FIFA World Cup 2026 ⚽ Club/League Provenance
All 1,248 players named to a 2026 World Cup squad earn their living at a club somewhere — and for most, 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.
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 a league by their club's national association — so a club like Hull City (ENG) counts under England even though it isn't in the Premier League proper. Every league supplying at least 20 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).