This article lists the confirmed national
football
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squads for the
2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to FIFA World Cup hosts ...
tournament held in
Germany
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, between 9 June and 9 July 2006. Before announcing their final squad, several teams named a provisional squad of 23 to 33 players, but each country's final squad of 23 players had to be submitted by 15 May 2006. Replacement of injured players was permitted until 24 hours before the team's first World Cup game. Players marked (
c) were named as captain for their national squad. Number of caps counts until the start of the World Cup, including all pre-tournament friendlies. Club information is that used by FIFA. Players for whom this information changed during or prior to the tournament are indicated by footnotes.
Group A
Costa Rica
Head coach:
Alexandre Guimarães
Ecuador
Head coach:
Luis Fernando Suárez
Germany
Head coach:
Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann (; born 30 July 1964) is a German professional Association football, football manager and former player. He played for several prominent clubs in Europe including VfB Stuttgart, Inter Milan, AS Monaco FC, Monaco, Tottenham Hot ...
Poland
Head coach:
Paweł Janas
Group B
England
Head coach:
Sven-Göran Eriksson
Sven-Göran Eriksson (; 5 February 1948 – 26 August 2024) was a Swedish association football, football player and Coach (sport), manager.
After a playing career as a right-back, Eriksson went on to experience major success in club management ...
Paraguay
Head coach:
Aníbal Ruiz
Sweden
Head coach:
Lars Lagerbäck
Trinidad and Tobago
Head coach:
Leo Beenhakker
Group C
Argentina
Head coach:
José Pekerman
Ivory Coast
Head coach:
Henri Michel
Henri Louis Michel (28 October 1947 – 24 April 2018) was a French football player and coach. He played as a midfielder for Nantes and the France national team, and later went on to coach various clubs and national teams all over the world ...
Netherlands
Head coach:
Marco van Basten
Marcel "Marco" Van Basten (; born 31 October 1964) is a Dutch former football manager and player who played as a striker for Ajax and AC Milan, as well as the Netherlands national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all t ...
Serbia and Montenegro
Head coach:
Ilija Petković
Ilija Petković ( sr-Cyrl, Илија Петковић, ; 22 September 1945 – 27 June 2020) was a Serbian footballer and manager.
Petković was capped 43 times for Yugoslavia, participating in the 1968 European Football Championship, and in ...
Group D
Angola
Head coach:
Luis Oliveira Gonçalves
Iran
Head coach:
Branko Ivanković
Branko Ivanković (; born 28 February 1954) is a Croatian association football, football manager (association football), manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He was most recently the head coach of the China national football team ...
Mexico
Head coach:
Ricardo La Volpe
Portugal
Head coach:
Luiz Felipe Scolari
Luiz Felipe Scolari (; born 9 November 1948), also known as Felipão ("Big Phil"), is a Brazilian football manager and former player who currently serves as the technical director of Grêmio.
Considered to be one of the greatest and most su ...
Group E
Czech Republic
Head coach:
Karel Brückner
Ghana
Head coach:
Ratomir Dujković
Italy
Head coach:
Marcello Lippi
Marcello Romeo Lippi (; born 12 April 1948) is an Italian former professional association football, football player and manager, who led the Italy national football team, Italy national team to victory in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
He was appoin ...
United States
Head coach:
Bruce Arena
Group F
Australia
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 ...
Brazil
Head coach:
Carlos Alberto Parreira
Carlos Alberto Gomes Parreira (born 27 February 1943) is a Brazilian former football manager who holds the record for attending the most FIFA World Cup final tournaments as manager with six appearances. He also managed five different national t ...
Croatia
Head coach:
Zlatko Kranjčar
Zlatko "Cico" Kranjčar (; 15 November 1956 – 1 March 2021) was a Croatian professional Association football, football Manager (association football), manager and Football player, player.
Kranjčar started his career as a player with GNK Dinam ...
Japan
Head coach:
Zico
Group G
France
Head coach:
Raymond Domenech
South Korea
Head coach:
Dick Advocaat
Dirk Nicolaas "Dick" Advocaat (; born 27 September 1947) is a Dutch former association football, football player and coach. He is currently the manager of the Curaçao national football team.
Advocaat was successful as a football player and as a ...
Switzerland
Head coach:
Köbi Kuhn
Togo
Head coach:
Otto Pfister
Otto Martin Pfister (born 24 November 1937) is a German former football manager and one of Germany's most successful coaching exports, voted Africa's ''Manager of the Year'' in 1992. He is formerly the manager of the Afghanistan national team. ...
Group H
Saudi Arabia
Head coach:
Marcos Paquetá
Spain
Head coach:
Luis Aragonés
Tunisia
Head coach:
Roger Lemerre
Ukraine
Head coach:
Oleg Blokhin
Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, or Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin (, ; born 5 November 1952), is a Ukrainian former football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of his generation, Blokhin was a standout striker for Dynamo ...
Serhiy Fedorov was injured prior to the start of the tournament. His replacement,
Vyacheslav Shevchuk, was also injured shortly after filling in.
Oleksandr Yatsenko was then called up, and sat on the bench for the last two matches.
[Sviderskyi was on loan to Arsenal Kyiv prior to the tournament.]
Player representation by league
The squads for Italy and Saudi Arabia were made up entirely of players from their respective domestic leagues, with the latter being the only team without players from European clubs. The Ivory Coast squad was made up entirely of players employed by foreign clubs, and 22 out of the 23 players were registered in Europe. Although
Turkey
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,
Scotland
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, and
Russia
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failed to qualify for the finals, their domestic leagues were represented by 12, 11, and 10 players respectively. In total, domestic leagues from 48 countries had players at the 2006 World Cup.
Player representation by club
Finalised clubs' listing as per FIFA, excluding players on standby and loans.
Coaches representation by country
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:2006 Fifa World Cup Squads
Squads
FIFA World Cup squads