How we count it: our World Cup stat definitions
Every number on My Club's World Cup follows one rule: a national-team performance is credited to the player's domestic club. Below is how each stat is actually counted, so you know what you are reading.
The core rule
A club's total is the sum of its players' national-team contributions. A player links to a club, and a club links to a league, so goals, assists, minutes, cards, and everything else roll up from player, to club, to league.
Goals, assists, and goal contributions
Goals are credited to the scorer's club. Own goals are not credited to the scorer (they count for the opponent). Assists go to the assister's club. Goal contributions are simply goals plus assists, the single number we use most often to rank clubs.
Minutes
We count regulation minutes only: the real length of the match, so 90 for a normal game and 120 for one that goes to extra time, with in-half stoppage time excluded. This matches the convention used by FBref and Transfermarkt, so the numbers line up with what you see elsewhere. Any appearance counts for at least one minute, so a stoppage-time cameo is never recorded as zero.
Penalties
We separate open-play penalties from shootouts. Penalties scored or missed during the match count toward a club's penalty stats; a knockout shootout is tracked on its own, credited to the taker's club. Penalties saved are credited to the goalkeeper's club, and we always show that stat even when it is still empty.
Cards and VAR
Yellow and red cards roll up to the club, and a goal that VAR disallows is removed from the scorer's tally. Managers and coaches can be booked too, but they are not players, so we exclude those bookings rather than credit them to a club. None of this touches a club unless one of its players is directly involved, which is the whole point: My Club's World Cup only ever tells you what a club's own players did.
Clubmate connections
A few of our favorite features do not add new counting rules; they simply re-read the same events through the club lens, spotting when two players from one club meet on the pitch. If a goal, a substitution, or a penalty involves two clubmates, it shows up on the Reunions and Rivalries page.