FIFA association changes in 2026

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This is a list of association footballers who switched their international allegiance to a different football association to the one they previously represented under FIFA eligibility rules in the year 2026.[1]

List

As of 7 April 2026[1]
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Player New association Former association Decision date Ref.
Brielle Tautua  American Samoa  Samoa 12 January 2026
Richard Ledezma  Mexico  United States 20 January 2026 [2]
Valeria Luzio  Peru  Puerto Rico 26 January 2026
Jairo Vélez  Ecuador 29 January 2026 [3]
Mathilde Janzen  Sweden  Germany 3 February 2026 [4][5]
Álvaro Fidalgo  Mexico  Spain 5 February 2026 [6]
Leandro Padilla  Honduras  Nicaragua
Maurício  Paraguay  Brazil 9 February 2026 [7][8]
Tyra Bagiante  Australia  Tonga 10 February 2026 [9]
Marcelo Flores  Canada  Mexico 11 February 2026 [10]
Somea Položen [sv]  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Sweden 13 February 2026 [11][12]
Layla Drury  England  Wales 19 February 2026 [13]
Christopher Atherton  Republic of Ireland  Northern Ireland 24 February 2026 [14]
Amara Condé  Guinea  Germany 26 February 2026
Lakeesha Eijken [nl]  Suriname  Netherlands 2 March 2026 [15]
Andrei Coubiș  Romania  Italy 4 March 2026 [16]
Rani Khedira  Tunisia  Germany [17][18]
Ayaz Guliyev  Russia  Azerbaijan 5 March 2026 [19][20]
Lamine Diaby-Fadiga  Guinea  France 6 March 2026 [21]
Bujar Pllana  Albania  Kosovo 9 March 2026 [22][23]
Paul Wanner  Austria  Germany [24][25]
Carney Chukwuemeka  England [26][27]
Jordan Semedo  Cape Verde  France 10 March 2026 [28][29]
Fábio Duarte  Portugal
Dominik Šimić  Croatia  Switzerland 11 March 2026
Tanya Boychuk  Ukraine  Canada [30]
Chardonnay Curran  Philippines  United States
Ryan Fosso  Cameroon  Switzerland [31][32]
Emily Cassap  Northern Ireland  England [33]
Ibrahim Cissoko  Guinea  Netherlands [34]
Sami Bouhoudane  Morocco 13 March 2026 [35][36]
Adrian Segečić  Croatia  Australia [37][38]
Harvey Vale  Republic of Ireland  England [39][40]
Brenda Meier  Peru  Switzerland
Dino Delić [de; fa]  Austria  Bosnia and Herzegovina [41]
Jennifer Muñoz  United States  Guatemala 16 March 2026
Oualid Agougil  Morocco  Netherlands [35][42]
Ayoub Ouarghi [35][43]
Joël Piroe  Suriname 17 March 2026 [44][45]
Ilija Maslarov  North Macedonia  Switzerland 18 March 2026
Benjamin Khaderi  Morocco  Netherlands [35][46]
Melayro Bogarde  Suriname [45]
Lucy Day  Wales  England 23 March 2026
Indy Botosso Kolster  Brazil  Denmark 24 March 2026
Lyndon Turrell  Thailand  Gibraltar 25 March 2026
Rayane Bounida  Morocco  Belgium [46][47]
Dylan Scicluna  Australia  Malta [48][49]
Saif Lazar [nl]  Morocco  Belgium [46][50]
Ayres Ava  American Samoa  Samoa
Luis Hasa  Albania  Italy 26 March 2026 [51][52]
Issa Diop  Morocco  France [47][53]
Elye Wahi  Ivory Coast 28 March 2026 [54][55]
Milica Denda  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Serbia 2 April 2026 [56][57]
Arthur Okonkwo  Nigeria  England 6 April 2026 [58][59]
Julliana Lisbeth  Peru  Dominican Republic 7 April 2026
Vildan Kardeşler  Turkey  Germany [60]
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Summary

As of 7 April 2026[1]
More information Country, Confed. ...
Country Confed. Changes
G L N
 Albania UEFA 2 0 +2
 American Samoa OFC 2 0 +2
 Australia AFC 2 1 +1
 Austria UEFA 3 0 +3
 Azerbaijan UEFA 0 1 –1
 Belgium UEFA 0 2 –2
 Bosnia and Herzegovina UEFA 2 1 +1
 Brazil CONMEBOL 1 1 ±0
 Cameroon CAF 1 0 +1
 Canada CONCACAF 1 1 ±0
 Cape Verde CAF 2 0 +2
 Croatia UEFA 2 0 +2
 Denmark UEFA 0 1 –1
 Dominican Republic CONCACAF 0 1 –1
 Ecuador CONCACAF 0 1 –1
 England UEFA 1 5 –4
 France UEFA 0 4 –4
 Germany UEFA 0 5 –5
 Gibraltar UEFA 0 1 –1
 Guatemala CONCACAF 0 1 –1
 Guinea CAF 3 0 +3
 Honduras CONCACAF 1 0 +1
 Italy UEFA 0 2 –2
 Ivory Coast CAF 1 0 +1
 Kosovo UEFA 0 1 –1
 Malta UEFA 0 1 –1
 Mexico CONCACAF 2 1 +1
 Morocco CAF 7 0 +7
 Netherlands UEFA 0 8 –8
 Nicaragua CONCACAF 0 1 –1
 Nigeria CAF 1 0 +1
 Northern Ireland UEFA 1 1 ±0
 North Macedonia UEFA 1 0 +1
 Paraguay CONMEBOL 1 0 +1
 Peru CONMEBOL 4 0 +4
 Philippines AFC 1 0 +1
 Portugal UEFA 0 1 –1
 Puerto Rico CONCACAF 0 1 –1
 Republic of Ireland UEFA 2 0 +2
 Romania UEFA 1 0 +1
 Russia UEFA 1 0 +1
 Samoa OFC 0 2 –2
 Serbia UEFA 0 1 –1
 Spain UEFA 0 1 –1
 Suriname CONCACAF 3 0 +3
 Sweden UEFA 1 1 ±0
 Switzerland UEFA 0 4 –4
 Thailand AFC 1 0 +1
 Tonga OFC 0 1 –1
 Tunisia CAF 1 0 +1
 Turkey UEFA 1 0 +1
 Ukraine UEFA 1 0 +1
 United States CONCACAF 1 2 –1
 Wales UEFA 1 1 ±0
Total 56
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