Arsenal are also on the list, but there is no place for Manchester United…
It has been revealed by the Daily Mail that Chelsea have the highest percentage of active internationals in their squad out of all of the teams in Europe. They come in ahead of both Real Madrid and Barcelona.
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Liverpool, Arsenal, and Manchester CIty are the other English teams in the top ten, but Manchester United are nowhere to be seen. To be an active international a player has to have made an appearance for their nation in 2014.
Here are the teams with the highest proportion of players on the international scene…
10) Zenit St. Petersburg, 58.3%
The Russian side have spent big to try and compete with the best teams in Europe, and it could be starting to come to fruition as they enter the Champions League knockout stages for the second year in a row.
9) Paris St. Germain, 65.2%
The Ligue 1 side are another who have recruited many internationals to the cause in recent years to catch up with the more established clubs.
8) Arsenal, 66.7%
The Gunner have a few players who don’t get in to their national teams such as Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini, but the training ground is still an empty place during international breaks.
7) Liverpool, 68%
This makes you wonder why all of these top players have been unable to get their side in to the top half of the Premier League.
6) Manchester City, 70.8%
The Citizens are now one of the best teams on the continent, and this is shown by how many of them are currently playing for their countries as well as their club.
5) Borussia Dortmund, 71.4%
The German side have been in awful form this season, but their players are still getting in to international squads. They will need to do better for their club if they want to continue though.
4) Bayern Munich, 73.1%
The Bundesliga champions are one of the best teams in Europe, and their players are rightly picked by their national team managers. Most of them play for Germany.
3) Barcelona, 74.1%
The Catalan club have spent masses in recent times to boost this, but they have also got a great academy in La Masia that keeps churning out players for Spain.
2) Real Madrid, 77.3%
The return of the Galactico mindset to the Bernabeu sees this number sky high. Even their bench is almost completely made of international regulars.
1) Chelsea, 78.3%
Blues manager Jose Mourinho prefers to have a small squad of top class players, and that leaves him with most of them going away during the international breaks. This experience could drive to one of their most successful seasons yet.