Insights
Analysis and explainers on the 2026 World Cup through the lens of domestic clubs.
- Which clubs are winning the World Cup, and why
The clubs topping My Club's World Cup, and the reason a handful of European giants dominate: squad size, squad quality, and where the world's best players actually work.
- What is My Club's World Cup?
The idea behind My Club's World Cup: every national-team performance at the 2026 World Cup, credited back to the player's domestic club, turning 48 national teams into a club-by-club race.
- The leagues powering the World Cup
Roll every club up to its domestic league and a clear pecking order appears. See which leagues send the most players, and the most output, to the 2026 World Cup.
- Reunions and Rivalries: the quirks of a club lens
Seven things the club lens surfaces at the World Cup that the national-team view never shows: Club Chemistry, Double Act, The Handover, A House Divided, Both Scoresheets, Beat My Keeper, and Teammate at Twelve Yards.
- How we count it: our World Cup stat definitions
Exactly how My Club's World Cup measures goals, assists, minutes, penalties, cards, and shootouts, and how every one of them is credited back to a player's domestic club.
- CLOUT explained: which clubs punch above their weight
CLOUT (Club Leverage Over Unit-Time) measures a club's World Cup output relative to the minutes its players actually log, so small squads can top giants. Here's how to read it.