{"id":1304,"date":"2026-07-20T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:02:29","slug":"map-of-birthplaces-of-all-world-cup-2026-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/maps\/map-of-birthplaces-of-all-world-cup-2026-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of birthplaces of all world cup 2026 players"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FC Maps is an interactive map showing the birthplaces of all 1,248 players competing in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.  Users can filter by country, club league, player statistics, and more, revealing hidden patterns in player development and migration.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FC Maps is a real treat for football fans and anyone interested in football geography. It allows you to easily search for data on national teams, filtering players by country, club and league, field position, and country of birth, among other things. The map uses data from sources such as Wikipedia and Transfermarkt, and birthplaces are geocoded using OpenStreetMap and manually verified. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The map reveals several interesting facts, such as the fact that 99 players playing in this year&#8217;s World Cup were born in France. That&#8217;s almost four national teams, as each country can field a team of 26 players. A significant number, with 67 players, were born in the Netherlands. Mostly members of that country&#8217;s national team, but also almost the entire Curacao team. Interestingly, only one Curacao representative was born on the Caribbean island. Fifty players born in Germany are also playing in the World Cup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Premier League is the most represented league at the tournament (167 players), followed by the Bundesliga (101) and La Liga (81). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The most players were called up from clubs such as Manchester City (19), Bayern Munich (17), Arsenal (15), Paris Saint-Germain (15), and FC Barcelona (14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fcmaps.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/fcmaps.nl\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FC Maps is an interactive map showing the birthplaces of all 1,248 players competing in the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Users can filter by country, club league, player statistics, and more, revealing hidden patterns in player development and migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maps","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}