1962 FIFA World Cup squads
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1962 FIFA World Cup The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the seventh edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It was held from 30 May to 17 June 1962 in Chile. The qualification rounds took place ...
final tournament in
Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...
. Switzerland (3), England (1), Spain (1) and West Germany (1) had players representing foreign clubs. Two selected players comes from a foreign club of a non-qualified country (France).


Group 1


Soviet Union

Head coach: Gavril Kachalin


Yugoslavia

Head coaches:
Ljubomir Lovrić Ljubomir Lovrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубомир Ловрић; 28 May 1920 – 26 August 1994) was a Serbian football goalkeeper and later a football manager and journalist. Career On the national level he played for Yugoslavia national team ...
and Prvoslav Mihajlović


Uruguay

Head coach: Juan Carlos Corazzo


Colombia

Head coach:
Adolfo Pedernera Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera (15 November 1918 – 12 May 1995) was an Argentine football player and coach. Nicknamed "El Maestro" ("The Teacher"), he was widely considered to be one of the best world football players in the 1940s and one of the g ...


Group 2


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 Mir ...


Chile

Head coach:
Fernando Riera Fernando José Riera Bauzá (27 June 1920 – 23 September 2010) was a Chilean professional football player and manager, patriarch of Chilean football. Career Riera was born in Santiago, Chile. As a footballer, he played for Chile in the 19 ...


Italy

Head coach:
Giovanni Ferrari Giovanni Ferrari (; 6 December 1907 – 2 December 1982) was an Italian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder/inside forward on the left. He is regarded as one of the best players of his generation, one of Italy's best ever players, ...
and
Paolo Mazza Paolo Mazza (21 July 1901 – 31 December 1981) was an Italian football manager. He was co-manager of the Italy national football team at the 1962 FIFA World Cup, together with Giovanni Ferrari. Mazza career as a footballer was served entirely i ...


Switzerland

Head coach:
Karl Rappan Karl Rappan (26 September 1905 – 2 January 1996) was an Austrian footballer and coach. He played and managed mostly in Switzerland, where he won multiple titles. He had four tenures as coach of the Switzerland national team, which he managed i ...


Group 3


Brazil

Head coach:
Aymoré Moreira Aymoré Moreira (24 April 1912 – 26 July 1998) was a Brazilian football player and coach, who played as a goalkeeper. He was a brother of Zezé Moreira and Ayrton Moreira, both of whom were also successful coaches in Brazilian football. ...


Czechoslovakia

Head coach: Rudolf Vytlačil


Mexico

Head coach: Ignacio Tréllez


Spain

Head coach: Helenio Herrera


Group 4


Hungary

Head coach: Lajos Baróti


England

Head coach: Walter Winterbottom Derek Kevan was a stay-at-home reserve.
Jimmy Adamson James Adamson (4 April 1929 – 8 November 2011) was an English professional footballer and football manager. He was born in Ashington, Northumberland. He made 486 appearances for Burnley ranking him sixth in their all-time appearance lis ...
, officially part of the squad, acted as assistant manager. The squad list at FIFA's website lists Gordon Banks instead of Adamson; according to another source, Banks was intended to be a stay-at-home reserve too but was eventually omitted from the list.


Argentina

Head coach: Juan Carlos Lorenzo


Bulgaria

Head coach:
Georgi Pachedzhiev Georgi Pachedzhiev ( bg, Γеорги Пачеджиев; 1 March 1916 – 12 April 2005) was a Bulgarian football manager who coached Bulgaria at the 1962 FIFA World Cup, the first ever time that Bulgaria did reach the finals. As a footballer, h ...


Notes

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


References

* weltfussball.d

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