The England squad Roy Hodgson chose to represent the country at Euro 2016 is the youngest group of Three Lions players that has been to any tournament since the 1958 World Cup.
That's just in terms of pure age. But in terms of international caps in an era where countries play a lot more games, it's also the least experienced England tournament squad for nearly 20 years. You have to go back to the 1998 World Cup to find one with fewer average caps per player.
Between the 23 players who will be heading to France in the coming days, there is an average of just 23.2 caps each. That's compared to 28.6 at the last World Cup, and 29.3 at Euro 2012.
England assistant coach Gary Neville recently pointed to Fabio Capello's heavy reliance on older players as an indicator of the good job that Roy Hodgson has done in bringing the squad age down and handing chances to new players.
In Capello's squad for the 2010 World Cup, there was an average 35.7 caps per players. In total, that group of 23 had a monster 820 senior Three Lions appearances between them. It would even have been 900 had Rio Ferdinand not had to pull out injured to be replaced by the then uncapped Michael Dawson
You may also recall that David Beckham was a contender for selection. The former captain eventually went to South Africa as part of the coaching staff, but his inclusion over a new player like James Milner could have taken the caps tally to over 1,000.
That 2010 squad was the peak of the last 20 years in terms of England pre-tournament experience. It had largely been the same squad in 2006 and 2004, with the same group of 'Golden Generation' players growing older together.
The squad that Terry Venables selected for Euro '96, although older, was even more inexperienced than the current group. In today's squad there are a total of 534 collective caps. Even taking into account the fact that only 22 players were selected in 1996, the total of 362 caps is still significantly less.
It averaged out at just 16.5 per player, compared to the aforementioned 23.2 per player this year.
At Euro '96, only four England players had more than 30 senior caps, while only two more had more than 20. Gareth Southgate, Steve Howey, Tim Flowers, Nick Barmby, Jamie Redknapp, Sol Campbell, Phil Neville, Steve Stone and Ian Walker all had less than 10 caps to their name when the tournament began.
Gary Neville, Les Ferdinand and Steve McManaman had 10, while Darren Anderton only had 11.
There are, it seems, certain parallels between then and now, a fresh group of hungry talented players ready to erase painful memories of the failure of previous squads before them - think an early exit at Euro '92 and failure to qualify for the World Cup in 1994.
Only time will tell if an England squad in 2016 largely without firsthand experience of abject failure on the biggest stage can use that to replicate what their predecessors in 1996 did, and maybe even go one better.
Total Caps and Average Caps Per Player in England Squads Since 1996:
*Signifies only 22 players in the squad, but avg. caps per player is still a valid comparison."?
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