The following squads were named for the 1952 Summer Olympics tournament.
[1] 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:[1] 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:[1] 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:[1] Head coach: Luis Tirado Head coach: Axel Bjerregaard 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:[1] Head coach: Aatos Lehtonen Head coach: Head coach: Sepp Herberger Head coach: Walter Winterbottom Head coach: Antonis Migiakis Head coach: Gusztáv Sebes 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:[1] Head coach: Giuseppe Meazza Head coach: Adolf Patek Head coach: Jaap van der Leck Head coach: Antoine Maduro Head coach: Frank Soo Head coach: Michał Matyas Tadeusz Glimas and Zbigniew Jaskowski were both named in Poland's squad, but did not play in any matches:[1] Head coach: Gheorghe Popescu I 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:[1] 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:[1] Head coach: John Wood Andy Keir and Marty Krumm were both named in the United States' squad, but did not play in any matches:[1] Head coach: Boris Arkadyev Head coach: Milorad Arsenijević