Below are the squads for the

1958 FIFA World Cup The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the sixth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in Sweden from 8 to 29 June 1958. It was the first FIFA World Cup to be played in a Nordic country. Brazil be ...

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 Josef "Sepp" Herberger (28 March 1897 – 28 April 1977) was a German football player and manager. He is most famous for being the manager of the West German national team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup final, a match later dubbed ''The Mirac ...

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

Northern Ireland

Head coach: Peter Doherty * Players no. 18-22 did not travel to Sweden

Czechoslovakia

Head coach:

Karel Kolský Karel Kolský (21 September 1914 in Kročehlavy – 17 February 1984) was a Czech football player and later a football manager. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 13 matches. He was a participant in the 1938 FIFA World Cup, and h ...

Argentina

Head coach:

Guillermo Stábile Guillermo Stábile (17 January 1905 – 26 December 1966) was an Argentine professional football player and manager who played as a centre forward. At club level, Stábile won two national championships with Huracán and played in Italy and Fran ...

Group 2

France

Head coach:

Albert Batteux Albert Batteux (2 July 1919 – 28 February 2003) was a French football midfielder and a manager. He is the most successful manager in the history of Ligue 1 having won eight domestic titles, twice reaching the European Cup final and a third-p ...

Yugoslavia

Head coach:

Aleksandar Tirnanić Aleksandar "Tirke" Tirnanić ( sr-Cyrl, Александар "Тирке" Тирнанић; 15 July 1910 – 13 December 1992) was a Yugoslav football (soccer), football player and manager. Early life and beginnings Born in the central Serbian sm ...

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

Paraguay

Head coach: Aurelio González

Scotland

Head coach:

Dawson Walker Dawson Walker (14 March 1916 – 17 August 1973) was manager of the Scotland national football team The Scotland national football team gd, Sgioba Ball-coise Nàiseanta na h-Alba sco, Scotland National Fitbaa Team represents Scotland in men ...

(officially only acting manager in place of

Matt Busby Sir Alexander Matthew Busby (26 May 1909 – 20 January 1994) was a Scottish association football, football player and manager, who managed Manchester United F.C., Manchester United between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 197 ...

, 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 George Sidney Raynor (13 January 1907 – 24 November 1985) was an English professional footballer and one of the most successful international football managers ever. One of his greatest achievements was taking the Sweden national football t ...

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 The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in England, with five teams from Wales, one from Guernsey, one from Jersey and one from the Isl ...

Hungary

Head coach:

Lajos Baróti Lajos Baróti (; 19 August 1914 – 23 December 2005) was a Hungarian football player and manager. With eleven major titles he is one of the outstanding coaches of his era. Career Baróti played from 1928 until 1946 for Szegedi AK and from 19 ...

Mexico

Head coach:

Antonio López Herranz Antonio López Herranz (4 May 1913 – 29 September 1959) was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a striker and a manager. Playing career Born in Madrid, López Herranz spent two seasons with local Real Madrid, appearing in only ...

Group 4

Brazil

Head coach:

Vicente Feola Vicente Ítalo Feola (; 20 November 1909 – 6 November 1975) was a Brazilian football manager and coach from São Paulo. He became famous for leading the Brazilians to their first FIFA World Cup title in 1958. Biography Feola was born in S� ...

Soviet Union

Head coach:

Gavriil Kachalin Gavriil Dmitriyevich Kachalin (russian: Гавриил Дмитриевич Качалин; 17 January 1911 – 23 May 1995) was a Soviet and Russian football player and coach. He led the USSR national football team to their greatest achievem ...

England

Head coach:

Walter Winterbottom Sir Walter Winterbottom (31 March 1913 – 16 February 2002) was an English football player and coach. He was the first manager of the England national team (1946–1962) and Director of Coaching for The Football Association (the FA). He ...

*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

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.d

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