Half of the teams left in the Champions League are English, but where do all the players come from? Eurosport investigates.

There was a lot of collective back-slapping for English football on Wednesday morning after Liverpool became the fourth Premier League team to qualify for the last eight of the Champions League.

However, while half of the clubs will be English, looking at the squads of each of the eight quarter-finalist reveals that our homegrown clubs have had more than a little help from their international friends.

The eight clubs who made it to the quarter-finals of the Champions League used a total of 129 players during the last 16 stage and only 15 (or 8.6 percent) of them were English (with one of those being Owen Hargreaves who hails from that little-known Somerset town of Calgary).

Chelsea (five players), Manchester United (five players) and Liverpool (four players) could only muster a handful of homegrown talent, while the only thing English about Arsenal's victory over Milan was two substitute appearances from Theo Walcott.

In fact, there were 13 French players (just two less than English) used amongst the eight winning teams, and they don't even have a team in the quarter-finals.

However, the real Kings of the Champions League are the samba stars of Brazil who are represented across the board.

Every single one of the eight teams that qualified for the next stage relied on the services of at least one Brazilian, with 21 in total making a winning contribution.

What is more, this figure does not take into account the likes of Eduardo da Silva (Arsenal), Deco (Barcelona) and Mehmet Aurelio (Fenerbahce) who have all declared for other nations despite being born and bred in Brazil.

The Brazilians have another one up on the English too, with Zico representing them on the Fenerbahce bench, while you won't find a single English manager patrolling the sidelines in the next stage.

So is the Premier League the strongest in Europe? Perhaps, but England manager Fabio Capello (another foreigner) is hardly going to be rubbing his hands with glee at the news.

Number of players per nation used in the last 16 stage of the Champions League by winning teams.

Brazil 21

England 15

France 13

Italy 11

Turkey 9

Germany 9

Spain 8

Portugal 5

Argentina 5

Ivory Coast 5

Others: 3 or less

Seán Fay / Eurosport