1954_FIFA_World_Cup_(squads)

1954 FIFA World Cup squads

1954 FIFA World Cup squads

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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

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Yugoslavia

Head coach: Aleksandar Tirnanić

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France

Head coach: Pierre Pibarot

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Mexico

Head coach: Spain Antonio López Herranz

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

Group 2

Hungary

Head coach: Gusztáv Sebes

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West Germany

Head coach: Sepp Herberger

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Turkey

Head coach: Italy Sandro Puppo

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

South Korea

Head coach: South Korea Kim Yong-sik

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  • Only 20 players in South Korea squad.

Group 3

Uruguay

Head coach: Juan López

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Austria

Head coach: Walter Nausch

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Czechoslovakia

Head coach: Karol Borhy

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Scotland

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

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  • 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.[1][2]

Group 4

England

Head coach: Walter Winterbottom

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  • 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.[3]

Switzerland

Head coach: Austria Karl Rappan

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Italy

Head coach: Hungary Lajos Czeizler

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Belgium

Head coach: Scotland Doug Livingstone

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Players numbered 17–22 did not travel to Switzerland.


References

  1. Rafferty p96
  2. "Unlucky 13 for Scots". Evening Telegraph. 23 December 2004. Archived from the original on 6 August 2009. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  • weltfussball.de
  • Rafferty, John (1973). One Hundred Years of Scottish Football (Paperback). Pan. ISBN 0-330-23654-7.

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