List of foreign Serie A players

This is a list of foreign players (i.e. non-Italian players) in Serie A. The following players:

  1. Have played at least one Serie A game for the respective club (seasons in which and teams that a player did not collect any caps in Serie A for have NOT been listed).
  2. Have not been capped for the Italian national team on any level, independently from the birthplace, except for players born in San Marino and active in the Italian national team before the first official match of the Sammarinese national team played on 14 November 1990 and players of Italian formation born abroad from Italian parents (so called 'Oriundi').
  3. Have been born in Italy and were capped by a foreign national team. This includes players who have dual citizenship with Italy.

Players are sorted by the State, according the FIFA eligibility rules:

  1. They played for in a national team on any level. For footballers that played for two or more national teams it prevails:
    1. The one he played for on A level.
    2. The national team of birth.
  2. If they never played for any national team on any level, it prevails the state of birth. For footballers born in dissolved states prevails the actual state of birth (e.g.: Yugoslavia -> Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, etc.).

These are all the teams that have had at least one foreign player while playing in a Serie A season. Teams in bold are the ones currently playing in the 2021–22 Serie A season:

Alessandria, Ancona, Ascoli, Atalanta, Avellino, Bari, Benevento, Bologna, Brescia, Cagliari, Carpi, Catania, Catanzaro, Cesena, Chievo, Como, Cremonese, Crotone, Empoli, Fiorentina, Foggia, Frosinone, Genoa, Hellas Verona, Internazionale, Juventus, Lazio, Lecce, Lecco, Legnano, Livorno, Lucchese, Mantova, Messina, Milan, Modena, Napoli, Novara, Padova, Palermo, Parma, Perugia, Pescara, Piacenza, Pisa, Pistoiese, Pro Patria, Reggiana, Reggina, Roma, Salernitana, Sampdoria, Sassuolo, Siena, SPAL, Spezia, Torino, Treviso, Triestina, Udinese, Varese, Venezia, Vicenza.

These are the only teams that have participated in Serie A but have not had at least one foreign player:

Casale, Pro Vercelli, Ternana.

In bold: Players still active in Serie A and their respective teams in the current season.

Oriundi and Naturalised players

José Altafini playing for Milan

Albania

Algeria

Angola

Argentina

Armenia

Australia

Mark Bresciano, Australian player of Italian descent who played in European competitions with Parma and Palermo

Austria

Herbert Prohaska won a scudetto with Roma in 1983

Belarus

Belgium

Dries Mertens is Napoli's all-time top goalscorer.
Luís Oliveira was a very important player for Cagliari in Serie A where he scored 41 goals between 1992 and 1996,[1] and also during the European competitions he was important for the Sardinian team.[2]

Bolivia

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Edin Džeko was the 2016–17 top scorer (29 goals),[3] and Miralem Pjanić

Brazil

Bulgaria

Valeri Bojinov, the youngest foreign player to make his debut in Serie A at the age of 15 and 11 months.[4]

Burkina Faso

Cameroon

Samuel Eto'o, a protagonist of the 2010 treble by Inter, training. He also played 6 months for Sampdoria.

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chile

Arturo Vidal, an important player for Juventus between 2011 and 2015 for the rise of the club

Colombia

Congo

Costa Rica

Croatia

Mario Mandžukić, Croatian player appreciated with Juventus for his grit and determination.[5][6]

Cyprus

  • Grigoris Kastanos – Pescara, Juventus, Salernitana – 2016–17, 2018–19, 2021–

Czech Republic

Pavel Nedvěd playing for Juventus in 2007, he is one of the best players in the history of the Turin team. He won the 2003 Ballon d'Or and he has been an important player also for the Sergio Cragnotti's Lazio

Denmark

Preben Elkjær in 2011; he played a vital role in Verona's scudetto win in 1985

Dominican Republic

DR Congo

Ecuador

Egypt

Mohamed Salah playing for Fiorentina in 2015

El Salvador

England

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Finland

France

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

Oliver Bierhoff scored 112 goals in Serie A
Andreas Brehme, Jürgen Klinsmann, Lothar Matthäus have been extremely important for Inter

Ghana

Greece

Kostas Manolas playing for Roma

Guadeloupe

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland

Iran

Iraq

  • Ali Adnan – Udinese, Atalanta – 2015–19

Israel

Ivory Coast

Gervinho with Roma in 2014

Jamaica

Japan

Hidetoshi Nakata has been an important player for Roma's Scudetto in 2001

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kosovo

Liberia

George Weah with A.C. Milan, he won the Ballon d'Or in 1995. He is the only African player to win the award.[7]

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Mali

Martinique

Mauritania

Mexico

Moldova

Monaco

Montenegro

Dejan Savićević, one of the stars of the '90 A.C. Milan

Morocco

Mehdi Benatia training for Udinese

Netherlands

Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard and Marco Van Basten have been extremely important for Milan
Clarence Seedorf playing for Milan
Wesley Sneijder, a protagonist of the 2010 treble by Inter

New Zealand

Nigeria

Obafemi Martins

North Korea

North Macedonia

Goran Pandev was part of Inter's treble success in 2010.

Norway

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Poland

Portugal

Cristiano Ronaldo playing for Juventus in 2020

Republic of Ireland

Réunion

Romania

Russia

Saint Martin

San Marino

Scotland

Senegal

Alfred Gomis, the second African goalkeeper in Serie A after his brother Lys, and the first to be starter in the category.[8]

Serbia

Aleksandar Kolarov, he played for both the Capital teams
Siniša Mihajlović as Fiorentina head coach in 2010. As player he was a free kick specialist.[9][10] He is the first (alongside Andrea Pirlo) free-kick scorer in the history of the Serie A with 28 goals.[11]
Dejan Stanković with Inter. He won 5 championships with Inter and one with Lazio, and also the treble with Inter in 2010

Sierra Leone

Slovakia

Slovenia

Samir Handanović training with Inter
Srečko Katanec in 2015, he had an important role in the Sampdoria team that won the 1990–91 Scudetto.

Somalia

South Africa

South Korea

Spain

José Callejón playing for Napoli in 2014
Luis Alberto playing for Lazio in 2018
Luis Suárez, a legend of Inter, club where he played and that he trained

Suriname

Sweden

Switzerland

Valon Behrami playing for Napoli
Stephan Lichtsteiner won 7 consecutives leagues with Juventus between 2011 and 2018

Togo

Tunisia

Turkey

Ukraine

Andriy Shevchenko won the Ballon d'Or while at Milan in 2004

United States

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Venezuela

Wales

John Charles

See also

Notes

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    Capped for the Netherlands national under-15 football team
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