1978 FIFA World Cup squads

Below are the squads for the 1978 FIFA World Cup tournament in Argentina.

Group 1

=flagicon|Argentina Argentina=

Head coach: César Luis MenottiNote that this squad is numbered alphabetically by surname, unlike traditional numbering systems where the goalkeeper has shirt number 1 and so forth.

=flagicon|France France=

Head coach: Michel Hidalgo

=flagicon|Hungary|1957 Hungary=

Head coach: Lajos Baróti

=flagicon|Italy Italy=

Head coach: Enzo Bearzot

Group 2

=flagicon|Mexico Mexico=

Head coach: José Antonio Roca

=flagicon|Poland Poland=

Head coach: Jacek Gmoch

=flagicon|Tunisia Tunisia=

Head coach: Abdelmajid Chetali

=flagicon|West Germany West Germany=

Head coach: Helmut Schön

Group 3

=flagicon|Austria Austria=

Head coach: Helmut Senekowitsch

=flagicon|Brazil|1968 Brazil=

Head coach: Cláudio Coutinho

=flagicon|Spain|1977 Spain=

Head coach: Ladislao Kubala

=flagicon|Sweden Sweden=

Head coach: Georg Ericson

Group 4

=flagicon|Iran|1964 Iran=

Head coach: Heshmat Mohajerani

=flagicon|Netherlands Netherlands=

Head coach: flagicon|Austria Ernst Happel

Jan Jongbloed wore number 8 because some of the players who had been in the Dutch squad at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, where the Netherlands used a purely alphabetical numbering system, were given the same numbers again in 1978. Hugo Hovenkamp withdrew from the squad before the tournament began, but after the deadline for naming replacement players had passed. The Netherlands thus went to the World Cup with only 21 players.

=flagicon|Peru Peru=

Head coach: Marcos Calderón

=flagicon|Scotland Scotland=

Head coach: Ally MacLeod

References

*en icon [http://www.planetworldcup.com/CUPS/1978/wc78squads.html Planet World Cup website]