Selected Cast
| Michael Caine | Captain John Colby |
| Sylvester Stallone | Captain Robert Hatch |
| Max von Sydow | Major Karl von Steiner |
| George Mikell | Kommandant |
| Anton Diffring | Radio announcer |
| Carole Laure | Renée |
| Gary Waldhorn | Mueller |
| Benoît Ferreux | Jean Paul |
| Clive Merrison | The Forger |
| Maurice Roëves | Pyrie |
| Michael Cochrane | Farrell |
| Zoltán Gera | Victor |
| Tim Pigott-Smith | Rose |
| Daniel Massey | Colonel Waldron |
| Jean-François Stévenin | Claude |
| Pelé | Corporal Luis Fernandez |
| Bobby Moore | Terry Brady |
| John Wark | Arthur Hayes |
| Osvaldo Ardiles | Carlos Rey |
| Kazimierz Deyna | Paul Wolchek |
| Søren Lindsted | Erik Ball |
| Paul Van Himst | Michel Fileu |
| Werner Roth | Baumann |
| Mike Summerbee | Sid Harmor |
| Hallvar Thoresen | Gunnar Hilsson |
| Russell Osman | Doug Clure |
| Kevin O'Callaghan | Tony Lewis |
| Co Prins | Pieter Van Beck |
| Laurie Sivell | Schmidt |
| Robin Turner | German Player |
| Kevin Beattie | Stand-in for Michael Caine |
| Paul Cooper | Stand-in for Sylvester Stallone |
Les Shannon, the ex-Burnley player, choreographed the actual game presented in the film. The movie also credits Pelé as the designer of plays. World Cup winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks coached Sylvester Stallone. Stallone's character states that he is an enlisted member of the Canadian Army, and a Maple Leaf shaped regimental badge can be seen on his beret throughout the film. The game was filmed in the Hidegkuti Nándor Stadium in Budapest, Hungary. In the film, Pelé plays a character from Trinidad and Tobago rather than his real-life native land of Brazil. While Brazil joined the Allied cause and its soldiers fought against the Germans in the Italian theatre, their operations started too late in the war (mid-1944) to for the presence of a Brazilian POW to be believable at the date of the movie's events.
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