List of overseas-born AFL players

This is a list of players who have played at least one senior game in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 (AFL), previously known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), who were born outside of Australia. The first non-Australian-born players were Ivan Astruc

Ivan Astruc

Ivan Astruc is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy.-Sources:*Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim . The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 8th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing....

 , George Hastings

George Hastings (footballer)

George Hastings was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the early years of the VFL.Hastings usually played on the wing but was also a centreman at times. A member of Essendon's inaugural premiership team in 1897 and again in 1901, Hasting also played in losing Grand Final...

  and Henry McPetrie , who each played for their respective clubs in round one of the inaugural VFL season

1897 VFL season

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 in 1897. There are currently 13 AFL-listed players who have played at least one game for their clubs. Peter Bell ( and the ; born in South Korea) holds the games record for a non-Australian-born player, having played 286 games between 1995 and 2008. Jim Stynes

Jim Stynes

James "Jim" Stynes OAM is an Irish former professional Australian rules footballer who is currently a businessman, philanthropist, writer, youth worker, qualified teacher and chairman of Melbourne Football Club since 2008....

  is the only non-Australian-born player to win a Brownlow Medal

Brownlow Medal

The Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...

, and Alex Jesaulenko

Alex Jesaulenko

Alex 'Jezza' Jesaulenko MBE is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is regarded as one of the game's greatest-ever players and is an official Legend of the Australian Football Hall of Fame...

 ( and ; born in Austria) was the only non-Australian-born player named in the VFL/AFL Team of the Century.

List

Players currently on an AFL list are listed in bold:

Name	Country of birth	Club(s)	First	Last	Games	Goals
	Kingdom of England		1989	1993	29	30
	Kingdom of Scotland		1910	1912	31	0
	Mauritius Mauritius Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...		1897	1897	6	1
	Natal Colony of Natal The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on May 4, 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia, and on 31 May 1910 combined with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa, as one of its...		1927	1937	138	140
	Kingdom of Scotland		1901	1903	14	0
	Kingdom of England		1989	1989	4	6
	Republic of Ireland		2006	2009	30	7
	South Korea	/	1995	2008	286	250
	New Zealand		1976	1981	80	27
	Italy		1953	1953	1	0
	Kingdom of England		1989	1993	25	0
	Kingdom of England		1984	1990	110	80
	Israel		1978	1981	34	11
	Kingdom of England		1980	1988	117	35
	New Zealand		2006	2009	13	13
	Fiji		2006	2011	89	4
	Northern Ireland		2007	2009	46	16
	Thailand		1998	1998	7	2
	New Zealand		1998	2008	222	189
	South Africa		2000	2005	53	66
	Kingdom of England		1989	1991	11	1
	Kingdom of England		1924	1928	58	186
	Wales		1949	1950	16	1
	New Zealand		1997	2000	55	19
	Republic of Ireland		1984	1984	1	1
	Kingdom of Scotland		1967	1968	10	0
	Kingdom of Scotland		1977	1988	188	287
	Samoa	/	2005	2011	73	107
	Kingdom of England		1944	1946	54	14
	West Germany		1973	1973	6	0
	Kingdom of England		1987	1993	73	9
	Republic of Ireland		2008	2011	34	6
	Lebanon		1986	1997	190	83
	Kingdom of England		1987	1994	116	14
	Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...		1897	1904	107	25
	New Zealand		1912	1919	113	49
	New Zealand		2011	2011	15	1
	Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...		1987	1995	142	37
	Germany		1973	1975	67	3
	Switzerland		1898	1904	113	49
	Austria		1967	1981	279	444
	New Zealand		1978	1988	123	36
	Republic of Ireland		2001	2011	197	30
	Netherlands		1979	1984	93	20
	Early Modern France		1934	1945	171	77
	South Africa		1988	1998	146	30
	Kingdom of Scotland		1932	1933	16	11
	Kingdom of England		1932	1932	12	17
	Natal Colony of Natal The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on May 4, 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia, and on 31 May 1910 combined with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa, as one of its...		1914	1924	12	17
	Republic of Ireland		1962	1975	216	149
	Kingdom of England		1901	1903	27	1
	Sweden		1998	2008	131	23
	New Zealand		1997	2002	6	0
	Wales		1986	1996	163	178
	New Zealand		1939	1950	92	2
	Kingdom of Scotland		1951	1952	8	0
	Northern Ireland		1990	1990	3	0
	Kingdom of Scotland		1897	1897	5	2
	Papua New Guinea		1997	2008	238	33
	Fiji Colonial Fiji The United Kingdom declined its first opportunity to annex Fiji in 1852. Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau had offered to cede the islands, subject to being allowed to retain his Tui Viti title, a condition unacceptable to both the British and to many of his fellow chiefs, who regarded him only as first...		1897	1899	30	34
	Kingdom of England		2006	2011	21	8
	South Africa		1984	1991	27	2
	Kingdom of England		1971	1972	24	25
	Kingdom of England		1964	1975	210	75
	Kingdom of England		1987	1990	37	3
	Brazil		2005	2011	133	15
	New Zealand		1925	1934	142	120
	Northern Ireland		2010	2011	4	0
	Kingdom of England		1940	1949	148	0
	Rhodesia		1998	2007	115	133
	India British Raj British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...		1923	1924	22	7
	United States		1989	1996	132	97
	Canada		2009	2011	28	5
	Republic of Ireland		2009	2011	8	2
	New Zealand		2008	2011	52	9
	Kingdom of England		1898	1900	14	1
	Fiji		2002	2011	166	127
	Chile	/	1988	2001	211	169
	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...		1966	1974	117	209
	New Zealand		2009	2011	20	16
	Kingdom of England		1967	1979	212	44
	New Zealand		1988	2002	282	154
	New Zealand		1930	1945	180	97
	Singapore		1986	1990	25	10
	Papua New Guinea Territory of Papua and New Guinea The Territory of Papua and New Guinea was established by an administrative union between the Australian-administered territories of Papua and New Guinea in 1949...		1991	1996	43	33
	Republic of Ireland		1992	1992	2	0
	Republic of Ireland		1987	1998	264	130
	Kingdom of Scotland		1997	1997	4	1
	Germany		1947	1947	6	2
	Kingdom of England		2005	2011	77	0
	Republic of Ireland		2010	2011	11	3
	Czechoslovakia		1959	1966	132	45
	Kingdom of England		1996	2004	106	178
	Kingdom of England		2004	2007	6	3
	United States		1989	1994	43	7
	Kingdom of Scotland		1985	1995	150	63
	New Zealand		1928	1928	5	0

See also

• List of VFL/AFL players by ethnicity
• Australian rules football around the world
  Australian rules football around the world
  Australian Rules football is a sport played in various countries around the world. In 2006, about 16,000 people played in structured competitions outside of Australia and at least 20 leagues that are recognised by the game's governing body, exist outside Australia. This figure had grown to a...