Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

The following squads were named for the 1952 Summer Olympics tournament.

Austria
Head coach: Viktor Hierländer

Hans Arnold, A. Rouschal, Johann Weiß and Erwin Theuerweckl were all named in Austria's squad, but did not play in any matches:

Brazil
Head coach: Newton Cardoso

Evaristo, Arízio, Bené, Amaury, Antoninho, Paulinho, Wassil, Marcos Guerra and Cacá were all named in Brazil's squad, but did not play in any matches:

Bulgaria
Head coach: Krum Milev

Gavril Stoyanov, Minko Minchev, Ivan Nikolov, Todor Kapralov, Atanas Tsanov, Lazar Hristov, Ivan Trendafilov, Georgi Kekemanov and Kostadin Blagoev were all named in Bulgaria's squad, but did not play in any matches:

Chile
Head coach: Luis Tirado

Denmark
Head coach: Axel Bjerregaard

Egypt
Head coach: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Edward Jones

Ahmed Katou, Nour El-Dali, Mohammed Abdallah, Fahmi Jemei, Ibrahim Saleh, Ad-Diba, Essam Baheeg and El-Sayed El-Attiyah were all named in Egypt's squad, but did not play in any matches:

Finland
Head coach: Aatos Lehtonen

France
Head coach:

Germany
Head coach: Sepp Herberger

Great Britain
Head coach: Walter Winterbottom

Greece
Head coach: Antonis Migiakis

Hungary
Head coach: Gusztáv Sebes

India
Head coach: S. A. Rahim

Byomkesh Bose, Samir Roy, P. B. A. Saleh and Runu Guha Thakurta were all named in India's squad, but did not play in any matches:

Italy
Head coach: Giuseppe Meazza

Luxembourg
Head coach: 🇦🇹 Adolf Patek

Netherlands
Head coach: Jaap van der Leck

Netherlands Antilles
Head coach: Antoine Maduro

Norway
Head coach: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Frank Soo

Poland
Head coach: Michał Matyas

Tadeusz Glimas and Zbigniew Jaskowski were both named in Poland's squad, but did not play in any matches:

Romania
Head coach: Gheorghe Popescu I

Sweden
Head coach: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 George Raynor

Tore Svensson, Lars Carlsson, Karl-Erik Andersson, Sven Hjertsson, Åke Jönsson, Lars Eriksson, Nils-Åke Sandell and Egon Jönsson were all named in Sweden's squad, but did not play in any matches:

Turkey
Head coach: 🇮🇹 Sandro Puppo

Fevzi Büyükyıldırım, Cahit Candan, Hadi Pozan, Ekrem Koldaş, Kaya K., Ergün İ. and were all named in Turkey's squad, but did not play in any matches:

United States
Head coach: John Wood

Andy Keir and Marty Krumm were both named in the United States' squad, but did not play in any matches:

Soviet Union
Head coach: Boris Arkadyev

Yugoslavia
Head coach: Milorad Arsenijević