The 2014 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament that was held in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014. The 32 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players, including three goalkeepers. Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.
A provisional list of 30 players per national team was submitted to FIFA by 13 May 2014. FIFA published the 30-player provisional lists on their website on 16 May 2014. The final lists of 23 players per national team were submitted to FIFA by 2 June 2014. FIFA published the 23-player final lists, with the squad numbers, on their website, on 5 June 2014. Teams were permitted to make late replacements in the event of serious injury, at any time up to 24 hours before their first game.
The age listed for each player is on 12 June 2014, the first day of the tournament. The number of caps listed for each player does not include any matches played after the start of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The club listed is the club for which the player last played a competitive match prior to the tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated.
The Netherlands was the only team to use all of its 23 players during the tournament, making it the fourth team in World Cup history to ever use all of its players in the squad, after France in 1978, and both Greece and Russia in 1994 (although these squads had only 22 players).3 Michel Vorm And Two Minutes Of Glory sbnation.com
Group A
Brazil Coach: Luiz Felipe Scolari
The final squad was announced on 7 May 2014. The squad numbers were revealed on 2 June.
Cameroon Coach: Volker Finke
The final squad was announced on 2 June 2014.
Croatia Coach: Niko Kovač
The final squad was announced on 31 May 2014. With less than 48 hours until the opening game against Brazil, Milan Badelj was called up to replace the injured Ivan Močinić, after having previously been excluded from the final squad.
Mexico Coach: Miguel Herrera
The final squad was announced on 9 May 2014. However, midfielders Luis Montes and Juan Carlos Medina sustained injuries afterwards and were replaced by Javier Aquino and Miguel Ángel Ponce.
Group B
Australia Coach: Ange Postecoglou
The final squad was announced on 3 June 2014.
Chile Coach: Jorge Sampaoli
The final squad was announced on 1 June 2014.
Netherlands Coach: Louis van Gaal
The final squad was announced on 31 May 2014. The squad numbers were revealed on 2 June, during a press conference with Van Gaal.
Spain Coach: Vicente del Bosque
The final squad was announced on 31 May 2014. The squad numbers were revealed on 3 June.
Group C
Colombia Coach: José Pékerman
The final squad was announced on 2 June 2014. However, midfielder Aldo Leão Ramírez sustained injury afterwards and was replaced by Carlos Carbonero.
Greece Coach: Fernando Santos
The final squad was announced on 19 May 2014.
Ivory Coast Coach: Sabri Lamouchi
The final squad was announced on 1 June 2014.
Japan Coach: Alberto Zaccheroni
The final squad was announced on 12 May 2014. The squad numbers were revealed on 25 May.
Group D
Costa Rica Coach: Jorge Luis Pinto
The final squad was announced on 31 May 2014.
England Coach: Roy Hodgson
England's final squad was announced on 12 May 2014, including seven standby squad members: John Ruddy, Jon Flanagan, John Stones, Michael Carrick, Tom Cleverley, Andy Carroll and Jermain Defoe. Of those seven, only Stones and Flanagan joined the rest of the squad at a training camp in Portugal, with Stones serving as a like-for-like replacement option for Phil Jones, who was still recovering from a shoulder injury. Both Stones and Flanagan travelled with the squad to their pre-tournament training base in Miami, and remained with the team in Brazil in the event of any injuries prior to the opening game. The squad numbers were revealed on 22 May.
Italy Coach: Cesare Prandelli
The final squad was announced on 1 June 2014. The squad numbers were revealed the next day.
Uruguay Coach: Óscar Tabárez
The final squad was announced on 31 May 2014.
Group E
Ecuador Coach: Reinaldo Rueda
The final squad was announced on 2 June 2014. The squad numbers were revealed the next day. However, midfielder Segundo Castillo was replaced by Oswaldo Minda after injuring ligaments in his right knee.
France Coach: Didier Deschamps
The final squad was announced on 13 May 2014. Though originally selected, Franck Ribéry was removed due to a back injury.
Honduras Coach: Luis Fernando Suárez
The final squad was announced on 5 May 2014.
Switzerland Coach: Ottmar Hitzfeld
The final squad was announced on 13 May 2014.
Group F
Argentina Coach: Alejandro Sabella
The final squad was announced on 2 June 2014.
Bosnia and Herzegovina Coach: Safet Sušić
The final squad was announced on 2 June 2014.
Šunjić joined Kuban Krasnodar following the tournament.
Hajrović joined Werder Bremen following the tournament.
Iran Coach: Carlos Queiroz
The final squad was announced on 1 June 2014.
Nigeria Coach: Stephen Keshi
The final squad was announced on 2 June 2014. Ejike Uzoenyi replaced Elderson Echiéjilé due to injury on 7 June.
Group G
Germany Coach: Joachim Löw
The final squad was announced on 2 June 2014. On 7 June, Marco Reus was replaced by Shkodran Mustafi after Reus injured his ankle.
Ghana Coach: James Kwesi Appiah
The final squad was announced on 1 June 2014. On 26 June 2014, midfielders Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng were sent home and indefinitely suspended from the national team for disciplinary reasons.
Portugal Coach: Paulo Bento
The final squad was announced on 19 May 2014. The squad numbers were revealed on 24 May.
United States Coach: Jürgen Klinsmann
The final squad was announced on 22 May 2014.
Group H
Algeria Coach: Vahid Halilhodžić
The final squad was announced on 2 June 2014.
Belgium Coach: Marc Wilmots
The final squad was announced on 2 June 2014. However, a medical test on 3 June showed goalkeeper Koen Casteels had not completely recovered from his tibia injury and he was replaced by Sammy Bossut.
Russia Coach: Fabio Capello
The final squad was announced on 2 June 2014. However, midfielder Roman Shirokov was later removed from the squad due to a long-standing Achilles tendon injury and replaced by Pavel Mogilevets.
Note: a 2012 friendly match against Lithuania, recognized by the Russian Football Union but not by FIFA,The match is not on the list of Russia's matches: FIFA.com: Russia: Fixtures and Results, see April – June 2012. is not counted.
South Korea Coach: Hong Myung-bo
The final squad was announced on 8 May 2014.
Statistics
Player representation by age Players Oldest: Faryd Mondragón () Youngest: Fabrice Olinga ()
Goalkeepers Oldest: Faryd Mondragón () Youngest: Stefanos Kapino ()
Captains Oldest: Mario Yepes () Youngest: Koo Ja-cheol ()
Player representation by league system League systems with twenty or more players represented are listed. England included two Premier League clubs based in Wales, Swansea City and Cardiff City (five World Cup squad members played for these clubs); the United States included three MLS clubs based in Canada, Toronto FC, Vancouver Whitecaps FC and Montreal Impact (three World Cup squad members played for these clubs); and France included one Ligue 1 club based in Monaco, AS Monaco (four World Cup squad members played for this club). In all, World Cup squad members played for clubs in 54 countries, and played in 51 different national leagues.
Country Players Outsidenationalsquad England 119 97 Italy 81 61 Germany 78 61 Spain 64 50 France 46 38 Russia 34 11 Turkey 26 26 Mexico 26 11 Portugal 23 15 United States 21 12 Netherlands 20 10
The Russian squad was made up entirely of players from the country's domestic league. England's squad had only one player employed by a non-domestic club: Fraser Forster was employed in Scotland; although it was also part of the United Kingdom, they had a separate national federation and league system from England. The Belgian squad had the most players from a single foreign federation, with twelve players employed in England, although one of these, Thibaut Courtois, was only on loan to English club Chelsea prior to the tournament. Of the countries not represented by a national team at the World Cup, Turkey's league provided the most squad members.
Only Uruguay's squad was made up entirely of players employed by overseas clubs, although one player on that squad, Sebastián Coates, played for a domestic club immediately before the World Cup, doing so while on loan from English club Liverpool. Three squads had only one domestic-based player (Ivory Coast, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ghana).
Player representation by club Clubs with ten or more players represented are listed.
Club Players Bayern Munich 14 Manchester United 14 Barcelona 13 Chelsea 12 Juventus 12 Napoli 12 Real Madrid 12 Arsenal 10 Liverpool 10 Manchester City 10 Paris Saint-Germain 10
Coaches representation by country Coaches in bold represented their own country. NumberCountryCoaches4 GermanyVolker Finke (Cameroon), Ottmar Hitzfeld (Switzerland), Jürgen Klinsmann (United States), Joachim Löw3 ArgentinaJosé Pékerman (Colombia), Alejandro Sabella, Jorge Sampaoli (Chile) ColombiaJorge Luis Pinto (Costa Rica), Reinaldo Rueda (Ecuador), Luis Fernando Suárez (Honduras) ItalyFabio Capello (Russia), Cesare Prandelli, Alberto Zaccheroni (Japan) PortugalPaulo Bento, Carlos Queiroz (Iran), Fernando Santos (Greece) 2 Bosnia and HerzegovinaVahid Halilhodžić (Algeria), Safet Sušić FranceDidier Deschamps, Sabri Lamouchi (Ivory Coast)1 AustraliaAnge Postecoglou BelgiumMarc Wilmots BrazilLuiz Felipe Scolari CroatiaNiko Kovač EnglandRoy Hodgson GhanaJames Kwesi Appiah MexicoMiguel Herrera NetherlandsLouis van Gaal NigeriaStephen Keshi South KoreaHong Myung-bo SpainVicente del Bosque UruguayÓscar Tabárez
See also 2010 FIFA World Cup squads
References
External links
Official Players List Preliminary Squads List