1958 FIFA World Cup squads

Below are the squads for the 1958 FIFA World Cup final tournament in Sweden.

France (1), Northern Ireland (19), Scotland (6), Sweden (5) and Wales (14) had players representing foreign clubs.

For the first time, seven players (one French, five Swedish and one Welsh) were selected from clubs from nations that did not qualify for the tournament (Italy and Spain).

Group 1

West Germany

Head coach: Sepp Herberger

• Players no. 18-21 did not travel to Sweden.

Northern Ireland

Head coach: Peter Doherty

• Players no. 18-22 did not travel to Sweden. [1]

Czechoslovakia

Head coach: Karel Kolský

Argentina

Head coach: Guillermo Stábile

Group 2

France

Head coach: Albert Batteux

Yugoslavia

Head coach: Aleksandar Tirnanić

Players no. 20-22 did not travel to Sweden.

Paraguay

Head coach: Aurelio González

Scotland

Head coach: Dawson Walker (officially only acting manager in place of Matt Busby, who was seriously injured in the Munich air disaster and unable to resume his duties in time for the tournament)

Group 3

Sweden

Head coach: George Raynor

Wales

Head coach: Jimmy Murphy

Note: Swansea Town (now Swansea City) and Cardiff City are Welsh clubs that play in the English football league system.

Hungary

Head coach: Lajos Baróti

Mexico

Head coach: Antonio López Herranz

Group 4

Brazil

Head coach: Vicente Feola

Soviet Union

Head coach: Gavriil Kachalin

England

Head coach: Walter Winterbottom

• Some sources state that England took only 20 squad members to the 1958 tournament in Sweden, and their squad lists do not include Alan Hodgkinson or Maurice Setters. Other sources, including FIFA's official World Cup records, list 22 players on the squad and include both Hodgkinson and Setters. The likelihood is that these two players were included on the squad list submitted to FIFA but did not travel to the tournament. [2]

Austria

Head coach: Karl Argauer

Notes

Each national team had to submit a squad of 22 players. All the teams included 3 goalkeepers, except Argentina, Paraguay, Scotland, Hungary and Brazil who only called two.

References

• weltfussball.de [3]