List of overseas-born AFL players

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This is a list of Australian Football League (previously known as VFL) players not born in Australia, sorted by country of birth.

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

In bold are those to have played in the AFL in 2005.

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 Italy 11 Lebanon 12 New Guinea 13 New Zealand 14 Papua New Guinea 15 Scotland 16 South Africa 17 South Korea 18 Sweden 19 Switzerland 20 United States of America 21 Thailand 22 Wales 23 Zimbabwe 24 References 25 See also

[edit] Austria

• Alex Jesaulenko (Carlton/St Kilda)

[edit] Brazil

• Heritier O'Brien (Collingwood)

[edit] Chile

• Jose Romero (North Melbourne/Footscray)
• Daniel Segovia (Collingwood)

[edit] England

• Brett Kirk (Sydney)
• Brendon Lade (Port Adelaide)
• Brad Moran (Kangaroos)
• 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)
• 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

• David Rodan (Richmond/Port Adelaide)
• Alipate Carlile (Port Adelaide)

[edit] France

• Alan La Fontaine (Melbourne)

[edit] Germany

• Harry Frei (Footscray)
• Alex Ruscuklic (Fitzroy / Carlton)

[edit] Holland

• Ron Van T’Hag (Geelong)

[edit] Ireland

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

[edit] Italy

• Peter Bevilaqua

[edit] Lebanon

• Milham Hanna (Carlton)

[edit] New Guinea

• Ben Sexton (Footscray)

[edit] New Zealand

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

[edit] Papua New Guinea

• Mal Michael (Essendon Bombers/Brisbane Lions/Collingwood)

[edit] Scotland

• Sean Wight (Melbourne)

[edit] South Africa

• 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)
• Sandford Wheeler (Sydney)

[edit] Thailand

• Sudjai Cook (Adelaide)

[edit] Wales

• John McCarthy (footballer) (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