Spatiotemporal Patterns and Drivers of Foreign Player Origin Countries in the Chinese Super League (CSL), 2010–2024

This item contains the minimal anonymized dataset used to reproduce the analyses in the manuscript “Spatiotemporal Patterns and Drivers of Foreign Player Origin Countries in the Chinese Super League”. S1_data.xlsx: country/region-by-season dataset of foreign player counts (2010–2024). S2_data.xlsx: explanatory variables used in GeoDetector analyses (e.g., cultural, institutional, economic and geographic distance; shared language; border adjacency) and stage labels. All data are aggregated at the country/region–season level and do not include any personal identifiers.