The 2008 FIFA Club World Cup was played in Japan from 11 December to 21 December 2008. Each team involved in the competition had to submit a provisional squad of 30 players by 5 November 2008, with the list to be narrowed down to a final squad of 23 players by 27 November.^[1]

Adelaide United

Manager: Aurelio Vidmar

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  AUS Robert Cornthwaite 3 DF  BRA Alemão 4 DF  AUS Angelo Costanzo 5 DF  AUS Michael Valkanis 6 DF  BRA Cássio 8 MF  AUS Kristian Sarkies 9 FW  AUS Paul Agostino 10 FW  BRA Cristiano 11 MF  AUS Osama Malik 13 MF  AUS Travis Dodd (captain) 14 DF  AUS Scott Jamieson 15 MF  AUS Jonas Salley

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF  AUS Daniel Mullen 18 MF  AUS Fabian Barbiero 19 DF  AUS Saša Ognenovski 20 GK  AUS Eugene Galeković 21 MF  AUS Jason Spagnuolo 22 MF  BRA Diego 23 DF  AUS Michael Marrone 24 MF  AUS Paul Reid 25 FW  AUS Robert Younis 30 GK  AUS Mark Birighitti 40 GK  AUS Lucas Andreucci

Al Ahly

Manager: Manuel José

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  EGY Amir Abdelhamid 2 GK  PLE Ramzi Saleh 5 DF  EGY Ahmad El-Sayed 6 MF  EGY Ahmad Sedik 7 DF  EGY Shady Mohamed (captain) 8 MF  EGY Mohamed Barakat 10 FW  EGY Ahmed Belal 11 DF  EGY Sayed Moawad 12 MF  ANG Sebastião Gilberto 13 MF  QAT Hussain Yasser 15 FW  EGY Hany El-Agazy 17 MF  EGY Ahmed Hassan

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  EGY Osama Hosny 19 MF  EGY Hussein Ali 21 DF  EGY Ramy Adel 22 MF  EGY Mohamed Aboutrika 23 FW  ANG Flávio Amado 24 MF  EGY Ahmed Fathy 25 MF  EGY Hossam Ashour 26 DF  EGY Wael Gomaa 27 MF  EGY Moataz Eno 31 GK  EGY Ahmed Adel Abd El-Moneam 32 DF  EGY Mohamed Samir

Gamba Osaka

Manager: Akira Nishino

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  JPN Naoki Matsuyo 2 DF  JPN Sota Nakazawa 5 DF  JPN Satoshi Yamaguchi (captain) 6 DF  JPN Yohei Fukumoto 7 MF  JPN Yasuhito Endō 8 MF  JPN Shinichi Terada 9 FW  BRA Lucas 10 MF  JPN Takahiro Futagawa 11 FW  JPN Ryūji Bando 13 MF  JPN Michihiro Yasuda 14 FW  JPN Shoki Hirai 16 MF  JPN Hayato Sasaki

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  JPN Tomokazu Myojin 18 FW  BRA Rôni 19 DF  JPN Takumi Shimohira 20 MF  JPN Shu Kurata 21 DF  JPN Akira Kaji 22 GK  JPN Yosuke Fujigaya 23 MF  JPN Takuya Takei 24 FW  JPN Kenta Hoshihara 27 MF  JPN Hideo Hashimoto 29 GK  JPN Atsushi Kimura 30 FW  JPN Masato Yamazaki

LDU Quito

Manager: Edgardo Bauza

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ECU José Francisco Cevallos 2 DF  ARG Norberto Araujo 3 DF  ECU Renán Calle 4 MF  ECU Paúl Ambrosi 5 MF  ECU Alfonso Obregón 7 MF  ECU Luis Bolaños 8 FW  ECU Patricio Urrutia (captain) 9 FW  ECU Agustín Delgado 10 MF  ECU Edder Vaca 11 MF  ECU Danny Vaca 13 MF  ECU Néicer Reasco 14 MF  ECU Diego Calderón

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  ECU William Araujo 16 FW  ARG Claudio Bieler 17 FW  ECU Cristian Suárez 19 FW  CHI Reinaldo Navia 20 MF  ECU Pedro Larrea 21 MF  ARG Damián Manso 22 GK  ECU Alexander Domínguez 23 DF  ECU Jairo Campos 24 MF  ECU Gabriel Espinosa 25 GK  ECU Daniel Viteri 28 MF  ECU Israel Chango

Manchester United

Manager: Alex Ferguson

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  NED Edwin van der Sar 2 DF  ENG Gary Neville (captain) 3 DF  FRA Patrice Evra 5 DF  ENG Rio Ferdinand 7 MF  POR Cristiano Ronaldo 8 MF  BRA Anderson 9 FW  BUL Dimitar Berbatov 10 FW  ENG Wayne Rooney 11 MF  WAL Ryan Giggs (vice-captain) 13 MF  KOR Park Ji-sung 15 DF  SRB Nemanja Vidić 16 MF  ENG Michael Carrick

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  POR Nani 18 MF  ENG Paul Scholes 19 FW  ENG Danny Welbeck 21 DF  BRA Rafael 22 DF  IRL John O'Shea 23 DF  NIR Jonny Evans 24 MF  SCO Darren Fletcher 28 MF  IRL Darron Gibson 29 GK  POL Tomasz Kuszczak 32 FW  ARG Carlos Tevez 40 GK  ENG Ben Amos

Pachuca

Manager: Enrique Meza Enríquez

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  COL Miguel Calero (captain) 2 DF  MEX Leobardo López 3 DF  PAR Julio Manzur 4 DF  MEX Marco Iván Pérez 6 MF  MEX Jaime Correa 7 MF  ARG Damián Álvarez 8 MF  MEX Gabriel Caballero 9 FW  ARG Bruno Marioni 10 FW  BRA Christian 11 FW  MEX José María Cárdenas 12 MF  MEX Juan Carlos Rojas 13 FW  MEX Edwin Borboa

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF  MEX Luis Montes 16 MF  MEX Carlos Gerardo Rodríguez 18 MF  USA José Francisco Torres 19 MF  ARG Christian Giménez 21 DF  MEX Fausto Pinto 22 DF  MEX Paul Aguilar 23 GK  MEX Carlos Velázquez 24 MF  MEX Raúl Martínez 27 MF  MEX Edy Germán Brambila 29 FW  MEX Víctor Mañon 30 GK  MEX Rodolfo Cota

Waitakere United

Manager: Chris Milicich

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  NZL Richard Gillespie 2 DF  NZL Jonathan Perry 3 DF  NZL Aaron Scott 5 DF  NZL Danny Hay 6 DF  NZL Hone Fowler 7 FW  NZL Daniel Ellensohn 8 MF  WAL Paul Seaman 9 FW  SOL Benjamin Totori 10 FW  NZL Allan Pearce 11 MF  ENG Neil Sykes 12 FW  FIJ Roy Krishna 13 FW  NZL Daniel Koprivcic

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 MF  NZL Jeff Campbell 15 MF  WAL Christopher Bale 16 MF  ENG Neil Emblen 17 MF  NZL Jake Butler 19 MF  NZL Mikael Munday 20 DF  NZL Jason Rowley 21 FW  NZL Kayne Vincent 22 GK  ENG Dan Robinson 23 MF  NZL Corey Hitchen 28 GK  NZL Sean Dowling 29 MF  BRA Adriano

References

General

• "List of Players" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 5 December 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 December 2008. Retrieved 9 December 2008.

Specific