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Below are the rosters for the 1954 FIFA World Cup tournament in Switzerland. This was the first World Cup where the players' jersey numbers were fixed.
[edit] Group 1
Head coach: Zezé Moreira
Head coach: Aleksandar Tirnanić
Head coach: Pierre Pibarot
Head coach: Antonio López Herranz
[edit] Group 2
Head coach: Gusztáv Sebes
Head coach: Sepp Herberger
Head coach: Sandro Puppo
Head coach: Kim Young-Sik
[edit] Group 3
Head coach: Juan López
Head coach: Walter Nausch
Head coach: Jaroslav Cejp
Head coach: Andy Beattie (quit after first match; remaining matches were managed by a selection committee)
- Only 13 members of the squad actually 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]
[edit] Group 4
Head coach: Walter Winterbottom
- Only 17 of the 22 official squad members actually 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]
Head coach: Karl Rappan
Head coach: Lajos Czeizler
Head coach: Dugald Livingstone
- NB*: Rosters include reserves, alternates, and preselected players that may have participated in qualifiers and/or pre-tournament friendlies but not in the finals themselves.
[edit] References
- Rafferty, John (1973). One Hundred Years of Scottish Football (Paperback), Pan. ISBN 0-330-23654-7.