At the
2002 FIFA World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial Association football, football world championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams organized by ...
, each national association was required to name a squad of 23 players, expanded from 22 in previous tournaments.
The players' ages, caps and clubs are as of 31 May 2002, the opening day of the tournament.
Group A
Denmark
Head coach:
Morten Olsen
France
Head coach:
Roger Lemerre
Senegal
Head coach:
Bruno Metsu
Bruno Jean Cornil Metsu (28 January 1954 – 15 October 2013) was a French footballer and football manager. During his senior playing career from 1973 to 1987, he played for seven different clubs in his native France. From 1988 until his death, ...
Uruguay
Head coach:
Víctor Púa
Víctor Haroldo Púa Sosa (born 31 May 1956 in Paso de los Toros) is a Uruguayan former football player and currently a football manager.
Career
He coached the Uruguay U-20 national team, finishing runner-up in the 1997 FIFA World Youth Champio ...
Group B
Paraguay
Head coach:
Cesare Maldini
Cesare Maldini (; 5 February 1932 – 3 April 2016) was an Italian professional football manager and player who played as a defender.
Father to Paolo Maldini and grandfather to Daniel Maldini, Cesare began his career with Italian side Triestin ...
Slovenia
Head coach:
Srečko Katanec
Srečko Katanec (; born 16 July 1963) is a Slovenian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of the Uzbekistan national team. At international level, he was capped for both the Yugoslavia and Slovenia national teams.
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: *Was expelled from the squad after the first game.
Note: caps for Yugoslavia are not counted.
South Africa
Head coach:
Jomo Sono
Spain
Head coach:
José Antonio Camacho
Group C
Brazil
Head coach:
Luiz Felipe Scolari
China PR
Head coach:
Bora Milutinović
Costa Rica
Head coach:
Alexandre Guimarães
Turkey
Head coach:
Şenol Güneş
Group D
Poland
Head coach:
Jerzy Engel
Portugal
Head coach:
António Oliveira
South Korea
Head coach:
Guus Hiddink
Guus Hiddink (; born 8 November 1946) is a Dutch former football manager and professional player. He enjoyed a long career playing as a midfielder in his native Netherlands. Retired as player in 1982, Hiddink went into management, leading both c ...
United States
Head coach:
Bruce Arena
Group E
Cameroon
Head coach:
Winfried Schäfer
Germany
Head coach:
Rudi Völler
Republic of Ireland
Head coach:
Mick McCarthy
*
Roy Keane
Roy Maurice Keane (born 10 August 1971) is an Irish football pundit, coach and former professional player. He is the joint most successful Irish footballer of all time, having won 19 major trophies in his club career, 17 of which came during ...
left the squad before the tournament and was not replaced. See ''
Saipan incident''. Keane was technically still part of the named squad, and does appear in FIFA's official squad lists.
Saudi Arabia
Head coach:
Nasser Al-Johar
Group F
Argentina
Head coach:
Marcelo Bielsa
Originally, the squad was named with Ariel Ortega given shirt number 23 and Roberto Bonano number 24, as the
Argentine Football Association had decided to retire the number 10 shirt in honour of
Diego Maradona. FIFA, however, insisted that all squads were assigned with numbers ranging only from 1–23, prompting Argentina to amend their squad list.
England
Head coach:
Sven-Göran Eriksson
Sven-Göran Eriksson (; born 5 February 1948) is a Swedish football manager and former player.
After an unassuming playing career as a right-back, Eriksson went on to experience major success in club management between 1977 and 2001, winning 18 ...
Nigeria
Head coach:
Festus Onigbinde
Sweden
Head coaches:
Lars Lagerbäck and
Tommy Söderberg
Group G
Croatia
Head coach:
Mirko Jozić
Note: caps for Yugoslavia are not counted.
Ecuador
Head coach:
Hernán Darío Gómez
Italy
Head coach:
Giovanni Trapattoni
Mexico
Head coach:
Javier Aguirre
Group H
Belgium
Head coach:
Robert Waseige
Robert Waseige (26 August 1939 – 17 July 2019) was a Belgian football manager and player.
Career
While managing R.F.C. de Liège he helped them win the 1989–90 Belgian Cup. He became the coach of Belgium before Euro 2000 and led Belgium to ...
Japan
Head coach:
Philippe Troussier
Russia
Head coach:
Oleg Romantsev
Note: caps include those for USSR, CIS, and Russia, while those for other countries, such as Ukraine, are not counted.
Tunisia
Head coach:
Ammar Souayah
Player representation by league
The Saudi Arabian squad was the only one made up entirely of players from their country's domestic league and the only one with no players from European clubs. The Cameroon squad were made up entirely of players employed by overseas clubs, the Irish squad was made up entirely by players in the English league. Although the
Netherlands and
Greece failed to qualify for the finals, their domestic leagues were represented by 18 and 10 players, respectively. Altogether, there were 43 national leagues who had players in the tournament.
References
Planet World Cup websiteSortable list of players at ScoreShelf.com website
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Squads
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FIFA World Cup squads