Nah, really – although it pains us here to admit it, the EPL is officially the home of the heroes of World Cup 2006. Premiership players scored more goals in the tourney than any other national league.

Even though the Poms flopped and barely made it onto the roster of World Cup scorers, their teammates back at their domestic clubs more than made up for the lack of England firepower.

What’s worse is that we helped them do it – the double from Everton’s Tim Cahill and Liverpool’s Harry Kewell’s fine strike joined the likes of Arsenal’s Thierry Henry and Chelsea’s Hernan Crespo in boosting the EPL’s figures.

It gets worse – Chelsea and Arsenal shared the honours of the highest scoring World Cup clubs - thanks to Henry and Crespo and their respective new signings Tomas Rosicky and Andrey Shevchenko - with Spain’s Real Madrid, mainly through nutjob Zinedine Zidane and tubby manboobed Ronaldo.

In a fit of autistic boredom between matches, FourFourTwo Australia broke down all the World Cup scorers into their clubs and domestic leagues to see where all the stars were based.

Twenty-five national league were represented by goalscorers in the competition, but more than half of all the goals scored were by players from the English, Spanish, Italian, German or French leagues which were a long way clear of the rest of the world.

And Scottish, Turkish, Qatari, Russian and Egyptian national leagues were notable in having their domestic club players score in the World Cup despite the national team not qualifying itself.

National leagues goal total
England 29

Spain 25

Germany 20
Italy 20

France 12

Mexico 5

Costa Rica 3
Russia 3
Ukraine 3

Ecuador 2
Iran 2
Poland 2
Portugal 2
Qatar 2
Saudi Arabia 2
Serbia 2
Turkey 2

Argentina 1
Brazil 1
Denmark 1
Egypt 1
Japan 1
Scotland 1
Sweden 1
US 1

Clubs Goal Total
Chelsea 8
Arsenal 8
Real Madrid 8

Atletica Madrid 6
Werder Bremen 6

Inter 5
Liverpool 5

AC Milan 4
Bayern Munich 4
Juventus 4
Valencia 4

Barcelona 3
FC Cologne 3
Manchester United 3

Al Hilal 2
Al Sadd 2
Benfica 2
Dynamo Moscow 2
Everton 2
Fiorentina 2
Guadalajara 2
Herediano 2
Hertha Berlin 2
Lens 2
Lyon 2
Paris St Germain 2
Quito 2
Red Star Belgrade 2
Rennes 2
Saba Battery 2
Seville 2
Udinese 2


Al Ahly 1
Alaves 1
Argentinos Juniors 1
Bayer Leverkusen 1
Bolton 1
Borussia Moenchengladbach 1
Borussia Dortmund 1
CD Numancia 1
Celtic 1
Copenhagen 1
Corinthians 1
Cruz Azul 1
Deportiva Saprissa 1
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1
Dynamo Kiev 1
En Avant Guingamp 1
Fenerbahce 1
Galatasaray 1
Helsingborgs 1
Lech Posnan 1
Marseille 1
Modena 1
MSV Druisburg 1
Nagoya Grampus Eight 1
New England Revolution 1
Newcastle United 1
Nice 1
Nuremburg 1
Pachuca 1
Palermo 1
Roma 1
Shaktar Donetsk 1
Spartak Moscow 1
Toluca 1
Troyes 1