Below are the squads for the 1978 FIFA World Cup final tournament in Argentina. Group 1 Argentina Head coach: César Luis Menotti 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 Italy Head coach: Enzo Bearzot Note: With the exception of the goalkeepers, who were assigned the traditional shirt numbers for the role (1, 12 and 22) the Italian team was numbered alphabetically within their respective positions – Defenders (from 2 to 8), Midfielders (from 9 to 15), Wingers (16 and 17) and Forwards (from 18 to 21). Group 2 Mexico Head coach: José Antonio Roca Poland Head coach: Jacek Gmoch Tunisia Head coach: Abdelmajid Chetali West Germany Head coach: Helmut Schön Group 3 Austria Head coach: Helmut Senekowitsch Brazil Head coach: Cláudio Coutinho Spain Head coach: Ladislao Kubala Sweden Head coach: Georg Ericson Group 4 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, 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 Scotland Manager: Ally MacLeod Notes Each national team had to submit a squad of 22 players. All the teams included 3 goalkeepers, except Mexico who only called two. References Planet World Cup website weltfussball.de Squads FIFA World Cup squads