{{National squad
  | name      = {{subst:PAGENAME}} (this allows the view/discuss/edit links to work)
  | bg        = background colour (default = transparent)
  | fg        = foreground colour (default = inherit)
  | bordercolor = border colour (default = #aaa)
  | country   = country name used for flag template
  | flagvar   = flag variation (e.g. historical)
  | team link = link to team's article (default = "''country'' national football team")
  | title     = main title (default = "''country'' squad")
  | comp      = competition
  | comp link = link to competition page (default = ''comp'')
  | gender    = team gender (female adds women's to the football team link)
  | p1        = player 1
  | p2        = player 2
  | p3        = player 3
  | p4        = player 4
  | p5        = player 5
  | p6        = player 6
  | p7        = player 7
  | p8        = player 8
  | p9        = player 9
  | p10       = player 10
  | p11       = player 11 (''optional'')
  | p12       = player 12 (''optional'')
  | p13       = player 13 (''optional'')
  | p14       = player 14 (''optional'')
  | p15       = player 15 (''optional'')
  | p16       = player 16 (''optional'')
  | p17       = player 17 (''optional'')
  | p18       = player 18 (''optional'')
  | p19       = player 19 (''optional'')
  | p20       = player 20 (''optional'')
  | p21       = player 21 (''optional'')
  | p22       = player 22 (''optional'')
  | p23       = player 23 (''optional'')
  | coach     = coach (''optional'')
  | note      = a free-form note placed on a separate line after the rest of the content (''optional'')
}}
{{National squad
  | name      = {{subst:PAGENAME}}
  | bg        = 
  | fg        = 
  | bordercolor = 
  | country   = 
  | flagvar   = 
  | team link = 
  | title     = 
  | comp      = 
  | comp link = 
  | gender    = 
  | p1        = 
  | p2        = 
  | p3        = 
  | p4        = 
  | p5        = 
  | p6        = 
  | p7        = 
  | p8        = 
  | p9        = 
  | p10       = 
  | p11       = 
  | p12       = 
  | p13       = 
  | p14       = 
  | p15       = 
  | p16       = 
  | p17       = 
  | p18       = 
  | p19       = 
  | p20       = 
  | p21       = 
  | p22       = 
  | p23       = 
  | coach     = 
  | note      = 
}}

If one wishes to use a hand-crafted list of players instead of the one built into this template, for example to provide different jersey numbers, use the parameter "list" instead. This overrides all of the player parameters and the coach parameter. One may use the templates {{football squad2 player}} and {{cricket squad2 coach}} to format this list.

{{National squad
  | name      = {{subst:PAGENAME}} (this allows the view/discuss/edit links to work)
  | bg        = background colour (default = transparent)
  | fg        = foreground colour (default = inherit)
  | country   = country name used for flag template
  | flagvar   = flag variation (e.g. historical)
  | team link = link to team's article (default = "''country'' national football team")
  | title     = main title (default = "''country'' squad")
  | comp      = competition
  | comp link = link to competition page (default = ''comp'')
  | list      = free-form list of players and coaches.
  | note      = a free-form note placed on a separate line after the rest of the content (''optional'')
}}

The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the organisation's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue article across Wikipedia, or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

If the organisation has an "established", "founded", "opened" or similar date, use {{Start date}} (unless the date is before 1583 CE)

If the organisation has a URL, use {{Url}}

If the organisation has a "coordinates" field, use {{Coord}} to include a Geo microformat, which additionally makes the coordinates (latitude & longitude) parsable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map, or downloaded to a GPS unit.

hCard uses HTML classes including:

  • adr
  • agent
  • category
  • country-name
  • extended-address
  • fn
  • geo
  • label
  • latitude
  • locality
  • longitude
  • nickname
  • note
  • org
  • region
  • street-address
  • url
  • vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes; nor collapse nested elements which use them.