List of foreign Serie A players

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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 for, a player, did not collected any caps in Serie A , have NOT to be 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:

  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 a foreign player while playing in a Serie A season and in bold are the ones currently playing for the 2018–19 season :

Alessandria, Ancona, Ascoli, Atalanta, Avellino, Bari, Benevento, Bologna, Brescia, Cagliari, Carpi, Catania, Catanzaro, Cesena, Chievo, Como, Cremonese, Crotone, Empoli, Fiorentina, Foggia, Frosinone, Genoa, Inter, 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, Torino, Treviso, Triestina, Udinese, Varese, Venezia, Verona, Vicenza.

These are the only teams that have participated in Serie A but have not had a foreign player : Casale, Pro Vercelli, Ternana

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

José Altafini playing for A.C. Milan

Oriundi and Naturalised players

Albania

Algeria

Angola

Argentina

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

Australia

Austria

Belarus

Radja Nainggolan training with A.S. Roma
File:Luisayrtonoliveirabarroso.jpg
Luís Oliveira, he was a very important 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]

Belgium

Miralem Pjanić playing for A.S. Roma in 2012
Edin Džeko, he was the 2016–17 top scorer (29 goals),[3] and he had an important role for Roma in the 3–0 win against Barcellona.[4]
Valeri Bojinov, the youngest foreign player to make his debut in Serie Aat the age of 15 and 11 months.[5]

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

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

Cameroon

Cape Verde

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

Central African Republic

Chile

Colombia

Congo

Congo DR

Costa Rica

File:Zvonimir Boban - Milan 1994.JPG
Zvonimir Boban in 1994
Mario Mandžukić, Croatian player appreciated with Juventus for his grit and determination.[6][7]

Croatia

Cyprus

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 Lazio of Sergio Cragnotti

Czech Republic

Denmark

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Egypt

David Beckham playing for A.C. Milan

England

Eritrea

Estonia

Finland

Zinédine Zidane, he won the 1998 Ballon d'Or while he was playing with Juventus
File:1986-87 Serie A - SSC Napoli v Juventus FC - Michel Platini.jpg
Michel Platini with Juventus in 1987. He won for 3 consecutive times the Serie A top scorer title (1982-1985), and he also won 3 consecutive Ballon d'Or (1983-1985)
Youri Djorkaeff in 2011

France

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Lothar Matthäus in 2018
Miroslav Klose

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Guadeloupe

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Israel

Ivory Coast

Japan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kosovo

File:George Weah - Milan AC 1996-97 (cropped).jpg
George Weah with A.C. Milan, he won the Ballon d'Or in 1995. He is the only african player who won it.[8]

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Macedonia

Mali

Mexico

Moldova

Monaco

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

Montenegro

Morocco

Marco Van Basten, one of the best players in the history of A.C. Milan. He has been the Serie A top scorer twice.
Ruud Gullit, an A.C. Milan top player, in 1983
Wesley Sneijder, a protagonist of the 2010 treble by Inter

Netherlands

Nigeria

North Korea

John Arne Riise

Norway

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Zbigniew Boniek in 2015

Poland

Luís Figo

Portugal

Réunion

Romania

Russia

San Marino

Graeme Souness in 2001
Alfred Gomis, the second African goalkeeper in Serie A after his brother Lys, and the first to be starter in the category.[9]

Scotland

Senegal

Siniša Mihajlović as Fiorentina head coach in 2010. As player he was a free kick specialist.[10][11] He is the first (alongside Andrea Pirlo) free-kick scorer in the history of the Serie A with 28 goals.[12]
Dejan Stanković with Inter. He won 5 championships with Inter and one with Lazio, and also the treble with Inter in 2010

Serbia

Sierra Leone

Slovakia

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

Slovenia

Somalia

South Africa

South Korea

Luis Suárez, a legend of Inter, club where he played and that he trained

Spain

Gunnar Nordahl with A.C. Milan. He is the foreign player who scored more goals in Serie A (225) and the 3rd best scorer in the history of the league.[13][14]
Nils Liedholm in 1959. He played and coached A.C. Milan
Zlatan Ibrahimović playing for A.C. Milan. He has been the Serie A top scorer twice, once for Inter (2008–09) and the other for Milan (2011–12), and he also played for Juventus. He won the Serie A 6 times of 7 (4 officially), and he scored 122 goals in the league

Sweden

Stephan Lichtsteiner won 7 consecutives leagues with Juventus between 2011 and 2018

Switzerland

Togo

Tunisia

Turkey

Andriy Shevchenko playing with A.C. Milan in 2004

Ukraine

United States

Edinson Cavani, he has been the 2012–13 Serie A top scorer
Paolo Montero, one of the best defenders of his time and a very tough player with a huge personality.[15]
Álvaro Recoba

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Venezuela

Wales

See also

Notes

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    Born in Senegal
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    Born in Serbia (then FR Yugoslavia)
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    Born in Sierra Leone
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