Built for the weeks before kickoff, and ready for the tournament itself.
A World Cup 2026 dashboard designed for fans and journalists: rankings, group comparisons, country comparisons, fast chart reads, and a live-updatable tournament shell. The current editorial focus is on height, age, market value, club representation, and coaches.
Main sources tucked source list and dataset credits
Definitions and method
Domestic-based means a player's current club country matches the national team country. Club-benefit figures are estimated from FIFA's published framework, the 25 May 2026 release date, and the current schedule; qualifier payments are excluded. Attack tables use each player's latest fetched club-season output in Transfermarkt performance data.
Core trends
The modern World Cup story is not subtle. Players have grown taller, squads have grown older, and the age curve has mostly flattened since the 1990s.
Historical age/height source for the long-run panels and winner-age benchmark: Luis Batalha’s World Cup players CSV. The last ten winners average 27.21 years in the verified source data.
Group and confederation pressure points
This is where scenario framing gets useful before kickoff. Some groups are big, some are old, and UEFA clearly sits at the tall end of the 2026 field. Use the year selector below to see whether that confederation gap holds in earlier tournaments too.
| Confederation | Teams A | Height A | Age A | Teams B | Height B | Age B | Height Δ | Age Δ |
|---|
Country and story desk
This block is designed for newsroom use: pull quick story angles, filter teams, compare teams, and see who has changed the most from roughly 30 to 40 years ago.
| Country | Group | Height | Age |
|---|
Quick comparison
Search for teams directly or click groups. Country cards compare the 2026 cohort with `1994` first, then `1986` where `1994` is unavailable.
Domestic and overseas club pathways
This view tracks where each 2026 squad plays its club football. It uses current Transfermarkt club pages and groups players by club country plus league tier. That is strong enough to show domestic cores, export-heavy squads, and the main club pathways into each national team, even if it is not yet a full exact-league feed.
Value, clubs and coaches
This layer comes from current 2026 Transfermarkt pages rather than the historical Luis Batalha dataset. It is the right place for present-tense rankings: listed player values, club pipelines into the tournament, and the coach field.
Transfermarkt squad pages fetched for this build total 1250 player rows rather than the full 1,248. The short pages are: Argentina, Austria, Canada, England, Ghana, Iraq, Jordan.
The combined field value rises sharply from 2018 to 2026, but the per-squad average peaks in the 32-team era. Expansion adds 16 lower-value squads, so the total rises while the mean squad value drops.
It takes 8,000 Tyrick Bodaks (€25,000 each) to equal one Lamine Yamal (€200m).
In the current squad data, Saudi-based clubs supply 49 players across 19 national squads, edging the United States (48), Türkiye (45), the Netherlands (38) and Brazil (32).
MLS now supplies a record 44 active first-tier players in the 2026 field. Lionel Messi, James Rodríguez and Son Heung-min are all in the current MLS contingent.
2018 and 2022 historical league counts come from public roster-representation tables and official MLS coverage. The 2026 counts are derived from the current Transfermarkt squad pages stored in this build, which means the Saudi panel reflects Saudi-based clubs and the MLS panel reflects current first-tier MLS clubs in the United States.
| Player | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Lamine Yamal FC Barcelona |
Spain | €200.00m |
| Erling Haaland Manchester City |
Norway | €200.00m |
| Kylian Mbappé Real Madrid |
France | €180.00m |
| Pedri FC Barcelona |
Spain | €150.00m |
| Michael Olise Bayern Munich |
France | €150.00m |
| João Neves Paris Saint-Germain |
Portugal | €140.00m |
| Vinicius Junior Real Madrid |
Brazil | €140.00m |
| Vitinha Paris Saint-Germain |
Portugal | €140.00m |
| Jude Bellingham Real Madrid |
England | €130.00m |
| Désiré Doué Paris Saint-Germain |
France | €120.00m |
| Team | Squad value |
|---|---|
| France | €1523.00m |
| England | €1503.20m |
| Spain | €1222.80m |
| Portugal | €1005.50m |
| Germany | €947.00m |
| Brazil | €923.20m |
| Netherlands | €804.20m |
| Argentina | €782.50m |
| Player | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Tyrick Bodak SC Telstar |
Curaçao | €25k |
| Josué Duverger FC Cosmos Koblenz |
Haiti | €50k |
| Trevor Doornbusch VVV-Venlo |
Curaçao | €50k |
| Éric Davis CD Plaza Amador |
Panama | €50k |
| Tommy Smith Braintree Town |
New Zealand | €50k |
| Stopira SC União Torreense |
Cape Verde | €50k |
| Vozinha GD Chaves |
Cape Verde | €50k |
| Craig Gordon Heart of Midlothian FC |
Scotland | €50k |
| Club | Players | Teams |
|---|---|---|
| Manchester City England |
19 | 12 |
| Bayern Munich Germany |
17 | 10 |
| Arsenal FC England |
16 | 10 |
| Paris Saint-Germain France |
15 | 8 |
| FC Barcelona Spain |
14 | 7 |
| Liverpool FC England |
12 | 10 |
| Atlético de Madrid Spain |
12 | 5 |
| Crystal Palace England |
12 | 10 |
| Al-Hilal SFC Saudi Arabia |
12 | 6 |
| Manchester United England |
11 | 9 |
| Borussia Dortmund Germany |
11 | 7 |
| Galatasaray Türkiye |
11 | 6 |
| Club country | Players | Floor | Ceiling |
|---|---|---|---|
| England 44 clubs • 43 squads |
208 | €29.39m | €50.15m |
| Germany 22 clubs • 30 squads |
108 | €15.19m | €26.04m |
| France 22 clubs • 30 squads |
86 | €12.22m | €20.73m |
| Spain 22 clubs • 31 squads |
85 | €12.21m | €20.49m |
| Italy 21 clubs • 29 squads |
71 | €10.02m | €17.12m |
| Saudi Arabia 12 clubs • 19 squads |
49 | €7.08m | €11.81m |
| United States 24 clubs • 18 squads |
48 | €6.74m | €11.57m |
| Türkiye 13 clubs • 20 squads |
45 | €6.35m | €10.85m |
| Netherlands 16 clubs • 17 squads |
38 | €5.31m | €9.16m |
| Brazil 13 clubs • 7 squads |
32 | €4.52m | €7.71m |
This list includes every club represented in the selected 2026 squad, including one-player clubs.
| Club | Players |
|---|---|
| CR Flamengo Brazil |
4 |
| Arsenal FC England |
2 |
| Manchester United England |
2 |
| Zenit St. Petersburg Russia |
2 |
| AFC Bournemouth England |
1 |
| AS Roma Italy |
1 |
| Al-Ahli SFC Saudi Arabia |
1 |
| Al-Ittihad Club Saudi Arabia |
1 |
| Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas Brazil |
1 |
| Brentford FC England |
1 |
| FC Barcelona Spain |
1 |
| Fenerbahce Türkiye |
1 |
| Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense Brazil |
1 |
| Juventus FC Italy |
1 |
| Liverpool FC England |
1 |
| Newcastle United England |
1 |
| Olympique Lyon France |
1 |
| Paris Saint-Germain France |
1 |
| Real Madrid Spain |
1 |
| Santos FC Brazil |
1 |
| Player | Team | Goals | Assists |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Kane England • Centre-Forward |
Bayern Munich season 2025 |
61 | 7 |
| Kylian Mbappé France • Centre-Forward |
Real Madrid season 2025 |
42 | 6 |
| Ivan Toney England • Centre-Forward |
Al-Ahli SFC season 2025 |
41 | 11 |
| Erling Haaland Norway • Centre-Forward |
Manchester City season 2025 |
38 | 9 |
| Julián Quiñones Mexico • Centre-Forward |
Al-Qadsiah FC season 2025 |
37 | 4 |
| Luis Suárez Colombia • Centre-Forward |
Sporting CP season 2025 |
36 | 8 |
| Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal • Centre-Forward |
Al-Nassr FC season 2025 |
30 | 3 |
| Luis Díaz Colombia • Left Winger |
Bayern Munich season 2025 |
26 | 19 |
| Ayase Ueda Japan • Centre-Forward |
Feyenoord Rotterdam season 2025 |
26 | 1 |
| João Félix Portugal • Second Striker |
Al-Nassr FC season 2025 |
25 | 18 |
| Coach | Team | Age | Titles | Tenure |
|---|
Squad distribution heatmap
A GitHub-style tile view works here because it shows distribution, not just averages. Read each row as one team, each column as an age or height bucket, and each tile as how many players land there.
Tactical shape
Position shares are not a perfect tactical model, but they are a very good shorthand. The old forward-heavy World Cup is gone.
Live center readiness
This is the section intended to switch from static pre-tournament context to updating tournament service once competition APIs are connected.
Sources and credits
The dashboard mixes historical player data, current 2026 squad/value snapshots, live competition feeds, and a few explicitly marked estimates. The links below are the working source anchors for this build.