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1998 FIFA World Cup squads

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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 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.

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Group A

Brazil

Head coach: Mário Zagallo

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Morocco

Head coach: France Henri Michel

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Norway

Head coach: Egil Olsen

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Scotland

Head coach: Craig Brown

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Group B

Austria

Head coach: Herbert Prohaska

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Cameroon

Head coach: France Claude Le Roy

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Chile

Head coach: Uruguay Nelson Acosta

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Italy

Head coach: Cesare Maldini

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Group C

Denmark

Head coach: Sweden Bo Johansson

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France

Head coach: Aimé Jacquet

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Saudi Arabia

Head coach: Brazil Carlos Alberto Parreira (fired after two matches, replaced by Mohammed Al-Kharashy for the final match)

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South Africa

Head coach: France Philippe Troussier

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  • 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.
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Group D

Bulgaria

Head coach: Hristo Bonev

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Nigeria

Head coach: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Bora Milutinović

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Paraguay

Head coach: Brazil Paulo César Carpegiani

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Spain

Head coach: Javier Clemente

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Group E

Belgium

Head coach: Georges Leekens

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Mexico

Head coach: Manuel Lapuente

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Netherlands

Head coach: Guus Hiddink

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South Korea

Head coach: South Korea Cha Bum-kun (fired after two matches, replaced by South Korea Kim Pyung-seok for the final match)

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Group F

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Germany

Head coach: Berti Vogts

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Note: Kirsten and Marschall also earned additional caps for East Germany (49 and 4, respectively).

Iran

Head coach: Jalal Talebi[1]

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United States

Head coach: Steve Sampson

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FR Yugoslavia

Head coach: Slobodan Santrač

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Group G

Colombia

Head coach: Hernán Darío Gómez

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England

Head coach: Glenn Hoddle

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Romania

Head coach: Anghel Iordănescu

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Tunisia

Head coach: Poland Henryk Kasperczak (fired after two matches, replaced by Ali Selmi for the final match)

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Group H

Argentina

Head coach: Daniel Passarella

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Croatia

Head coach: Miroslav Blažević

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Jamaica

Head coach: Brazil Renê Simões

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Japan

Head coach: Takeshi Okada

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Player representation by league

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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.

Coaches representation by country

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