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1954 FIFA World Cup squads

Below are the squads for the 1954 FIFA World Cup final tournament in Switzerland. Each team had to submit a squad of 22 players. All the teams included three goalkeepers, except England, Mexico, Scotland, South Korea, Uruguay and Yugoslavia, who only named two. This was the first World Cup for which the players were assigned squad numbers.

Scotland were the only team to have players from foreign clubs (namely 7 players from English clubs).

Group 1

Brazil

Head coach: Zezé Moreira

Yugoslavia

Head coach: Aleksandar Tirnanić

France

Head coach: Pierre Pibarot

Mexico

Head coach: Antonio López Herranz

Roca, Ochoa, Cortes, although registered the official list remained on stand by in Mexico

Group 2

Hungary

Head coach: Gusztáv Sebes

West Germany

Head coach: Sepp Herberger

Turkey

Head coach: Sandro Puppo

Gurbuz, Günar and Aytaç, although registered the official list remained on stand by in Turkey.

South Korea

Head coach: Kim Yong-sik

  • Only 20 players in South Korea squad.

Group 3

Uruguay

Head coach: Juan López

Austria

Head coach: Walter Nausch

Czechoslovakia

Head coach: Karol Borhy

Scotland

Head coach: Andy Beattie

Alex Dowdells had also been appointed the team's trainer. A provisional squad of 18 players was announced to meet World Cup requirements, but a three-man committee later selected a final pool of only 13 players to travel.

  • Only 13 members of the squad travelled to Switzerland for the 1954 tournament. Anderson, Henderson, Mathers, Wilson, Binning, Combe, Copland and McMillan were not required to travel and stayed at home on reserve. Johnstone originally travelled with the squad but returned home injured before the tournament started and was replaced by Hamilton.

Group 4

England

Head coach: Walter Winterbottom

  • Only 17 of the 22 squad members travelled to Switzerland for the 1954 tournament. Five players—Ken Armstrong, Allenby Chilton, Johnny Haynes, Harry Hooper and Bedford Jezzard—were put on reserve status and remained at home awaiting a call if the need arose. It did not happen however.

Switzerland

Head coach: Karl Rappan

Italy

Head coach: Lajos Czeizler

Belgium

Head coach: Doug Livingstone

Players numbered 17–22 did not travel to Switzerland.

Coaches representation by country

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