SQL exercises on soccer Database: Find the player who was the goalkeeper for Italy in penalty shootout against Germany in Football EURO cup 2016

SQL soccer Database: Subqueries Exercise-16 with Solution

16. From the following tables, write a SQL query to find the goalkeeper for Italy in penalty shootout against Germany in Football EURO cup 2016. Return goalkeeper name.

Sample table: player_mast

Sample table: penalty_gk

Sample table: soccer_country

Sample Solution:

SQL Code:

SELECT player_name 
FROM player_mast 
WHERE player_id=(
SELECT player_gk 
FROM penalty_gk 
WHERE match_no=(
SELECT match_no 
FROM penalty_gk
WHERE team_id=(
SELECT country_id 
FROM soccer_country 
WHERE country_name='Italy') 
OR team_id=(
SELECT country_id 
FROM soccer_country 
WHERE country_name='Germany') 
GROUP BY match_no 
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT team_id)=2
) 
AND team_id=(
SELECT country_id 
FROM soccer_country 
WHERE country_name='Italy')
);

Sample Output:

    player_name
-------------------
 Gianluigi Buffon
(1 row)

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Sample Database: soccer

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