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.

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 2021 season. This list does not include Canadian citizens who represent other countries at international level.

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

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7
Atlético Ottawa	Vashon Neufville	Tevin Shaw	Viti Martínez	Miguel Acosta	Rafael Núñez	Alberto Soto
Cavalry	Daan Klomp	Tom Field	Oliver	José Escalante	Richard Luca	Joe Mason
FC Edmonton	Hunter Gorskie	Sharly Mabussi	Ramón Soria	Jeannot Esua	Son Yong-chan	Raúl Tito	Tobias Warschewski
Forge	Daniel Krutzen	Elimane Cissé	Alexander Achinioti-Jönsson	Paolo Sabak
HFX Wanderers	Peter Schaale	Eriks Santos	Andre Rampersad	Cory Bent	Akeem Garcia	Alex Marshall	João Morelli
Pacific	Alejandro Díaz	Ollie Bassett	Gianni dos Santos
Valour	Rodrigo Reyes	Amir Soto	Andrew Jean-Baptiste	Arnold Bouka Moutou	José Galán	Rafael Galhardo	Moses Dyer
York United	Gerard Lavergne	Nicholas Hamilton	Álvaro Rivero	Osvaldo Ramirez	Julian Ulbricht

All-Time

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

DR Congo

• Sharly Mabussi – FC Edmonton – 2021–

Senegal

• Elimane Cissé – Forge FC – 2019–

Asia (AFC)

Japan

• Kodai Iida – HFX Wanderers – 2019
• Wataru Murofushi – York9 – 2019–2020

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–
• Paolo Sabak – Forge FC – 2020–

Croatia

• Josip Golubar – Valour FC – 2019

England

• Cory Bent – HFX Wanderers – 2020–
• Jordan Brown – Cavalry FC – 2019–2020
• Stephen Hoyle – Valour FC – 2019
• Nathan Mavila – Cavalry FC – 2019–2020
• Adam Mitter – Valour FC – 2019
• Vashon Neufville – Atlético Ottawa – 2020–

Germany

• Julian Büscher – Cavalry FC – 2019
• Peter Schaale – HFX Wanderers – 2019–
• Hendrik Starostzik – Pacific FC – 2019
• Tobias Warschewski – FC Edmonton – 2021–

Ireland

• Tom Field – Cavalry FC – 2021–
• Joe Mason – Cavalry FC – 2021–

Italy

• Michele Paolucci – Valour FC – 2019

Netherlands

• Daan Klomp – Cavalry FC – 2021–

Spain

• Miguel Acosta – Atlético Ottawa – 2021–
• José Galán – Valour FC – 2019–2020, 2021–
• Viti Martínez – Atlético Ottawa – 2020–
• Ramón Soria – FC Edmonton – 2019–
• Alberto Soto – Atlético Ottawa – 2021–
• Ignacio Zabal – Atlético Ottawa – 2020

Sweden

• Alexander Achinioti-Jönsson – Forge FC – 2019–
• Simon Adjei – York9 – 2019
• Erik Zetterberg – FC Edmonton – 2020

North and Central America, Caribbean (CONCACAF)

Dominican Republic

• Rafael Núñez – Atlético Ottawa – 2021–

Haiti

• James Marcelin – FC Edmonton – 2019

Honduras

• José Escalante – Cavalry FC – 2019–

Jamaica

• Alex Marshall – HFX Wanderers – 2020–
• Tevin Shaw – Atlético Ottawa – 2020–

Mexico

• Francisco Acuña – Atlético Ottawa – 2020
• Alejandro Díaz – Pacific FC – 2020–

Panama

• Alexander González – Pacific FC – 2019

Trinidad and Tobago

• Akeem Garcia – HFX Wanderers – 2019–
• Elton John – HFX Wanderers – 2019
• Kareem Moses – FC Edmonton – 2019–2020
• Andre Rampersad – HFX Wanderers – 2019–
• Jan-Michael Williams – HFX Wanderers – 2019–2020

United States

• Hunter Gorskie – FC Edmonton – 2021–

South America (CONMEBOL)

Brazil

• Richard Luca – Cavalry FC – 2020–
• Oliver Minatel – Cavalry FC – 2019–
• João Morelli – HFX Wanderers – 2020–
• Eriks Santos – HFX Wanderers – 2020–

Chile

• Rodrigo Gattas – York9 – 2019

Colombia

• Luis Perea – HFX Wanderers – 2019

Peru

• Jair Córdova – Cavalry FC – 2020
• Juan Gutiérrez – HFX Wanderers – 2019
• Raúl Tito – FC Edmonton – 2020–

Uruguay

• Martín Arguiñarena – Valour FC – 2019

See also

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