List of overseas-born AFL players

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The following is a list of Australian rules footballers to have competed in the Australian Football League (previously known as VFL) that were born in a country other than Australia (sorted by country of birth).

These players have all played one or more games in the senior competition of the VFL/AFL.

See also List of VFL/AFL players by ethnicity.

Contents 1 Austria 2 Brazil 3 Chile 4 England 5 Fiji 6 France 7 Germany 8 Holland 9 Ireland 10 Israel 11 Italy 12 Lebanon 13 New Guinea 14 New Zealand 15 Papua New Guinea 16 Samoa 17 Scotland 18 South Africa 19 South Korea 20 Sweden 21 Switzerland 22 United States of America 23 Thailand 24 Wales 25 Zimbabwe 26 References 27 See also

[edit] Austria

• Alex Jesaulenko (Carlton/St Kilda)

[edit] Brazil

• Heritier O'Brien (Collingwood)

[edit] Chile

• Jose Romero (North Melbourne/Footscray)

[edit] England

See also: Australian rules football in England

• Will Thursfield (Richmond)
• Brad Moran (Kangaroos, Adelaide)
• Fergus Watts (St Kilda)
• Clive Waterhouse (Fremantle)
• Colin Alexander (Collingwood/Brisbane)
• Mark Bayliss (Collingwood)
• Lawrence Bingham (Hawthorn/St Kilda)
• Wayne Blackwell (Carlton)
• Chris Burton (Footscray/Richmond)
• Ian Dargie (St Kilda/West Coast)
• Harry Davie (Melbourne/Carlton)
• Fred Fairweather (North Melbourne)
• Andy Goodwin (Richmond/Melbourne)
• Paul Harding (Hawthorn/St Kilda/West Coast)
• Johnny Leonard (South Melbourne)
• Brian Mynott (St Kilda)
• Richard Nixon (St Kilda)
• Polly Perkins (Richmond)

[edit] Fiji

• Alipate Carlile (Port Adelaide)
• Charlie Moore (Essendon)
• David Rodan (Richmond/Port Adelaide)

[edit] France

• Allan La Fontaine (Melbourne)

[edit] Germany

• Harry Frei (Footscray)
• Bohdan Jaworskyj (Hawthorn)
• Alex Ruscuklic (Fitzroy / Carlton)
• Michael McCarthy (Hawthorn/Brisbane Bears)

[edit] Holland

• Patrick van Wegen (Hawthorn)
• Robbert Klomp

[edit] Ireland

• Martin Clarke (Collingwood)
• Colm Begley (Brisbane)
• Tadhg Kennelly (Sydney)
• Jim Stynes (Melbourne)
• Paul Earley (Melbourne)
• Stuart Magee (South Melbourne/Fitzroy)
• Dermott McNichol (St Kilda)
• Brian Stynes (Melbourne)

[edit] Israel

• Moredechai Bromberg (St Kilda)
• Nick Howard (Geelong)

[edit] Italy

• Peter Bevilaqua

[edit] Lebanon

• Milham Hanna (Carlton)

[edit] New Guinea

• Ben Sexton (Footscray/Carlton)
• Peter Greulich (Geelong)
• Michael Clifton (Essendon)

[edit] New Zealand

• Adam Campbell (Fremantle)
• Trent Croad (Fremantle/Hawthorn)
• Peter Bennett (Hawthorn/Essendon)
• Donald Dickie (Port Adelaide)
• Warren Jones (Carlton/St Kilda)
• Daniel McAlister (Essendon)
• Marty McDonnell (Footscray)
• Tom O'Halloran (Richmond)
• Wayne Schwass (North Melbourne/Sydney)
• Joe Sellwood (Geelong)

[edit] Papua New Guinea

• Mal Michael (Essendon/Brisbane Lions/Collingwood)

[edit] Samoa

• Aaron Edwards (West Coast/Kangaroos)

[edit] Scotland

• Sean Wight (Melbourne)

[edit] South Africa

• Jack Baggott (Richmond/Essendon)
• Damian Cupido (Brisbane Lions/Essendon)
• Ian Muller (Carlton, St Kilda)

[edit] South Korea

• Peter Bell (Fremantle/North Melbourne)

[edit] Sweden

• Kris Massie (Carlton/Adelaide)

[edit] Switzerland

• Henri Jenneret (South Melbourne/Melbourne)

[edit] United States of America

• Tom Banks (Fitzroy)
• Don Pyke (West Coast)
• Sanford Wheeler (Sydney)

[edit] Thailand

• Sudjai Cook (Adelaide)

[edit] Wales

• John McCarthy (North Melbourne/Fitzroy)

[edit] Zimbabwe

• Ian Perrie (Adelaide)
• Stephen Lawrence (footballer) (Hawthorn)

[edit] References

• Brian Clarke (2003). Overseas Born VFL/AFL players. International Australian Football Council. Retrieved on December 14, 2005.
• Other Nationalities. Full Points Footy. Retrieved on March 1, 2006.
• Rod Curtis (2005). The AFL evangelist. The Age. Retrieved on November 8, 2006.

[edit] See also

• List of VFL/AFL players by ethnicity
• Australian rules football around the world