List of foreign Serie B players

This is a list of foreign players in Serie B of the Italian football league system. The following players:

  1. have played at least one Serie B game for the respective club;
  2. have not been capped for the Italy national team on any level, independently from the birthplace, except for players born in San Marino and active in the Italy national team before the first official match of the Sammarinese national team played on November 14, 1990 and players of Italian formation born abroad of Italian parents;
  3. have been born in Italy and were capped by a foreign national team. This includes players who have dual citizenship with Italy.

These are all the teams that have had at least a foreign player while playing in a Serie B season and in bold are the ones currently playing for the 2023–24 season :

AlbinoLeffe, Alessandria, Alzano Virescit, Ancona, Arezzo, Ascoli, Atalanta, Avellino, Bari, Benevento, Bologna, Brescia, Cagliari, Carpi, Castel di Sangro, Catania, Catanzaro, Cesena, Chievo, Cittadella, Como, Cosenza, Crema, Cremonese, Crotone, Empoli, Entella, Fanfulla Lodi, Feralpisalò, Fermana, Fidelis Andria, Fiorentina, Foggia, Frosinone, Gallipoli, Genoa, Gubbio, Juve Stabia, Juventus, Lanciano, Latina, Lazio, Lecce, Lecco, Legnano, Licata, Livorno, Lucchese, Maceratese, Magenta Mantova, Messina, Milan, Modena, Monza, Napoli, Nocerina, Novara, Padova, Palermo, Parma, Perugia, Pescara, Piacenza, Pisa, Pordenone, Portogruaro, Pistoiese, Pro Patria, Pro Vercelli, Reggiana, Reggina, Rimini, Roma, Salernitana, Sambenedettese, Sampdoria, Sassuolo, Siena, SPAL, Spezia, Südtirol, Taranto, Ternana, Torino, Trapani, Treviso, Triestina, Udinese, Varese, Venezia, Verona, Vicenza, Voghera.

These are the only teams that have participated in Serie B but have not had a foreign player: Acireale, Alba Roma, Barletta, Biellese, Bolzano, Brindisi, Campobasso, Carrarese, Casale, Cavese, Centese, Derthona, Fiumana, Forlì, Massese, Matera In bold are the players who are currently playing in Serie B.

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Cameroon

Canada

Cape Verde

Chile

Colombia

Congo

DR Congo

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Egypt

  • Ahmed Hegazy – Perugia – 2014–15
  • Hany Said – Bari, Messina, Fiorentina – 2001–04

England

Equatorial Guinea

Estonia

Finland

France

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Guadeloupe

Guinea

Guinea Bissau

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Iran

Israel

Ivory Coast

Japan

Kenya

Kosovo

Latvia

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Mali

Malta

Martinique

Mauritania

Mexico

Moldova

Montenegro

Morocco

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nigeria

North Korea

North Macedonia

Northern Ireland

Norway

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Poland

Portugal

  • Aladje – Pro Vercelli – 2014–15[b GNB]
  • Alex – Salernitana, Pro Vercelli – 2017–18
  • Vitorino Antunes – Livorno – 2010–11
  • Gonçalo Brandão – Siena, Cesena – 2010–11, 2012–13
  • Aníbal Capela – Carpi, Cosenza – 2017–20
  • Félix Correia – Parma – 2021–22
  • Pedro Correia – Crotone – 2010–13
  • Paulo Costa – Venezia – 2002–03
  • De Oliveira – Modena – 2008–09
  • Ricardo Esteves – Vicenza – 2005–06
  • Tomás EstevesPisa – 2022–
  • Vasco Faísca – Vicenza, Padova, Ascoli – 2001–04, 2009–13
  • Bruno Fernandes – Novara – 2012–13
  • Pedro Costa Ferreira – Entella – 2014–17
  • Gonçalves – Venezia – 2004–05
  • João MoutinhoSpezia – 2023–
  • João Silva (1990) – Bari, Avellino, Salernitana – 2013–14, 2015–18
  • João Silva (1998) – Trapani – 2019–20
  • Hugo Miguel Fernandes Vieira – Sampdoria – 1999–2000
  • José Mamede – Reggina, Messina – 2001–02, 2003–04
  • Manú – Modena – 2004–05
  • Ricardo Matos – Ascoli – 2019–21
  • Pedro MendesAscoli – 2022–
  • Dany Mota – Entella, Monza – 2015–18, 2020–22[b LUX]
  • Fábio Nunes – Latina – 2013–14
  • Pedro Pereira – Monza – 2021–22
  • Nuno Pina – Chievo – 2019–20
  • Filipe Oliveira – Torino – 2010–11
  • Alexandre Pimenta – Venezia – 2018–19
  • Diogo Pinto – Ascoli – 2019–20
  • Mário Rui – Gubbio, Spezia, Empoli – 2011–14
  • Diogo Tavares – Genoa, Frosinone – 2006–07, 2008–11
  • Muhamed Varela DjamancaReggiana – 2023–[b GNB]
  • Miguel VelosoPisa – 2023–
  • José Luís Vidigal – Napoli – 2001–04[b ANG–POR]

Puerto Rico

Qatar

Romania

Russia

San Marino

Scotland

  • Liam Henderson – Bari, Verona, Empoli, Lecce, Palermo – 2017–21, 2023–
  • Joe Jordan – Milan – 1982–83
  • Harvey St Clair – Venezia – 2018–19, 2020–21, 2022–23[b ENG]

Senegal

Serbia

Sierra Leone

Slovakia

Slovenia

Somalia

South Africa

South Korea

Spain

Suriname

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

Togo

Tunisia

Turkey

Ukraine

United States

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

  • Ilyos Zeytulayev – Crotone, Genoa, Vicenza, Virtus Lanciano – 2005–07, 2012–13

Venezuela

Wales

  • Craig Davies – Verona – 2005–06[b ENG]

See also

Notes

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    Born in Algeria
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    Born in Angola
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    Born in Angola (then Portuguese Angola)
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    Born in Argentina
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    Born in Australia
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    Born in Austria
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    Born in Brazil
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    Born in Kosovo (then part of SFR Yugoslavia)
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    Born in Lebanon
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    Born in Singapore
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    Born in Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia)
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    Born in Turkey
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    Born in Uganda
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    Born in Ukraine (then part of the Kingdom of Romania)
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    Born in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union)
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    Born in Uruguay
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    Capped for the Netherlands national under-15 football team
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    Capped for the Switzerland national under-15 football team
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References

  1. ^ He played only in the playoffs
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