List of Tunisia international footballers born outside Tunisia

The Tunisia national football team has used footballers born outside Tunisia throughout its history with varying success. ^[1]

List of players

Wahbi Khazri is considered one of the most important dual citizenship players to have represented the Tunisian national team. He is the Tunisian player with the most goals scored in the FIFA World Cup, with three goals, and is the second-highest scorer in the team's history.

This is a list of football players who represented the Tunisia national football team in international football and were born outside Tunisia.

The following players:

1. have played at least one game for the full (senior male) Tunisia national team; and
2. were born outside Tunisia.

This list includes players who have dual citizenship with Tunisia and/or have become naturalised Tunisian citizens. 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 footnote.

As of 13 October 2025

Country of birth	Player	Caps	Goals	Period	Refs.
Brazil	José Clayton	39	4	1998–2006	[2]
Brazil	Adailton Pereira	2	0	2001–2002	[3]
Brazil	Francileudo Santos	41	22	2004–2008	[4]
Denmark	Anis Ben Slimane	39	4	2020–present	[5]
Italy	Karim Laribi	2	0	2017	[6]
Germany	Sami Allagui	26	5	2008–2014	[7]
Germany	Sofian Chahed	4	0	2009–2013	[8]
Germany	Änis Ben–Hatira	12	1	2012–2016	[9]
Germany	Mohamed Dräger	40	3	2018–present	[10]
Germany	Marc Lamti	3	0	2019	[11]
Germany	Elias Saad	6	3	2024–present	[12]
France	Adel Chedli	57	4	1996–2012	[13]
France	Mehdi Nafti	46	1	2002–2010	[14]
France	Selim Benachour	44	2	2002–2010	[15]
France	Alaeddine Yahia	25	1	2002–2014	[16]
France	Hamed Namouchi	21	1	2005–2008	[17]
France	Chaouki Ben Saada	40	5	2005–2010	[18]
France	David Jemmali	10	0	2006–2007	[19]
France	Hocine Ragued	54	0	2006–2015	[20]
France	Tijani Belaïd	20	3	2007–2015	[21]
France	Jamel Saihi	20	2	2008–2016	[22]
France	Fahid Ben Khalfallah	17	2	2008–2011	[23]
France	Aïmen Demai	2	0	2009	[24]
France	Nabil Taïder	4	1	2009–2010	[25]
France	Fabien Camus	3	1	2009–2015	[26]
France	Yohan Benalouane	5	0	2010–2018	[27]
France	Syam Ben Youssef	48	2	2010–2019	[28]
France	Aymen Belaïd	3	0	2012	[29]
France	Abdelkader Oueslati	8	0	2012–2016	[30]
France	Wahbi Khazri	74	25	2013–2022	[31]
France	Stéphane Nater	12	0	2014–2015	[32]
France	Selim Ben Djemia	5	0	2014–2015	[33]
France	Bilel Mohsni	9	0	2014–2018	[34]
France	Mohamed Gouaida	3	0	2015	[35]
France	Yoann Touzghar	6	1	2015–2022	[36]
France	Larry Azouni	10	0	2016–2019	[37]
France	Anice Badri	27	8	2016–2019	[38]
France	Naïm Sliti	83	14	2016–present	[39]
France	Dylan Bronn	45	2	2017–present	[40]
France	Mouez Hassen	21	0	2018–2023	[41]
France	Ellyes Skhiri	72	3	2018–present	[42]
France	Saîf-Eddine Khaoui	28	4	2018–present	[43]
France	Nader Ghandri	19	0	2019–present	[44]
France	Idris El Mizouni	2	0	2019–present	[45]
France	Wajdi Kechrida	39	0	2019–present	[46]
France	Nabil Makni	3	0	2020–present	[47]
France	Hamza Rafia	37	4	2020–present	[48]
France	Aïssa Laïdouni	59	2	2021–present	[49]
France	Hannibal Mejbri	37	1	2021–present	[50]
France	Montassar Talbi	55	2	2021–present	[51]
France	Chaïm El Djebali	1	0	2022	[52]
France	Elias Achouri	22	2	2022–present	[53]
France	Yan Valery	14	0	2022–present	[54]
France	Ismaël Gharbi	4	1	2025–present	[55]
Netherlands	Omar Rekik	3	0	2021–present	[56]
Norway	Sebastian Tounekti	4	0	2021–present	[57]
Sweden	Amor Layouni	10	1	2019–present	[58]
Sweden	Ali Youssef	5	0	2021–present	[59]
Sweden	Adam Ben Lamin	1	0	2022–present	[60]
Sweden	Rami Kaib	2	0	2022–present	[61]
Sweden	Moutaz Neffati	1	0	2025–present	[62]
Switzerland	Yassin Mikari	32	1	2007–2015	[63]
Switzerland	Salim Khelifi	2	0	2019	[64]
Switzerland	Sayfallah Ltaief	21	1	2022–present	[65]

See also

• List of Tunisia international footballers

References

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