Rotherham United who were relegated from the EFL Championship at the end of the season tops the table of teams that play the longest average passes during a match, reports www.fcbusiness.co.uk

Data gathered by InStat was analysed by CIES Football Observatory who looked at the average length of passes by teams from 35 European domestic leagues.

The study highlights big discrepancies in playing styles with almost 8 meters difference between the teams that executed the longest and shortest passes: Rotherham United (23.42m) and Paris St-Germain (15.85m).

Teams from the Scottish Premier League (21.08m) and the English Championship (20.58m) execute on average the longest passes whilst at the opposite end of the table, the French Ligue 1 and the Finnish Veikkausliiga (18.89m in both cases) played the shortest passes.