List of VFL/AFL players with international backgrounds

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This is a list of Australian Football League players who have multicultural ancestry (which includes players born overseas or who had one parent born overseas).[1]

In 2020, about 15 per cent of AFL players were born overseas or had one parent born overseas. This was up from 13 per cent in 2019, according to AFL data.[2] In 2015 season there were 121 multicultural players, more than half had one parent from Anglophone countries, mainly the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.[3]

Active players born outside Australia

Africa

Egypt

Ethiopia

Ghana

Kenya

  • Aliir Aliir (born in Kenya to South Sudanese parents)
  • Bigoa Nyuon (born in Kenya to South Sudanese parents)
  • Leek Aleer (born in Kenya to South Sudanese parents)

Mauritius

Nigeria

Seychelles

South Africa

Sudan and South Sudan

Zimbabwe

Americas

Barbados

Brazil

Canada

Chile

Cuba

Jamaica

Peru

United States

Asia

China

East Timor

Hong Kong

India

Iraq

Israel and Palestine

Japan

Lebanon

Malaysia

Myanmar

Philippines

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Singapore

  • Josh Lai (born in Singapore to Singaporean father)[7]

Taiwan

Thailand

Vietnam

Europe

Albania

Austria

Belarus

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

France

Germany

Greece

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Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Malta

Netherlands

North Macedonia and Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Russia

Serbia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

United Kingdom

England

Jersey

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales

Ukraine

Oceania

Cook Islands

Fiji

New Zealand

Papua New Guinea

Samoa

Tonga

Tuvalu

See also

References

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