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This article lists the confirmed national football squads for the 2006 FIFA World Cup tournament, between 9 June and 9 August 2008. Before announcing their final squad, several teams named a provisional squad of 23 to 33 players, but each country's final squad of 23 players had to be submitted by 15 May 2008. Replacement of injured players was permitted until 24 hours before the team's first World Cup game. Players marked (c) were named as captain for their national squad. Number of caps counts until the start of the World Cup, including all pre-tournament friendlies. Club information is that used by FIFA.

Costa Rica
Head coach: 🇧🇷 Alexandre Guimarães

England
Head coach: 🇸🇪 Sven-Göran Eriksson

Ghana
Head coach: 🇷🇸 Milovan Rajevac

Switzerland
Head coach: 🇩🇪 Ottmar Hitzfeld

Brazil
Coach: Carlos Alberto Parreira

Mexico
Head coach: Javier Aguirre

Nigeria
Coach: 🇩🇪 Berti Vogts

Serbia
Coach: Radomir Antić

Angola
Head coach: Luís Oliveira Gonçalves

Argentina
Head coach: José Pekerman

Japan
Coach: Takeshi Okada

Poland
Head coach: Paweł Janas

Australia
Head coach: Guus Hiddink

Czech Republic
Head coach: Karel Brückner

France
Head coach: Raymond Domenech

Ivory Coast
Head coach: 🇫🇷 Henri Michel

Croatia
Head coach: Zlatko Kranjčar

North Korea
Coach: Kim Jong-hun

Spain
Coach: Vicente del Bosque

Uruguay
Coach: Óscar Tabárez

Germany
Coach: Joachim Löw

Netherlands
Head coach: Bert van Marwijk

Paraguay
Coach: 🇦🇷 Gerardo Martino

South Korea
Head coach: Dick Advocaat

Ecuador
Head coach: 🇨🇴 Luis Fernando Suárez

South Africa
Coach: 🇧🇷 Carlos Alberto Parreira

Sweden
Head coach: Lars Lagerbäck

United States
Coach: Bob Bradley

Cameroon
Coach: 🇫🇷 Paul Le Guen

Italy
Head coach: Marcello Lippi

Portugal
Head coach: 🇧🇷 Luiz Felipe Scolari

Trinidad and Tobago
Head coach: Leo Beenhakker

Player representation by league
The squad for England was made up almost entirely of players from their domestic leagues. North Korea was the only team with less than three players from European clubs. The Nigerian squad was made up entirely of players employed by foreign clubs, and all of the 23 players were registered in Europe. Although Russia and Belgium failed to qualify for the finals, their domestic leagues were represented by 17 and 10 players respectively. In total, domestic leagues from 52 different countries had players at the 2006 World Cup.

Player representation by club
Finalised clubs' listing as per FIFA, excluding players on standby and loans.