Machine Learning in Football · 08
The price of a starting XI
Transfer markets are a crowd-sourced strength rating: thousands of analysts and fans haggling over what a player is worth. Add up a nation's best eleven and you get a quick, brutal read on the gap between the favourites and the field. Here's every 2026 squad priced by Transfermarkt — and every group game as a value mismatch you can open up. Browse the fixtures, click any match, see the two XIs side by side.
The value ladder
What every squad is worth
Total market value of each 26-player squad, richest first. A handful of European and South American nations carry most of the money; the gap from top to bottom spans two orders of magnitude. Bars are the full squad; the fixtures below compare best XIs.
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The fixtures
Every group game, priced
The 72 group-stage matches, by date. Each bar splits the combined best-XI value between the two sides — the more lopsided the bar, the bigger the gap on paper. Click a match to open both starting elevens, most valuable first.