Tournament leaderboards

Pre-tournament, our model favours premium attackers from elite nations as projected top scorers: Kylian Mbappé (France), Erling Haaland (Norway), Harry Kane (England), Lautaro Martínez (Argentina), Vinícius Júnior (Brazil), and Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal). Once group-stage matches play, the board flips to live tournament data from football-data.org with actual goals and assists.

xP/90 is our heuristic forecast for fantasy points per 90 minutes. Inputs: player position (FWD highest baseline, GK lowest), club tier (top-six PL clubs and elite European clubs add 0.6), marquee-name boost for proven elite scorers (+0.8), and a small expected-squad haircut (-0.3) for players whose call-up is inferred but not confirmed. The output gives a fair pre-tournament ranking — once matches play, projections will weight by actual minutes and goal involvement.

Manchester City and Arsenal typically top the club leaderboard, each contributing players across 8-10 different nations. Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham follow. The exact ranking refreshes as final 26-man squads are confirmed by each federation.

These are the European nations whose players predominantly play in the Premier League. England leads with 22 PL players, Netherlands carries 15, then Belgium and Senegal at 8 each. Nations from non-European confederations typically have fewer PL representatives, which is why the board is UEFA-heavy.

This leaderboards page swaps from model projections to live tournament data as soon as matches play — top scorers, top assists, minutes and disciplinary stats. We pull from football-data.org with hourly refresh. Bookmark this page for daily tournament updates.