List of overseas-born AFL players

The following is a list of Australian rules footballers to have competed in the Australian Football League (previously known as VFL) that were born in a country other than Australia (sorted by country of birth).

These players have all played one or more games in the senior competition of the VFL/AFL.

"See also List of VFL/AFL players by ethnicity."

Austria

* Alex Jesaulenko (Carlton/St Kilda)

=Brazil=

* Heritier O'Brien (Collingwood)

Chile

* Jose Romero (North Melbourne/Footscray)

=England=

* Will Thursfield (Richmond)
* Brad Moran (Kangaroos, Adelaide)
* Fergus Watts (St Kilda)
* Clive Waterhouse (Fremantle)
* Colin Alexander (Collingwood/Brisbane)
* Mark Bayliss (Collingwood)
* Lawrence Bingham (Hawthorn/St Kilda)
* Wayne Blackwell (Carlton)
* Chris Burton (Footscray/Richmond)
* Ian Dargie (St Kilda/West Coast)
* Harry Davie (Melbourne/Carlton)
* Fred Fairweather (North Melbourne)
* Andy Goodwin (Richmond/Melbourne)
* Paul Harding (Hawthorn/St Kilda/West Coast)
* Johnny Leonard (South Melbourne)
* Brian Mynott (St Kilda)
* Richard Nixon (St Kilda)
* Polly Perkins (Richmond)

Fiji

* Alipate Carlile (Port Adelaide)
* Charlie Moore (Essendon)
* David Rodan (Richmond/Port Adelaide)

=France=

* Allan La Fontaine (Melbourne)

=Germany=

* Harry Frei (Footscray)
* Bohdan Jaworskyj (Hawthorn)
* Alex Ruscuklic (Fitzroy / Carlton)
* Michael McCarthy (Hawthorn/Brisbane Bears)

Holland

* Patrick van Wegen (Hawthorn)
* Robbert Klomp

=Ireland=

* Martin Clarke (Collingwood)
* Colm Begley (Brisbane)
* Tadhg Kennelly (Sydney)
* Pierce Hanley (Brisbane)
* Jim Stynes (Melbourne)
* Paul Earley (Melbourne)
* Stuart Magee (South Melbourne/Fitzroy)
* Dermott McNichol (St Kilda)
* Brian Stynes (Melbourne)

Israel

* Moredechai Bromberg (St Kilda)
* Nick Howard (Geelong)

Italy

* Peter Bevilaqua

Lebanon

* Milham Hanna (Carlton)

=New Zealand=

* Adam Campbell (Fremantle)
* Trent Croad (Fremantle/Hawthorn)
* Peter Bennett (Hawthorn/Essendon)
* Donald Dickie (Port Adelaide)
* Warren Jones (Carlton/St Kilda)
* Daniel McAlister (Essendon)
* Marty McDonnell (Footscray)
* Tom O'Halloran (Richmond)
* Wayne Schwass (North Melbourne/Sydney)
* Joe Sellwood (Geelong)
* Barney Wood (Melbourne)

=Papua New Guinea=

* Ben Sexton (Footscray/Carlton)
* Peter Greulich (Geelong)
* Michael Clifton (Essendon)
* Mal Michael (Essendon/Brisbane Lions/Collingwood)

=Samoa=

* Aaron Edwards (West Coast/Kangaroos)

=Scotland=

* Sean Wight (Melbourne)

=South Africa=

* Jack Baggott (Richmond/Essendon)
* Damian Cupido (Brisbane Lions/Essendon)
* Ian Muller (Carlton, St Kilda)

=South Korea=

* Peter Bell (Fremantle/North Melbourne)

=Sweden=

* Kris Massie (Carlton/Adelaide)

=Switzerland=

* Henri Jenneret (South Melbourne/Melbourne)

Thailand

* Sudjai Cook (Adelaide)

=Ukraine=

* Alex Ishchenko (West Coast/Brisbane Bears/North Melbourne)

=United States of America=

* Tom Banks (Fitzroy)
* Don Pyke (West Coast)
* Sanford Wheeler (Sydney)

=Wales=

* John McCarthy (North Melbourne/Fitzroy)

Zimbabwe

* Ian Perrie (Adelaide)
* Stephen Lawrence (footballer) (Hawthorn)

References

*cite web
author= Brian Clarke
year= 2003
url= http://www.iafc.com.au/history/overseas.html
title= Overseas Born VFL/AFL players
format=
work=
publisher= International Australian Football Council
accessdate= December 14
accessyear= 2005
*cite web
author=
year=
url= http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/other_nationalities.htm
title= Other Nationalities
format=
work=
publisher= Full Points Footy
accessdate= March 1
accessyear= 2006
*cite web
author= Rod Curtis
year= 2005
url= http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/articles/2005/04/29/1114635749120.html?from=storyrhs
title= The AFL evangelist
format=
work=
publisher= The Age
accessdate= November 8
accessyear= 2006

ee also

*List of VFL/AFL players by ethnicity
*Australian rules football around the world