World Cup talent board

2026 · 48 teams

Every squad ranked by starting-XI talent — manager, FIFA rank, per-line strength, top player, and squad value. Tap any column header to sort. Click a team for the full roster.


#1	#2	FranceI	Didier Deschampsex-Juventus	94	€908m	Kylian Mbappé98	94	93	91	96
#2	#4	EnglandL	Thomas Tuchelex-Bayern Munich	94	€893m	Jude Bellingham96	91	90	96	94
#3	#5	BrazilC	Carlo Ancelottiex-Real Madrid	93	€688m	Vinícius Júnior98	91	89	89	95
#4	#6	PortugalK	Roberto Martínezex-Everton	92	€683m	Vitinha95	93	92	93	92
#5	#3	SpainH	Luis de la Fuente—	92	€586m	Lamine Yamal95	93	90	93	92
#6	#1	ArgentinaJ	Lionel Scaloni—	92	€603m	Julián Álvarez95	90	89	92	93
#7	#9	GermanyE	Julian Nagelsmannex-Bayern Munich	92	€626m	Jamal Musiala95	94	90	93	91
#8	#7	NetherlandsF	Ronald Koemanex-Barcelona	92	€551m	Matthijs de Ligt93	92	91	93	89
#9	#8	BelgiumG	Rudi Garciaex-Napoli	89	€393m	Thibaut Courtois94	94	87	89	91
#10	#40	SwedenF	Graham Potterex-Chelsea	89	€369m	Alexander Isak96	75	84	88	92
#11	#28	NorwayI	Ståle Solbakken—	88	€420m	Erling Haaland98	76	84	89	91
#12	#12	MoroccoC	Walid Regragui—	88	€312m	Achraf Hakimi94	89	88	88	86
#13	#18	SenegalI	Pape Thiaw—	88	€284m	Sadio Mané90	89	82	88	90
#14	#15	UruguayH	Marcelo Bielsaex-Leeds United	88	€405m	Federico Valverde95	82	87	90	87
#15	#26	TürkiyeD	Vincenzo Montella—	88	€293m	Kenan Yıldız93	89	86	88	89
#16	#16	United StatesD	Mauricio Pochettinoex-Chelsea	87	€259m	Christian Pulisic92	81	84	87	88
#17	#41	Ivory CoastE	Emerse Faé—	86	€245m	Badra Ali Sangaré94	94	85	85	86
#18	#22	AustriaJ	Ralf Rangnickex-Man United	85	€190m	David Alaba89	78	87	86	82
#19	#39	ScotlandC	Steve Clarke—	85	€218m	Andrew Robertson91	79	83	87	84
#20	#10	CroatiaL	Zlatko Dalić—	85	€213m	Joško Gvardiol93	87	87	86	75
#21	#19	SwitzerlandB	Murat Yakin—	85	€199m	Gregor Kobel93	93	81	84	85
#22	#17	JapanF	Hajime Moriyasu—	85	€174m	Zion Suzuki89	89	83	83	86
#23	#73	GhanaL	Otto Addo—	84	€202m	Antoine Semenyo92	78	81	84	86
#24	#14	ColombiaK	Néstor Lorenzo—	84	€217m	Luis Díaz94	78	83	81	89
#25	#23	EcuadorE	Sebastián Beccacece—	84	€276m	Moisés Caicedo95	74	87	84	80
#26	#33	AlgeriaJ	Vladimir Petkovićex-Lazio	83	€132m	Riyad Mahrez89	77	78	81	87
#27	#30	CanadaB	Jesse Marschex-Leeds United	83	€148m	Alphonso Davies91	80	83	81	83
#28	#42	CzechiaA	Ivan Hašek—	83	€131m	Patrik Schick88	83	80	83	84
#29	#38	ParaguayD	Gustavo Alfaro—	82	€117m	Diego Gómez86	80	82	83	83
#30	#13	MexicoA	Javier Aguirre—	82	€128m	Santiago Giménez90	81	81	82	84
#31	#23	South KoreaA	Hong Myung-bo—	80	€111m	Kim Min-jae89	77	77	80	83
#32	#32	EgyptG	Hossam Hassan—	80	€140m	Omar Marmoush92	80	75	70	87
#33	#65	BosniaB	Sergej Barbarez—	79	€71m	Ermedin Demirović87	82	79	75	79
#34	#59	Saudi ArabiaH	Hervé Renard—	79	€55m	Nawaf Al-Aqidi81	81	78	78	79
#35	#56	DR CongoK	Sébastien Desabre—	79	€68m	Yoane Wissa89	77	78	75	82
#36	#45	TunisiaF	Sami Trabelsi—	78	€53m	Montassar Talbi81	79	76	80	76
#37	#60	South AfricaA	Hugo Broos—	78	€48m	Lyle Foster83	81	73	74	81
#38	#51	QatarB	Julen Lopeteguiex-West Ham	77	€42m	Almoez Ali80	79	76	77	79
#39	#24	AustraliaD	Tony Popovic—	77	€42m	Connor Metcalfe81	80	75	76	77
#40	#54	UzbekistanK	Timur Kapadze—	77	€57m	Abdukodir Khusanov89	77	77	73	75
#41	#20	IranG	Amir Ghalenoei—	77	€40m	Sardar Azmoun83	76	75	76	79
#42	#31	PanamaL	Thomas Christiansen—	77	€37m	Michael Amir Murillo84	79	77	75	73
#43	#58	IraqI	Graham Arnold—	75	€29m	Ali Jasim79	76	74	74	77
#44	#64	JordanJ	Jamal Sellami—	75	€29m	Musa Al-Taamari80	75	73	74	77
#45	#86	New ZealandG	Darren Bazeley—	74	€34m	Chris Wood84	82	74	70	73
#46	#83	HaitiC	Sébastien Migné—	74	€22m	Jean-Kévin Duverne77	76	75	66	74
#47	#70	Cabo VerdeH	Pedro Brito (Bubista)—	73	€22m	Kévin Pina80	75	70	73	71
#48	#82	CuraçaoE	Dick Advocaat—	72	€20m	Tahith Chong79	68	67	76	69

XI talent is the average rating of a squad's 11 best players; GK/DEF/MID/ATT are the projected starting XI's average rating in each line; XI value (age-adj) is the 11 starters' combined market value after the age correction the scores use. Scores estimate current skill from market value, adjusted for age and position — see below.

Methodology

How it works

Scores estimate each player's current skill for this World Cup. We start from his transfer market value, then correct it for the two things that pull value away from on-pitch ability right now — age and position — before turning it into a 0–99 score.

Step 0

Start: transfer value

A player's market value is Transfermarkt's estimate of his fee today, in euros — a market read that bakes in ability, form, minutes, and league level. It's the best public proxy for quality, but it's skewed: a teenager is priced for potential, a 36-year-old is cheap despite still being elite. So value is the starting point, not the final word.

Real Transfermarkt values for 595 players.
Estimated values for 165 (listed blank/absent) — modeled from club strength, age, league, and role, flagged with a ~.

Step 1

Age adjustment → current skill

Value reflects future resale, not just skill today: it's inflated by youth potential and deflated by a veteran's short horizon. So value is divided by an age factor — trimming young players' potential premium and lifting proven veterans. The curve is calibrated from the data (each player's current value vs his career-peak value, by age) and then dampened to half strength, since much of the raw decline is genuine skill loss we want to keep (1.0 at the ~27 prime):

19 yrs

÷1.19

young → trimmed

27 yrs

÷1.00

prime → unchanged

34 yrs

÷0.56

veteran → lifted

Step 2

Position adjustment

The market underpays keepers and defenders for equal quality (keepers average ~€3.7m vs ~€11m for midfielders here), so the value is scaled by position to judge each player against his own position's market:

Goalkeeper

×1.68

Defender

×1.04

Midfielder

×0.86

Forward

×0.94

The raw €value shown on roster pages is unadjusted; only the score uses the age- and position-adjusted value.

Step 3

Adjusted value → score (0–99)

The adjusted value becomes a score on a logarithmic curve (score = 70 + 5.47 × ln(value), capped at 99) — log, because values span €0.1m–€200m and a linear scale would crush everyone but the superstars. Each doubling of value ≈ +3.8 points:

€5m → 79

€20m → 86

€50m → 91

€100m → 95

€200m → 99

Step 4

Team numbers

The app projects each nation's best XI in a 4-3-3, then derives:

XI talent — the 11 starters' average score (the headline ranking).
GK / DEF / MID / ATT — average score within each line of the XI.
XI value — the 11 starters' combined market value.
Top player — the squad's highest-rated player.

Step 5

Why teams rank high vs low

A team ranks high when its projected XI is full of in-their-prime players at elite clubs; low when its starters are cheaper, domestic-league names. Because the curve is logarithmic, depth beats a lone superstar; because of the age and position adjustments, a world-class veteran keeper isn't dragged down — and a hyped teenager isn't propped up on potential alone.

Caveats

What this is — and isn't

Without live match stats, this approximates current skill from market value plus age/position corrections — a useful lens, not a perfect rating. 165 players use estimated values, and the groups and bracket are projections, not the official draw. Treat it as “how loaded is each squad on paper” — not a predictor.