Premier League players in the World Cup: Manchester City dominate

These Premier League stars will look to shine for their countries in this year’s World Cup.

With just a week until the world cup, nations are submitting their 26-man lineups. Every squad has players from all over the globe. There is a wide variety of players from numerous leagues, yet the Premier League is the most commonly seen. Throughout all 32 squads, a whooping 132 players come from the Premier League.

To no surprise, England sent the most Premier League players to the world cup out of any nation. Besides Jude Bellingham, the rest of England’s 25 players are from the Premier League! Brazil’s 12 Premier League players are the second most in the World Cup, with Portugal’s 10 players being the third most. Only six nations sent no Premier League players. Those nations are Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia.

Manchester City sent the most players to the world cup out of all the Premier League squads with 16 players, yet none of them are named Erling Haaland. Manchester United’s 14 players were just short of City’s total. The three big London squads had a bunch of success with sending players to the world cup. Chelsea was able to send 12 players while Arsenal and Spurs both sent 10 players.

Bournemouth, Crystal Palace and Southampton were only able to get two of their players sent to the world cup. Leeds was able to send three players; avoiding the last-place tie.

Group B by far has the most Premier League players out of all the groups with a staggering 41 players playing across England, Wales, USA and Iran. Group C only has eight Premier League players with Argentina having five of those players. 132 players would be able to produce 12 starting elevens. That is nearly half of the World Cup. The quality of the Premier League was shown by the players that got selected for the world cup.

Group A: 11 players

Ecuador (3): Pervis Estupinan (Brighton), Moises Caicedo (Brighton), Jeremy Sarmiento (Brighton)

Netherlands (3): Virgil Van Dijk (Liverpool), Nathan Ake (Manchester City), Tyrell Malacia (Manchester United)

Qatar: None

Senegal (5): Edouard Mendy (Chelsea), Kalidou Koulibaly (Chelsea), Idrissa Gueye (Everton), Cheikhou Kouyate (Nottingham Forrest), Nampalys Mendy (Leicester City)

Group B: 41 players

England (25): Jordan Pickford (Everton), Nick Pope (Newcastle), Aaron Ramsdale (Arsenal), Ben White (Arsenal), Kyle Walker (Manchester City), Kieran Trippier (Newcastle), Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), John Stones (Manchester City), Eric Dier (Spurs), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), Conor Coady (Everton), Luke Shaw (Manchester United), Declan Rice (West Ham), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Mason Mount (Chelsea), Conor Gallagher (Chelsea), Kalvin Phillips (Manchester City), Harry Kane (Spurs), Raheem Sterling (Chelsea), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Phil Foden (Manchester City), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Callum Wilson (Newcastle), Jack Grealish (Manchester City), James Maddison (Leicester City)

Iran (1): Saman Ghoddos (Brentford)

United States (6): Matt Turner (Arsenal), Tim Ream (Fulham), Antonee Robinson (Fulham), Brenden Aaronson (Leeds), Tyler Adams (Leeds), Christian Pulisic (Chelsea)

Wales (9): Wayne Hennessey (Nottingham Forrest), Danny Ward (Leicester City), Neco Williams (Nottingham Forrest), Ben Davies (Spurs), Chris Mepham (Bournemouth), Harry Wilson (Fulham), Daniel James (Fulham), Kieffer Moore (Bournemouth), Brennan Johnson (Nottingham Forrest)

Group C: 8 players

Argentina (5): Lisandro Martinez (Manchester United), Cristian Romero (Spurs), Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa), Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton), Julian Alvarez (Manchester City)

Saudi Arabia: None

Mexico (1): Raul Jimenez (Wolves)

Poland (2): Jan Bednarek (Aston Villa), Matty Cash (Aston Villa)

Group D: 11 players

France (5): Alphonse Areola (West Ham), Hugo Lloris (Spurs), Ibrahima Konate (Liverpool), William Saliba (Arsenal), Raphael Varane (Manchester United)

Australia: None

Denmark (6): Joachim Anderson (Crystal Palace), Rasmus Kristensen (Leeds), Mathias Jensen (Brentford), Christian Eriksen (Manchester United), Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (Spurs), Mikkel Damsgaard (Brentford)

Tunisia: None

Group E: 11 players

Spain (5): Robert Sanchez (Brighton), David Raya (Brentford), Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea), Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City), Rodri (Manchester City)

Costa Rica: None

Germany (4): Armel Bella-Kotchap (Southampton), Thilo Keher (West Ham), İlkay Gundogan (Manchester City), Kai Havertz (Chelsea)

Japan (2): Takehiro Tomiyasu (Arsenal), Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton)

Group F: 11 players

Belgium (7): Wout Faes (Leicester City), Timothy Castagne (Leicester City), Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City), Leander Dendoncker (Aston Villa), Amadou Onana (Everton), Youri Tielemans (Leicester City), Leandro Trossard (Brighton)

Canada: None

Morocco (2): Nayef Aguerd (West Ham), Hakim Ziyech (Chelsea)
Croatia (2): Mateo Kovacic (Chelsea), Ivan Perisic (Spurs)

Group G: 19 players

Brazil (12): Alisson Becker (Liverpool), Ederson (Manchester City), Thiago Silva (Chelsea), Casemiro (Manchester United), Fabinho (Liverpool), Bruno Guimares (Newcastle), Fred (Manchester United), Lucas Paqueta (West Ham), Gabriel Jesus (Arsenal), Antony (Manchester United), Richarlison (Spurs), Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal)

Serbia (1): Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fullham)

Switzerland (5): Manuel Akanji (Manchester City), Fabian Schar (Newcastle), Granit Xhaka (Arsenal), Remo Freuler (Nottingham Forrest), Denis Zakaria (Chelsea)

Cameroon (1): Bryan Mbeumo (Brentford)

Group H: 20 players

Portugal (10): Jose Sa (Wolves), Diogo Dalot (Manchester United), Joao Cancelo (Manchester City), Ruben Dias (Manchester City), Joao Palhinha (Fullham), Ruben Neves (Wolves), Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United), Matheus Nunes (Wolves), Christiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)

Ghana (5): Tariq Lamptey (Brighton), Daniel Amartey (Leicester City), Mohammed Salisu (Southampton), Andre Ayew (Crystal Palace)

Uruguay (3): Rodrigo Bentancur (Spurs), Facundo Pellistri (Manchester United), Darwin Nunez (Liverpool)

South Korea (2): Son Heung-Min (Spurs), Hwang Hee-Chan (Wolves)