List of Australia men's international soccer players born outside Australia

This is a list of foreign-born soccer players who played for the Australia national soccer team.

Players

Argentina

• Walter Ardone ^[1]
• Pablo Cardozo ^[2]
• Oscar Crino ^{[3] [4]}
• Rodolfo Gnavi ^[5]
• Gabriel Mendez ^[6]

Austria

• James Jeggo ^[7]

Brazil

• Agenor Muniz ^[8]

Croatia

• Miloš Degenek ^{[9] [10]}
• Fran Karacic ^[11]

Czechoslovakia

• Mildo Mueller ^[12]
• David Zeman ^[13]

Egypt

• Garang Kuol ^[14]

England

Stan Ackerley [15] Alan Ainslie [16] Adrian Alston [17] Francis Awaritefe [18] Roy Blitz [19] Ken Boden [20] Luke Brattan [21] Wilfred Bratton [22] Greg Brown [23] Gary Byrne [24] Alec Cameron [25] Jim Campbell [26] Gary Cole [27] Robert Cornthwaite [28] John Coyne [29] Martyn Crook [30] Duncan Cummings [31] John Davies [32] Mike Denton [33] Bill Edwards [34] William Faulkner [35] Jack Gilmour [36] Dave Harding [37] Tony Henderson [38] Clem Higgins [39] Ray Ilott [40] Neil Kilkenny [41] Ray Lloyd [42] David Lowe [43] Alf Mackey [44]

Jack Mather [45] Frank McIver [46] Frank Millier-Smith [47] Kevin Muscat [48] Alan Niven [49] George Nuttall [50] Phil O'Connor [51] Tommy Oliver [52] Peter Ollerton [53] Ralph Piercy [54] David Ratcliffe [55] Ray Richards [56] Jim Robison [57] Samuel Silvera [58] Robbie Slater [59] Geoff Sleight [60] Matt Smith John Spanos [61] Warren Spink [62] Pete Stone [63] Ryan Strain [64] Jim Tansey [65] Jack Taylor [66] Paul Wade Danny Walsh [67] Johnny Watkiss Alf White Peter Wilson John Yzendoorn

France

• Denis Genreau ^[68]

Germany

• Roger Romanowicz ^[69]
• Manfred Schaefer ^[70]
• Les Scheinflug ^[71]

Greece

• Apostolos Giannou ^[72]
• George Haniotis ^[37]
• Peter Katholos ^[73]
• Ange Postecoglou ^[74]
• Peter Raskopoulos ^[75]

Hong Kong

• Connor Pain ^[76]

Hungary

• Attila Abonyi ^[77]
• Peter Fuzes ^[78]
• Steve Herczeg ^[79]
• George Kulcsar ^[80]
• Les Suchanek ^[81]

Iran

• Daniel Arzani ^[82]

Ireland

• John Doyle ^[83]
• Alex Gibb ^[84]

Italy

• Raphael Bove ^[85]
• John Giacometti
• John Perin ^[86]
• Wally Savor ^[87]

Kenya

• Thomas Deng ^[88]
• Awer Mabil ^[88]

Lebanon

• Abbas Saad ^{[89] [90]}

Malta

• Lou Vella ^[91]

Mauritius

• Jean-Paul de Marigny ^[92]

Netherlands

• Ted de Lyster ^[93]
• Dick van Alphen ^[94]

New Zealand

• Archie Thompson ^[95]

Nigeria

• Bernie Ibini ^[96]

Northern Ireland

• Ron Adair
• Alan Hunter ^[97]
• Frank Loughran ^[98]
• Billy Rice ^[99]

Romania

• Josip Picioane ^[100]

Russia

• Aku Roth ^[101]

Scotland

John Anderson [84] Jim Armstrong [102] Steve Blair [103] Archie Blue [19] George Blues [20] Martin Boyle [104] Peter Boyle [85] Jimmy Cant [26] Billy Cook [105] Dave Cumberford [106] Jock Cumberford [106] Tommy Cumming [31] Jason Cummings [107] Ian Davidson [32] Robbie Dunn [108] Charlie Egan [34] Alec Forrest [109] Alec Heaney [110] Andy Henderson [38] Bobby Hogg [84] Pat Hughes [111] Sandy Irvine [112] Tom Jack [113] George Keith [114] John Little [115] James Love [43] Jimmy Mackay [84] Alan Marnoch [116]

Jim McCabe [117] Tommy McColl [118] Tom McCulloch [118] John McDonald [119] Garry McDowall [120] Hamilton McMeechan [121] Dave Mitchell [84] Jim Muir [12] Bill Murphy [122] Kenny Murphy [123] Johnny Orr [124] Jamie Paton [125] Jim Pearson [126] Johnny Peebles [126] George Raitt [75] Jack Reilly [84] Harry Rice [99] Alex Robertson [127] Jimmy Rooney [84] Willie Rutherford [128] Nigel Shepherd [129] Harry Souttar [130] John Stevenson [131] Tom Tennant [66] Sid Thomas [66] Joe Watson Bob Wemyss Alan Westwater [132]

South Africa

• Keanu Baccus ^{[133] [134]}
• Charlie O'Connor ^[51]
• Billy Rogers ^[135]
• Kimon Taliadoros ^[136]
• Jack White

Southern Rhodesia

• Cliff van Blerk ^[137]

Sudan

• Ruon Tongyik ^[138]

Turkey

• Aytek Genc ^[139]

Ukraine

• Nikita Rukavytsya ^[140]

United States

• Bruce Djite ^[141]
• Angus "Billy" Gibb ^[142]

Uruguay

• Bruno Fornaroli ^[143]

Wales

• Billy Price ^[144]

Yugoslavia

• Eli Babalj ^[145]
• Yakka Banovic ^[146]
• Vlado Bozinovski ^[147]
• Branko Buljevic ^[148]
• Billy Celeski ^[149]
• Dino Djulbic ^[150]
• Mehmet Duraković ^[151]
• Milan Ivanović ^[112]
• Mike Micevski ^[152]
• Frank Micic ^[153]
• Branko Milosevic ^[154]
• Žarko Odžakov ^[155]
• Ivo Prskalo ^[156]
• Mendo Ristovski ^[157]
• Ernie Tapai ^[158]
• Doug Utjesenovic
• Dario Vidošić ^[159]
• Billy Vojtek ^[160]

List by country of birth

Birthplace	Players
England	59
Scotland	56
Yugoslavia	19
Argentina	5
Greece	5
Hungary	5
South Africa	4
Northern Ireland	4
Italy	4
Germany	3
Croatia	2
Austria	2
Ireland	2
Kenya	2
Netherlands	2
New Zealand	2
United States	2
Brazil	1
Czechoslovakia	1
Egypt	1
France	1
Hong Kong	1
Iran	1
Lebanon	1
Malta	1
Mauritius	1
Nigeria	1
Romania	1
Southern Rhodesia	1
Sudan	1
Turkey	1
Ukraine	1
Uruguay	1
Wales	1

See also

• List of Australia women's international soccer players born outside Australia
• List of England international footballers born in Australia
• List of Croatia international footballers born in Australia
• List of Lebanon international footballers born in Australia
• List of Netherlands international footballers born in Australia
• List of New Zealand international footballers born in Australia
• List of Scotland international footballers born in Australia

References

General

• Howe, Andrew (2018). Encyclopedia of Socceroos: Every national team player. Fair Play Publishing. ISBN   978-0-648-13330-8.

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External links

• Current Australian squad profiles at Football Federation of Australia
• Australian Online Football Museum
• OzFootball - The Australian Football Site
• List of Australian internationals from 1922 to June 2008, ordered chronologically by debut, and also alphabetically