# List of VFL/AFL players born outside Australia

This is a list of players who have played at least one senior game in the Australian Football League (AFL), previously known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), who were born outside Australia.

## Players born outside Australia

Current AFL-listed players in bold.
| Name | Country of birth | Club(s) | First | Last | Games | Goals |
| Peter Agrums | Latvia | North Melbourne | 1963 | 1964 | 11 | 4 |
| Leek Aleer | Kenya | Greater Western Sydney | 2022 | | 7 | 1 |
| Aliir Aliir | Kenya | Sydney, Port Adelaide | 2016 | | 135 | 5 |
| Mac Andrew | Egypt | Gold Coast | 2022 | | 28 | 0 |
| Ivan Astruc | Mauritius | Fitzroy | 1897 | 1897 | 6 | 1 |
| Jack Baggott | South Africa | Essendon, Richmond | 1927 | 1937 | 138 | 140 |
| Jack Barnett | New Zealand | Richmond | 1924 | 1926 | 13 | 11 |
| Niels Becker | West Germany | Footscray | 1962 | 1963 | 10 | 3 |
| Peter Bell | South Korea | Fremantle, North Melbourne | 1995 | 2008 | 286 | 250 |
| Peter Bennett | New Zealand | Essendon, Hawthorn | 1976 | 1981 | 80 | 27 |
| Peter Bevilacqua | Italy | Carlton | 1953 | 1953 | 1 | 0 |
| Fred Birnstihl | Weimar Republic | Footscray | 1927 | 1927 | 2 | 0 |
| James Borlase | Egypt | Adelaide | 2023 | | 9 | 0 |
| Atu Bosenavulagi | Fiji | Collingwood, North Melbourne | 2019 | 2022 | 20 | 1 |
| Mordecai Bromberg | Israel | St Kilda | 1978 | 1981 | 34 | 11 |
| Bob Bryce | New Zealand | Sydney, Collingwood | 1899 | 1902 | 18 | 12 |
| Adam Campbell | New Zealand | Fremantle | 2006 | 2009 | 13 | 13 |
| Alipate Carlile | Fiji | Port Adelaide | 2006 | 2016 | 167 | 5 |
| Peter Castrikum | Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) | Footscray | 1965 | 1965 | 6 | |
| Mabior Chol | Sudan | Richmond, Gold Coast, Hawthorn | 2016 | | 65 | 83 |
| Alf Clay | South Africa | Hawthorn, Footscray, Fitzroy, North Melbourne | 1937 | 1946 | 83 | 39 |
| Brant Colledge | France | West Coast | 2014 | 2015 | 3 | 0 |
| Harold Collocott | Fiji | Geelong | 1900 | 1900 | 1 | 0 |
| Sudjai Cook | Thailand | Adelaide | 1998 | 1998 | 7 | 2 |
| Mason Cox | United States | Collingwood | 2016 | | 118 | 117 |
| Jim Cowcher | New Zealand | Carlton | 1898 | 1898 | 5 | 0 |
| Trent Croad | New Zealand | Fremantle, Hawthorn | 1998 | 2008 | 222 | 189 |
| Damian Cupido | South Africa | Brisbane Lions, Essendon | 2000 | 2005 | 53 | 66 |
| Ben Cunningham | New Zealand | Fremantle | 2000 | 2005 | 33 | 22 |
| Majak Daw | Sudan | North Melbourne, Melbourne | 2013 | 2020 | 54 | 43 |
| Donald Dickie | New Zealand | Port Adelaide | 1997 | 2000 | 55 | 19 |
| Colin Dufty | Fiji | Collingwood | 1914 | 1914 | 1 | 1 |
| Aaron Edwards | Samoa | North Melbourne, West Coast | 2005 | 2011 | 73 | 107 |
| Neil Erasmus | South Africa | Fremantle | 2022 | | 23 | 2 |
| Harry Frei | West Germany | Footscray | 1973 | 1973 | 6 | 0 |
| Ted Garside | South Africa | Hawthorn | 1931 | 1931 | 6 | 0 |
| Arthur Gilligan | New Zealand | Essendon, Fitzroy | 1902 | 1905 | 32 | 15 |
| Mil Hanna | Lebanon | Carlton | 1986 | 1997 | 190 | 83 |
| Harry Haughton | New Zealand | Carlton | 1912 | 1919 | 113 | 49 |
| Jason Holmes | United States | St Kilda | 2015 | 2017 | 5 | 0 |
| Karmichael Hunt | New Zealand | Gold Coast | 2011 | 2014 | 44 | 6 |
| Alex Ishchenko | Ukraine | Brisbane Bears, North Melbourne, West Coast | 1987 | 1995 | 142 | 37 |
| Bohdan Jaworskyj | East Germany | Hawthorn | 1973 | 1975 | 67 | 3 |
| Henri Jeanneret | Switzerland | Melbourne, South Melbourne | 1898 | 1904 | 113 | 49 |
| Alex Jesaulenko | Austria | Carlton, St Kilda | 1967 | 1981 | 279 | 444 |
| Changkuoth Jiath | Ethiopia | Hawthorn | 2019 | | 56 | 5 |
| Tew Jiath | Ethiopia | Collingwood | 2024 | | 1 | 0 |
| Jason Johannisen | South Africa | Western Bulldogs | 2012 | | 196 | 75 |
| Tom Jok | Sudan | Essendon | 2019 | 2019 | 1 | 0 |
| Warren Jones | New Zealand | Carlton, St Kilda | 1978 | 1988 | 123 | 36 |
| Buku Khamis | Sudan | Western Bulldogs | 2019 | | 27 | 7 |
| Robbert Klomp | Netherlands | Carlton, Footscray | 1979 | 1984 | 93 | 20 |
| Stephen Lawrence | South Africa | Hawthorn | 1988 | 1998 | 146 | 30 |
| Mykelti Lefau | New Zealand | Richmond | 2024 | | 10 | 14 |
| Heritier Lumumba | Brazil | Collingwood, Melbourne | 2005 | 2016 | 178 | 25 |
| Artie Machin | New Zealand | Sydney | 1898 | 1898 | 3 | 0 |
| Aubrey MacKenzie | South Africa | Melbourne, St Kilda | 1914 | 1924 | 12 | 17 |
| Frank Macky | New Zealand | University | 1911 | 1911 | 7 | 2 |
| Oleg Markov | Belarus | Richmond, Gold Coast, Collingwood | 2016 | | 86 | 7 |
| Rowan Marshall | New Zealand | St Kilda | 2017 | | 132 | 67 |
| Kris Massie | Sweden | Carlton, Adelaide | 1998 | 2008 | 131 | 23 |
| Daniel McAlister | New Zealand | Essendon | 1997 | 2002 | 6 | 0 |
| Dave McColl | New Zealand | South Melbourne | 1904 | 1904 | 5 | 0 |
| Marty McDonnell | New Zealand | Footscray | 1939 | 1950 | 92 | 2 |
| Abe McDougall | New Zealand | Fitzroy | 1898 | 1902 | 59 | 28 |
| Andrew McGrath | Canada | Essendon | 2017 | | 157 | 20 |
| Charlie Meadway | New Zealand | Carlton, Collingwood | 1906 | 1907 | 4 | 0 |
| Bill Mearns | New Zealand | St Kilda | 1910 | 1910 | 3 | 1 |
| Eddie Melai | Netherlands | South Melbourne | 1964 | 1964 | 7 | 2 |
| Mal Michael | Papua New Guinea | Brisbane Lions, Collingwood, Essendon | 1997 | 2008 | 238 | 33 |
| Charlie Moore | Fiji | Essendon | 1897 | 1899 | 30 | 34 |
| Ian Muller | South Africa | Carlton, St Kilda | 1984 | 1991 | 27 | 2 |
| Bigoa Nyuon | Kenya | Richmond, North Melbourne | 2020 | 2024 | 4 | 0 |
| Hewago Oea | Papua New Guinea | Gold Coast | 2022 | 2024 | 13 | 5 |
| Thomas O'Halloran | New Zealand | Richmond | 1925 | 1934 | 142 | 120 |
| Daniel Pearce | New Zealand | Western Bulldogs | 2012 | 2015 | 5 | 0 |
| Val Perovic | Croatia | Carlton, St Kilda | 1973 | 1985 | 174 | 13 |
| Ian Perrie | Zimbabwe | Adelaide | 1998 | 2007 | 115 | 133 |
| Cameron Polson | Hong Kong | Carlton | 2017 | 2020 | 19 | 4 |
| Fred Pringle | India | Carlton | 1923 | 1924 | 22 | 7 |
| Don Pyke | United States | West Coast | 1989 | 1996 | 132 | 97 |
| Mike Pyke | Canada | Sydney | 2009 | 2015 | 110 | 48 |
| Willis Reeve | Myanmar | Fitzroy | 1927 | 1932 | 86 | 0 |
| Brent Renouf | New Zealand | Hawthorn, Port Adelaide | 2008 | 2011 | 52 | 9 |
| Bruce Reville | Papua New Guinea | Brisbane Lions | 2024 | | 12 | 4 |
| David Rodan | Fiji | Port Adelaide, Richmond, Melbourne | 2002 | 2013 | 166 | 127 |
| Brian Roet | Cuba | Melbourne | 1961 | 1968 | 88 | 1 |
| Jose Romero | Chile | Footscray/Western Bulldogs, North Melbourne | 1988 | 2001 | 211 | 169 |
| Alex Ruscuklic | East Germany | Carlton, Fitzroy | 1966 | 1974 | 117 | 209 |
| Shane Savage | New Zealand | Hawthorn, St Kilda | 2009 | 2020 | 165 | 63 |
| Wayne Schwass | New Zealand | North Melbourne, Sydney | 1988 | 2002 | 282 | 154 |
| Joe Sellwood | New Zealand | Geelong | 1930 | 1945 | 180 | 97 |
| Dannie Seow | Singapore | Collingwood, Melbourne | 1986 | 1990 | 25 | 10 |
| Ben Sexton | Papua New Guinea | Carlton, Footscray | 1991 | 1996 | 43 | 33 |
| Michael Sexton | Papua New Guinea | Carlton | 1990 | 2000 | 200 | 23 |
| Jack Southern | Papua New Guinea | South Melbourne | 1897 | 1899 | 31 | 3 |
| Bob Svorinich | Italy | South Melbourne | 1969 | 1971 | 8 | 7 |
| Ron Tenabel | Netherlands | South Melbourne | 1965 | 1967 | 17 | 0 |
| Heinz Tonn | Weimar Republic | Fitzroy | 1947 | 1947 | 6 | 2 |
| Wennie Van Lint | Netherlands | Sydney | 1967 | 1967 | 2 | 0 |
| Ron Van T'Hag | Netherlands | Geelong | 1959 | 1959 | 2 | 0 |
| Eric Vinar | Czech Republic | Fitzroy | 1964 | 1964 | 8 | 3 |
| Paul Vinar | Czech Republic | Geelong | 1959 | 1966 | 132 | 45 |
| Brandon Walker | Ghana | Fremantle | 2021 | | 64 | 2 |
| Fred Warry | Seychelles | St Kilda | 1900 | 1900 | 2 | 0 |
| Arthur Watson | New Zealand | Hawthorn | 1929 | 1929 | 2 | 0 |
| Tom Watson | New Zealand | Carlton, Melbourne | 1902 | 1904 | 15 | 0 |
| Sanford Wheeler | United States | Sydney | 1989 | 1994 | 43 | 7 |
| Reuben William | Sudan | Brisbane Lions | 2016 | 2017 | 3 | 0 |
| Rupert Wills | New Zealand | Collingwood | 2016 | 2020 | 23 | 1 |
| Barney Wood | New Zealand | Melbourne | 1928 | 1928 | 5 | 0 |

## Players born in the British Isles

| Name | Country of birth | Club(s) | First | Last | Games | Goals |
| Bill Ahern | Ireland | Carlton | 1897 | 1897 | 1 | 0 |
| Ramsay Anderson | Scotland | Essendon, University | 1910 | 1912 | 31 | 0 |
| Bert Ashby | England | Hawthorn | 1928 | 1935 | 25 | 6 |
| Harry Aylwin | England | St Kilda | 1897 | 1899 | 29 | 0 |
| Alf Bartlett | England | Fitzroy | 1901 | 1907 | 80 | 5 |
| Keith Baskin | England | South Melbourne | 1964 | 1973 | 75 | 78 |
| Mark Bayliss | England | Collingwood | 1989 | 1989 | 4 | 6 |
| Colm Begley | Ireland | Brisbane Lions, St Kilda | 2006 | 2009 | 30 | 7 |
| Ted Besford | England | Fitzroy | 1939 | 1941 | 2 | 0 |
| Bernie Bignell | England | Carlton | 1940 | 1945 | 6 | 0 |
| Lawrence Bingham | England | Hawthorn, St Kilda | 1989 | 1993 | 25 | 0 |
| Wayne Blackwell | England | Carlton | 1984 | 1990 | 110 | 80 |
| Bill Bourke | Ireland | Richmond | 1908 | 1909 | 32 | 45 |
| Percy Bowyer | England | Collingwood | 1928 | 1938 | 154 | 33 |
| Ted Brewis | England | Carlton | 1925 | 1928 | 60 | 12 |
| Alan Broadley | England | South Melbourne | 1941 | 1941 | 3 | 1 |
| Callum Brown | England | Greater Western Sydney | 2021 | | 42 | 42 |
| Chris Burton | England | Footscray, Richmond | 1980 | 1988 | 117 | 35 |
| Ciarán Byrne | Ireland | Carlton | 2014 | 2018 | 22 | 0 |
| Dick Campbell | Northern Ireland | St Kilda | 1909 | 1909 | 1 | 0 |
| Martin Clarke | Ireland | Collingwood | 2007 | 2013 | 72 | 19 |
| Ted Cordner | England | Melbourne | 1941 | 1946 | 52 | 0 |
| Aidan Corr | Northern Ireland | Greater Western Sydney, North Melbourne | 2013 | | 162 | 3 |
| Ian Dargie | England | St Kilda, West Coast | 1989 | 1991 | 11 | 1 |
| Harry Davie | England | Carlton, Melbourne | 1924 | 1928 | 58 | 186 |
| Jim Davies | Wales | Carlton | 1949 | 1950 | 16 | 1 |
| Reg Davies | Wales | Hawthorn | 1930 | 1931 | 3 | 0 |
| Bart Dinsmore | Scotland | St Kilda | 1903 | 1903 | 2 | 3 |
| Paul Earley | England | Melbourne | 1984 | 1984 | 1 | 1 |
| Bill Eason | England | Geelong | 1902 | 1915 | 220 | 187 |
| Jack Edgeley | England | Fitzroy | 1907 | 1908 | 8 | 1 |
| Bob Edmond | Scotland | Carlton | 1967 | 1968 | 10 | 0 |
| Jim Edmond | Scotland | Footscray, Sydney, Brisbane Bears | 1977 | 1988 | 188 | 287 |
| Dinny Fagan | England | Sydney | 1929 | 1931 | 19 | 0 |
| Fred Fairweather | England | North Melbourne | 1944 | 1946 | 54 | 14 |
| Dick Fowler | England | Melbourne | 1908 | 1908 | 1 | 0 |
| Jack Frost | England | Carlton | 1897 | 1897 | 4 | 0 |
| Conor Glass | Ireland | Hawthorn | 2017 | 2020 | 21 | 2 |
| Fred Godfrey | England | Footscray | 1938 | 1938 | 6 | 5 |
| Andy Goodwin | England | Melbourne, Richmond | 1987 | 1993 | 73 | 9 |
| John Gray | Scotland | University | 1908 | 1913 | 85 | 3 |
| Dick Hall | Wales | Collingwood | 1897 | 1897 | 1 | 0 |
| Pearce Hanley | England | Brisbane Lions, Gold Coast | 2008 | 2020 | 169 | 60 |
| Paul Harding | England | Hawthorn, St Kilda, West Coast | 1987 | 1994 | 116 | 14 |
| Bob Hay | Scotland | Fitzroy | 1899 | 1901 | 9 | 1 |
| Connor Idun | England | Greater Western Sydney | 2019 | | 93 | 0 |
| Bill Johnstone | Scotland | Collingwood | 1941 | 1941 | 2 | 0 |
| Denis Lanigan | Ireland | Collingwood, Melbourne, Carlton | 1897 | 1899 | 41 | 6 |
| Darragh Joyce | Ireland | St Kilda, Brisbane Lions | 2018 | | 24 | 0 |
| Mark Keane | Ireland | Collingwood, Adelaide | 2019 | | 31 | 0 |
| Frank Kelly | England | Footscray | 1941 | 1944 | 8 | 0 |
| Tadhg Kennelly | Ireland | Sydney | 2001 | 2011 | 197 | 30 |
| Bob Kenny | Ireland | St Kilda | 1899 | 1899 | 2 | 0 |
| Barney Lazarus | Ireland | Carlton | 1902 | 1902 | 7 | 0 |
| Thomas Leather | Scotland | North Melbourne | 1932 | 1933 | 16 | 11 |
| Harry Lees | England | Collingwood | 1908 | 1908 | 1 | 0 |
| Johnny Leonard | England | South Melbourne | 1932 | 1932 | 12 | 17 |
| James Madden | Ireland | Brisbane Lions | 2021 | 2024 | 11 | 1 |
| Stuart Magee | Northern Ireland | Footscray, South Melbourne | 1962 | 1975 | 216 | 149 |
| Fred Mann | England | Essendon | 1901 | 1903 | 27 | 1 |
| Frank Maple | England | Hawthorn | 1926 | 1926 | 2 | 1 |
| Nick Marshall | Scotland | Geelong | 1907 | 1908 | 4 | 0 |
| William Marshall | England | Melbourne, University | 1905 | 1908 | 12 | 0 |
| Bryan Martin | England | Melbourne | 1942 | 1943 | 5 | 0 |
| John McCarthy | Wales | Fitzroy, North Melbourne | 1986 | 1996 | 163 | 178 |
| Alan McCrory | Ireland | Richmond, South Melbourne | 1938 | 1941 | 9 | 4 |
| Bob McIlveen | Scotland | Richmond | 1943 | 1943 | 6 | 0 |
| Niall McKeever | Northern Ireland | Brisbane Lions | 2011 | 2012 | 17 | 1 |
| Conor McKenna | Northern Ireland | Essendon, Brisbane Lions | 2015 | | 123 | 27 |
| Hugh McLaughlin Sr. | Scotland | South Melbourne, Footscray | 1929 | 1937 | 129 | 0 |
| Tom McNeil | Scotland | St Kilda | 1951 | 1952 | 8 | 0 |
| Dermot McNicholl | Ireland | St Kilda | 1990 | 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| Henry McPetrie | Scotland | Carlton | 1897 | 1897 | 5 | 2 |
| Donald Mills | Jersey | Hawthorn | 1929 | 1931 | 15 | 0 |
| Jim Money | Scotland | Geelong | 1928 | 1928 | 2 | 1 |
| Caolan Mooney | Ireland | Collingwood | 2012 | 2014 | 6 | 2 |
| Brad Moran | England | Adelaide, North Melbourne | 2006 | 2011 | 21 | 8 |
| Doug Morgan | Wales | Geelong | 1909 | 1911 | 18 | 3 |
| Oisín Mullin | Ireland | Geelong | 2023 | | 18 | 0 |
| Brian Mulvihill | England | North Melbourne | 1971 | 1972 | 24 | 25 |
| Brian Mynott | England | St Kilda | 1964 | 1975 | 210 | 75 |
| Conor Nash | Ireland | Hawthorn | 2018 | | 98 | 17 |
| Eric Needham | England | St Kilda | 1933 | 1933 | 1 | 0 |
| Ingy Norman | Wales | Fitzroy | 1938 | 1938 | 1 | 0 |
| Jack Norman | Wales | Fitzroy | 1938 | 1938 | 1 | 0 |
| Liam O'Connell | Ireland | St Kilda | 2025 | | 1 | 0 |
| Mark O'Connor | Ireland | Geelong | 2017 | | 122 | 9` |
| Laurie Ogilvie | Scotland | Melbourne | 1901 | 1901 | 4 | 3 |
| Joe O'Grady | Ireland | St Kilda | 1897 | 1897 | 9 | 0 |
| Setanta Ó hAilpín | Ireland | Carlton, Greater Western Sydney | 2005 | 2013 | 88 | 82 |
| Bill Perkins | England | Richmond | 1940 | 1949 | 148 | 0 |
| Jamie O'Reilly | Northern Ireland | Richmond | 2010 | 2011 | 4 | 0 |
| Colin O'Riordan | Ireland | Sydney | 2015 | 2022 | 34 | 1 |
| Michael Quinn | Ireland | Essendon | 2009 | 2011 | 8 | 2 |
| Jim Redstone | England | South Melbourne | 1938 | 1938 | 4 | 5 |
| George Renwick | England | Carlton | 1909 | 1909 | 4 | 0 |
| Ralph Robertson | England | St Kilda | 1898 | 1900 | 14 | 1 |
| Eddie Rosenbrock | England | South Melbourne | 1929 | 1930 | 4 | 0 |
| Bobby Royle | England | Melbourne | 1898 | 1898 | 3 | 0 |
| Fred Scott | Northern Ireland | Essendon, Carlton | 1899 | 1904 | 50 | 36 |
| Ciarán Sheehan | Ireland | Carlton | 2014 | 2017 | 6 | 0 |
| Arthur Sowden | England | Melbourne | 1897 | 1906 | 117 | 13 |
| Ted Staniland | England | Fitzroy | 1897 | 1897 | 5 | 3 |
| George Stewart | Scotland | Carlton | 1909 | 1909 | 2 | 0 |
| Wilfred Stott | England | Essendon, Richmond | 1913 | 1920 | 11 | 1 |
| Jack Strong | Scotland | Melbourne | 1901 | 1912 | 78 | 29 |
| Brian Stynes | Ireland | Melbourne | 1992 | 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| Jim Stynes | Ireland | Melbourne | 1987 | 1998 | 264 | 130 |
| George Sutherland | Scotland | St Kilda | 1900 | 1901 | 16 | 14 |
| Jim Tarbotton | England | Fitzroy | 1923 | 1926 | 37 | 1 |
| Syd Tate | England | Geelong | 1947 | 1951 | 85 | 13 |
| Ewan Thompson | Scotland | Richmond | 1997 | 1997 | 4 | 1 |
| Anton Tohill | Ireland | Collingwood | 2019 | 2021 | 1 | 0 |
| Will Thursfield | England | Richmond | 2005 | 2011 | 77 | 0 |
| Zach Tuohy | Ireland | Carlton, Geelong | 2011 | 2024 | 288 | 101 |
| Tommy Walsh | Ireland | Sydney | 2012 | 2014 | 5 | 3 |
| Clive Waterhouse | England | Fremantle | 1996 | 2004 | 106 | 178 |
| Fergus Watts | England | Adelaide, St Kilda | 2004 | 2007 | 6 | 3 |
| Fred West | England | Hawthorn | 1928 | 1929 | 12 | 3 |
| Sean Wight | Scotland | Melbourne | 1985 | 1995 | 150 | 63 |
| Art Wilkinson | England | Collingwood, Essendon | 1912 | 1913 | 13 | 8 |
| Arnie Wilson | England | St Kilda | 1909 | 1910 | 2 | 0 |
| Josh Worrell | England | Adelaide | 2021 | | 30 | 0 |
| Syd Young | England | South Melbourne | 1941 | 1941 | 2 | 0 |