What is My Club's World Cup?
The World Cup is a competition between nations. But the players wearing those national shirts spend all season somewhere else, at a domestic club. My Club's World Cup asks a simple question the official standings never answer: if you credit every goal, assist, and minute back to the club that develops and pays these players, which club is actually winning the World Cup?
How it works
Every national-team player is mapped to their domestic club. When Olise scores for France, those goals count for Bayern Munich. When Díaz scores for Colombia, they count for Bayern too. Add up every one of a club's players across every nation, and you get that club's "World Cup": a total that cuts across all 48 teams.
The same aggregation rolls up one level further, from clubs to leagues, so you can also ask which domestic league is powering the tournament.
Who's leading right now
That is the heart of the site: a live, club-by-club leaderboard of the World Cup, updated as the matches are played. Around it we track goals, assists, minutes, cards, penalties, shootouts, and more, always credited back to the club.
The club lens also surfaces things the national-team view never shows: the tournament keeps reuniting clubmates, and sometimes setting them against each other. We gather all of those on the Reunions and Rivalries page, from clubmates combining for a goal to a penalty taken against a clubmate goalkeeper.
Why we built it
The idea arrived in a single moment: a substitute coming on in the 72nd minute of a group game and scoring twice. It was a national-team highlight, but also, unmistakably, a story about the club back home that shaped that player. My Club's World Cup is that lens, applied to the whole tournament. Read more about the person behind it on the author page.