Participating players World Othello Championships 2008
| Colour codes: | ||||
| Seeded players | WOC debutants | Female players | Female debutants | Other players |
| COUNTRY | TEAM | FEMALE PLAYER | ||
| AUSTRALIA | Geoff Hubbard | - | - | - |
| BELGIUM | Tom Schotte | Akke-lien de Boer | - | - |
| DENMARK | Henrik Vallund | Karsten Feldborg | Jens Aagaard-Hansen | Pia Støvring |
| FINLAND | Patrik Hirvonen | Fredrik Lönnqvist | - | - |
| FRANCE | Takuji Kashiwabara | Sébastien Barre | Pierre Butin | Monique Lecat |
| GERMANY | Matthias Berg | Stefan Murawski | Jörg Gärtner | Liya Ye |
| GREAT BRITAIN | David Hand | Michael Handel | Iain Barrass | Alison Turner |
| GREECE | Christina Mitsi | - | - | - |
| ICELAND | Thór Örvar Gudmundsson | - | - | - |
| ISRAEL | Ilya Shifman | Pavel Radzivilovsky | - | - |
| ITALY | Michele Borassi | Roberto Sperandio | Donato Barnaba | - |
| JAPAN | Tamaki Miyaoka | Takamune Iijima | Masaki Takizawa | Yukiko Tatsumi |
| MADAGASCAR | Bintsa Andriani | - | - | - |
| The NETHERLANDS | Nicky van den Biggelaar | Jan de Graaf | Patrick Aubroeck | Linda Praseptyo |
| NORWAY | Jan Kristian Haugland | Martin Ødegård | Jonas Kjellstadli | Rita Sawala |
| POLAND | Dominik Nowak | Miłosz Cupiał | Roman Kraczyk | - |
| RUSSIA | Alexander Samchenko | - | - | - |
| SINGAPORE | Makoto Suekuni | Linsue Panajarn | - | - |
| SPAIN | Markus Schoretits | - | - | - |
| SWEDEN | Daniel Ljungqvist | Henry Aspenryd | Martin Eng | Veronica Stenberg |
| THAILAND | Anon Hongthong | Piumrat Kraikokit | Piyanat Aunchalee | Nida Pattarakul |
| USA | Randy Fang | Bill Hahn | Vlad Petric | Sharon Katzman |
| Total number of players: 60 | ||||
| RESERVE PLAYER (if odd number of players) |
Vidar Albrigtsen (Norway) | |||