List of foreign Premier League players

This is a list of foreign players in the Premier League, which commenced play in 1992. The following players must meet both of the following two criteria:

  1. Have played at least one Premier League game. Players who were signed by Premier League clubs, but only played in a lower league, cup, and/or European games, or did not play in any competitive games at all, are not included.
  2. Are considered foreign, i.e., outside the United Kingdom determined by the following:
A player is considered foreign if his allegiance is not to play for the national teams of England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

More specifically,

  • If a player has been capped at an 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 British players with dual citizenship.
  • If a player has not been capped at the international level, his country of birth is used, except for those who were born abroad from British parents or moved to the United Kingdom at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched his nationality to another nation.

Clubs listed are those for which the player has played at least one Premier League game – and seasons are those in which the player has played at least one Premier League game. 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. Therefore, a player should always have a listing under at least two years – for instance, a player making his debut in 2011, during the 2011–12 season, will have '2011–12' after his name. This follows the general practice in expressing sporting seasons in the UK.

122 of the 211 foreign FIFA-affiliated nations have been represented in the Premier League. On 5 September 2025, Haiti became the most recent country to be represented, when Jean‐Ricner Bellegarde switched and played for Haiti national football team.

In bold: players who have played at least one Premier League game in the current season (2025–26), and are still at a club for which they have played. This does not include current players of a Premier League club who have not played a Premier League game in the current season.

For each country, the leading appearance-maker is indicated by the number of matches that he played in the Premier League.[1]

Details correct as of 22 February 2026.

Africa (CAF)

Algeria

Angola

Benin

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Congo

DR Congo

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Ivory Coast

Kenya

Liberia

Mali

Mauritania

Morocco

Mozambique

Nigeria

Senegal

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

South Africa

Tanzania

Togo

Tunisia

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Asia (AFC)

Australia

Bangladesh

China PR

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Japan

Korea Republic

Oman

Pakistan

Philippines

Uzbekistan

Europe (UEFA)

Albania

Armenia

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Faroe Islands

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Gibraltar

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Israel

Italy

Kosovo

Latvia

Lithuania

Malta

Montenegro

Netherlands

North Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Republic of Ireland

Romania

Russia

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

Ukraine

North, Central America and Caribbean (CONCACAF)

Antigua and Barbuda

Barbados

Bermuda

Canada

Costa Rica

Cuba

Curaçao

Dominican Republic

Grenada

Guatemala

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Jamaica

Mexico

Montserrat

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Suriname

Trinidad and Tobago

United States

Oceania (OFC)

New Zealand

South America (CONMEBOL)

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

Paraguay

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

Notes

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    Born in Algeria
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    Born in Angola
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    Born in Angola (then Portuguese Angola)
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    Born in Argentina
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    Born in Australia
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    Born in Austria
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    Born in Burundi
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    Born in Belgium
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    Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina (then part of Yugoslavia)
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    Born in Brazil
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    Born in Canada
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    Born in Cameroon
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    Born in Cape Verde
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    Born in Chad
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    Born in Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia)
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    Born in Denmark
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    Born in England
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    Born in France
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    Born in The Gambia
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    Born in West Germany (now part of Germany)
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    Born in Germany
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    Born in Ghana
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    Born in Greece
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    Born in Haiti
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    Born in Iraq
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    Born in Italy
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    Born in the Ivory Coast
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    Born in Jamaica
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    Born in Kosovo (then part of Yugoslavia)
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    Born in Liberia
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    Born in Monaco
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    Born in Morocco
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    Born in the Netherlands
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    Born in Nigeria
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    Born in North Macedonia (then Macedonia, part of Yugoslavia)
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    Born in Paraguay
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    Born in Poland
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    Born in Portugal
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    Born in Russia (then part of the Soviet Union)
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    Born in South Africa
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    Born in Scotland
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    Born in Senegal
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    Born in Slovakia
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    Born in Somalia
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    Born in Spain
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    Born in Serbia (then part of Yugoslavia)
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    Born in Switzerland
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    Born in Suriname
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    Born in Suriname (then part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
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    Born in Slovakia (then part of Czechoslovakia)
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    Born in Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia)
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    Born in Sweden
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    Born in Syria
  70. ^
    Born in Uganda
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    Born in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union)
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    Born in the United States
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    Born in Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union)
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    Capped for the Netherlands national under-15 football team
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    Capped for the Samoa national under-20 football team (then Western Samoa)
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    Kosovo Albanian. Born in Kosovo (then part of Yugoslavia)
  163. ^
    Yugoslavia while active

References

  1. ^ "Premier League Players Stats". PremierLeague.com. Premier League. Retrieved 3 September 2023.