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2022 World Cup player birthplaces

Explore birthplaces, listed nationalities and club countries in nine league roster samples, or switch to World Cup national squads.

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48 locations drawn; 831 records in this saved view. Current boundaries; unknown values are distinct from zero. Exact source records remain in the table.

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Robert Arboleda

2022 World Cup squad: Ecuador. Position: DF. Club at tournament: São Paulo.

Birthplace: Esmeraldas; coordinates available.

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25 of 831 source records shown. The complete CSV contains every matching record.

NamePlayer birthplacesNational teamClub at tournament
Aaron Long1United StatesNew York Red Bulls
Aaron Mooy1AustraliaCeltic
Aaron Ramsdale1EnglandArsenal
Aaron Ramsey1WalesNice
Abde Ezzalzouli1MoroccoOsasuna
Abdelhamid Sabiri1MoroccoSampdoria
Abdelkarim Hassan1QatarAl-Sadd
Abderrazak Hamdallah1MoroccoAl-Ittihad
Abdou Diallo1SenegalRB Leipzig
Abdul Fatawu Issahaku1GhanaSporting CP
Abdul Manaf Nurudeen1GhanaEupen
Abdulaziz Hatem1QatarAl-Rayyan
Abdulelah Al-Amri1Saudi ArabiaAl-Nassr
Abdulellah Al-Malki1Saudi ArabiaAl-Hilal
Abdullah Madu1Saudi ArabiaAl-Nassr
Abdullah Otayf1Saudi ArabiaAl-Hilal
Abdulrahman Al-Aboud1Saudi ArabiaAl-Ittihad
Abolfazl Jalali1IranEsteghlal
Achraf Dari1MoroccoBrest
Achraf Hakimi1MoroccoParis Saint-Germain
Adam Davies1WalesSheffield United
Adrien Rabiot1FranceJuventus
Agustín Canobbio1UruguayAthletico Paranaense
Ahmad Nourollahi1IranShabab Al-Ahli
Ahmed Alaaeldin1QatarAl-Gharafa

What this map measures

Club-roster coverage is a dated sample from nine published league directories; World Cup cohorts separately cover 2022 (831 players) and 2026 (1,248 players). Each league source and club roster revision is recorded. Listed nationality on a club roster does not establish national-team eligibility. Choose a cohort before comparing counts. Birthplaces are enriched from CC0 Wikidata records. Unknown coordinates stay in the player table; birthplace is distinct from the represented national team.

Exports count listed players at clubs in another football association. World Cup rosters use the represented team and club-country flag; club rosters use their listed nationality and club country. This sample does not count every professional abroad. Club-roster leagues come from dated membership tables; World Cup league filters use Wikidata affiliations and may be historical. Duplicate players within a club cohort are counted once, with overlapping source memberships disclosed.

Players per million divides known birthplace counts in the selected roster cohort by Natural Earth’s national population reference (generally 2019); the UK home nations use their separate map-unit population estimates. Regions that share a country ID use the national denominator, not the first regional population. It is a cohort comparison across different source years, not a measured national talent-production rate.

Club-roster coverage

184 clubs across 9 leagues, captured 2026-10-03. 5040 unique player records; 3353 with birthplace coordinates. Each player is counted once within this cohort.

Club-roster revisions and checksums; Birthplace source archive.

Sources and downloads

These are frozen snapshots, retrieved 2026-10-02. Source versions and checksums; Wikidata enrichment archive; complete football dataset.

Historical data attribution: © 2023 Joshua C. Fjelstul, Ph.D.. Roster facts: 2022 Wikipedia contributors and 2026 Wikipedia contributors. Derived data is published under CC BY-SA 4.0; fields have been selected, joined, normalized and aggregated. International match results, Wikidata structured facts, and Natural Earth geography retain their source licenses.

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