1950 FIFA World Cup squads
Below are the squads for the 1950 FIFA World Cup final tournament in Brazil. This was the first World Cup where the players' jerseys featured back numbers (allowed in football since 1944), though no teams had fixed numbers for each player. (That would only be compulsory from the next World Cup, in 1954.) Thus, the players are ordered by name. The only national team player who played his regular league football with a foreign club was George Robledo of Chile, who played in England's Football League First Division. Group 1. Brazil. Head coach: Flávio  Costa Switzerland. Head coach: Franco Andreoli Felice Soldini travel with the team but was ineligible to play Yugoslavia. Head coach: Milorad Arsenijević Mexico. Head coach: Octavio Vial Group 2. Spain. Head coach: Guillermo Eizaguirre England. Head coach: Walter Winterbottom Chile. Head coach: Alberto Buccicardi United States. Head coach: William Jeffrey Group 3. Sweden. Head coach: George Raynor Italy. Head coach: Ferruccio Novo Paraguay. Head coach: Manuel Fleitas Solich Group 4. Uruguay. Head coach: Juan López Bolivia. Head coach: Mario Pretto Notes. Each national team had to submit a squad of 22 players. All the teams included 2 goalkeepers, except Switzerland , Spain, Sweden and Italy who called three. Jorge 'George' Robledo of Newcastle United was the only player to play for a club outside of his country in the tournament.