Kante, Lanzini, Azpilicueta: Who are the Premier League's shortest players?

Premier League ballers can come in all shapes and sizes.

From defensive colossuses to diminutive wingers and everything in between, it’s about your ability with the ball at your feet and not the way that you look that make you a success in England’s top-flight.

Nevertheless, that doesn’t make it any less interesting to see which players have made a name for themselves in the Premier League despite not necessarily gobbling up the most inches on a tape measure.

Besides, it’s particularly intriguing when it comes to positions like goalkeeper and centre-back where academies and managers actively look at a player’s height when making a decision about their potential.

So, bearing that in mind, we decided to look at the data to see how the shortest Premier League XI of the 2021/22 season would actually line up – would it be brilliant, terrible or somewhere in between?

Well, we’ve used the data over at worldfootball.net and corroborated it with Premier League statistics where possible to answer that exact question with the least lofty line-up of them all.

To qualify, players must have appeared at least once in the Premier League this season and must still be playing for one of the current 20 clubs.

Other than that, it was simply a case of picking the shortest player in each position within a 4-3-3 formation, opting for the footballer that we considered to be the best in the situation of a draw.

Got it? Right then, well, be sure to appreciate that big things can come in small packages by checking out the Premier League’s shortest XI down below:

Height: 6 foot and 0 inches (183cm)

Straight off the bat and we have the trickiest position of all with most top-level goalkeepers required to be at least six foot tall with Brentford’s