1998 FIFA World Cup squads

1998 FIFA World Cup squads
The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament contested by the senior men's teams of the national associations affiliated to FIFA (the International Federation of Association Football). The tournament was played in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998 and featured 32 teams divided into eight groups of four. Each team was required to submit a squad of 22 players – numbered sequentially from 1 to 22 – from whom they would select their teams for each match at the tournament, with the final squads to be submitted by 1 June 1998. In total, 704 players were selected for the tournament.
It featured players born in four different decades, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s. The only other times this has happened at a World Cup was in the 1958, 1970 and 1990 editions.
Players' ages as of 10 June 1998, the tournament's opening day.
Group A
Brazil
Head coach: Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo
Morocco
Head coach: Henri Michel
Norway
Head coach: Egil Olsen
Scotland
Head coach: Craig Brown
Group B
Austria
Head coach: Herbert Prohaska
Cameroon
Head coach: Claude Le Roy
Chile
Head coach: Nelson Acosta
Italy
Head coach: Cesare Maldini
Group C
Denmark
Head coach: Bo Johansson
France
Head coach: Aimé Jacquet
Saudi Arabia
Head coach: Carlos Alberto Parreira (fired after two matches, replaced by Mohammed Al-Kharashy for the final match)
South Africa
Head coach: Philippe Troussier
Andre Arendse (#22) was injured before the start of the tournament. His replacement, Paul Evans, was also injured shortly after arriving as a replacement. Simon Gopane was then called up, and sat on the bench for the last two matches.
Group D
Bulgaria
Head coach: Hristo Bonev
Nigeria
Head coach: Bora Milutinović
Paraguay
Head coach: Paulo César Carpegiani
Spain
Head coach: Javier Clemente
Group E
Belgium
Head coach: Georges Leekens
Mexico
Head coach: Manuel Lapuente
Netherlands
Head coach: Guus Hiddink
South Korea
Head coach: Cha Bum-kun (fired after two matches, replaced by Kim Pyung-seok for the final match)
Group F
Germany
Head coach: Berti Vogts
Note: Kirsten and Marschall also earned additional caps for East Germany (49 and 4, respectively).
Iran
Head coach: Jalal Talebi
United States
Head coach: Steve Sampson
FR Yugoslavia
Head coach: Slobodan Santrač
Group G
Colombia
Head coach: Hernán Darío Gómez
England
Head coach: Glenn Hoddle
Romania
Head coach: Anghel Iordănescu
Tunisia
Head coach: Henryk Kasperczak (fired after two matches, replaced by Ali Selmi for the final match)
Group H
Argentina
Head coach: Daniel Passarella
Croatia
Head coach: Miroslav Blažević
Jamaica
Head coach: Renê Simões
Japan
Head coach: Takeshi Okada
Player representation by league
The English, Spanish, Japanese and Saudi Arabian squads were made up entirely of players from the respective countries' domestic leagues. The Nigeria squad was made up entirely of players employed by foreign clubs. Only three teams, Japan, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, had no players from European clubs.
Although Turkey and Portugal failed to qualify for the finals, their domestic leagues were represented by 18 and 9 players, respectively. Altogether, there were 38 national leagues who had players in the tournament.
References
Planet World Cup website
weltfussball.de
Squads
FIFA World Cup squads