List of foreign Ligue 1 players: F

This is a list of foreign players in the Ligue 1, which commenced play in 1932. The following players must meet both of the following two criteria:

Have played at least one Ligue 1 game. Players who were signed by Ligue 1 clubs, but only played in lower league, cup and/or European games, or did not play in any competitive games at all, are not included.
Are considered foreign, i.e., outside France and its dependencies (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion Island or French Polynesia), determined by the following:

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

More specifically,

If a player has been capped on 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 French players with dual citizenship. Players who played for France but came as foreign players (such as Miguel Ángel Lauri) are also listed.
If a player has not been capped on international level, his country of birth is used, except those who were born abroad from French parents or moved to France at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched his nationality to another nation.

Clubs listed are those that the player has played at least one Ligue 1 game for.

Seasons listed are those that the player has played at least one Ligue 1 game in. Note that seasons, not calendar years, are used. For example, "1992-95" indicates that the player has played in every season from 1992–93 to 1994–95, but not necessarily every calendar year from 1992 to 1995.

In bold: players still active in Ligue 1 and their respective teams in current season.

Finland[edit]

Nils Rikberg – Toulouse FC (1937) – 1953–57
Aulis Rytkönen – Toulouse FC (1937) – 1953–60
Naatan Skyttä – Toulouse – 2022–
Timo Stavitski – Caen – 2017–19
Teemu Tainio – Auxerre – 1997–2005
Jere Uronen – Brest – 2021–23

French Guiana[edit]

Note: As it is an overseas department and region of the French Republic, French Guianan players listed here must meet the next conditions:

They have played with the French Guiana national team, which belongs to CONCACAF but not to FIFA.
They are not cap-tied to France or any other FIFA member association.

Josué Albert – Clermont – 2021–22^{[b FRA]}
Ludovic Baal – Le Mans, Lens, Rennes, Brest – 2007–10, 2014–21^{[b FRA]}
Jean-Claude Darcheville – 1995–98, 2001–07, 2008–09^{[c FRA U21]}
Donovan Léon – AJ Auxerre, Brest – 2011–12, 2019–20
Kévin Rimane – Paris SG – 2015–16
Yoann Salmier – RC Strasbourg, Troyes, Le Havre – 2017–18, 2021–^{[b FRA]}

French players born abroad[edit]

Thus list includes the French players born outside France who represents (or at least they are eligible) France internationally: this means naturalized players and not, and players born in the Overseas department of France.

Born in the French Guiana[edit]

Raoul Diagne – RC Paris, Toulouse FC (1937) – 1930–44
Odsonne Édouard – Toulouse FC – 2016–17
Marc-Antoine Fortuné – Lille, Nancy – 2002–04, 2006–09
Mike Maignan – Lille – 2015–21
Florent Malouda – Châteauroux, Guingamp, Lyon, Metz – 1997–98, 2000–07, 2014–15
Jean-Clair Todibo – Toulouse, Nice – 2018–19, 2020–

Born in the French Polynesia[edit]

Pascal Vahirua – Auxerre, Caen – 1984–95, 1996–97

Born in Guadeloupe[edit]

Taïryk Arconte – Brest – 2022–
Pegguy Arphexad – Lens, Lille – 1995–97
Jeanuël Belocian – Rennes – 2021–
Jean-Michel Capoue – Cannes – 1991–92, 1993–98
Dimitri Cavaré – Lens, Rennes – 2014–15, 2016–17
Jean-Pierre Cyprien – Le Havre, Saint-Étienne, Rennes, Marseille – 1987–88, 1990–94, 1995–96, 1999–2000
Wylan Cyprien – Lens, Nice, Nantes – 2014–15, 2016–20, 2021–22
Bernard Lambourde – Cannes, Bordeaux, Bastia – 1991–92, 1993–94, 1995–97, 2001–02
Thomas Lemar – Caen, Monaco – 2014–18
Yvann Maçon – Saint-Étienne – 2019–22
Vincent Marcel – Nice – 2016–18
Jordan Tell – Caen, Rennes, Clermont – 2016–18, 2021–22
Lilian Thuram – Monaco – 1990–96
Marius Trésor – Ajaccio, Marseille, Bordeaux – 1969–84

Born in Martinique[edit]

Yannis Clementia – Nice – 2019–21

Born in Mayotte[edit]

Warmed Omari – Rennes – 2021–

Born in the New Caledonia[edit]

Christian Karembeu – Nantes, Bastia – 1990–95, 2004–05
Antoine Kombouaré – Nantes, Paris SG – 1983–95
Jacques Zimako – Bastia, Saint-Étienne, Sochaux – 1972–85

Born in Réunion[edit]

Aboubacar Ali Abdallah – Strasbourg – 2023–
Didier Agathe – Montpellier – 1998–99
Ludovic Ajorque – Strasbourg – 2018–23
Zacharie Boucher – Toulouse FC, Angers – 2013–15, 2018–19
Guillaume Hoarau – Paris Saint-Germain, Bordeaux – 2008–14
Dimitri Payet – Nantes, Saint-Étienne, Lille, Marseille – 2005–15, 2016–23
Bertrand Robert – Montpellier, Lorient – 2001–04, 2007–09
Laurent Robert – Montpellier, Paris SG – 1994–2002
Ronny Rodelin – Nantes, Lille, Caen, Guingamp – 2008–09, 2011–19
Florent Sinama Pongolle – Le Havre, Saint-Étienne – 2002–03, 2011–12
Samuel Souprayen – Rennes, Dijon – 2010–12

Born outside the DOM[edit]

Samassi Abou – Lyon, Cannes – 1992–98
Seth Adonkor – Nantes – 1981–85
Kodjo Afanou – Bordeaux – 1995–2006
Lucien Agoumé – Brest, Troyes – 2021–23
Zana Allée – Rennes – 2013–14
Bernard Allou – Paris SG – 1994–98
Ibrahim Amadou – Nancy, Lille – 2012–13, 2015–18
Valentin Atangana – Reims – 2022–
Ibrahim Ba – Le Havre, Bordeaux, Marseille – 1992–97, 2001–02
Ivan Bek – Saint-Étienne – 1935–39
Larbi Benbarek – Marseille, Stade Français – 1938–39, 1946–48, 1953–55
Basile Boli – Auxerre, Marseille, Monaco – 1983–94, 1995–96
Charles Boli – Lens – 2021–22
Roger Boli – Auxerre, Lille, Lens, Le Havre – 1984–89, 1991–97
Jean-Alain Boumsong – Le Havre, Auxerre, Lyon – 1997–2004, 2007–10
Eduardo Camavinga – Rennes – 2018–22
Grégory Noel Campi – Lille – 2002–03
Bruno Carotti – Montpellier , Nantes, Paris SG, Saint-Étienne, Toulouse FC – 1991–2004
René Charrier – Marseille, Paris FC – 1974–80
Néstor Combin – Lyon, Metz – 1959–64, 1970–73
Karim Coulibaly – Nancy – 2012–13, 2016–17
Carlos Curbelo – Nancy, Nice – 1972–88
Mouhamadou Dabo – Caen – 2004–10, 2011–17
Julien Darui – Lille, Montpellier – 1937–40, 1942–43, 1944–45, 1953–54
Marcel Desailly – Nantes, Marseille – 1987–94
Oumar Dieng – Lille, Paris SG, Auxerre, Sedan – 1989–90, 1992–96, 1998–2000
Martin Djetou – Strasbourg, Monaco, Nice – 1992–2001, 2004–05
Manuel dos Santos – Monaco, Montpellier, Marseille, Strasbourg – 1994–2004, 2005–08
Fabrice Ehret – Strasbourg, Evian – 1998–2001, 2002–04, 2011–14
Patrice Evra – Monaco, Marseille – 2002–06, 2016–17
Joachim Fernandez – Bordeaux, Caen, Toulouse FC – 1995–97, 1998–99
Luis Fernández – Paris SG, RC Paris, Cannes – 1980–93
Angelo Fulgini – Angers – 2017–22
Djeidi Gassama – Paris SG – 2021–22
Yann Gboho – Rennes – 2020–22
Dario Grava – Strasbourg, Nice – 1968–77
Patrick Guillou – Saint-Étienne, Sochaux – 1999–2000, 2001–02
Olivier Kapo – Auxerre, Monaco, US Boulogne – 1998–2004, 2005–06, 2009–10, 2011–12
Yann Karamoh – Caen, Bordeaux – 2016–17, 2018–19
Jirès Kembo Ekoko – Rennes – 2006–13
Ferenc Kocsur – Nice, Saint-Étienne – 1949–61
Alban Lafont – Toulouse FC, Nantes – 2015–18, 2019–
Peguy Luyindula – Strasbourg, Lyon, Marseille, Auxerre, Paris SG – 1998–2013
Claude Makélélé – Nantes, Marseille, Paris SG – 1991–98, 2008–11
Steed Malbranque – Lyon, Saint-Étienne, Caen – 1997–2001, 2011–17
Steve Mandanda – Marseille, Rennes – 2007–16, 2017–
Loïc Mbe Soh – Paris SG – 2018–20
Hemza Mihoubi – Metz – 2004–06
Vincent Péricard – Saint-Étienne – 1999–2000
Julien Ponceau – Lorient – 2022–
Ángel Rambert – Lyon – 1968–70
Brice Samba – Marseille, Caen, Lens – 2013–14, 2017–19, 2022–
Amara Simba – Paris SG, Cannes, Monaco, Caen, Lille – 1986–97
Henri Skiba
Loum Tchaouna – Rennes – 2021–22
Khéphren Thuram – Nice – 2019–
Marcus Thuram – Guingamp – 2017–19
Jean Tigana – Lyon, Bordeaux, Marseille – 1978–91
Adrien Truffert – Rennes – 2020–
Joseph Ujlaki – Nice, RC Paris, Metz – 1953–65
Samuel Umtiti – Lyon, Lille – 2011–16, 2023–
Patrick Vieira – Cannes – 1993–96
Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa – Montpellier, Lyon – 2009–13, 2015–18

Notes[edit]

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Born in France
^
Capped for the France national under-21 football team

Books[edit]

Barreaud, Marc (1998). Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris. ISBN 2-7384-6608-7.
Tamás Dénes; Pál Peterdi; Zoltán Rochy; József Selmeci (1999). Kalandozó magyar labdarúgók. ISBN 963-85967-0-8.

Club pages[edit]

Others[edit]

Notes[edit]

[cnote_b_FRA] 
Born in France

[cnote_c_FRA_U21] 
Capped for the France national under-21 football team

[b FRA]

[c FRA U21]