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.Rafferty p96
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.1954 Squad at englandfootballonline.com
Switzerland Head coach: Karl Rappan
Italy Head coach: Lajos Czeizler
Belgium Head coach: Doug Livingstone
Players numbered 17–22 did not travel to Switzerland.
Statistics
Age Players Outfield players Oldest: Stanley Matthews () Youngest: Raúl Arellano ()
Goalkeepers Oldest: Roque Máspoli () Youngest: Şükrü Ersoy ()
Player representation by club
Players Clubs 10 Rapid Wien 9 Peñarol 8 Budapesti Honvéd SE 8 Nacional 7 ÚDA Prague 7 Fenerbahçe 6 Stade de Reims 6 Budapesti Vörös Lobogó 6 Internazionale 6 Galatasaray 5 1. FC Kaiserslautern 5 Fiorentina 5 ROK Counterintelligence Corps FC 5 La Chaux-de-Fonds 5 Dinamo Zagreb 5 Partizan Belgrade 5 Young Boys 4 Austria Wien 4 Wacker Wien 4 RSC Anderlechtois 4 Fluminense 4 São Paulo FC 4 Lille 4 Juventus 4 Chosun Textile Company FC 4 ROK Army Counterintelligence Corps FC 4 Lausanne Sports 4 Red Star Belgrade 3 Royal Antwerp FC 3 Royal Beerschot AC 3 Flamengo 3 Portuguesa 3 Vasco da Gama 3 Křídla vlasti Olomouc 3 Slovan Bratislava 3 Manchester United 3 Portsmouth 3 Preston North End 3 Wolverhampton Wanderers 3 Atlante 3 Necaxa 3 Oro 3 Celtic 3 Hibernian 3 Partick Thistle 3 Grasshopper Club Zürich 3 Servette 3 ROK Navy FC 3 Adalet SK Istanbul 3 Karagücü 3 Vojvodina Novi Sad 2 First Vienna FC 2 Corinthians 2 Palmeiras 2 Daring Club 2 Royal FC Liegeois 2 CH Bratislava 2 Spartak Praha Sokolovo 2 Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 Fulham 2 Huddersfield Town 2 Nice 2 1. FC Köln 2 Hamburger SV 2 SpVgg Fürth 2 Budapesti Dózsa 2 Bologna 2 Milan 2 Roma 2 Atlas 2 Guadalajara 2 León 2 Marte 2 Aberdeen 2 ROK Armed Forces Military Police Command FC 2 ROK Army Quartermaster Corps FC 2 Danubio 2 Defensor 2 Hajduk Split 1 Linzer ASK 1 Wiener Sportclub 1 A.S.V. Oostende K.M. 1 Berchem Sport 1 Cercle Sportif Tongrois 1 Charleroi SC 1 Lierse 1 Standard Liège 1 Union St. Gilloise 1 White Star 1 Botafogo 1 Baník Handlová 1 Baník Kladno 1 Iskra Žilina 1 Tankista Praha 1 Tatran Prešov 1 Bolton Wanderers 1 Burnley 1 Chelsea 1 Leicester City 1 Luton Town 1 Newcastle United 1 Sheffield United 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1 West Ham United 1 FC Sochaux 1 Girondins de Bordeaux 1 Lyon 1 Metz 1 Monaco 1 RC Lens 1 RC Strasbourg 1 Saint-Étienne 1 Toulouse FC 1 Troyes 1 1. FC Nürnberg 1 Bayern Munich 1 BC Augsburg 1 Borussia Dortmund 1 Eintracht Frankfurt 1 FC Schalke 04 1 FK Pirmasens 1 Fortuna Düsseldorf 1 FSV Frankfurt 1 KSV Hessen Kassel 1 Rot-Weiss Essen 1 Budapesti Kinizsi 1 Budapesti Vasas SE 1 Csepeli Vasas 1 Dorogi Bányász 1 Győri Vasas SE 1 Salgótarjáni BTC 1 Sampdoria 1 Club América 1 Puebla 1 Tampico 1 Toluca 1 Zacatepec 1 Airdrieonians 1 Dundee 1 Queen of the South 1 Raith Rovers 1 Basel 1 Chiasso 1 Beşiktaş 1 Karagümrük 1 Kasımpaşa 1 Rampla Juniors 1 Lokomotiva Zagreb 1 Radnički Belgrade 1 Spartak Subotica
Player representation by league system Country Players Outsidenationalsquad Clubs England 29 7 17 Austria 22 0 6 Belgium 22 0 13 Brazil 22 0 8 Czecholovakia 22 0 10 France 22 0 13 Germany 22 0 15 Hungary 22 0 9 Italy 22 0 7 Mexico 22 0 12 Switzerland 22 0 7 Turkey 22 0 7 Uruguay 22 0 5 Yugoslavia 22 0 8 South Korea 20 0 6 Scotland 15 0 8 Total 350 7 (%) 151
Scotland were the only country to include players playing outside their domestic league, with all seven playing in England. South Korea were the only country to not include twenty-two players in their squad, leaving two vacant slots.
Coaches representation by country NºCountryCoaches2 AustriaWalter Nausch, Karl Rappan (Switzerland) HungaryLajos Czeizler (Italy), Gusztáv Sebes ScotlandAndy Beattie, Doug Livingstone (Belgium)1 BrazilZezé Moreira CzechoslovakiaKarol Borhy EnglandWalter Winterbottom FrancePierre Pibarot ItalySandro Puppo (Turkey) South KoreaKim Yong-sik SpainAntonio López Herranz (Mexico) UruguayJuan López West GermanySepp Herberger YugoslaviaAleksandar Tirnanić
References
weltfussball.de