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1954 FIFA World Cup squads

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Below are the squads for the 1954 FIFA World Cup final tournament in Switzerland. This was the first World Cup where the players were assigned squad numbers.

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

Brazil

Head coach: Zezé Moreira

Yugoslavia

Head coach: Aleksandar Tirnanić

France

Head coach: Pierre Pibarot

Mexico

Head coach: Antonio López Herranz

Hungary

Head coach: Gusztáv Sebes

West Germany

Head coach: Sepp Herberger

Turkey

Head coach: Sandro Puppo

South Korea

Head coach: Kim Yong-sik

  • Only 20 players in South Korea squad.

    • Uruguay

    Head coach: Juan López

    Austria

    Head coach: Walter Nausch

    Czechoslovakia

    Head coach: Karol Borhy

    Scotland

    Head coach: Andy Beattie (quit after first match; remaining match was managed by a selection committee)

  • 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.

    • 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.

    • Switzerland

    Head coach: Karl Rappan

    Italy

    Head coach: Lajos Czeizler

    Belgium

    Head coach: Doug Livingstone

    References

    1954 FIFA World Cup squads Wikipedia
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