Modern top-flight squads are often more international than the city they play in. Using current squad data across our six leagues, Club2Club can count exactly how many different nationalities each club has on its books right now — and the results skew heavily toward a specific tier of team.
US Lecce tops the list with players from 28 different countries currently on the roster, an Italian Serie A side whose matchday squad reads like a small United Nations session. It's not a fluke of one club, either.
Torino (26 nationalities), Hellas Verona (24), and Genoa (23) all crowd the top of the list too, a cluster of mid-table Serie A clubs that points to something structural about Italian football's scouting model: rather than compete for the same handful of stars as the league's giants, these sides cast an unusually wide net across South America, Africa, and Eastern Europe to find value.
The pattern isn't purely Italian, though. Olympique Marseille and Tottenham Hotspur — a Ligue 1 mainstay and a Premier League giant — both field 21 nationalities, as does Sunderland, freshly promoted to the Premier League. Multinational squad-building, it turns out, is just as much a Premier League and Ligue 1 story as a Serie A one.
None of these clubs necessarily has the most talented squad in its league — this is a count of countries represented, not quality. You can explore any single nationality's footprint at a specific club using the Country → Club tool.