Argentina

Head coach: César Luis Menotti

César Luis Menotti

César Luis Menotti, known as El Flaco is an Argentine football coach and former player, who as coach, won the 1978 FIFA World Cup for Argentina.-Playing career:...

Note that this squad is numbered alphabetically by surname, unlike traditional numbering systems where the goalkeeper has shirt number 1 and so forth.

France

Head coach: Michel Hidalgo

Hungary

Head coach: Lajos Baróti

Lajos Baróti

Lajos Baróti was a Hungarian association football player and manager. With eleven major titles he is one of the outstanding coaches of his era.-Career :...

Italy

Head coach: Enzo Bearzot

Enzo Bearzot

Vincenzo "Enzo" Bearzot was an Italian association football player and manager. He is best known for having led the Italian national football team to a triumph in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.-Playing career:...

Mexico

Head coach: José Antonio Roca

José Antonio Roca

José Antonio Roca García was a Mexican football player and manager.-International career:...

Poland

Head coach: Jacek Gmoch

Jacek Gmoch

Jacek Gmoch is a former Polish footballer, who later became a trainer and selector of the Polish National Team....

Tunisia

Head coach: Abdelmajid Chetali

Abdelmajid Chetali

Abdelmajid Chetali is a Tunisian former footballer and manager. As a player he played for the Tunisian national team in 70 matches, scoring 4 goals, and as a manager, he led them in their first ever World Cup appearance in 1978, where Tunisia became the first African team to win a World Cup...

West Germany

Head coach: Helmut Schön

Helmut Schön

Helmut Schön was a German football player and manager. He is best remembered for his exceptional career as manager of West Germany....

Austria

Head coach: Helmut Senekowitsch

Helmut Senekowitsch

Helmut Senekowitsch was an Austrian football player and later a football manager.-Club career:He played for several clubs, including SK Sturm Graz, Real Betis and FC Wacker Innsbruck.-International career:...

Brazil

Head coach: Cláudio Coutinho

Cláudio Coutinho

Cláudio Pêcego de Moraes Coutinho was a Brazilian football manager that coached Brazil from 1977 to 1980 and Los Angeles Aztecs in 1981...

Spain

Head coach: Ladislao Kubala

Ladislao Kubala

László Kubala Stecz , also referred to as Ladislav Kubala, Ladislao Kubala, was a footballer, who played as a forward with, among others, Ferencvárosi TC, ŠK Slovan Bratislava, Vasas SC, FC Barcelona and RCD Espanyol. He also played for three different national teams, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and...

Sweden

Head coach: Georg Ericson

Georg Ericson

Georg 'Åby' Ericson , also nicknamed Jojje, was a Swedish football player and coach.During his playing career he played for IFK Norrköping in the 1940s. Later he became a coach with IFK Norrköping, and led the Sweden national football team to two FIFA World Cups: 1974 and 1978.-External links:*...

Iran

Head coach: Heshmat Mohajerani

Netherlands

Head coach:   Ernst Happel
Jan Jongbloed wore number 8 because some of the players who had been in the Dutch squad at the 1974 FIFA World Cup

1974 FIFA World Cup

The 1974 FIFA World Cup, the tenth staging of the World Cup, was held in West Germany from 13 June to 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the current trophy, the FIFA World Cup Trophy, created by the Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga, was awarded...

, where the Netherlands used a purely alphabetical numbering system, were given the same numbers again in 1978. Hugo Hovenkamp withdrew from the squad before the tournament began, but after the deadline for naming replacement players had passed. The Netherlands thus went to the World Cup with only 21 players.

Peru

Head coach: Marcos Calderón

Marcos Calderón

Marcos Calderón was a Peruvian football coach. He led the Peru national football team to win the Copa América 1975 and led the team to the second round of the 1978 World Cup...

Scotland

Head coach: Ally MacLeod

Ally MacLeod

Alistair Reid MacLeod was a Scottish professional football player. He is perhaps better known for his time as a football manager, which included being in charge of Scotland at the 1978 FIFA World Cup....