FIFA World Cup 2026 ⚽ Club & League Breakdown

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All 1,248 players named to a 2026 World Cup squad earn their living at a club somewhere — and for many, that somewhere isn't home. This chart traces it in reverse: each ribbon links a major club league (left) to the national team it supplies (right), sized by how many of that squad's 26 players it sends. Squads fed mostly by Europe's biggest leagues sit up top; home-grown and lower-profile leagues settle toward the bottom.

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How to read a tie. Ribbon thickness = number of players. Saudi Arabia is almost one solid band into the Saudi Pro League; England is fed near-entirely by the Premier League; Iran and Iraq draw overwhelmingly from their own domestic leagues.

Method. Source is FIFA's official 2026 squad lists (all 48 teams, final 26-player rosters). Each player is attributed to the league their club actually plays in for 2025-26 — resolved from Wikidata, audited, and cross-checked against Wikipedia's published league rosters — so a club like Hull City counts under the EFL Championship, not the Premier League. Every league supplying at least  of the 1,248 players gets its own band; the rest (the long tail of smaller leagues, each below the threshold) is collapsed into Other leagues. Totals match FIFA's published figures within a player or two (late injury call-ups).