List of Belgium international footballers born outside Belgium

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This is a list of footballers who have played international football for the Belgian national football team and that were born outside Belgian territory .

Contents

The following players:

  1. have played at least one game for the full (senior male) Belgium international team.
  2. were born outside Belgium.
  3. This list includes players who have dual citizenship with Belgium and/or have become naturalized Belgian citizens. Conversely, there are also several footballers born in Belgium who opted to represent another nation. [1]

The players are ordered per modern-day country of birth; if the country at the time of birth differs from the current, this is indicated with a subsection.

Angola

Armenia

Russian Empire

Bosnia and Herzegovina

SFR Yugoslavia

Brazil

Croatia

SFR Yugoslavia

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Zaire

England

France

Haiti

Ivory Coast

Netherlands

Senegal

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References

  1. ↑ Trots op hun roots: elftal Belgen dat voor interlandcarrière bij ander land koos [Proud of their roots: Belgian national team that opted for an international career with another country], Voetbal Primeur, 11 October 2020 (in Dutch)
  2. ↑ "Belgium - L. Cavanda - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 "Alle Rode Duivels" (in Dutch). Royal Belgian Football Association . Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "Vahram Kevorkian". National Football Teams. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Belgium - G. Vidović - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rode Duivels met vreemde wortels: een geschiedenis van vooral succesverhalen [Red Devils with strange roots: a history of mainly success stories], Voetbal Primeur, 12 October 2020 (in Dutch)
  7. 1 2 3 4 Josip Weber, Luis Oliveira, Branko Strupar... Voyage parmi les joueurs étrangers naturalisés devenus des Diables rouges [Josip Weber, Luis Oliveira, Branko Strupar... Journey among naturalized foreign players who have become Red Devils], La Libre, 8 November 2017 (in French)
  8. ↑ "Belgium - I. de Camargo - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  9. ↑ "Belgium - Luis Oliveira - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  10. ↑ "Belgium - B. Strupar - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  11. ↑ "Belgium - J. Weber - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  12. ↑ "Belgium - C. Benteke - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  13. ↑ Heel wat Rode Duivels konden voor een ander land kiezen, maar opteerden toch voor België [A lot of Red Devils could choose another country, but still opted for Belgium], Voetbalkrant, 23 March 2016 (in Dutch)
  14. ↑ "Belgium - C. Kabasele - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
  15. ↑ "Belgium - I. Mboyo - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  16. ↑ "Belgium - M. Mpenza - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  17. ↑ "Belgium - G. Mudingayi - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  18. ↑ "Belgium - G. Mujangi Bia - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  19. ↑ "Congo DR - K. Tshimanga - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  20. ↑ "Belgium - A. Vanden Borre - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  21. ↑ "Jef Nelis". National Football Teams. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  22. ↑ "Belgium - C. Wouwer - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  23. ↑ Club Brugge. "Erwin Vandendaele". Club Brugge. Archived from the original on 2014-05-17. Retrieved 2014-05-16.
  24. ↑ "Belgium - R. Lamah - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  25. ↑ "Stanley Vanden Eynde". National Football Teams. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
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