How many Premier League players are at the World Cup?

Want to know how many Premier League players are going to the World Cup? Explore which clubs from England’s top flight are sending the most players Stateside this summer.

Wondering how many Premier League players are going to the World Cup – or perhaps which Premier League teams have the best representation at the tournament? We’ve crunched the data to rank the Premier League clubs with the most World Cup players, and which nations rely on Premier League talent the most!

Premier League teams with the most World Cup players

In total, there are a staggering 150 Premier League players going to the World Cup, which is 49 more than the next-best represented division (Bundesliga, 101), nearly double La Liga’s total (80), and more than Ligue 1 (79) and Serie A (68) combined!

But which Premier League teams have the most players at the tournament?

Premier League players going to the World Cup

Taking top spot, we have Manchester City, with an incredible 19 players heading Stateside for the 2026 World Cup, across 10 different nations. City have four in the England camp – Trafford, Guehi, O’Reiily, and Stones – as well as multiple representatives for Croatia (Gvardiol and Kovacic), Netherlands (Ake and Reijnders) and Portugal (Dias, Nunes, Silva); though the highest profile Citizen is perhaps Norway’s Erling Haaland who’ll have his eyes on the World Cup Golden Boot.

Stealing silver, 2025/2026 Premier League champions Arsenal have 14 players extending their season with a summer in the states, including Englishmen Eze, Rice, Madueke, and Saka – while Frenchman Saliba, Brazilians Gabriel and Gabriel Martinelli, and Spaniards Raya, Zubimendi, and Merino will enter the tournament among the favourites to take glory.

Crystal Palace and Manchester United have 12 players apiece heading to the World Cup, including England lads Dean Henderson (the former), Kobbie Mainoo, and Marcus Rashford (both the latter). United’s Lisandro Martinez will be hoping to make it back-to-back World Cup titles, while the likes of Fernandes (Portugal), Casemiro (Brazil), and Cunha (Brazil) will be hoping to spoil the party.

Meanwhile, newly crowned Europa League champions Aston Villa have nine players heading to the World Cup; the same as Brighton & Hove Albion, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Tottenham. English Villans include Konsa, Rogers, and Watkins (plus John McGinn representing Scotland), while Reece James (Chelsea) and Djed Spence (Tottenham) are also among the cluster of clubs with English talent.

Other notable players among this crop include: Tottenham’s trio of sought-after centre halves – 2022 World Cup winner with Argentina Cristian Romero, Croatian starlet Luka Vuskovic, and Dutch demon Micky Van de Ven; Villa’s ever-consistent shot stopper and two-time Yashin Trophy winner Emi Martinez (Argentina); Liverpool’s Andy Robertson (Scotland), Alexander Isak (Sweden), Alexis Mac Allister (Argentina), and Allisson (Brazil); and Chelsea’s Enzo Fernandez (Argentina).

As we head down the list, Bournemouth, Fulham, Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, and Sunderland all have six players representing the Premier League at the World Cup. Of those, we have Toon pair Dan Burn and Tino Livramento, both pulling on the Three Lions jersey this summer, and Forest’s Elliott Anderson who’ll be following suit. Newcastle’s Nick Woltemade (Germany) and Bruno Guimaraes (Brazil), Fulham’s Raul Jimenez (Mexico) and Oscar Bobb (Norway), and Forest’s Chris Wood are perhaps the standout picks among these Premier League clubs’ players at the World Cup.

Towards the foot of the table, Brentford, Everton, and Leeds are sending four players out onto World Cup duty this summer, including England’s Jordan Henderson (Brentford) and Jordan Pickford (Everton); while recently promoted trio Coventry City, Hull City, and Ipswich Town have two World Cup internationals each.

Which nations are Premier League players going to the World Cup to represent?

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the England team tops the list as the national team with the highest rate of players coming from the Premier League, with 21 of the 26 plying their trade in the nation’s top division. However, did you know over half of the Netherlands team spend their regular season in the Premier League too (54%)?

Meanwhile, around a third of the Brazil (35%), Belgium (31%), and Scotland (31%) teams are representing the Premier League this summer, with the likes of Spain (27%), Argentina (23%), and France (23%) not far behind!