2002 FIFA World Cup squads

Below are the squads for the 2002 FIFA World Cup tournament in South Korea and Japan. There were 23 players in each squad, expanded from 22 in previous tournaments.

Group A

Denmark

Head coach: Morten Olsen

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Thomas Sørensen (1976-06-12)12 June 1976 (aged 25) 14 Sunderland 2 3MF Stig Tøfting (1969-08-14)14 August 1969 (aged 32) 36 Bolton Wanderers 3 2DF René Henriksen (1969-08-27)27 August 1969 (aged 32) 39 Panathinaikos 4 2DF Martin Laursen (1977-07-26)26 July 1977 (aged 24) 15 Milan 5 2DF Jan Heintze (c) (1963-08-17)17 August 1963 (aged 38) 83 PSV 6 2DF Thomas Helveg (1971-06-24)24 June 1971 (aged 30) 67 Milan 7 3MF Thomas Gravesen (1976-03-11)11 March 1976 (aged 26) 22 Everton 8 4FW Jesper Grønkjær (1977-08-12)12 August 1977 (aged 24) 25 Chelsea 9 4FW Jon Dahl Tomasson (1976-08-29)29 August 1976 (aged 25) 38 Feyenoord 10 4FW Martin Jørgensen (1975-10-06)6 October 1975 (aged 26) 32 Udinese 11 4FW Ebbe Sand (1972-07-19)19 July 1972 (aged 29) 44 Schalke 04 12 2DF Niclas Jensen (1974-08-17)17 August 1974 (aged 27) 8 Manchester City 13 2DF Steven Lustü (1971-04-13)13 April 1971 (aged 31) 4 Lyn 14 3MF Claus Jensen (1977-04-29)29 April 1977 (aged 25) 13 Charlton Athletic 15 4FW Jan Michaelsen (1970-11-28)28 November 1970 (aged 31) 11 Panathinaikos 16 1GK Peter Kjær (1965-11-05)5 November 1965 (aged 36) 4 Aberdeen 17 3MF Christian Poulsen (1980-02-28)28 February 1980 (aged 22) 3 Copenhagen 18 4FW Peter Løvenkrands (1980-01-29)29 January 1980 (aged 22) 4 Rangers 19 4FW Dennis Rommedahl (1978-07-22)22 July 1978 (aged 23) 19 PSV 20 2DF Kasper Bøgelund (1980-10-08)8 October 1980 (aged 21) 2 PSV 21 4FW Peter Madsen (1978-04-26)26 April 1978 (aged 24) 4 Brøndby 22 1GK Jesper Christiansen (1978-04-24)24 April 1978 (aged 24) 0 Vejle 23 3MF Brian Steen Nielsen (1968-12-28)28 December 1968 (aged 33) 65 Malmö

France

Head coach: Roger Lemerre

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Ulrich Ramé (1972-09-19)19 September 1972 (aged 29) 11 Bordeaux 2 2DF Vincent Candela (1973-10-24)24 October 1973 (aged 28) 36 Roma 3 2DF Bixente Lizarazu (1969-12-09)9 December 1969 (aged 32) 74 Bayern Munich 4 3MF Patrick Vieira (1976-06-23)23 June 1976 (aged 25) 52 Arsenal 5 2DF Philippe Christanval (1978-08-31)31 August 1978 (aged 23) 4 Barcelona 6 3MF Youri Djorkaeff (1968-03-09)9 March 1968 (aged 34) 79 Bolton Wanderers 7 3MF Claude Makélélé (1973-02-18)18 February 1973 (aged 29) 14 Real Madrid 8 2DF Marcel Desailly (c) (1968-09-07)7 September 1968 (aged 33) 93 Chelsea 9 4FW Djibril Cissé (1981-08-12)12 August 1981 (aged 20) 1 Auxerre 10 3MF Zinedine Zidane (1972-06-23)23 June 1972 (aged 29) 73 Real Madrid 11 4FW Sylvain Wiltord (1974-05-10)10 May 1974 (aged 28) 38 Arsenal 12 4FW Thierry Henry (1977-08-17)17 August 1977 (aged 24) 35 Arsenal 13 2DF Mikaël Silvestre (1977-08-09)9 August 1977 (aged 24) 10 Manchester United 14 3MF Alain Boghossian (1970-10-27)27 October 1970 (aged 31) 26 Parma 15 2DF Lilian Thuram (1972-01-01)1 January 1972 (aged 30) 73 Juventus 16 1GK Fabien Barthez (1971-06-28)28 June 1971 (aged 30) 47 Manchester United 17 3MF Emmanuel Petit (1970-09-22)22 September 1970 (aged 31) 57 Chelsea 18 2DF Frank Leboeuf (1968-01-22)22 January 1968 (aged 34) 47 Marseille 19 2DF Willy Sagnol (1977-03-18)18 March 1977 (aged 25) 9 Bayern Munich 20 4FW David Trezeguet (1977-10-15)15 October 1977 (aged 24) 36 Juventus 21 4FW Christophe Dugarry (1972-03-24)24 March 1972 (aged 30) 51 Bordeaux 22 3MF Johan Micoud (1973-07-24)24 July 1973 (aged 28) 14 Parma 23 1GK Grégory Coupet (1972-12-31)31 December 1972 (aged 29) 1 Lyon

Senegal

Head coach: Bruno Metsu

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Tony Sylva (1975-05-17)17 May 1975 (aged 27) 15 Monaco 2 2DF Omar Daf (1977-02-12)12 February 1977 (aged 25) 31 Sochaux 3 3MF Pape Sarr (1977-12-07)7 December 1977 (aged 24) 22 Lens 4 2DF Papa Malick Diop (1974-12-29)29 December 1974 (aged 27) 25 Lorient 5 2DF Alassane N'Dour (1981-12-12)12 December 1981 (aged 20) 7 Saint-Étienne 6 2DF Aliou Cissé (c) (1976-03-24)24 March 1976 (aged 26) 20 Montpellier 7 4FW Henri Camara (1977-05-10)10 May 1977 (aged 25) 34 Sedan 8 4FW Amara Traoré (1965-09-25)25 September 1965 (aged 36) 12 Gueugnon 9 4FW Souleymane Camara (1982-12-22)22 December 1982 (aged 19) 9 Monaco 10 3MF Khalilou Fadiga (1974-12-30)30 December 1974 (aged 27) 25 Auxerre 11 4FW El Hadji Diouf (1981-01-15)15 January 1981 (aged 21) 21 Lens 12 3MF Amdy Faye (1977-03-12)12 March 1977 (aged 25) 6 Auxerre 13 2DF Lamine Diatta (1975-07-02)2 July 1975 (aged 26) 19 Rennes 14 3MF Moussa N'Diaye (1979-02-20)20 February 1979 (aged 23) 38 Sedan 15 3MF Salif Diao (1977-02-10)10 February 1977 (aged 25) 20 Sedan 16 1GK Omar Diallo (1972-09-28)28 September 1972 (aged 29) 42 Olympique Khouribga 17 2DF Ferdinand Coly (1973-09-10)10 September 1973 (aged 28) 16 Lens 18 4FW Pape Thiaw (1981-02-05)5 February 1981 (aged 21) 13 Strasbourg 19 3MF Papa Bouba Diop (1978-01-28)28 January 1978 (aged 24) 12 Lens 20 3MF Sylvain N'Diaye (1976-06-25)25 June 1976 (aged 25) 6 Lille 21 2DF Habib Beye (1977-10-19)19 October 1977 (aged 24) 6 Strasbourg 22 1GK Kalidou Cissokho (1972-12-14)14 December 1972 (aged 29) 0 ASC Jeanne d'Arc 23 3MF Makhtar N'Diaye (1981-12-31)31 December 1981 (aged 20) 11 Rennes

Uruguay

Head coach: Víctor Púa

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Fabián Carini (1979-12-26)26 December 1979 (aged 22) 35 Juventus 2 2DF Gustavo Méndez (1971-02-03)3 February 1971 (aged 31) 45 Nacional 3 2DF Alejandro Lembo (1978-02-15)15 February 1978 (aged 24) 31 Nacional 4 2DF Paolo Montero (c) (1971-09-03)3 September 1971 (aged 30) 45 Juventus 5 3MF Pablo García (1977-05-11)11 May 1977 (aged 25) 36 Venezia 6 2DF Darío Rodríguez (1974-09-17)17 September 1974 (aged 27) 21 Peñarol 7 3MF Gianni Guigou (1975-02-22)22 February 1975 (aged 27) 36 Roma 8 4FW Gustavo Varela (1978-05-14)14 May 1978 (aged 24) 7 Nacional 9 4FW Darío Silva (1972-11-02)2 November 1972 (aged 29) 36 Málaga 10 3MF Fabián O'Neill (1973-10-14)14 October 1973 (aged 28) 19 Perugia 11 4FW Federico Magallanes (1976-08-22)22 August 1976 (aged 25) 24 Venezia 12 1GK Gustavo Munúa (1978-01-27)27 January 1978 (aged 24) 9 Nacional 13 4FW Sebastián Abreu (1976-10-17)17 October 1976 (aged 25) 13 Cruz Azul 14 2DF Gonzalo Sorondo (1979-10-09)9 October 1979 (aged 22) 18 Internazionale 15 4FW Nicolás Olivera (1978-05-30)30 May 1978 (aged 24) 26 Sevilla 16 3MF Marcelo Romero (1976-07-04)4 July 1976 (aged 25) 22 Málaga 17 3MF Mario Regueiro (1978-09-14)14 September 1978 (aged 23) 14 Racing de Santander 18 4FW Richard Morales (1975-02-21)21 February 1975 (aged 27) 12 Nacional 19 2DF Joe Bizera (1980-05-17)17 May 1980 (aged 22) 9 Peñarol 20 4FW Álvaro Recoba (1976-03-17)17 March 1976 (aged 26) 43 Internazionale 21 4FW Diego Forlán (1979-05-19)19 May 1979 (aged 23) 4 Manchester United 22 3MF Gonzalo de los Santos (1976-07-19)19 July 1976 (aged 25) 28 Valencia 23 1GK Federico Elduayen (1977-06-25)25 June 1977 (aged 24) 1 Peñarol

Group B

Paraguay

Head coach: Cesare Maldini

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK José Luis Chilavert (c) (1965-07-27)27 July 1965 (aged 36) 69 Strasbourg 2 2DF Francisco Arce (1971-04-02)2 April 1971 (aged 31) 51 Palmeiras 3 2DF Pedro Sarabia (1975-07-05)5 July 1975 (aged 26) 40 River Plate 4 2DF Carlos Gamarra (1971-02-17)17 February 1971 (aged 31) 76 AEK Athens 5 2DF Celso Ayala (1970-08-20)20 August 1970 (aged 31) 76 River Plate 6 3MF Estanislao Struway (1968-06-25)25 June 1968 (aged 33) 69 Libertad 7 4FW Richard Báez (1973-07-31)31 July 1973 (aged 28) 25 Olimpia 8 3MF Guido Alvarenga (1970-08-24)24 August 1970 (aged 31) 18 Léon 9 4FW Roque Santa Cruz (1981-08-16)16 August 1981 (aged 20) 24 Bayern Munich 10 3MF Roberto Acuña (1972-03-25)25 March 1972 (aged 30) 77 Real Zaragoza 11 4FW Jorge Campos (1970-08-11)11 August 1970 (aged 31) 31 Universidad Católica 12 1GK Justo Villar (1977-06-30)30 June 1977 (aged 24) 8 Libertad 13 3MF Carlos Paredes (1976-07-16)16 July 1976 (aged 25) 41 Porto 14 3MF Diego Gavilán (1980-03-01)1 March 1980 (aged 22) 21 Tecos 15 3MF Carlos Bonet (1977-10-02)2 October 1977 (aged 24) 3 Libertad 16 3MF Gustavo Morínigo (1977-01-23)23 January 1977 (aged 25) 11 Libertad 17 2DF Juan Carlos Franco (1973-04-17)17 April 1973 (aged 29) 3 Olimpia 18 2DF Julio César Cáceres (1979-10-05)5 October 1979 (aged 22) 1 Olimpia 19 2DF Daniel Sanabria (1977-02-08)8 February 1977 (aged 25) 6 Libertad 20 4FW José Cardozo (1971-03-19)19 March 1971 (aged 31) 57 Toluca 21 2DF Denis Caniza (1974-08-29)29 August 1974 (aged 27) 49 Santos Laguna 22 1GK Ricardo Tavarelli (1970-08-02)2 August 1970 (aged 31) 20 Olimpia 23 4FW Nelson Cuevas (1980-01-10)10 January 1980 (aged 22) 11 River Plate

Slovenia

Head coach: Srečko Katanec

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Marko Simeunovič (1967-12-06)6 December 1967 (aged 34) 43 Maribor 2 2DF Goran Sankovič (1979-06-18)18 June 1979 (aged 22) 5 Slavia Prague 3 2DF Željko Milinovič (1969-10-12)12 October 1969 (aged 32) 35 JEF United Ichihara 4 2DF Muamer Vugdalič (1977-08-25)25 August 1977 (aged 24) 13 Maribor 5 2DF Marinko Galič (1970-04-22)22 April 1970 (aged 32) 65 Koper 6 2DF Aleksander Knavs (1975-12-05)5 December 1975 (aged 26) 38 Kaiserslautern 7 3MF Džoni Novak (1969-09-04)4 September 1969 (aged 32) 68 Unterhaching 8 3MF Aleš Čeh (c) (1968-04-07)7 April 1968 (aged 34) 71 Grazer 9 4FW Milan Osterc (1975-07-04)4 July 1975 (aged 26) 41 Hapoel Tel Aviv 10 3MF Zlatko Zahovič* (1971-02-01)1 February 1971 (aged 31) 64 Benfica 11 3MF Miran Pavlin (1971-10-08)8 October 1971 (aged 30) 45 Porto 12 1GK Mladen Dabanovič (1971-09-13)13 September 1971 (aged 30) 20 Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen 13 4FW Mladen Rudonja (1971-07-26)26 July 1971 (aged 30) 58 Portsmouth 14 2DF Saša Gajser (1974-02-11)11 February 1974 (aged 28) 20 Gent 15 3MF Rajko Tavčar (1974-07-21)21 July 1974 (aged 27) 6 Nuremberg 16 4FW Senad Tiganj (1975-08-28)28 August 1975 (aged 26) 3 Olimpija Ljubljana 17 3MF Zoran Pavlović (1976-06-27)27 June 1976 (aged 25) 21 Austria Wien 18 4FW Milenko Ačimovič (1977-02-15)15 February 1977 (aged 25) 39 Tottenham Hotspur 19 2DF Amir Karić (1973-12-31)31 December 1973 (aged 28) 43 Maribor 20 3MF Nastja Čeh (1978-01-26)26 January 1978 (aged 24) 6 Club Brugge 21 4FW Sebastjan Cimirotič (1974-09-14)14 September 1974 (aged 27) 12 Lecce 22 2DF Spasoje Bulajič (1975-11-24)24 November 1975 (aged 26) 15 Köln 23 1GK Dejan Nemec (1977-03-01)1 March 1977 (aged 25) 1 Club Brugge

*Was expelled from the squad after the first game.

Note: caps for Yugoslavia are not counted.

South Africa

Head coach: Jomo Sono

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Hans Vonk (1970-01-30)30 January 1970 (aged 32) 29 Heerenveen 2 2DF Cyril Nzama (1974-06-26)26 June 1974 (aged 27) 19 Kaizer Chiefs 3 2DF Bradley Carnell (1977-01-21)21 January 1977 (aged 25) 21 Stuttgart 4 2DF Aaron Mokoena (1980-11-25)25 November 1980 (aged 21) 22 Germinal Beerschot 5 2DF Jacob Lekgetho (1974-03-24)24 March 1974 (aged 28) 15 Lokomotiv Moscow 6 3MF MacBeth Sibaya (1977-11-25)25 November 1977 (aged 24) 9 Jomo Cosmos 7 3MF Quinton Fortune (1977-05-21)21 May 1977 (aged 25) 39 Manchester United 8 3MF Thabo Mngomeni (1969-06-24)24 June 1969 (aged 32) 37 Orlando Pirates 9 3MF MacDonald Mukansi (1975-05-26)26 May 1975 (aged 27) 7 Lokomotiv Sofia 10 3MF Bennett Mnguni (1974-03-18)18 March 1974 (aged 28) 9 Lokomotiv Moscow 11 3MF Jabu Pule (1980-07-11)11 July 1980 (aged 21) 9 Kaizer Chiefs 12 3MF Teboho Mokoena (1974-07-10)10 July 1974 (aged 27) 10 St. Gallen 13 2DF Pierre Issa (1975-09-12)12 September 1975 (aged 26) 41 Watford 14 4FW Siyabonga Nomvethe (1977-12-02)2 December 1977 (aged 24) 30 Udinese 15 3MF Sibusiso Zuma (1975-06-23)23 June 1975 (aged 26) 22 Copenhagen 16 1GK André Arendse (1967-06-27)27 June 1967 (aged 34) 49 Santos Cape Town 17 4FW Benni McCarthy (1977-11-12)12 November 1977 (aged 24) 43 Porto 18 3MF Delron Buckley (1977-12-07)7 December 1977 (aged 24) 32 Bochum 19 2DF Lucas Radebe (c) (1969-04-12)12 April 1969 (aged 33) 65 Leeds United 20 1GK Calvin Marlin (1976-04-20)20 April 1976 (aged 26) 2 Ajax Cape Town 21 3MF Steven Pienaar (1982-03-17)17 March 1982 (aged 20) 0 Ajax 22 2DF Thabang Molefe (1979-04-11)11 April 1979 (aged 23) 5 Jomo Cosmos 23 4FW George Koumantarakis (1974-03-27)27 March 1974 (aged 28) 6 Basel

Spain

Head coach: José Antonio Camacho

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Iker Casillas (1981-05-20)20 May 1981 (aged 21) 13 Real Madrid 2 2DF Curro Torres (1976-12-27)27 December 1976 (aged 25) 4 Valencia 3 2DF Juanfran (1976-07-15)15 July 1976 (aged 25) 7 Celta Vigo 4 3MF Iván Helguera (1975-03-18)18 March 1975 (aged 27) 22 Real Madrid 5 2DF Carles Puyol (1978-04-13)13 April 1978 (aged 24) 8 Barcelona 6 2DF Fernando Hierro (c) (1968-03-23)23 March 1968 (aged 34) 85 Real Madrid 7 4FW Raúl (1977-06-27)27 June 1977 (aged 24) 51 Real Madrid 8 3MF Rubén Baraja (1975-07-11)11 July 1975 (aged 26) 9 Valencia 9 4FW Fernando Morientes (1976-04-05)5 April 1976 (aged 26) 19 Real Madrid 10 4FW Diego Tristán (1976-01-05)5 January 1976 (aged 26) 7 Deportivo La Coruña 11 4FW Javier de Pedro (1973-08-04)4 August 1973 (aged 28) 5 Real Sociedad 12 4FW Albert Luque (1978-03-11)11 March 1978 (aged 24) 0 Mallorca 13 1GK Ricardo (1971-12-30)30 December 1971 (aged 30) 1 Real Valladolid 14 3MF David Albelda (1977-09-01)1 September 1977 (aged 24) 2 Valencia 15 2DF Enrique Romero (1971-06-23)23 June 1971 (aged 30) 3 Deportivo La Coruña 16 3MF Gaizka Mendieta (1974-03-27)27 March 1974 (aged 28) 32 Lazio 17 3MF Juan Carlos Valerón (1975-06-17)17 June 1975 (aged 26) 20 Deportivo La Coruña 18 3MF Sergio (1976-11-10)10 November 1976 (aged 25) 5 Deportivo La Coruña 19 3MF Xavi (1980-01-25)25 January 1980 (aged 22) 3 Barcelona 20 2DF Miguel Ángel Nadal (1966-07-28)28 July 1966 (aged 35) 59 Mallorca 21 3MF Luis Enrique (1970-05-08)8 May 1970 (aged 32) 57 Barcelona 22 3MF Joaquín (1981-07-21)21 July 1981 (aged 20) 3 Real Betis 23 1GK Pedro Contreras (1972-01-07)7 January 1972 (aged 30) 0 Málaga

Group C

Brazil

Head coach: Luiz Felipe Scolari

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Marcos (1973-08-04)4 August 1973 (aged 28) 15 Palmeiras 2 2DF Cafu (c) (1970-06-07)7 June 1970 (aged 31) 103 Roma 3 2DF Lúcio (1978-05-08)8 May 1978 (aged 24) 15 Bayer Leverkusen 4 2DF Roque Júnior (1976-08-31)31 August 1976 (aged 25) 17 Milan 5 2DF Edmílson (1976-07-10)10 July 1976 (aged 25) 12 Lyon 6 2DF Roberto Carlos (1973-04-10)10 April 1973 (aged 29) 84 Real Madrid 7 3MF Ricardinho (1976-05-23)23 May 1976 (aged 26) 3 Corinthians 8 3MF Gilberto Silva (1976-10-07)7 October 1976 (aged 25) 6 Atlético Mineiro 9 4FW Ronaldo (1976-09-22)22 September 1976 (aged 25) 56 Internazionale 10 3MF Rivaldo (1972-04-19)19 April 1972 (aged 30) 58 Barcelona 11 3MF Ronaldinho (1980-03-21)21 March 1980 (aged 22) 24 Paris Saint-Germain 12 1GK Dida (1973-10-07)7 October 1973 (aged 28) 49 Corinthians 13 2DF Juliano Belletti (1976-06-20)20 June 1976 (aged 25) 10 São Paulo 14 2DF Ânderson Polga (1979-02-09)9 February 1979 (aged 23) 5 Grêmio 15 3MF Kléberson (1979-06-19)19 June 1979 (aged 22) 5 Atlético Paranaense 16 2DF Júnior (1973-06-20)20 June 1973 (aged 28) 12 Parma 17 4FW Denílson (1977-08-24)24 August 1977 (aged 24) 53 Real Betis 18 3MF Vampeta (1974-03-13)13 March 1974 (aged 28) 36 Corinthians 19 3MF Juninho (1973-02-22)22 February 1973 (aged 29) 43 Flamengo 20 4FW Edílson (1971-09-17)17 September 1971 (aged 30) 17 Cruzeiro 21 4FW Luizão (1975-11-14)14 November 1975 (aged 26) 8 Grêmio 22 1GK Rogério Ceni (1973-01-22)22 January 1973 (aged 29) 12 São Paulo 23 3MF Kaká (1982-04-22)22 April 1982 (aged 20) 2 São Paulo

China PR

Head coach: Bora Milutinović

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK An Qi (1981-06-21)21 June 1981 (aged 20) 5 Dalian Shide 2 2DF Zhang Enhua (1974-05-11)11 May 1974 (aged 28) 65 Dalian Shide 3 3MF Yang Pu (1978-03-30)30 March 1978 (aged 24) 14 Beijing Guoan 4 2DF Wu Chengying (1975-04-21)21 April 1975 (aged 27) 53 Shanghai Shenhua 5 2DF Fan Zhiyi (1970-01-22)22 January 1970 (aged 32) 105 Dundee 6 3MF Shao Jiayi (1980-04-10)10 April 1980 (aged 22) 18 Beijing Guoan 7 2DF Sun Jihai (1977-09-30)30 September 1977 (aged 24) 59 Manchester City 8 4FW Li Tie (1977-09-18)18 September 1977 (aged 24) 76 Liaoning 9 3MF Ma Mingyu (c) (1972-08-10)10 August 1972 (aged 29) 91 Sichuan Guancheng 10 4FW Hao Haidong (1970-08-25)25 August 1970 (aged 31) 95 Dalian Shide 11 3MF Yu Genwei (1976-08-19)19 August 1976 (aged 25) 17 Tianjin Teda FC 12 4FW Su Maozhen (1972-07-30)30 July 1972 (aged 29) 43 Shandong Luneng 13 3MF Gao Yao (1977-07-13)13 July 1977 (aged 24) 4 Shandong Luneng 14 2DF Li Weifeng (1978-01-26)26 January 1978 (aged 24) 55 Shenzhen Pingan 15 3MF Zhao Junzhe (1979-04-18)18 April 1979 (aged 23) 13 Liaoning 16 4FW Qu Bo (1981-07-15)15 July 1981 (aged 20) 16 Qingdao Hainiu 17 2DF Du Wei (1982-02-09)9 February 1982 (aged 20) 7 Shanghai Shenhua 18 3MF Li Xiaopeng (1976-11-05)5 November 1976 (aged 25) 26 Shandong Luneng 19 3MF Qi Hong (1976-06-03)3 June 1976 (aged 25) 36 Shanghai Zhongyuan 20 4FW Yang Chen (1974-01-17)17 January 1974 (aged 28) 26 Eintracht Frankfurt 21 2DF Xu Yunlong (1979-02-17)17 February 1979 (aged 23) 20 Beijing Guoan 22 1GK Jiang Jin (1969-10-07)7 October 1969 (aged 32) 52 Tianjin Teda FC 23 1GK Ou Chuliang (1968-08-26)26 August 1968 (aged 33) 74 Yunnan Hongta

Costa Rica

Head coach: Alexandre Guimarães

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Erick Lonnis (1965-09-09)9 September 1965 (aged 36) 74 Deportivo Saprissa 2 2DF Jervis Drummond (1976-09-08)8 September 1976 (aged 25) 38 Deportivo Saprissa 3 2DF Luis Marín (1974-08-10)10 August 1974 (aged 27) 74 Alajuelense 4 2DF Mauricio Wright (1970-12-20)20 December 1970 (aged 31) 40 Herdiano 5 2DF Gilberto Martínez (1979-10-01)1 October 1979 (aged 22) 27 Deportivo Saprissa 6 3MF Wilmer López (1971-03-08)8 March 1971 (aged 31) 68 Alajuelense 7 4FW Rolando Fonseca (1974-06-06)6 June 1974 (aged 27) 79 Deportivo Saprissa 8 3MF Mauricio Solís (1972-12-13)13 December 1972 (aged 29) 84 Alajuelense 9 4FW Paulo Wanchope (1976-07-31)31 July 1976 (aged 25) 48 Manchester City 10 3MF Walter Centeno (1974-10-06)6 October 1974 (aged 27) 49 Deportivo Saprissa 11 4FW Rónald Gómez (1975-01-24)24 January 1975 (aged 27) 53 OFI Crete 12 4FW Winston Parks (1981-10-12)12 October 1981 (aged 20) 3 Udinese 13 4FW Daniel Vallejos (1981-05-27)27 May 1981 (aged 21) 2 Herdiano 14 2DF Juan José Rodríguez (1967-06-23)23 June 1967 (aged 34) 2 San Carlos 15 2DF Harold Wallace (1975-09-07)7 September 1975 (aged 26) 54 Alajuelense 16 4FW Steven Bryce (1977-08-16)16 August 1977 (aged 24) 33 Alajuelense 17 3MF Hernán Medford (c) (1968-05-23)23 May 1968 (aged 34) 87 Deportivo Saprissa 18 1GK Álvaro Mesén (1972-12-24)24 December 1972 (aged 29) 16 Alajuelense 19 3MF Rodrigo Cordero (1973-12-04)4 December 1973 (aged 28) 25 Herdiano 20 4FW William Sunsing (1977-05-12)12 May 1977 (aged 25) 23 Herdiano 21 2DF Pablo Chinchilla (1978-12-21)21 December 1978 (aged 23) 12 Alajuelense 22 2DF Carlos Castro (1978-09-10)10 September 1978 (aged 23) 22 Alajuelense 23 1GK Lester Morgan (1976-05-02)2 May 1976 (aged 26) 5 Herdiano

Turkey

Head coach: Şenol Güneş

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Rüştü Reçber (1973-05-10)10 May 1973 (aged 29) 64 Fenerbahçe 2 2DF Emre Aşık (1973-12-13)13 December 1973 (aged 28) 16 Galatasaray 3 2DF Bülent Korkmaz (1968-11-24)24 November 1968 (aged 33) 68 Galatasaray 4 2DF Fatih Akyel (1977-12-26)26 December 1977 (aged 24) 36 Fenerbahçe 5 2DF Alpay Özalan (1973-05-29)29 May 1973 (aged 29) 62 Aston Villa 6 4FW Arif Erdem (1972-01-02)2 January 1972 (aged 30) 50 Galatasaray 7 3MF Okan Buruk (1973-10-19)19 October 1973 (aged 28) 26 Inter 8 3MF Tugay Kerimoğlu (1970-08-24)24 August 1970 (aged 31) 69 Blackburn Rovers 9 4FW Hakan Şükür (c) (1971-09-01)1 September 1971 (aged 30) 73 Parma 10 3MF Yıldıray Baştürk (1978-12-24)24 December 1978 (aged 23) 13 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 11 4FW Hasan Şaş (1976-08-01)1 August 1976 (aged 25) 14 Galatasaray 12 1GK Ömer Çatkıç (1974-10-15)15 October 1974 (aged 27) 6 Gaziantepspor 13 3MF Mustafa İzzet (1974-10-31)31 October 1974 (aged 27) 7 Leicester City 14 3MF Tayfur Havutçu (1970-04-23)23 April 1970 (aged 32) 39 Beşiktaş 15 4FW Nihat Kahveci (1979-11-23)23 November 1979 (aged 22) 11 Real Sociedad 16 2DF Ümit Özat (1976-10-30)30 October 1976 (aged 25) 14 Fenerbahçe 17 4FW İlhan Mansız (1975-08-10)10 August 1975 (aged 26) 6 Beşiktaş 18 3MF Ergün Penbe (1972-05-17)17 May 1972 (aged 30) 21 Galatasaray 19 3MF Abdullah Ercan (1971-12-08)8 December 1971 (aged 30) 70 Fenerbahçe 20 2DF Hakan Ünsal (1973-05-14)14 May 1973 (aged 29) 25 Galatasaray 21 3MF Emre Belözoğlu (1980-09-07)7 September 1980 (aged 21) 11 Inter 22 3MF Ümit Davala (1973-07-30)30 July 1973 (aged 28) 24 A.C. Milan 23 1GK Zafer Özgültekın (1975-03-10)10 March 1975 (aged 27) 1 Ankaragücü

Group D

Poland

Head coach: Jerzy Engel

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Jerzy Dudek (1973-03-23)23 March 1973 (aged 29) 21 Liverpool 2 2DF Tomasz Kłos (1973-03-07)7 March 1973 (aged 29) 37 Kaiserslautern 3 2DF Jacek Zieliński (1967-10-10)10 October 1967 (aged 34) 52 Legia Warszawa 4 3MF Michał Żewłakow (1976-04-22)22 April 1976 (aged 26) 25 Mouscron 5 3MF Tomasz Rząsa (1973-03-11)11 March 1973 (aged 29) 9 Feyenoord 6 2DF Tomasz Hajto (1972-10-16)16 October 1972 (aged 29) 44 Schalke 04 7 3MF Piotr Świerczewski (1972-04-08)8 April 1972 (aged 30) 65 Marseille 8 4FW Cezary Kucharski (1972-02-17)17 February 1972 (aged 30) 15 Legia Warszawa 9 4FW Paweł Kryszałowicz (1974-06-23)23 June 1974 (aged 27) 23 Eintracht Frankfurt 10 3MF Radosław Kałużny (1974-02-02)2 February 1974 (aged 28) 30 Energie Cottbus 11 4FW Emmanuel Olisadebe (1978-12-22)22 December 1978 (aged 23) 16 Panathinaikos 12 1GK Radosław Majdan (1972-05-10)10 May 1972 (aged 30) 5 Göztepe 13 2DF Arkadiusz Głowacki (1979-03-13)13 March 1979 (aged 23) 2 Wisła Kraków 14 4FW Marcin Żewłakow (1976-04-22)22 April 1976 (aged 26) 17 Mouscron 15 2DF Tomasz Wałdoch (c) (1971-05-10)10 May 1971 (aged 31) 71 Schalke 04 16 2DF Maciej Murawski (1974-02-20)20 February 1974 (aged 28) 4 Legia Warszawa 17 3MF Arkadiusz Bąk (1974-10-06)6 October 1974 (aged 27) 12 Widzew Łódź 18 3MF Jacek Krzynówek (1976-05-15)15 May 1976 (aged 26) 23 Nuremberg 19 4FW Maciej Żurawski (1976-09-12)12 September 1976 (aged 25) 9 Wisła Kraków 20 2DF Jacek Bąk (1973-03-24)24 March 1973 (aged 29) 36 Lens 21 3MF Marek Koźmiński (1971-02-07)7 February 1971 (aged 31) 42 Ancona 22 1GK Adam Matysek (1968-07-19)19 July 1968 (aged 33) 34 RKS Radomsko 23 3MF Paweł Sibik (1971-02-15)15 February 1971 (aged 31) 2 Odra Wodzisław

Portugal

Head coach: António Oliveira

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Vítor Baía (1969-10-15)15 October 1969 (aged 32) 75 Porto 2 2DF Jorge Costa (1971-10-14)14 October 1971 (aged 30) 46 Porto 3 2DF Abel Xavier (1972-11-30)30 November 1972 (aged 29) 18 Liverpool 4 2DF Marco Caneira (1979-02-09)9 February 1979 (aged 23) 1 Benfica 5 2DF Fernando Couto (c) (1969-08-02)2 August 1969 (aged 32) 82 Lazio 6 3MF Paulo Sousa (1970-08-30)30 August 1970 (aged 31) 50 Espanyol 7 3MF Luís Figo (1972-11-04)4 November 1972 (aged 29) 81 Real Madrid 8 4FW João Pinto (1971-08-19)19 August 1971 (aged 30) 77 Sporting CP 9 4FW Pauleta (1973-04-28)28 April 1973 (aged 29) 33 Bordeaux 10 3MF Rui Costa (1972-03-29)29 March 1972 (aged 30) 67 Milan 11 3MF Sérgio Conceição (1974-11-15)15 November 1974 (aged 27) 41 Internazionale 12 3MF Hugo Viana (1983-01-15)15 January 1983 (aged 19) 4 Sporting CP 13 2DF Jorge Andrade (1979-04-09)9 April 1979 (aged 23) 5 Porto 14 3MF Pedro Barbosa (1970-08-06)6 August 1970 (aged 31) 21 Sporting CP 15 1GK Nélson (1975-10-20)20 October 1975 (aged 26) 1 Sporting CP 16 1GK Ricardo (1976-02-11)11 February 1976 (aged 26) 10 Boavista 17 3MF Paulo Bento (1969-06-20)20 June 1969 (aged 32) 31 Sporting CP 18 2DF Nuno Frechaut (1977-09-24)24 September 1977 (aged 24) 9 Boavista 19 3MF Capucho (1972-02-21)21 February 1972 (aged 30) 29 Porto 20 3MF Petit (1976-09-25)25 September 1976 (aged 25) 9 Boavista 21 4FW Nuno Gomes (1976-07-05)5 July 1976 (aged 25) 28 Fiorentina 22 2DF Beto (1976-05-03)3 May 1976 (aged 26) 16 Sporting CP 23 2DF Rui Jorge (1973-03-27)27 March 1973 (aged 29) 20 Sporting CP

Korea Republic

Head coach: Guus Hiddink

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Lee Woon-Jae (1973-04-26)26 April 1973 (aged 29) 32 Suwon Samsung Bluewings 2 3MF Hyun Young-Min (1979-12-25)25 December 1979 (aged 22) 8 Ulsan Hyundai Horangi 3 2DF Choi Sung-Yong (1975-12-25)25 December 1975 (aged 26) 60 Suwon Samsung Bluewings 4 2DF Choi Jin-Cheul (1971-03-26)26 March 1971 (aged 31) 15 Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 5 3MF Kim Nam-Il (1977-03-14)14 March 1977 (aged 25) 21 Chunnam Dragons 6 2DF Yoo Sang-Chul (1971-10-18)18 October 1971 (aged 30) 92 Kashiwa Reysol 7 2DF Kim Tae-Young (1970-11-08)8 November 1970 (aged 31) 74 Chunnam Dragons 8 3MF Choi Tae-Uk (1981-03-13)13 March 1981 (aged 21) 16 Anyang LG Cheetahs 9 4FW Seol Ki-Hyeon (1979-01-08)8 January 1979 (aged 23) 31 Anderlecht 10 2DF Lee Young-Pyo (1977-04-23)23 April 1977 (aged 25) 48 Anyang LG Cheetahs 11 4FW Choi Yong-Soo (1973-09-10)10 September 1973 (aged 28) 58 JEF United Ichihara 12 1GK Kim Byung-Ji (1970-04-08)8 April 1970 (aged 32) 58 Pohang Steelers 13 3MF Lee Eul-Yong (1975-09-08)8 September 1975 (aged 26) 19 Bucheon SK 14 4FW Lee Chun-Soo (1981-07-09)9 July 1981 (aged 20) 22 Ulsan Hyundai Horangi 15 2DF Lee Min-Sung (1973-06-23)23 June 1973 (aged 28) 52 Busan I'Cons 16 4FW Cha Du-Ri (1980-07-25)25 July 1980 (aged 21) 12 Korea University 17 3MF Yoon Jung-Hwan (1973-02-16)16 February 1973 (aged 29) 36 Cerezo Osaka 18 4FW Hwang Sun-Hong (1968-07-14)14 July 1968 (aged 33) 95 Kashiwa Reysol 19 3MF Ahn Jung-Hwan (1976-01-27)27 January 1976 (aged 26) 19 Perugia 20 2DF Hong Myung-Bo (c) (1969-02-12)12 February 1969 (aged 33) 124 Pohang Steelers 21 3MF Park Ji-Sung (1981-02-25)25 February 1981 (aged 21) 30 Kyoto Purple Sanga 22 3MF Song Chong-Gug (1979-02-20)20 February 1979 (aged 23) 27 Busan I'Cons 23 1GK Choi Eun-Sung (1971-04-05)5 April 1971 (aged 31) 1 Daejeon Citizen

United States

Head coach: Bruce Arena

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Brad Friedel (1971-05-08)8 May 1971 (aged 31) 74 Blackburn Rovers 2 3MF Frankie Hejduk (1974-08-05)5 August 1974 (aged 27) 38 Bayer Leverkusen 3 2DF Gregg Berhalter (1973-08-01)1 August 1973 (aged 28) 25 Crystal Palace 4 2DF Pablo Mastroeni (1976-08-29)29 August 1976 (aged 25) 8 Miami Fusion F.C. 5 3MF John O'Brien (1977-08-29)29 August 1977 (aged 24) 13 Ajax 6 2DF David Regis (1968-12-02)2 December 1968 (aged 33) 28 Metz 7 3MF Eddie Lewis (1974-05-17)17 May 1974 (aged 28) 38 Fulham 8 3MF Earnie Stewart (1969-03-28)28 March 1969 (aged 33) 77 NAC Breda 9 4FW Joe-Max Moore (1971-02-23)23 February 1971 (aged 31) 95 Everton 10 3MF Claudio Reyna (c) (1973-07-20)20 July 1973 (aged 28) 86 Sunderland 11 4FW Clint Mathis (1976-11-25)25 November 1976 (aged 25) 19 MetroStars 12 2DF Jeff Agoos (1968-02-05)5 February 1968 (aged 34) 127 San Jose Earthquakes 13 3MF Cobi Jones (1970-06-16)16 June 1970 (aged 31) 153 LA Galaxy 14 2DF Steve Cherundolo (1979-02-19)19 February 1979 (aged 23) 10 Hannover 96 15 4FW Josh Wolff (1977-02-25)25 February 1977 (aged 25) 16 Chicago Fire 16 2DF Carlos Llamosa (1969-06-30)30 June 1969 (aged 32) 26 New England Revolution 17 3MF DaMarcus Beasley (1982-05-24)24 May 1982 (aged 20) 9 Chicago Fire 18 1GK Kasey Keller (1969-11-29)29 November 1969 (aged 32) 58 Tottenham Hotspur 19 1GK Tony Meola (1969-02-21)21 February 1969 (aged 33) 98 Kansas City Wizards 20 4FW Brian McBride (1972-06-19)19 June 1972 (aged 29) 58 Columbus Crew 21 4FW Landon Donovan (1982-03-04)4 March 1982 (aged 20) 20 San Jose Earthquakes 22 2DF Tony Sanneh (1971-06-01)1 June 1971 (aged 30) 29 Nuremberg 23 2DF Eddie Pope (1973-12-24)24 December 1973 (aged 28) 48 D.C. United

Group E

Cameroon

Head coach: Winfried Schäfer

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Alioum Boukar (1972-01-03)3 January 1972 (aged 30) 46 Samsunspor 2 3MF Bill Tchato (1975-05-14)14 May 1975 (aged 27) 12 Montpellier 3 2DF Pierre Womé (1979-03-26)26 March 1979 (aged 23) 46 Bologna 4 2DF Rigobert Song (c) (1976-07-01)1 July 1976 (aged 25) 59 Köln 5 2DF Raymond Kalla (1975-04-22)22 April 1975 (aged 27) 47 Extremadura 6 2DF Pierre Njanka (1975-03-15)15 March 1975 (aged 27) 31 Strasbourg 7 3MF Joseph N'Do (1976-04-28)28 April 1976 (aged 26) 16 Al-Khaleej 8 2DF Geremi Njitap (1978-12-20)20 December 1978 (aged 23) 38 Real Madrid 9 4FW Samuel Eto'o (1981-03-10)10 March 1981 (aged 21) 27 Mallorca 10 4FW Patrick M'Boma (1970-11-15)15 November 1970 (aged 31) 42 Sunderland 11 4FW Pius N'Diefi (1975-07-05)5 July 1975 (aged 26) 13 Sedan 12 3MF Lauren Etame Mayer (1977-01-19)19 January 1977 (aged 25) 15 Arsenal 13 2DF Lucien Mettomo (1977-04-19)19 April 1977 (aged 25) 17 Manchester City 14 3MF Joël Epalle (1978-02-20)20 February 1978 (aged 24) 22 Panathinaikos 15 3MF Nicolas Alnoudji (1979-12-09)9 December 1979 (aged 22) 15 Rizespor 16 1GK Jacques Songo'o (1964-03-17)17 March 1964 (aged 38) 66 Metz 17 3MF Marc-Vivien Foé (1975-05-01)1 May 1975 (aged 27) 47 Lyon 18 4FW Patrick Suffo (1978-01-17)17 January 1978 (aged 24) 18 Sheffield United 19 3MF Eric Djemba-Djemba (1981-05-04)4 May 1981 (aged 21) 0 Nantes 20 3MF Salomon Olembé (1980-12-08)8 December 1980 (aged 21) 39 Marseille 21 4FW Joseph-Désiré Job (1977-12-01)1 December 1977 (aged 24) 34 Metz 22 1GK Idriss Carlos Kameni (1984-02-18)18 February 1984 (aged 18) 1 Le Havre 23 3MF Daniel N'Gom Kome (1980-05-19)19 May 1980 (aged 22) 4 Numancia

Germany

Head coach: Rudi Völler

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Oliver Kahn (c) (1969-06-15)15 June 1969 (aged 32) 45 Bayern Munich 2 2DF Thomas Linke (1969-12-26)26 December 1969 (aged 32) 34 Bayern Munich 3 2DF Marko Rehmer (1972-04-29)29 April 1972 (aged 30) 27 Hertha Berlin 4 2DF Frank Baumann (1975-10-29)29 October 1975 (aged 26) 11 Werder Bremen 5 3MF Carsten Ramelow (1974-03-20)20 March 1974 (aged 28) 25 Bayer Leverkusen 6 2DF Christian Ziege (1972-02-01)1 February 1972 (aged 30) 66 Tottenham Hotspur 7 4FW Oliver Neuville (1973-05-01)1 May 1973 (aged 29) 30 Bayer Leverkusen 8 3MF Dietmar Hamann (1973-08-27)27 August 1973 (aged 28) 40 Liverpool 9 4FW Carsten Jancker (1974-08-28)28 August 1974 (aged 27) 26 Bayern Munich 10 3MF Lars Ricken (1976-07-10)10 July 1976 (aged 25) 16 Borussia Dortmund 11 4FW Miroslav Klose (1978-06-09)9 June 1978 (aged 23) 12 Kaiserslautern 12 1GK Jens Lehmann (1969-11-10)10 November 1969 (aged 32) 14 Borussia Dortmund 13 3MF Michael Ballack (1976-09-26)26 September 1976 (aged 25) 22 Bayer Leverkusen 14 4FW Gerald Asamoah (1978-10-03)3 October 1978 (aged 23) 11 Schalke 04 15 2DF Sebastian Kehl (1980-02-13)13 February 1980 (aged 22) 8 Borussia Dortmund 16 3MF Jens Jeremies (1974-03-05)5 March 1974 (aged 28) 33 Bayern Munich 17 3MF Marco Bode (1969-07-23)23 July 1969 (aged 32) 34 Werder Bremen 18 3MF Jörg Böhme (1974-01-22)22 January 1974 (aged 28) 6 Schalke 04 19 3MF Bernd Schneider (1973-11-17)17 November 1973 (aged 28) 9 Bayer Leverkusen 20 4FW Oliver Bierhoff (1968-05-01)1 May 1968 (aged 34) 65 Monaco 21 2DF Christoph Metzelder (1980-11-05)5 November 1980 (aged 21) 6 Borussia Dortmund 22 3MF Torsten Frings (1976-11-22)22 November 1976 (aged 25) 8 Werder Bremen 23 1GK Hans-Jörg Butt (1974-05-28)28 May 1974 (aged 28) 2 Bayer Leverkusen

Republic of Ireland

Head coach: Mick McCarthy

• Roy Keane left the squad before the tournament and wasn't replaced. See Roy Keane incident.

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Shay Given (1976-04-20)20 April 1976 (aged 26) 39 Newcastle United 2 2DF Steve Finnan (1976-04-24)24 April 1976 (aged 26) 13 Fulham 3 2DF Ian Harte (1977-08-31)31 August 1977 (aged 24) 40 Leeds United 4 2DF Kenny Cunningham (1971-06-28)28 June 1971 (aged 30) 38 Wimbledon 5 2DF Steve Staunton (c) (1969-01-19)19 January 1969 (aged 33) 98 Aston Villa 6 3MF Roy Keane (1971-08-10)10 August 1971 (aged 30) 58 Manchester United 7 3MF Jason McAteer (1971-06-18)18 June 1971 (aged 30) 47 Sunderland 8 3MF Matt Holland (1974-04-11)11 April 1974 (aged 28) 19 Ipswich Town 9 3MF Damien Duff (1979-03-02)2 March 1979 (aged 23) 26 Blackburn Rovers 10 4FW Robbie Keane (1980-07-08)8 July 1980 (aged 21) 33 Leeds United 11 3MF Kevin Kilbane (1977-02-01)1 February 1977 (aged 25) 31 Sunderland 12 3MF Mark Kinsella (1972-08-12)12 August 1972 (aged 29) 28 Charlton Athletic 13 4FW David Connolly (1977-06-06)6 June 1977 (aged 24) 33 Wimbledon 14 2DF Gary Breen (1973-12-12)12 December 1973 (aged 28) 43 Coventry City 15 2DF Richard Dunne (1979-09-21)21 September 1979 (aged 22) 14 Manchester City 16 1GK Dean Kiely (1970-10-10)10 October 1970 (aged 31) 6 Charlton Athletic 17 4FW Niall Quinn (1966-10-06)6 October 1966 (aged 35) 88 Sunderland 18 2DF Gary Kelly (1974-07-09)9 July 1974 (aged 27) 46 Leeds United 19 4FW Clinton Morrison (1979-05-14)14 May 1979 (aged 23) 7 Crystal Palace 20 2DF Andrew O'Brien (1979-06-29)29 June 1979 (aged 22) 5 Newcastle United 21 3MF Steven Reid (1981-03-10)10 March 1981 (aged 21) 5 Millwall 22 3MF Lee Carsley (1974-02-28)28 February 1974 (aged 28) 19 Everton 23 1GK Alan Kelly (1968-08-11)11 August 1968 (aged 33) 34 Blackburn Rovers

Saudi Arabia

Head coach: Nasser Al-Johar

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Mohamed Al-Deayea (1972-08-02)2 August 1972 (aged 29) 168 Al-Hilal 2 2DF Mohammed Al-Jahani (1974-09-28)28 September 1974 (aged 27) 73 Al-Ahli 3 2DF Redha Tukar (1975-11-29)29 November 1975 (aged 26) 5 Al-Shabab 4 2DF Abdullah Zubromawi (1973-11-15)15 November 1973 (aged 28) 115 Al-Ahli 5 2DF Mohsin Al-Harthi (1976-07-17)17 July 1976 (aged 25) 20 Al-Nassr 6 2DF Fouzi Al-Shehri (1980-05-15)15 May 1980 (aged 22) 2 Al-Ahli 7 3MF Ibrahim Al-Shahrani (1974-07-21)21 July 1974 (aged 27) 59 Al-Ahli 8 3MF Mohammed Noor (1978-02-26)26 February 1978 (aged 24) 29 Al-Ittihad 9 4FW Sami Al-Jaber (c) (1972-12-11)11 December 1972 (aged 29) 148 Al-Hilal 10 3MF Mohammad Al-Shalhoub (1980-12-08)8 December 1980 (aged 21) 17 Al-Hilal 11 4FW Obeid Al-Dosari (1975-10-02)2 October 1975 (aged 26) 97 Al-Ahli 12 2DF Ahmed Dokhi (1976-10-25)25 October 1976 (aged 25) 47 Al-Hilal 13 2DF Hussein Sulaimani (1977-01-21)21 January 1977 (aged 25) 80 Al-Ahli 14 3MF Abdulaziz Khathran (1973-07-31)31 July 1973 (aged 28) 0 Al-Shabab 15 4FW Abdullah Jumaan Al-Dosari (1977-11-10)10 November 1977 (aged 24) 20 Al-Hilal 16 3MF Khamis Al-Owairan (1973-09-08)8 September 1973 (aged 28) 76 Al-Ittihad 17 3MF Abdullah Al-Waked (1975-09-29)29 September 1975 (aged 26) 45 Al-Shabab 18 3MF Nawaf Al-Temyat (1976-06-28)28 June 1976 (aged 25) 48 Al-Hilal 19 3MF Omar Al-Ghamdi (1979-04-11)11 April 1979 (aged 23) 28 Al-Hilal 20 4FW Al Hasan Al-Yami (1972-08-21)21 August 1972 (aged 29) 18 Al-Ittihad 21 1GK Mabrouk Zaid (1979-02-11)11 February 1979 (aged 23) 1 Al-Ittihad 22 1GK Mohammed Al-Khojali (1973-01-15)15 January 1973 (aged 29) 12 Al-Nassr 23 2DF Mansour Al-Thagafi (1979-01-14)14 January 1979 (aged 23) 0 Al-Nassr

Group F

Argentina

Head coach: Marcelo Bielsa

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Germán Burgos (1969-04-16)16 April 1969 (aged 33) 35 Atlético Madrid 2 2DF Roberto Ayala (1973-04-14)14 April 1973 (aged 29) 74 Valencia 3 2DF Juan Pablo Sorín (1976-05-05)5 May 1976 (aged 26) 35 Cruzeiro 4 2DF Mauricio Pochettino (1972-03-02)2 March 1972 (aged 30) 16 Paris Saint-Germain 5 3MF Matías Almeyda (1973-12-21)21 December 1973 (aged 28) 33 Parma 6 2DF Walter Samuel (1978-03-23)23 March 1978 (aged 24) 30 Roma 7 4FW Claudio López (1974-07-17)17 July 1974 (aged 27) 49 Lazio 8 2DF Javier Zanetti (1973-08-10)10 August 1973 (aged 28) 66 Internazionale 9 4FW Gabriel Batistuta (1969-02-01)1 February 1969 (aged 33) 75 Roma 10 3MF Ariel Ortega (1974-03-04)4 March 1974 (aged 28) 81 River Plate 11 3MF Juan Sebastián Verón (c) (1975-03-09)9 March 1975 (aged 27) 47 Manchester United 12 1GK Pablo Cavallero (1974-04-13)13 April 1974 (aged 28) 8 Celta Vigo 13 2DF Diego Placente (1977-04-24)24 April 1977 (aged 25) 6 Bayer Leverkusen 14 3MF Diego Simeone (1970-04-28)28 April 1970 (aged 32) 104 Lazio 15 3MF Claudio Husaín (1974-11-20)20 November 1974 (aged 27) 14 River Plate 16 3MF Pablo Aimar (1979-11-03)3 November 1979 (aged 22) 18 Valencia 17 3MF Gustavo López (1973-04-13)13 April 1973 (aged 29) 31 Celta Vigo 18 3MF Kily González (1974-08-04)4 August 1974 (aged 27) 30 Valencia 19 4FW Hernán Crespo (1975-07-05)5 July 1975 (aged 26) 33 Lazio 20 3MF Marcelo Gallardo (1976-01-18)18 January 1976 (aged 26) 42 Monaco 21 4FW Claudio Caniggia (1967-01-09)9 January 1967 (aged 35) 50 Rangers 22 2DF José Chamot (1969-05-17)17 May 1969 (aged 33) 42 Milan 23 1GK Roberto Bonano (1970-01-24)24 January 1970 (aged 32) 13 Barcelona

Originally the squad was named with Ariel Ortega given #23 and Roberto Bonano #24 as the AFA had decided to retire the #10 shirt in honour of Diego Maradona. FIFA insisted that all squads were assigned with numbers 1-23 so Argentina had to amend their squad list.

England

Head coach: Sven Goran Eriksson

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK David Seaman (1963-09-19)19 September 1963 (aged 38) 68 Arsenal 2 2DF Danny Mills (1977-05-18)18 May 1977 (aged 25) 7 Leeds United 3 2DF Ashley Cole (1980-12-20)20 December 1980 (aged 21) 8 Arsenal 4 3MF Trevor Sinclair (1973-03-02)2 March 1973 (aged 29) 5 West Ham United 5 2DF Rio Ferdinand (1978-11-07)7 November 1978 (aged 23) 21 Leeds United 6 2DF Sol Campbell (1974-09-18)18 September 1974 (aged 27) 45 Arsenal 7 3MF David Beckham (c) (1975-05-02)2 May 1975 (aged 27) 49 Manchester United 8 3MF Paul Scholes (1974-11-16)16 November 1974 (aged 27) 43 Manchester United 9 4FW Robbie Fowler (1975-04-09)9 April 1975 (aged 27) 24 Leeds United 10 4FW Michael Owen (1979-12-14)14 December 1979 (aged 22) 35 Liverpool 11 4FW Emile Heskey (1978-01-11)11 January 1978 (aged 24) 23 Liverpool 12 2DF Wes Brown (1979-10-13)13 October 1979 (aged 22) 6 Manchester United 13 1GK Nigel Martyn (1966-08-11)11 August 1966 (aged 35) 22 Leeds United 14 2DF Wayne Bridge (1980-08-05)5 August 1980 (aged 21) 5 Southampton 15 2DF Martin Keown (1966-07-24)24 July 1966 (aged 35) 42 Arsenal 16 2DF Gareth Southgate (1970-09-03)3 September 1970 (aged 31) 48 Middlesbrough 17 4FW Teddy Sheringham (1966-04-02)2 April 1966 (aged 36) 46 Tottenham Hotspur 18 3MF Owen Hargreaves (1981-01-20)20 January 1981 (aged 21) 6 Bayern Munich 19 3MF Joe Cole (1981-11-08)8 November 1981 (aged 20) 6 West Ham United 20 4FW Darius Vassell (1980-06-13)13 June 1980 (aged 21) 5 Aston Villa 21 3MF Nicky Butt (1975-01-21)21 January 1975 (aged 27) 18 Manchester United 22 1GK David James (1970-08-01)1 August 1970 (aged 31) 9 West Ham United 23 3MF Kieron Dyer (1978-12-29)29 December 1978 (aged 23) 9 Newcastle United

Nigeria

Head coach: Festus Onigbinde

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Ike Shorunmu (1967-10-16)16 October 1967 (aged 34) 34 Lucerne 2 2DF Joseph Yobo (1980-09-06)6 September 1980 (aged 21) 14 Marseille 3 2DF Celestine Babayaro (1978-08-29)29 August 1978 (aged 23) 24 Chelsea 4 4FW Nwankwo Kanu (1976-08-01)1 August 1976 (aged 25) 33 Arsenal 5 2DF Isaac Okoronkwo (1978-05-01)1 May 1978 (aged 24) 12 Shakhtar Donetsk 6 2DF Taribo West (1974-03-26)26 March 1974 (aged 28) 38 Kaiserslautern 7 3MF Pius Ikedia (1980-07-11)11 July 1980 (aged 21) 9 Ajax 8 3MF Mutiu Adepoju (1970-12-22)22 December 1970 (aged 31) 49 Salamanca 9 4FW Bartholomew Ogbeche (1984-10-01)1 October 1984 (aged 17) 4 Paris Saint-Germain 10 3MF Jay-Jay Okocha (c) (1973-08-14)14 August 1973 (aged 28) 56 Paris Saint-Germain 11 3MF Garba Lawal (1974-05-22)22 May 1974 (aged 28) 34 Roda JC 12 1GK Austin Ejide (1984-04-08)8 April 1984 (aged 18) 3 Gabros International 13 2DF Rabiu Afolabi (1980-04-18)18 April 1980 (aged 22) 5 Standard Liège 14 2DF Ifeanyi Udeze (1980-07-21)21 July 1980 (aged 21) 15 PAOK 15 3MF Justice Christopher (1981-12-24)24 December 1981 (aged 20) 7 Royal Antwerp 16 2DF Efe Sodje (1972-10-05)5 October 1972 (aged 29) 7 Crewe Alexandra 17 4FW Julius Aghahowa (1982-02-12)12 February 1982 (aged 20) 17 Shakhtar Donetsk 18 4FW Benedict Akwuegbu (1974-11-03)3 November 1974 (aged 27) 16 Shenyang Haishi 19 2DF Eric Ejiofor (1979-07-21)21 July 1979 (aged 22) 12 Maccabi Haifa 20 3MF James Obiorah (1978-08-24)24 August 1978 (aged 23) 2 Lokomotiv Moscow 21 4FW John Utaka (1982-01-08)8 January 1982 (aged 20) 4 Al-Sadd 22 1GK Vincent Enyeama (1982-08-29)29 August 1982 (aged 19) 2 Enyimba 23 4FW Femi Opabunmi (1985-03-03)3 March 1985 (aged 17) 2 Ibadan

Sweden

Head coaches: Lars Lagerbäck and Tommy Söderberg

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Magnus Hedman (1973-03-19)19 March 1973 (aged 29) 44 Coventry City 2 2DF Olof Mellberg (1977-09-03)3 September 1977 (aged 24) 21 Aston Villa 3 2DF Patrik Andersson (c) (1971-08-18)18 August 1971 (aged 30) 95 Barcelona 4 2DF Johan Mjällby (1971-02-09)9 February 1971 (aged 31) 35 Celtic 5 2DF Michael Svensson (1975-11-25)25 November 1975 (aged 26) 11 Troyes 6 3MF Tobias Linderoth (1979-04-21)21 April 1979 (aged 23) 19 Everton 7 3MF Niclas Alexandersson (1971-12-29)29 December 1971 (aged 30) 58 Everton 8 3MF Anders Svensson (1976-07-17)17 July 1976 (aged 25) 24 Southampton 9 3MF Fredrik Ljungberg (1977-04-16)16 April 1977 (aged 25) 31 Arsenal 10 4FW Marcus Allbäck (1973-07-05)5 July 1973 (aged 28) 18 Heerenveen 11 4FW Henrik Larsson (1971-09-20)20 September 1971 (aged 30) 67 Celtic 12 1GK Magnus Kihlstedt (1972-02-29)29 February 1972 (aged 30) 12 Copenhagen 13 2DF Tomas Antonelius (1973-05-07)7 May 1973 (aged 29) 6 Copenhagen 14 2DF Erik Edman (1978-11-11)11 November 1978 (aged 23) 5 Heerenveen 15 2DF Andreas Jakobsson (1972-10-06)6 October 1972 (aged 29) 12 Hansa Rostock 16 2DF Teddy Lucic (1973-04-15)15 April 1973 (aged 29) 41 AIK 17 3MF Magnus Svensson (1969-03-10)10 March 1969 (aged 33) 24 Brøndby 18 3MF Mattias Jonson (1974-01-16)16 January 1974 (aged 28) 23 Brøndby 19 3MF Pontus Farnerud (1980-06-04)4 June 1980 (aged 21) 2 Monaco 20 3MF Daniel Andersson (1977-08-28)28 August 1977 (aged 24) 38 Venezia 21 4FW Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981-10-03)3 October 1981 (aged 20) 9 Ajax 22 4FW Andreas Andersson (1974-04-10)10 April 1974 (aged 28) 32 AIK 23 1GK Andreas Isaksson (1981-10-03)3 October 1981 (aged 20) 1 Djurgården

Group G

Croatia

Head coach: Mirko Jozić

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Stipe Pletikosa (1979-01-08)8 January 1979 (aged 23) 17 Hajduk Split 2 2DF Anthony Šerić (1979-01-15)15 January 1979 (aged 23) 8 Hellas Verona 3 2DF Josip Šimunić (1978-02-18)18 February 1978 (aged 24) 6 Hertha Berlin 4 3MF Stjepan Tomas (1976-03-06)6 March 1976 (aged 26) 17 Vicenza 5 3MF Milan Rapaić (1973-08-16)16 August 1973 (aged 28) 23 Fenerbahçe 6 2DF Boris Živković (1975-11-15)15 November 1975 (aged 26) 15 Bayer Leverkusen 7 3MF Davor Vugrinec (1975-03-24)24 March 1975 (aged 27) 21 Lecce 8 3MF Robert Prosinečki (1969-01-12)12 January 1969 (aged 33) 48 Portsmouth 9 4FW Davor Šuker (c) (1968-01-01)1 January 1968 (aged 34) 68 1860 Munich 10 3MF Niko Kovač (1971-10-15)15 October 1971 (aged 30) 20 Bayern Munich 11 4FW Alen Bokšić (1970-01-21)21 January 1970 (aged 32) 36 Middlesbrough 12 1GK Tomislav Butina (1974-03-30)30 March 1974 (aged 28) 7 Dinamo Zagreb 13 3MF Mario Stanić (1972-04-10)10 April 1972 (aged 30) 43 Chelsea 14 3MF Zvonimir Soldo (1967-11-02)2 November 1967 (aged 34) 59 Stuttgart 15 2DF Daniel Šarić (1972-08-04)4 August 1972 (aged 29) 25 Panathinaikos 16 3MF Jurica Vranješ (1980-01-31)31 January 1980 (aged 22) 7 Bayer Leverkusen 17 2DF Robert Jarni (1968-10-26)26 October 1968 (aged 33) 78 Panathinaikos 18 4FW Ivica Olić (1979-09-14)14 September 1979 (aged 22) 4 Zagreb 19 4FW Goran Vlaović (1972-08-07)7 August 1972 (aged 29) 50 Panathinaikos 20 2DF Dario Šimić (1975-11-12)12 November 1975 (aged 26) 48 Internazionale 21 2DF Robert Kovač (1974-04-06)6 April 1974 (aged 28) 19 Bayern Munich 22 4FW Boško Balaban (1978-10-15)15 October 1978 (aged 23) 13 Aston Villa 23 1GK Vladimir Vasilj (1975-07-06)6 July 1975 (aged 26) 2 Zagreb

Note: caps for Yugoslavia are not counted.

Ecuador

Head coach: Hernán Darío Gómez

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK José Francisco Cevallos (1971-04-17)17 April 1971 (aged 31) 62 Barcelona 2 2DF Augusto Porozo (1974-04-13)13 April 1974 (aged 28) 26 Emelec 3 2DF Iván Hurtado (1974-08-16)16 August 1974 (aged 27) 90 Barcelona 4 2DF Ulises de la Cruz (1974-02-08)8 February 1974 (aged 28) 52 Hibernian 5 3MF Alfonso Obregón (1972-05-12)12 May 1972 (aged 30) 40 LDU Quito 6 2DF Raúl Guerrón (1976-10-12)12 October 1976 (aged 25) 23 Deportivo Quito 7 4FW Nicolás Asencio (1975-04-26)26 April 1975 (aged 27) 4 Barcelona 8 3MF Luis Gómez (1972-04-20)20 April 1972 (aged 30) 8 Barcelona 9 4FW Iván Kaviedes (1977-10-24)24 October 1977 (aged 24) 26 Barcelona 10 3MF Álex Aguinaga (c) (1968-07-09)9 July 1968 (aged 33) 92 Necaxa 11 4FW Agustín Delgado (1974-12-23)23 December 1974 (aged 27) 46 Southampton 12 1GK Oswaldo Ibarra (1969-09-08)8 September 1969 (aged 32) 21 El Nacional 13 4FW Ángel Fernández (1971-08-02)2 August 1971 (aged 30) 68 El Nacional 14 3MF Juan Carlos Burbano (1969-02-15)15 February 1969 (aged 33) 18 El Nacional 15 2DF Marlon Ayoví (1971-09-27)27 September 1971 (aged 30) 26 Deportivo Quito 16 3MF Cléber Chalá (1971-06-29)29 June 1971 (aged 30) 64 El Nacional 17 2DF Giovanny Espinoza (1977-04-12)12 April 1977 (aged 25) 19 Aucas 18 3MF Carlos Tenorio (1979-05-14)14 May 1979 (aged 23) 9 LDU Quito 19 3MF Edison Méndez (1979-03-16)16 March 1979 (aged 23) 24 Deportivo Quito 20 3MF Edwin Tenorio (1976-06-16)16 June 1976 (aged 25) 33 Barcelona 21 3MF Wellington Sánchez (1974-06-19)19 June 1974 (aged 27) 35 Emelec 22 1GK Daniel Viteri (1981-12-12)12 December 1981 (aged 20) 0 Emelec 23 3MF Walter Ayoví (1979-08-11)11 August 1979 (aged 22) 2 Emelec

Italy

Head coach: Giovanni Trapattoni

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Gianluigi Buffon (1978-01-28)28 January 1978 (aged 24) 26 Juventus 2 2DF Christian Panucci (1973-04-12)12 April 1973 (aged 29) 24 Roma 3 2DF Paolo Maldini (c) (1968-06-26)26 June 1968 (aged 33) 122 Milan 4 2DF Francesco Coco (1977-01-08)8 January 1977 (aged 25) 13 Milan 5 2DF Fabio Cannavaro (1973-09-13)13 September 1973 (aged 28) 58 Parma 6 3MF Cristiano Zanetti (1977-04-14)14 April 1977 (aged 25) 4 Internazionale 7 4FW Alessandro Del Piero (1974-11-09)9 November 1974 (aged 27) 49 Juventus 8 3MF Gennaro Gattuso (1978-01-09)9 January 1978 (aged 24) 13 Milan 9 4FW Filippo Inzaghi (1973-08-09)9 August 1973 (aged 28) 38 Milan 10 4FW Francesco Totti (1976-09-27)27 September 1976 (aged 25) 29 Roma 11 3MF Cristiano Doni (1973-04-01)1 April 1973 (aged 29) 3 Atalanta 12 1GK Christian Abbiati (1977-07-08)8 July 1977 (aged 24) 0 Milan 13 2DF Alessandro Nesta (1976-03-19)19 March 1976 (aged 26) 43 Lazio 14 3MF Luigi Di Biagio (1971-06-03)3 June 1971 (aged 30) 28 Internazionale 15 2DF Mark Iuliano (1973-08-12)12 August 1973 (aged 28) 16 Juventus 16 3MF Angelo Di Livio (1966-07-26)26 July 1966 (aged 35) 38 Fiorentina 17 3MF Damiano Tommasi (1974-05-17)17 May 1974 (aged 28) 14 Roma 18 4FW Marco Delvecchio (1973-04-07)7 April 1973 (aged 29) 16 Roma 19 3MF Gianluca Zambrotta (1977-02-19)19 February 1977 (aged 25) 23 Juventus 20 4FW Vincenzo Montella (1974-06-18)18 June 1974 (aged 27) 14 Roma 21 4FW Christian Vieri (1973-07-12)12 July 1973 (aged 28) 24 Internazionale 22 1GK Francesco Toldo (1971-12-02)2 December 1971 (aged 30) 22 Internazionale 23 2DF Marco Materazzi (1973-08-19)19 August 1973 (aged 28) 7 Internazionale

Mexico

Head coach: Javier Aguirre

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Óscar Pérez (1973-02-01)1 February 1973 (aged 29) 37 Cruz Azul 2 2DF Francisco Gabriel de Anda (1971-06-05)5 June 1971 (aged 30) 15 Pachuca 3 3MF Rafael García (1974-08-14)14 August 1974 (aged 27) 21 Toluca 4 3MF Rafael Márquez (c) (1979-02-13)13 February 1979 (aged 23) 36 Monaco 5 2DF Manuel Vidrio (1972-08-23)23 August 1972 (aged 29) 27 Pachuca 6 3MF Gerardo Torrado (1979-04-30)30 April 1979 (aged 23) 28 Poli Ejido 7 3MF Ramón Morales (1975-10-10)10 October 1975 (aged 26) 17 Guadalajara 8 3MF Alberto García Aspe (1967-05-11)11 May 1967 (aged 35) 108 Puebla 9 4FW Jared Borgetti (1973-08-14)14 August 1973 (aged 28) 29 Santos 10 4FW Cuauhtémoc Blanco (1973-01-17)17 January 1973 (aged 29) 75 Real Valladolid 11 3MF Braulio Luna (1974-09-08)8 September 1974 (aged 27) 15 Necaxa 12 1GK Oswaldo Sánchez (1973-09-21)21 September 1973 (aged 28) 22 Guadalajara 13 3MF Sigifredo Mercado (1968-12-21)21 December 1968 (aged 33) 18 Atlas 14 3MF Germán Villa (1973-04-02)2 April 1973 (aged 29) 46 América 15 4FW Luis Hernández (1968-12-22)22 December 1968 (aged 33) 85 América 16 2DF Salvador Carmona (1975-08-22)22 August 1975 (aged 26) 56 Toluca 17 4FW Francisco Palencia (1973-04-28)28 April 1973 (aged 29) 67 Espanyol 18 3MF Johan Rodríguez (1975-08-15)15 August 1975 (aged 26) 14 Santos 19 3MF Gabriel Caballero (1971-02-05)5 February 1971 (aged 31) 5 Pachuca 20 2DF Melvin Brown (1979-01-28)28 January 1979 (aged 23) 8 Cruz Azul 21 4FW Jesús Arellano (1973-05-08)8 May 1973 (aged 29) 49 Monterrey 22 2DF Alberto Rodríguez (1974-04-01)1 April 1974 (aged 28) 13 Pachuca 23 1GK Jorge Campos (1966-10-15)15 October 1966 (aged 35) 123 U.N.A.M.

Group H

Belgium

Head coach: Robert Waseige

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Geert De Vlieger (1971-10-16)16 October 1971 (aged 30) 25 Willem II 2 2DF Eric Deflandre (1973-08-02)2 August 1973 (aged 28) 41 Lyon 3 2DF Glen De Boeck (1971-08-22)22 August 1971 (aged 30) 33 Anderlecht 4 2DF Eric Van Meir (1968-02-28)28 February 1968 (aged 34) 32 Standard Liège 5 2DF Nico Van Kerckhoven (1970-12-14)14 December 1970 (aged 31) 40 Schalke 04 6 3MF Timmy Simons (1976-12-11)11 December 1976 (aged 25) 12 Club Brugge 7 4FW Marc Wilmots (c) (1969-02-22)22 February 1969 (aged 33) 66 Schalke 04 8 3MF Bart Goor (1973-04-09)9 April 1973 (aged 29) 38 Hertha Berlin 9 4FW Wesley Sonck (1978-08-09)9 August 1978 (aged 23) 12 Racing Genk 10 3MF Johan Walem (1972-02-01)1 February 1972 (aged 30) 33 Standard Liège 11 3MF Gert Verheyen (1970-09-20)20 September 1970 (aged 31) 46 Club Brugge 12 2DF Peter Van Der Heyden (1976-07-16)16 July 1976 (aged 25) 4 Club Brugge 13 1GK Franky Vandendriessche (1971-04-07)7 April 1971 (aged 31) 0 Mouscron 14 3MF Sven Vermant (1973-04-04)4 April 1973 (aged 29) 12 Schalke 04 15 2DF Jacky Peeters (1969-12-13)13 December 1969 (aged 32) 13 Gent 16 2DF Daniel Van Buyten (1978-02-07)7 February 1978 (aged 24) 7 Marseille 17 3MF Gaëtan Englebert (1976-06-11)11 June 1976 (aged 25) 4 Club Brugge 18 3MF Yves Vanderhaeghe (1970-01-30)30 January 1970 (aged 32) 30 Anderlecht 19 3MF Bernd Thijs (1978-06-28)28 June 1978 (aged 23) 2 Racing Genk 20 4FW Branko Strupar (1970-02-09)9 February 1970 (aged 32) 14 Derby County 21 3MF Danny Boffin (1965-07-10)10 July 1965 (aged 36) 52 St. Truiden 22 4FW Mbo Mpenza (1976-12-04)4 December 1976 (aged 25) 26 Mouscron 23 1GK Frédéric Herpoel (1974-08-16)16 August 1974 (aged 27) 7 Gent

Japan

Head coach: Philippe Troussier

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (1975-08-15)15 August 1975 (aged 26) 43 Portsmouth 2 2DF Yutaka Akita (1970-08-06)6 August 1970 (aged 31) 38 Kashima Antlers 3 2DF Naoki Matsuda (1977-03-14)14 March 1977 (aged 25) 24 Yokohama F. Marinos 4 2DF Ryuzo Morioka (1975-10-07)7 October 1975 (aged 26) 32 Shimizu S-Pulse 5 3MF Junichi Inamoto (1979-09-18)18 September 1979 (aged 22) 22 Arsenal 6 2DF Toshihiro Hattori (1973-09-23)23 September 1973 (aged 28) 35 Jubilo Iwata 7 3MF Hidetoshi Nakata (1977-01-22)22 January 1977 (aged 25) 39 Parma 8 3MF Hiroaki Morishima (1972-04-30)30 April 1972 (aged 30) 57 Cerezo Osaka 9 4FW Akinori Nishizawa (1976-06-18)18 June 1976 (aged 25) 24 Cerezo Osaka 10 4FW Masashi Nakayama (c) (1967-09-23)23 September 1967 (aged 34) 47 Jubilo Iwata 11 4FW Takayuki Suzuki (1976-06-05)5 June 1976 (aged 25) 10 Kashima Antlers 12 1GK Seigo Narazaki (1976-04-15)15 April 1976 (aged 26) 15 Nagoya Grampus Eight 13 4FW Atsushi Yanagisawa (1977-05-27)27 May 1977 (aged 25) 22 Kashima Antlers 14 3MF Alessandro dos Santos (1977-07-20)20 July 1977 (aged 24) 0 Shimizu S-Pulse 15 3MF Takashi Fukunishi (1976-09-01)1 September 1976 (aged 25) 5 Jubilo Iwata 16 2DF Kōji Nakata (1979-07-09)9 July 1979 (aged 22) 20 Kashima Antlers 17 2DF Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (1977-02-07)7 February 1977 (aged 25) 5 Gamba Osaka 18 3MF Shinji Ono (1979-09-27)27 September 1979 (aged 22) 21 Feyenoord 19 3MF Mitsuo Ogasawara (1979-04-05)5 April 1979 (aged 23) 0 Kashima Antlers 20 3MF Tomokazu Myojin (1978-01-24)24 January 1978 (aged 24) 16 Kashiwa Reysol 21 3MF Kazuyuki Toda (1977-12-30)30 December 1977 (aged 24) 10 Shimizu S-Pulse 22 3MF Daisuke Ichikawa (1980-05-14)14 May 1980 (aged 22) 1 Shimizu S-Pulse 23 1GK Hitoshi Sogahata (1979-08-02)2 August 1979 (aged 22) 1 Kashima Antlers

Russia

Head coach: Oleg Romantsev

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Ruslan Nigmatullin (1974-10-07)7 October 1974 (aged 27) 20 Hellas Verona 2 2DF Yuri Kovtun (1970-01-05)5 January 1970 (aged 32) 44 Spartak Moscow 3 2DF Yuri Nikiforov (1970-09-16)16 September 1970 (aged 31) 56 PSV 4 3MF Alexey Smertin (1975-05-01)1 May 1975 (aged 27) 25 Bordeaux 5 2DF Andrei Solomatin (1975-09-09)9 September 1975 (aged 26) 5 CSKA Moscow 6 3MF Igor Semshov (1978-04-06)6 April 1978 (aged 24) 2 Torpedo Moscow 7 2DF Viktor Onopko (c) (1969-10-14)14 October 1969 (aged 32) 97 Real Oviedo 8 3MF Valery Karpin (1969-02-02)2 February 1969 (aged 33) 69 Celta Vigo 9 3MF Yegor Titov (1976-05-29)29 May 1976 (aged 26) 33 Spartak Moscow 10 3MF Aleksandr Mostovoi (1968-08-22)22 August 1968 (aged 33) 59 Celta Vigo 11 4FW Vladimir Beschastnykh (1974-04-01)1 April 1974 (aged 28) 64 Spartak Moscow 12 1GK Stanislav Cherchesov (1963-09-02)2 September 1963 (aged 38) 49 Tirol Innsbruck 13 2DF Vyacheslav Dayev (1972-09-06)6 September 1972 (aged 29) 7 CSKA Moscow 14 2DF Igor Chugainov (1970-04-06)6 April 1970 (aged 32) 30 Uralan Elista 15 3MF Dmitri Alenichev (1972-10-20)20 October 1972 (aged 29) 43 Porto 16 4FW Aleksandr Kerzhakov (1982-11-27)27 November 1982 (aged 19) 3 Zenit St. Petersburg 17 3MF Sergei Semak (1976-02-27)27 February 1976 (aged 26) 30 CSKA Moscow 18 2DF Dmitri Sennikov (1976-06-24)24 June 1976 (aged 25) 4 Lokomotiv Moscow 19 4FW Ruslan Pimenov (1981-11-25)25 November 1981 (aged 20) 1 Lokomotiv Moscow 20 3MF Marat Izmailov (1982-09-21)21 September 1982 (aged 19) 8 Lokomotiv Moscow 21 3MF Dmitri Khokhlov (1975-12-22)22 December 1975 (aged 26) 38 Real Sociedad 22 4FW Dmitri Sychev (1983-10-26)26 October 1983 (aged 18) 3 Spartak Moscow 23 1GK Aleksandr Filimonov (1973-10-15)15 October 1973 (aged 28) 16 Uralan Elista

Note: caps include those for USSR, CIS, and Russia.

Tunisia

Head coach: Ammar Souayah

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Ali Boumnijel (1966-04-13)13 April 1966 (aged 36) 14 Bastia 2 2DF Khaled Badra (c) (1973-04-08)8 April 1973 (aged 29) 72 Espérance 3 3MF Zoubeir Baya (1971-05-15)15 May 1971 (aged 31) 77 Beşiktaş 4 2DF Mohamed Mkacher (1975-05-25)25 May 1975 (aged 27) 15 ES Sahel 5 4FW Ziad Jaziri (1978-07-12)12 July 1978 (aged 23) 26 ES Sahel 6 2DF Hatem Trabelsi (1977-01-25)25 January 1977 (aged 25) 27 Ajax 7 3MF Imed Mhedhebi (1976-03-22)22 March 1976 (aged 26) 30 Genoa 8 3MF Hassen Gabsi (1974-02-23)23 February 1974 (aged 28) 48 Genoa 9 4FW Riadh Jelassi (1971-07-07)7 July 1971 (aged 30) 20 Club Africain 10 3MF Kaies Ghodhbane (1976-01-07)7 January 1976 (aged 26) 62 ES Sahel 11 4FW Adel Sellimi (1972-11-16)16 November 1972 (aged 29) 64 Freiburg 12 2DF Raouf Bouzaiene (1970-08-16)16 August 1970 (aged 31) 39 Genoa 13 3MF Riadh Bouazizi (1973-04-08)8 April 1973 (aged 29) 47 Bursaspor 14 2DF Hamdi Marzouki (1977-01-23)23 January 1977 (aged 25) 7 Club Africain 15 2DF Radhi Jaïdi (1975-08-30)30 August 1975 (aged 26) 40 Espérance 16 1GK Hassen Bejaoui (1976-02-14)14 February 1976 (aged 26) 2 Bizertin 17 2DF Tarek Thabet (1971-08-16)16 August 1971 (aged 30) 70 Espérance 18 3MF Selim Ben Achour (1981-09-08)8 September 1981 (aged 20) 3 Martigues 19 2DF Emir Mkademi (1978-08-20)20 August 1978 (aged 23) 9 ES Sahel 20 4FW Ali Zitouni (1981-01-11)11 January 1981 (aged 21) 23 Espérance 21 3MF Mourad Melki (1975-05-09)9 May 1975 (aged 27) 11 Espérance 22 1GK Ahmed Jaouachi (1975-07-13)13 July 1975 (aged 26) 0 Monastir 23 2DF José Clayton (1974-03-21)21 March 1974 (aged 28) 12 Espérance

Player representation by league

Country	Players	Percentage	Outside national squad
Total	736
England	103	13.99%	81
Italy	75	10.19%	53
Germany	59	8.02%	39
Spain	58	7.88%	36
France	56	7.61%	51
Mexico	25	3.40%	6
Japan	25	3.40%	6
Belgium	25	3.40%	10
Saudi Arabia	23	3.13%	0
China	21	2.85%	1
Others	266	36.14%

The Saudi Arabian squad was made up entirely of players from its country's domestic league. The Cameroon and Irish squads were made up entirely of players employed by overseas clubs. Although Netherlands and Greece failed to qualify for the finals, their domestic leagues were represented by 18 and 10 players respectively: altogether, there were 43 national leagues who had players in the tournament.

References

• (English) Planet World Cup website
• (English) Sortable list of players at ScoreShelf.com website