List of foreign Canadian Premier League players

This is a list of foreign players that have played in the Canadian Premier League. The following players:

1. Have played at least one CPL regular season game. Players who were signed by CPL clubs, but only played in playoff games, Canadian Championship games, or did not play in any competitive games at all, are not included.
2. Are considered foreign, i.e., outside Canada determined by the following:

A player is considered foreign if he is not eligible to play for the national team of Canada.

More specifically,

• If a player has been capped at international level, the national team is used; if he has been capped by more than one country, the highest level (or the most recent) team is used. These include Canadian players with dual citizenship.
• If a player has not been capped at international level, his country of birth is used, except those who were born abroad from Canadian parents, or moved to Canada at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched his nationality to another nation.

In bold: players who have played at least one CPL game in the last fully completed season (the 2019 Canadian Premier League season), and are still at the clubs for which they have played. This does not include current players of a CPL club who have not played a CPL game in the current season.

Current

This is a list of players currently occupying one of the seven spots designated for foreign players. Canadian Premier League teams may sign a maximum of seven international players, out of which only five can be in the starting lineup for each match. The following players are considered foreign players for the 2020 season. This list does not include Canadian citizens who represent other countries at international level.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7
Atlético Ottawa	Vashon Neufville	Tevin Shaw	Francisco Acuña	Bernardinho	Nacho Zabal	Victor Martínez
Cavalry	Jordan Brown	José Escalante	Nathan Mavila	Oliver	Jair Córdova	Richard Luca
FC Edmonton	Jeannot Esua	Kareem Moses	Ramón Soria	Son Yong-chan	Erik Zetterberg	Raúl Tito
Forge	Alexander Achinioti-Jönsson	Elimane Cissé	Daniel Krutzen	Paolo Sabak
HFX Wanderers	Akeem Garcia	Andre Rampersad	Peter Schaale	Alex Marshall	João Morelli	Eriks Santos	Cory Bent
Pacific	Alejandro Díaz
Valour	José Galán	Solomon Kojo Antwi	Andrew Jean-Baptiste	Amir Soto	Moses Dyer	Arnold Bouka Moutou
York9	Wataru Murofushi	Gabriel Vasconcelos	Fugo Segawa	Nicholas Hamilton	Adrián Ugarriza	Jacó	Brian López

Players in bold denote players who have been capped at senior international level.

Africa (CAF)

Cameroon

• Bertrand Owundi – Forge FC – 2019–
• Jeannot Esua – FC Edmonton – 2019–

Congo

• Dominique Malonga – Cavalry FC – 2019–

Senegal

• Elimane Cissé – Forge FC – 2019–

Asia (AFC)

Japan

• Kodai Iida – HFX Wanderers – 2019–
• Wataru Murofushi – York9 – 2019–

South Korea

• Son Yong-chan – FC Edmonton – 2019–

Europe (UEFA)

Belgium

• Oumar Diouck – FC Edmonton – 2019–
• Mathias Janssens – Valour FC – 2019–
• Daniel Krutzen – Forge FC – 2019–

Croatia

• Josip Golubar – Valour FC – 2019–

England

• Jordan Brown – Cavalry FC – 2019–
• Stephen Hoyle – Valour FC – 2019
• Nathan Mavila – Cavalry FC – 2019–
• Adam Mitter – Valour FC – 2019–

Germany

• Julian Büscher – Cavalry FC – 2019–
• Hendrik Starostzik – Pacific FC – 2019–

Italy

• Michele Paolucci – Valour FC – 2019–

Spain

• José Galán – Valour FC – 2019–
• Ramón Soria – FC Edmonton – 2019–

Sweden

• Alexander Achinioti Jönsson – Forge FC – 2019–
• Simon Adjei – York9 – 2019–

North and Central America, Caribbean (CONCACAF)

Haiti

• James Marcelin – FC Edmonton – 2019–

Honduras

• José Escalante – Cavalry FC – 2019–

Panama

• Alexander González – Pacific FC – 2019–

Trinidad and Tobago

• Akeem Garcia – HFX Wanderers – 2019–
• Elton John – HFX Wanderers – 2019–
• Jan-Michael Williams – HFX Wanderers – 2019–
• Kareem Moses – FC Edmonton – 2019–
• Andre Rampersad – HFX Wanderers – 2019–

South America (CONMEBOL)

Brazil

• Oliver Minatel – Cavalry FC – 2019–

Chile

• Rodrigo Gattas – York9 – 2019–

Colombia

• Luis Perea – HFX Wanderers – 2019–

Peru

• Juan Gutiérrez – HFX Wanderers – 2019–

Uruguay

• Martín Arguiñarena – Valour FC – 2019–

See also

• List of foreign CSL players
• List of foreign MLS players