2002 FIFA World Cup squads

At the 2002 FIFA World Cup, each national association was required to name a squad of 23 players, expanded from 22 in previous tournaments.

The players' ages, caps and clubs are as of 31 May 2002, the opening day of the tournament.

Head coach: Morten Olsen

Head coach: Roger Lemerre

Head coach:   Bruno Metsu

Head coach: Víctor Púa

Head coach:   Cesare Maldini

Head coach: Srečko Katanec

*Was expelled from the squad after the first game.

Note: caps for Yugoslavia are not counted.

Head coach: Jomo Sono

Head coach: José Antonio Camacho

Head coach: Luiz Felipe Scolari

Head coach:   Bora Milutinović

Head coach: Alexandre Guimarães

Head coach: Şenol Güneş

Head coach: Jerzy Engel

Head coach: António Oliveira

Head coach:   Guus Hiddink

Head coach: Bruce Arena

Head coach:   Winfried Schäfer

Head coach: Rudi Völler

Head coach: Mick McCarthy

• Roy Keane left the squad before the tournament and was not replaced. See Saipan incident. Keane was technically still part of the named squad and appeared in FIFA's official squad lists.

Head coach: Nasser Al-Johar

Head coach: Marcelo Bielsa

Originally, the squad was named with Ariel Ortega given shirt number 23 and Roberto Bonano number 24, as the Argentine Football Association had decided to retire the number 10 shirt in honour of Diego Maradona. FIFA, however, insisted that all squads were assigned with numbers ranging only from 1–23, prompting Argentina to amend their squad list.

Head coach:   Sven-Göran Eriksson

Head coach: Festus Onigbinde

Head coaches: Lars Lagerbäck and Tommy Söderberg

Head coach: Mirko Jozić

Note: caps for Yugoslavia are not counted.

Head coach:   Hernán Darío Gómez

Head coach: Giovanni Trapattoni

Head coach: Javier Aguirre

Head coach: Robert Waseige

Head coach:   Philippe Troussier

Head coach: Oleg Romantsev

Note: caps include those for USSR, CIS, and Russia, while those for other countries, such as Ukraine, are not counted.

Head coach: Ammar Souayah

The Saudi Arabian squad was the only one made up entirely of players from their country's domestic league and the only one with no players from European clubs. The Cameroonian squad were made up entirely of players employed by overseas clubs, while the Irish squad was made up entirely by players in the English league. Although the 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.

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