchester City |
| Jordan Pickford | 18360 | Everton |
| Kyle Walker | 18000 | Manchester City |
| Kalvin Phillips | 17280 | Manchester City |
| Cole Palmer | 15840 | Chelsea |
| Declan Rice | 14760 | Arsenal |
| Mason Mount | 12720 | Manchester United |
| James Maddison | 12480 | Tottenham |
| Reece James | 12120 | Chelsea |
| Alphonse Areola | 10800 | West Ham |
| John Stones | 9840 | Manchester City |
| Bernardo Silva | 9720 | Manchester City |
| Marc Cucurella | 8520 | Chelsea |
| Lloyd Kelly | 8520 | Newcastle |
| Christian Eriksen | 7560 | Manchester United |
| Kai Havertz | 7200 | Arsenal |
| Antony | 6720 | Manchester United |
| Anthony Gordon | 6000 | Newcastle |
| Dominik Szoboszlai | 5640 | Liverpool |
| Marcus Rashford | 4800 | Manchester United |
| Danny Ings | 4200 | West Ham |
| Bukayo Saka | 3840 | Arsenal |
| Riccardo Calafiori | 3480 | Arsenal |
| Ollie Watkins | 3240 | Aston Villa |
| Kieran Trippier | 3240 | Newcastle |
| Emiliano Martínez | 3120 | Aston Villa |
| Jadon Sancho | 2880 | Chelsea |
| Luke Shaw | 2760 | Manchester United |
| Gabriel Martinelli | 2640 | Arsenal |
| Trent Alexander-Arnold | 2400 | Liverpool |
| Lisandro Martínez | 2400 | Manchester United |
| Cristian Romero | 2280 | Tottenham |
| Bruno Fernandes | 2040 | Manchester United |
| Jarrod Bowen | 2040 | West Ham |
| Darwin Núñez | 2040 | Liverpool |
| Casemiro | 1920 | Manchester United |
| Matthijs de Ligt | 1800 | Manchester United |
| Jamie Vardy | 1800 | Leicester |
| Leon Bailey | 1800 | Aston Villa |
| Rodri | 1440 | Manchester City |
| Harry Maguire | 1440 | Manchester United |
| Alexis Mac Allister | 1440 | Liverpool |
| Alisson | 1440 | Liverpool |
Top of the pile is Arsenal star Ben White, although this come with something of a caveat attached to it. The player may be responsible for 614,160 annual searches but one of those terms is White Hair and the educated guess is that people are searching for ways to remove this pesky colour from their scalp.
Ben White of Arsenal FC // PRESSINPHOTO SPORTS AGENCY / Alamy Stock Photo
Therefore, if we add a pinch of salt to that result, we can see that the curtains of Jack Grealish are second with a total of 121,200 searches - 80,000 more than Mohamed Salah's curls in third place with a total of 42,120 searches in a single year.
Locking out the top five are Jack Grealish's Manchester City teammates Phil Foden and Erling Haaland with the former sitting just under 40,000 and the latter sitting just under 35,000 in terms of searches.
Outside the top five sees two former Manchester City men now in Arsenal colours and this means that the locks of Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling sit sixth and seventh respectively - although Jesus Hair as a search term may be boosted by people searching for a certain person who was born in December.
Rounding out the top 10 are Liverpool's Virgl Van Dijk with 22,560 searches, nearly 3,000 more than Kevin De Bruyne in ninth and nearly 4,000 more than Everton's Jordan Pickford.
When looking at the list of top 50 players (or top 51 due to Alexis Mac Allister and Allison sharing that position) we can also see the contribution of each club in terms of total searches.
Players listed at parent clubs in case of loanees - e.g. Marcus Rashford is a Manchester United player
| Club | Top 50 Searches | Players | Average Searches Per Player |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenal | 698880 | 8 | 87360 |
| Manchester City | 271920 | 9 | 30213 |
| Liverpool | 77640 | 7 | 11091 |
| Manchester United | 44160 | 10 | 4416 |
| Chelsea | 39360 | 4 | 9840 |
| Everton | 18360 | 1 | 18360 |
| Newcastle | 17760 | 3 | 5920 |
| West Ham | 17040 | 3 | 5680 |
| Tottenham | 14760 | 2 | 7380 |
| Aston Villa | 8160 | 3 | 2720 |
| Leicester | 1800 | 1 | 1800 |
Here we can see that Arsenal players are responsible for nearly 700,000 hair-based searches - although again, the Ben White caveat has to be mentioned. In total, eight Arsenal players made our top 50 list at an average of 87.360 searches per player.
26th Nov, 2024. Arsenal team group line-up //
The 698,880 searches was nearly three times as many as what would found at Manchester City. A total of 271,920 searches for Pep Guardiola where nine of his players made the list and they did so at an average of 30,213 searches per player.
Current league leaders and champions elect Liverpool ranked third with 77,640 total searches from players in the top 50. Arne Slot's side had seven representatives at an average of 11,091 per player.
While Manchester United had the most representatives in the top 50 with 10 and those at the Theatre of Dreams were responsible for a total of 44,160 searches or an average 4,416 per player.
High-spending Chelsea ranked fifth when it came to total searches with 39,360 from four players. A figure that was twice as much as Everton's representation but the Toffee's only supplied Jordan Pickford into the top 50.
Leicester round out the 11 teams who have at least one player representing them and like Everton above, they had a sole name in our top 50. The man in question is Jamie Vardy, his hair generated 1,800 searches.
Rounding at the top 10 were Newcastle in seventh with 17,760 total searches, just edging West Ham into eighth as the Hammers were positioned above Tottenham and Aston Villa in eighth and ninth respectively.
Methodology & About OLBG
For each current Premier League player, we took the number of Google searches in the last twelve months (Apr 2024- Mar 2025) for both the player’s full name followed by the word “hair” and just their surname followed by “hair”, taking the results which had the highest number of annual searches, sourced using Google Ads Keyword Planner.
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