List of foreign Serie A players


This is a list of foreign players in Serie A. The following players:
  1. Have played at least one Serie A game for the respective club.
  2. Have not been capped for the Italy national team on any level, independently from the birthplace, except for players born in San Marino and active in the Italy national team before the first official match of the San Marino national football team played on 14 November 1990 and players of Italian formation born abroad from Italian parents.
  3. Have been born in Italy and were capped by a foreign national team, even after their Serie A spell. This includes players who have dual citizenship with Italy.
Players are sorted by the State, according to the FIFA eligibility rules:
  1. They played for in a national team on any level. For footballers that played for two or more national teams it prevails:
  2. #The one he played for on A level.
  3. #The national team of birth.
  4. 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.
These are all the teams that have had at least one foreign player while playing in a Serie A season. Teams in bold are the ones currently playing in the 2025–26 Serie A season:
[US US Alessandria Calcio 1912|Alessandria Calcio 1912|Alessandria], Ancona, Ascoli, Atalanta, [U.S. U.S. Avellino 1912|Avellino 1912|Avellino], Bari, Benevento, Bologna, Brescia, Cagliari, Carpi, Catania, Catanzaro, Cesena, Chievo, Como, Cremonese, Crotone, Empoli, Fiorentina, [Calcio Calcio Foggia 1920|Foggia 1920|Foggia], Frosinone, Genoa, Hellas Verona, Internazionale, Juventus, Lazio, Lecce, [Calcio Calcio Lecco 1912|Lecco 1912|Lecco], Legnano, [US US Livorno 1915|Livorno 1915|Livorno], Lucchese, Mantova, Messina, Milan, Modena, Monza, Napoli, Novara, Padova, Palermo, Parma, [AC AC Perugia Calcio|Perugia Calcio|Perugia], Pescara, Piacenza, Pisa, Pistoiese, [Aurora Aurora Pro Patria 1919|Pro Patria 1919|Pro Patria], [A.C. A.C. Reggiana 1919|Reggiana 1919|Reggiana], Reggina, Roma, [U.S. U.S. Salernitana 1919|Salernitana 1919|Salernitana], Sampdoria, [U.S. U.S. Sassuolo Calcio|Sassuolo Calcio|Sassuolo], [A.C.N. A.C.N. Siena 1904|Siena 1904|Siena], SPAL, Spezia, Torino, Treviso, [US US Triestina Calcio 1918|Triestina Calcio 1918|Triestina], Udinese, [S.S.D. S.S.D. Varese Calcio|Varese Calcio|Varese], Venezia, Vicenza.
These are the only teams that have participated in Serie A but have not had at least one foreign player:
Casale, Pro Vercelli, Ternana.
In bold: Players still active in Serie A and their respective teams in the current season.

Oriundi and Naturalised players

Africa (CAF)

Algeria

Angola

Burkina Faso

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Congo

DR Congo

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Ivory Coast

Kenya

Liberia

Libya

Madagascar

Mali

Mauritania

Morocco

Zakaria AboukhlalTorino – 2025–

Nigeria

Réunion

  • Samuel Souprayen – Verona – 2015–16, 2017–18 ''dual French international''

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Africa

Togo

Tunisia

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Asia (AFC)

Australia

Indonesia

  • Emil Audero – Juventus, Sampdoria, Inter, Como, Cremonese – 2016–17, 2018–
  • Kevin Diks – Fiorentina – 2016–17
  • Jay Idzes – Venezia, Sassuolo – 2024–

Iran

Iraq

Japan

North Korea

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

South Korea

Uzbekistan

Europe (UEFA)

Albania

Armenia

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

England

Estonia

Finland

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Israel

Kazakhstan

Kosovo

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Moldova

Monaco

Montenegro

Netherlands

North Macedonia

Northern Ireland

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Republic of Ireland

Romania

Russia

San Marino

Scotland

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Switzerland

Turkey

Ukraine

Wales

North, Central America and Caribbean (CONCACAF)

Canada

Costa Rica

Dominican Republic

El Salvador

Guadeloupe

Honduras

Jamaica

Martinique

Mexico

Panama

Saint Martin

Suriname

United States

Oceania (OFC)

New Zealand

South America (CONMEBOL)

Bolivia

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

Paraguay

Peru

Venezuela