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.
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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 Mir ...
* 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 ...
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
Yugoslavia
Head coach:
Aleksandar Tirnanić
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 in 1958. Walker was left in charge of the players due to the Munich air disaster, in which official manager Matt Busby
Sir Alexander Matthew ...
(officially only acting manager in place of
Matt Busby
Sir Alexander Matthew Busby (26 May 1909 – 20 January 1994) was a Scottish football player and manager, who managed Manchester United between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 1970–71 season. He was the first manager of an ...
, 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 te ...
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
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 São ...
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
*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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