page_title: List of foreign Bundesliga players
section_title: Finland
hierarchical_section_title: List of foreign Bundesliga players / UEFA / Finland
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le footballeur Johan Micoud, des Girondins de Bordeaux, lors d'un stage de présaison à Albertville (France) .
context_page_description: This is a list of foreign players in the Bundesliga, which commenced play in 1963. The following players must meet both of the following two criteria:
  Have played at least one Bundesliga game. Players who were signed by Bundesliga clubs, but only played in lower league, cup and/or European games, or did not play in any competitive games at all, are not included. Players of 2. Bundesliga clubs are also not included.
  Are considered foreign, i.e., outside Germany determined by the following:
  A player is considered foreign if he is not eligible to play for the national team of Germany.
  More specifically,
  If a player has been capped on international level, the national team is used; if he has been capped by more than one country, the highest level team is used. These include German players with dual citizenship.
  If a player has not been capped on international level, his country of birth is used, except those who were born abroad from German parents or moved to Germany at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched his nationality to another nation.
context_section_description: Mikael Forssell – Borussia M'gladbach, Hannover 96 – 2002–03, 2008–11
  Ari Hjelm – Stuttgarter Kickers – 1988–89
  Lukáš Hrádecký – Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayer Leverkusen – 2015–
  Sami Hyypiä – Bayer Leverkusen – 2009–11
  Olli Isoaho – Arminia Bielefeld – 1982–83
  Fredrik Jensen – Augsburg – 2018–
  Joonas Kolkka – Borussia M'gladbach – 2003–04
  Pekka Lagerblom – Werder Bremen, 1. FC Nürnberg – 2003–06
  Kari Laukkanen – Stuttgarter Kickers – 1988–89
  Jari Litmanen – Hansa Rostock – 2004–05
  Niklas Moisander – Werder Bremen – 2016–
  Mika Nurmela – 1. FC Kaiserslautern – 2003–05
  Petri Pasanen – Werder Bremen – 2004–11
  Juhani Peltonen – Hamburger SV – 1964–66
  Joel Pohjanpalo – Bayer Leverkusen – 2016–18
  Teemu Pukki – Schalke 04 – 2011–14
  Seppo Pyykkö – Bayer Uerdingen – 1980–81
  Jukka Raitala – 1899 Hoffenheim – 2009–10
  Pasi Rautiainen – Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen, Arminia Bielefeld – 1980–85
  Alexander Ring – Borussia M'gladbach – 2011–13
  Janne Saarinen – 1860 Munich – 2003–04
  Berat Sadik – Arminia Bielefeld – 2008–09
  Malick Thiaw – Schalke 04 – 2019–
caption: Playmaker Johan Micoud was a pivotal figure in Werder Bremen's 2000s success, culminating in winning the double of German championship and DFB-Pokal in 2003–04
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