Which clubs are winning the World Cup, and why

The headline question on My Club's World Cup is simple: once you credit every national-team goal, assist, and minute back to a player's club, which club leads? Here is the live answer.

Why the same names rise to the top

The clubs at the top are rarely a surprise, and there is a clear reason. A club earns contributions two ways: by sending more players to the tournament, and by sending better players who score and create more. The elite European clubs do both. They stock multiple national teams with starters, so their credit accumulates from several matches at once.

That is why raw totals reward the biggest squads. A club with a dozen players spread across contending nations has many more chances to score, assist, and rack up minutes than a club with two or three.

The size-adjusted view

Totals are only half the story. If you want to know which clubs are punching above their weight for the minutes they actually log, that is what CLOUT is for, and small squads can top the giants there. Read CLOUT explained for how that works, or start with the concept in What is My Club's World Cup?.

Beyond the totals, every club page also tells its own small stories: clubmates combining for a goal, or lining up on opposite sides of a match. We collect all of them on the Reunions and Rivalries page.