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The following is a list of squads for each nation competing at Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. The tournament started on June 7 and the final will take place in Vienna on June 29, 2008.
Each nation had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of which had to be goalkeepers, by May 28, 2008. If a player was injured seriously enough to prevent his taking part in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player. [1]
Caps, goals and ages as of 7 June 2008.
[edit] Group A
Head coach: Karel Brückner
Head coach: 
Luiz Felipe Scolari
- Quim injured a wrist on 6 June and was replaced by Nuno.[7]
Head coach: Köbi Kuhn
Head coach: Fatih Terim
[edit] Group B
Head coach: Josef Hickersberger
Head coach: Slaven Bilić
Head coach: Joachim Löw
Head coach: 
Leo Beenhakker
- Jakub Błaszczykowski injured a hamstring on 5 June and was replaced by Łukasz Piszczek.[24] Tomasz Kuszczak injured his back on 6 June and was replaced by Wojciech Kowalewski.[25]
[edit] Group C
Head coach: Raymond Domenech
Head coach: Roberto Donadoni
- Fabio Cannavaro was ruled out of the Italian squad on 2 June 2008 after he was injured in training. He was replaced by Alessandro Gamberini.[26]
Buffon was the captain of the squad for the first match against The Netherlands. Del Piero was named captain for the second match against Romania, and Buffon regained the armband during that game when Del Piero was substituted.
Head coach: Marco van Basten
- Ryan Babel was ruled out of the Dutch squad on 31 May 2008 after he was injured in training. He was replaced by Khalid Boulahrouz.[32]
Head coach: Victor Piţurcă
[edit] Group D
Head coach: 
Otto Rehhagel
Head coach: Guus Hiddink
- Pavel Pogrebnyak failed to recover from injury and was replaced by Oleg Ivanov on 7 June.[38]
Head coach: Luis Aragonés
Head coach: Lars Lagerbäck
[edit] Player representation
- by club
| Players |
Clubs |
| 11 |
Lyon |
| 9 |
Bayern Munich, Galatasaray |
| 8 |
Barcelona, Chelsea, Panathinaikos, Real Madrid |
| 7 |
Arsenal, Red Bull Salzburg, Werder Bremen |
| 6 |
Hamburg, Porto, Steaua Bucureşti |
| 5 |
CSKA Moscow, Fenerbahçe, Juventus, Liverpool, Lokomotiv Moscow, Milan, Nuremberg, Olympiacos, Rapid Wien, Spartak Moscow, Stuttgart, Valencia, Zenit St. Petersburg |
- By club nationality
| Players |
Clubs |
| 55 |
Germany |
| 45 |
England |
| 40 |
Spain |
| 35 |
Italy |
| 30 |
Russia |
| 26 |
France |
| 20 |
Greece |
| 18 |
Austria |
| 17 |
Turkey |
| 14 |
Portugal, Romania |
| 10 |
Netherlands, Poland |
| 7 |
Switzerland |
| 6 |
Sweden |
| 4 |
Belgium |
| 3 |
Croatia, Denmark, Scotland, Ukraine |
| 2 |
Czech Republic, Norway |
| 1 |
Bulgaria |
Nations in italics are not represented by their national teams in the finals
- by representatives of domestic league
| National Squad |
No. of players playing in home leagues |
| Austria |
15 |
| Croatia |
3 |
| Czech Republic |
2 |
| France |
10 |
| Germany |
19 |
| Greece |
14 |
| Italy |
18 |
| Netherlands |
9 |
| Poland |
10 |
| Portugal |
12 |
| Romania |
12 |
| Russia |
22 |
| Spain |
18 |
| Sweden |
6 |
| Switzerland |
6 |
| Turkey |
16 |
[edit] Notes and references
- General
- Specific
- ^ Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship 2006/08 (PDF) p.19. UEFA. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ Milan Baroš was on loan at Portsmouth.
- ^ Tomáš Sivok was on loan at Sparta Prague and will join Beşiktaş after the tournament.
- ^ Rudolf Skácel was on loan at Hertha BSC.
- ^ Tomáš Ujfaluši will join Atlético Madrid after the tournament.
- ^ David Rozehnal was on loan at Lazio.
- ^ "Crushing Blow for Portugal's Quim", euro2008.uefa.com, 2008-06-07. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
- ^ José Bosingwa will join Chelsea after the tournament.
- ^ Jorge Ribeiro will join Benfica after the tournament.
- ^ Hélder Postiga was on loan at Panathinaikos and will join Sporting CP after the tournament.
- ^ Eldin Jakupović was loaned at Grasshoppers.
- ^ Philipp Degen will join Liverpool after the tournament.
- ^ Emre Aşık was on loan at Ankaraspor.
- ^ Andreas Ivanschitz was on loan at Panathinaikos.
- ^ Ümit Korkmaz will join Eintracht Frankfurt after the tournament.
- ^ Ronald Gërçaliu was on loan at Austria Wien.
- ^ Sebastian Prödl will join Werder Bremen after the tournament.
- ^ Martin Hiden was on loan at Austria Kärnten.
- ^ Ramazan Özcan was on loan at 1899 Hoffenheim and will join them permanently after the tournament.
- ^ Ognjen Vukojević will join Dynamo Kyiv after the tournament.
- ^ Luka Modrić will join Tottenham Hotspur after the tournament.
- ^ Jens Lehmann will join Stuttgart after the tournament.
- ^ Tim Borowski will join Bayern Munich after the tournament.
- ^ "Błaszczykowski ruled out of EURO", euro2008.uefa.com, 2008-06-05. Retrieved on 2008-06-05.
- ^ "Injury rules out Poland's Kuszczak", euro2008.uefa.com, 2008-06-06. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
- ^ "Italy rocked by Cannavaro injury", BBC Sport, 2008-06-02. Retrieved on 2008-06-02.
- ^ Andrea Barzagli will join Wolfsburg after the tournament.
- ^ Marco Borriello was co-owned by Milan and will join them permanently after the tournament.
- ^ Marco Amelia will join Palermo after the tournament.
- ^ Antonio Cassano was on loan at Sampdoria and will join them permanently after the tournament.
- ^ Gianluca Zambrotta will join AC Milan after the tournament.
- ^ "Injury rules Babel out of Euros", BBC Sport, 2008-05-31. Retrieved on 2008-05-31.
- ^ John Heitinga will join Atlético Madrid after the tournament.
- ^ Khalid Boulahrouz was on loan at Sevilla.
- ^ Ştefan Radu was on loan at Lazio.
- ^ Georgios Samaras was on loan at Celtic.
- ^ Konstantinos Chalkias will join PAOK after the tournament.
- ^ "Russian abandon hope for Pogrebnyak", euro2008.uefa.com, 2008-06-07. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
- ^ Rubén de la Red will join Real Madrid after the tournament.
- ^ Olof Mellberg will join Juventus after the tournament.
- ^ Daniel Majstorović will join AEK Athens after the tournament.
- ^ Andreas Granqvist was on loan at Helsingborg.
- ^ Marcus Allbäck will join Örgryte after the tournament.
- ^ Christian Wilhelmsson was on loan at Deportivo.
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