Below are the squads for the 1978 FIFA World Cup final tournament in Argentina.
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Argentina
Head coach: César Luis Menotti
Note that this squad is numbered alphabetically by surname, unlike traditional numbering systems where the goalkeeper has shirt number 1 and so forth.
France
Head coach: Michel Hidalgo
Hungary
Head coach: Lajos Baróti
Italy
Head coach: Enzo Bearzot
Mexico
Head coach: José Antonio Roca
Poland
Head coach: Jacek Gmoch
Tunisia
Head coach: Abdelmajid Chetali
West Germany
Head coach: Helmut Schön
Austria
Head coach: Helmut Senekowitsch
Brazil
Head coach: Cláudio Coutinho
Spain
Head coach: Ladislao Kubala
Sweden
Head coach: Georg Ericson
Iran
Head coach: Heshmat Mohajerani
Netherlands
Head coach: Ernst Happel
Jan Jongbloed wore number 8 because some of the players who had been in the Dutch squad at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, where the Netherlands used a purely alphabetical numbering system, were given the same numbers again in 1978. Hugo Hovenkamp withdrew from the squad before the tournament began, but after the deadline for naming replacement players had passed. The Netherlands thus went to the World Cup with only 21 players.
Peru
Head coach: Marcos Calderón
Scotland
Manager: Ally MacLeod