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 2 June 2026[1]
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Player Former association New association Decision date Ref.
Brielle Tautua  Samoa  American Samoa 12 January 2026
Richard Ledezma  United States  Mexico 20 January 2026 [2]
Valeria Luzio  Puerto Rico  Peru 26 January 2026
Jairo Vélez  Ecuador 29 January 2026 [3]
Mathilde Janzen  Germany  Sweden 3 February 2026 [4][5]
Álvaro Fidalgo  Spain  Mexico 5 February 2026 [6]
Leandro Padilla  Nicaragua  Honduras
Maurício  Brazil  Paraguay 9 February 2026 [7][8]
Tyra Bagiante  Tonga  Australia 10 February 2026 [9]
Marcelo Flores  Mexico  Canada 11 February 2026 [10]
Somea Položen [sv]  Sweden  Bosnia and Herzegovina 13 February 2026 [11][12]
Layla Drury  Wales  England 19 February 2026 [13]
Christopher Atherton  Northern Ireland  Republic of Ireland 24 February 2026 [14]
Amara Condé  Germany  Guinea 26 February 2026
Lakeesha Eijken [nl]  Netherlands  Suriname 2 March 2026 [15]
Andrei Coubiș  Italy  Romania 4 March 2026 [16]
Rani Khedira  Germany  Tunisia [17][18]
Ayaz Guliyev  Azerbaijan  Russia 5 March 2026 [19][20]
Lamine Diaby-Fadiga  France  Guinea 6 March 2026 [21]
Bujar Pllana  Kosovo  Albania 9 March 2026 [22][23]
Paul Wanner  Germany  Austria [24][25]
Carney Chukwuemeka  England [26][27]
Jordan Semedo  France  Cape Verde 10 March 2026 [28][29]
Fábio Duarte  Portugal
Dominik Šimić  Switzerland  Croatia 11 March 2026
Tanya Boychuk  Canada  Ukraine [30]
Chardonnay Curran  United States  Philippines
Ryan Fosso  Switzerland  Cameroon [31][32]
Emily Cassap  England  Northern Ireland [33]
Ibrahim Cissoko  Netherlands  Guinea [34]
Sami Bouhoudane  Morocco 13 March 2026 [35][36]
Adrian Segečić  Australia  Croatia [37][38]
Harvey Vale  England  Republic of Ireland [39][40]
Brenda Meier  Switzerland  Peru
Dino Delić [de; fa]  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Austria [41]
Jennifer Muñoz  Guatemala  United States 16 March 2026
Oualid Agougil  Netherlands  Morocco [35][42]
Ayoub Ouarghi [35][43]
Joël Piroe  Suriname 17 March 2026 [44][45]
Ilija Maslarov  Switzerland  North Macedonia 18 March 2026
Benjamin Khaderi  Netherlands  Morocco [35][46]
Melayro Bogarde  Suriname [45]
Lucy Day  England  Wales 23 March 2026
Indy Botosso Kolster  Denmark  Brazil 24 March 2026
Lyndon Turrell  Gibraltar  Thailand 25 March 2026
Rayane Bounida  Belgium  Morocco [46][47]
Dylan Scicluna  Malta  Australia [48][49]
Saif Lazar [nl]  Belgium  Morocco [46][50]
Ayres Ava  Samoa  American Samoa
Luis Hasa  Italy  Albania 26 March 2026 [51][52]
Issa Diop  France  Morocco [47][53]
Elye Wahi  Ivory Coast 28 March 2026 [54][55]
Milica Denda  Serbia  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 April 2026 [56][57]
Arthur Okonkwo  England  Nigeria 6 April 2026 [58][59]
Julliana Lisbeth  Dominican Republic  Peru 7 April 2026
Vildan Kardeşler  Germany  Turkey [60]
Ermin Mahmić  Austria  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 May 2026 [61][62]
Aleksandr Guboglo  Haiti  Canada 6 May 2026
Serhiy Ihnatkov  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Ukraine 8 May 2026 [63][64]
Ange-Yoan Bonny  France  Ivory Coast 8 May 2026 [65][66]
Evagjelos Gjoka  Albania  Greece 11 May 2026 [67]
Dario Naamo  Finland  Iraq [68][69]
Ahmed Qasem  Sweden [70][71]
CJ dos Santos  United States  Cape Verde 13 May 2026 [72]
Matias Fernandez-Pardo  Spain  Belgium 14 May 2026 [73][74]
Keyrol Figueroa  United States  Honduras [75][76]
Omar Carabalí  Chile  Ecuador [77][78]
Ayyoub Bouaddi  France  Morocco 15 May 2026 [79][80]
Mirko Milikić [sr]  Montenegro  Serbia 18 May 2026 [81]
Cassandra Bogere  Norway  Sweden 19 May 2026
Willsem Boussaid  France  Algeria 20 May 2026
Nils Reichmuth  Switzerland  Chile 22 May 2026 [82][83]
Julia Walentowicz [sv]  Sweden  Poland 26 May 2026 [84][85]
Cristian Volpato  Italy  Australia 29 May 2026 [86][87]
Valmir Matoshi  Switzerland  Kosovo 1 June 2026 [88][89]
Hope McSheffrey  England  Wales 2 June 2026
Omar Bolaños  Mexico  Guatemala 2 June 2026
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Summary

As of 2 June 2026[1]
More information Country, Confed. ...
Country Confed. Changes
G L N
 Albania UEFA 2 1 +1
 Algeria CAF 1 0 +1
 American Samoa OFC 2 0 +2
 Australia AFC 3 1 +2
 Austria UEFA 3 1 +2
 Azerbaijan UEFA 0 1 –1
 Belgium UEFA 1 2 –1
 Bosnia and Herzegovina UEFA 3 2 +1
 Brazil CONMEBOL 1 1 ±0
 Cameroon CAF 1 0 +1
 Canada CONCACAF 2 1 +1
 Cape Verde CAF 3 0 +3
 Chile CONMEBOL 1 1 ±0
 Croatia UEFA 2 0 +2
 Denmark UEFA 0 1 –1
 Dominican Republic CONCACAF 0 1 –1
 Ecuador CONCACAF 1 1 ±0
 England UEFA 1 6 –5
 Finland UEFA 0 1 –1
 France UEFA 0 7 –7
 Germany UEFA 0 5 –5
 Gibraltar UEFA 0 1 –1
 Greece UEFA 1 0 +1
 Guatemala CONCACAF 1 1 ±0
 Guinea CAF 3 0 +3
 Haiti CONCACAF 0 1 –1
 Honduras CONCACAF 2 0 +2
 Iraq AFC 2 0 +2
 Italy UEFA 0 3 –3
 Ivory Coast CAF 2 0 +2
 Kosovo UEFA 1 1 ±0
 Malta UEFA 0 1 –1
 Mexico CONCACAF 2 2 ±0
 Montenegro UEFA 0 1 –1
 Morocco CAF 8 0 +8
 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
 Norway UEFA 0 1 –1
 Paraguay CONMEBOL 1 0 +1
 Peru CONMEBOL 4 0 +4
 Philippines AFC 1 0 +1
 Poland UEFA 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 1 1 ±0
 Spain UEFA 0 2 –2
 Suriname CONCACAF 3 0 +3
 Sweden UEFA 2 3 –1
 Switzerland UEFA 0 6 –6
 Thailand AFC 1 0 +1
 Tonga OFC 0 1 –1
 Tunisia CAF 1 0 +1
 Turkey UEFA 1 0 +1
 Ukraine UEFA 2 0 +2
 United States CONCACAF 1 4 –3
 Wales UEFA 2 1 +1
Total 72
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