Only players born on or after 1 January 1986 were eligible to play. Players in bold have made their senior international debuts prior to the competition or afterwards.
Group A
Belarus
Head coach: Yuri Kurnenin
Italy
Head coach: Pierluigi Casiraghi
Serbia
Head coach: Slobodan Krčmarević
Sweden
Head coach: Tommy Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson[12]
Group B
England
Head coach: Stuart Pearce
Note: All information accurate at start of tournament, on 15 June 2009.
Finland
Head coach: Markku Kanerva
Germany
Head coach: Horst Hrubesch
Spain
Head coach: Juan Ramón López Caro
Footnotes
- ^ Marco Motta spent the run-up of the tournament on loan to Roma, he joined Roma after the tournament.
- ^ Marco Andreolli has spent the run-up of the tournament on loan to Sassuolo
- ^ Domenico Criscito has spent the run-up of the tournament on loan to Genoa
- ^ Ignazio Abate will join Milan after the tournament.
- ^ Robert Acquafresca has spent the run-up of the tournament on loan to Cagliari
- ^ Salvatore Sirigu has spent the run-up of the tournament on loan to Ancona
- ^ Andrea Ranocchia has spent the run-up of the tournament on loan to Bari
- ^ Antonio Candreva has spent the run-up of the tournament on loan to Livorno
- ^ Andrea Poli has spent the run-up of the tournament on loan to Sassuolo
- ^ Alessio Cerci has spent the run-up of the tournament on loan to Atalanta
- ^ Nikola Gulan has spent the run-up of the tournament on loan to 1860 Munich
- ^ http://www.svenskfotboll.se/t2.aspx?p=152141&x=1&a=1170430[permanent dead link]
- ^ Capped for Seychelles.
- ^ Boenisch opted to play for Poland as he was born in Poland.
- ^ Dejagah opted to play for Iran, his country of birth, despite being a naturalized German national.
- ^ Johnson opted to play for the United States as both his parents were United States citizens.
- ^ Ben-Hatira opted to play for Tunisia.
