List of foreign football players in the Netherlands explained

This is a list of foreign players in the Eredivisie, which commenced play in 1956. The following players must meet both of the following two criteria:

  1. Have played at least one Eredivisie game. Players who were signed by Eredivisie 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.
  2. Are considered foreign, i.e., outside the Netherlands, determined by the following:

A player is considered foreign if he is not eligible to play for the national teams of the Netherlands.More specifically,

Clubs listed are those for which the player has played at least one Eredivisie game—and seasons are those in which the player has played at least one Eredivisie game. Note that seasons, not calendar years, are used. For example, "1992–95" indicates that the player has played in every season from 1992–93 to 1994–95, but not necessarily every calendar year from 1992 to 1995. Therefore, a player should always have a listing under at least two years — for instance, a player making his debut in 2011, during the 2011–12 season, will have '2011–12' after his name. This follows general practice in expressing sporting seasons.

In bold: players who have played at least one Eredivisie game in the (2023–24) season, and the clubs they have played for. They include players who have subsequently left the club, but do not include current players of an Eredivisie club who have not played an Eredivisie game in the current season.

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Angola

Argentina

Armenia

Aruba

Australia

Austria

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Bermuda

Bonaire

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Canada

Cape Verde

Chile

China

Colombia

Comoros

Costa Rica

Croatia

Curaçao

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Denmark

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

El Salvador

Egypt

England

Equatorial Guinea

Estonia

Finland

France

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z

Ghana

Greece

Guadeloupe

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Hungary

Iceland

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Ivory Coast

Jamaica

Japan

Kazakhstan

Kosovo

Latvia

Liberia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Madagascar

Mali

Mexico

Moldova

Montenegro

Morocco

New Zealand

Nigeria

North Macedonia

Northern Ireland

Norway

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Rwanda

Saudi Arabia

Scotland

Senegal

Serbia

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Africa

South Korea

Spain

Suriname

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

Thailand

Togo

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Uganda

Ukraine

United States

Uruguay

Venezuela

Wales

Yugoslavia

Zambia

Zimbabwe

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