List of foreign Ligue 1 players: I explained
Iceland
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
- Henri Alberto - Lyon, Monaco - 1954–56, 1956–61
- Gennaro Luigi Alfano - Toulon - 1983–93
- Mario Balotelli - Nice, Marseille - 2016–19
- Antonio Barreca – Monaco – 2018–19
- Cristian Battocchio – Brest – 2019–21
- Raoul Bellanova – Bordeaux – 2019–20
- Cesare Benedetti - Marseille, Toulouse FC - 1948–51
- Armando Bianchi - Paris SG - 1978–80
- Angelo Bollano - Marseille - 1948–50
- Gianluigi Buffon - Paris SG - 2018–19
- Arturo Calabresi – Amiens – 2019–20
- Aridex Calligaris - Saint-Étienne, Lyon - 1945–49, 1951–52
- Angelo Contini - Lens - 1950–51
- Elpidio Coppa - Rennes - 1948–49
- Alessandro Crescenzi - AC Ajaccio - 2013 - 14
- Antoine Curcuru - Marseille - 1935–36
- Paolo De Ceglie - Marseille - 2015–16
- Morgan De Sanctis - Monaco - 2016–17
- Mattia De Sciglio – Lyon – 2020–21
- Edmondo Della Valle - Nice - 1932–34
- Marco Di Costanzo - Nice, Rennes - 1994–95, 1997–98
- Marco Di Vaio - Monaco - 2006–07
- Gianluigi Donnarumma - Paris SG - 2021–
- Stephan El Shaarawy - Monaco - 2015–16
- Emerson – Lyon – 2021–22
- Felica Farina - Sedan - 1958–59
- Paolo Farina - Bastia - 1968–71
- Marcello Farrabi - Sedan - 1972–74
- Emilio Ferlatti - Béziers - 1957–58
- Alessandro Florenzi - Paris SG - 2020–21
- Ivan Franceschini - Marseille - 1996–97
- Dante Gentini - Nice - 1956–57
- Corrado Grossi - Marseille - 1948–49
- Fabio Grosso - Lyon - 2007–10
- Moise Kean - Paris SG - 2020–21
- Pietro Landi - RC Paris, Nice, Troyes - 1949–53, 1954–56
- Luigi Lavecchia - Le Mans - 2005–06
- Dante Lerda - Cannes - 1938–39, 1945–49
- Alberto Malusci - Marseille - 1996–97
- Vito Mannone – Monaco, Lorient, Lille – 2020–21, 2022–
- Renato Marchiaro - Nice - 1948–49 (or Alès)
- Pietro Migliaccio - Marseille - 1946–47
- Alberto Molina - Montpellier - 1952–53
- Stelvio Molinari - Nice - 1949–50
- Thiago Motta - Paris SG - 2011–18
- Cher Ndour - Paris SG - 2023–
- Roberto Onorati - Nice - 1996–97
- Joseph Dayo Oshadogan - Monaco - 2003–05
- Michele Padovano - Metz - 1999–2000
- Christian Panucci – Monaco – 2000–02
- Pietro Pellegri - Monaco - 2017–19, 2020–21
- Alberto Poli - Angers, Paris SG, Rouen - 1965–68, 1969–75, 1977–78
- Ovilio Pratesi - Monaco - 1953–56
- Andrea Raggi - Monaco - 2013–19
- Fabrizio Ravanelli - Marseille - 1997–2000
- Francesco Rier - Nice - 1932–34
- Flavio Roma - Monaco - 2001–09
- Daniele Rugani - Rennes - 2020–21
- Ernesto Sandroni - Rennes - 1951–52
- Nello Sbaiz - Saint-Étienne - 1959–67
- Alfredo Scapinello - Le Havre - 1961–62
- Antonio Scavarini - Marseille - 1948–52
- Roberto Serone - Nice - 1949–51
- Marco Simone - Paris SG, Monaco, Nice - 1997–2001, 2003–04
- Salvatore Sirigu - Paris SG - 2011–16
- Alfredo Spadavecchia - Saint-Étienne - 1952–53
- Ernesto Tomasi - Nice, Cannes - 1932–33, 1946–47
- Denis Tonucci - AC Ajaccio - 2013–14
- Stefano Torrisi - Marseille - 2001–02
- Primo Vecchies - Stade Français - 1946–47, 1948–49
- Giuseppe Verk - SC Nîmes - 1932–33
- Marco Verratti - Paris SG - 2012–23
- Christian Vieri - Monaco - 2005–06
- Mattia Viti - Nice - 2022–23
- Aldo Vollono - Antibes - 1933–34
- Kelvin Yeboah - Montpellier - 2023–24
References and notes
Books
- Book: Barreaud, Marc . Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997) . 1998 . L'Harmattan, Paris . 2-7384-6608-7.
- Book: Tamás Dénes . Pál Peterdi . Zoltán Rochy . József Selmeci . Kalandozó magyar labdarúgók . 1999 . 963-85967-0-8.
Club pages
Others
