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1 Albania  





2 Algeria  





3 Angola  





4 Argentina  





5 Armenia  





6 Australia  





7 Austria  





8 Azerbaijan  





9 Belarus  





10 Belgium  





11 Benin  





12 Bolivia  





13 Bosnia and Herzegovina  





14 Brazil  





15 Bulgaria  





16 Burkina Faso  





17 Burundi  





18 Cameroon  





19 Canada  





20 Cape Verde  





21 Central African Republic  





22 Chad  





23 Chile  





24 Colombia  





25 Comoros  





26 Congo  





27 Congo DR  





28 Costa Rica  





29 Croatia  





30 Curaçao  





31 Cyprus  





32 Czech Republic  





33 Denmark  





34 Djibouti  





35 Egypt  





36 El Salvador  





37 England  





38 Equatorial Guinea  





39 Estonia  





40 Faroe Islands  





41 Finland  





42 France  





43 French Guiana  





44 Gabon  





45 Georgia  





46 Germany  





47 Ghana  





48 Greece  





49 Guadeloupe  





50 Guatemala  





51 Guinea  





52 Guinea-Bissau  





53 Guyana  





54 Haiti  





55 Honduras  





56 Hong Kong  





57 Hungary  





58 Iceland  





59 Iraq  





60 Ireland  





61 Israel  





62 Italy  





63 Ivory Coast  





64 Jamaica  





65 Japan  





66 Jordan  





67 Kenya  





68 Kosovo  





69 Latvia  





70 Lebanon  





71 Liberia  





72 Lithuania  





73 Madagascar  





74 Malawi  





75 Malaysia  





76 Mali  





77 Martinique  





78 Mauritania  





79 Mauritius  





80 Mexico  





81 Moldova  





82 Montenegro  





83 Morocco  





84 Mozambique  





85 Netherlands  





86 New Zealand  





87 Nigeria  





88 North Macedonia  





89 Norway  





90 Panama  





91 Paraguay  





92 Peru  





93 Philippines  





94 Poland  





95 Portugal  





96 Russia  





97 Rwanda  





98 Saint Lucia  





99 Saudi Arabia  





100  Scotland  





101  Senegal  





102  Serbia  





103  Sierra Leone  





104  Slovakia  





105  Slovenia  





106  South Africa  





107  South Korea  





108  Spain  





109  Sudan  





110  Suriname  





111  Sweden  





112  Switzerland  





113  Syria  





114  Tajikistan  





115  Togo  





116  Tunisia  





117  Turkey  





118  Uganda  





119  Ukraine  





120  United States  





121  Uruguay  





122  Venezuela  





123  Zambia  





124  Zimbabwe  





125  Notes  





126  External links  














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This is a list of foreign players in the Liga I, which commenced play in 1909. The following players must meet both of the following two criteria:

  1. Have played at least one Liga I game. Players who were signed by Liga I 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 Romania determined by the following:
A player is considered foreign if he is not eligible to play for the national teams of Romania.

More specifically,

Clubs listed are those that the player has played at least one Liga I game for.

Seasons listed are those that the player has played at least one Liga I game in. Note that seasons, not calendar years, are used. For example,『1992–1995』indicates that the player has played in every season from 1992–1993 to 1994–1995, but not necessarily every calendar year from 1992 to 1995.

In bold: players that have played at least one Liga I game in the current season (2023–2024) and the clubs they've played for. They include players that have subsequently left the club, but do not include current players of a Liga I club that have not played a Liga I game in the current season.

Albania[edit]

Roland Agalliu was the first foreign footballer that arrived in Romania after the 1989 Romanian Revolution.

Algeria[edit]

French-Algerian Billel Omrani won five consecutive Liga I titles with CFR Cluj, also being named the Liga I Foreign Player of the Year in 2019.

Angola[edit]

Argentina[edit]

Sebastián Dubarbier won two Liga I titles with CFR Cluj and was the first winner of the Liga I Foreign Player of the Year award.
Pablo Brandán won the Liga I title with Unirea Urziceni and Viitorul Constanța, also being named the Liga I Foreign Player of the Year in 2009.
Emmanuel Culio won six Liga I titles with CFR Cluj.
Gabriel Viglianti won the Liga I title with Oțelul Galați.

Armenia[edit]

Australia[edit]

Joshua Rose is the Australian player with the most games played in Liga I, 113 and they are all for FC Universitatea Craiova.

Austria[edit]

Azerbaijan[edit]

Belarus[edit]

Belgium[edit]

Benin[edit]

Bolivia[edit]

Bosnia and Herzegovina[edit]

Branko Grahovac won the Liga I title with Oțelul Galați.
International Mateo Sušić won three consecutive Liga I titles with CFR Cluj.
International Daniel Graovac won the Liga I title with CFR Cluj.

Brazil[edit]

Eric de Oliveira won twice the Liga I Foreign Player of the Year award.
Juliano Spadacio scored 25 goals in 107 Liga I games for Rapid București and Astra Ploiești.
Júnior Morais played in 281 Liga I matches, winning the title with Astra Giurgiu.
During his period spent at Astra, William de Amorim managed to win the Liga I title.
Rafael Bastos won the Liga I title with CFR Cluj.
Adaílton ended his European career with a two-year spell at FC Vaslui scoring 17 goals in 59 Liga I appearances.
Yuri Matias won the Liga I title with CFR Cluj.

Bulgaria[edit]

Radoslav Dimitrov appeared in 216 Liga I games for FC Botoșani, CS Universitatea Craiova and Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe.
Zhivko Milanov appeared in 104 Liga I games for FC Vaslui.
Plamen Iliev played 133 Liga I matches for five teams.

Burkina Faso[edit]

Burundi[edit]

Cameroon[edit]

Patrick Ekeng died while playing for Dinamo București in a Liga I game against Viitorul Constanța.

Canada[edit]

Cape Verde[edit]

Fernando Varela has won two Liga I titles with Steaua București and once the Liga I Foreign Player of the Year award.

Central African Republic[edit]

Chad[edit]

Chile[edit]

Colombia[edit]

Dayro Moreno and Juan Toja played together at Steaua București.

Comoros[edit]

Congo[edit]

Congo DR[edit]

Jeremy Bokila had a prolific period in his only season spent at Petrolul Ploiești scoring 16 goals in 32 games.

Costa Rica[edit]

Croatia[edit]

With 22 goals scored for Rapid București in the 2022–23 Liga I season, Marko Dugandžić earned the top-goalscorer of the season award.
Damjan Đoković played for CFR Cluj in two different periods, winning four Liga I titles.
Gabriel Debeljuh won two Liga I titles with CFR Cluj.

Curaçao[edit]

Cyprus[edit]

Czech Republic[edit]

Denmark[edit]

Djibouti[edit]

Egypt[edit]

El Salvador[edit]

England[edit]

Equatorial Guinea[edit]

Estonia[edit]

Faroe Islands[edit]

Finland[edit]

France[edit]

Nicolas Godemèche with the 2012 Liga I trophy.
Cyril Théréau scored 10 goals for Steaua București in his only season in Liga I.

French Guiana[edit]

Gabon[edit]

Georgia[edit]

Germany[edit]

Ghana[edit]

Nana Boateng won the Liga I title with CFR Cluj.

Greece[edit]

Pantelis Kapetanos has won the Liga I title with CFR Cluj and Steaua București having a total of 48 goals scored in the league.

Guadeloupe[edit]

Guatemala[edit]

Guinea[edit]

Guinea-Bissau[edit]

Guyana[edit]

Haiti[edit]

Honduras[edit]

Hong Kong[edit]

Hungary[edit]

The member of Hungary's Mighty Magyars, Gyula Lóránt (left) and one of the Romanian-Hungarians who represented both Romania and Hungary at International level, József Pecsovszky (right) managed to win the Liga I title in their single season spent together at UTA Arad.

Iceland[edit]

Iraq[edit]

Ireland[edit]

Israel[edit]

Italy[edit]

Andrea Compagno was named the Liga I Foreign Player of the Year in 2022.
Federico Piovaccari scored 10 goals and won the Liga I title in his single season spent at Steaua București.

Ivory Coast[edit]

CFR Cluj was Lacina Traoré's first European club.

Jamaica[edit]

Japan[edit]

Jordan[edit]

Kenya[edit]

Kosovo[edit]

Latvia[edit]

Lebanon[edit]

Liberia[edit]

Lithuania[edit]

Giedrius Arlauskis won seven Liga I titles with three different teams: one with each of Unirea Urziceni and Steaua București and five with CFR Cluj.

Madagascar[edit]

Malawi[edit]

Malaysia[edit]

Mali[edit]

Martinique[edit]

Mauritania[edit]

Mauritius[edit]

Mexico[edit]

Moldova[edit]

Eugeniu Cebotaru spent seven seasons in Liga I at Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț, Academica Clinceni and Petrolul Ploiești, playing a total 167 games in which he scored 17 goals.

Montenegro[edit]

Vladimir Božović spent five years at Rapid București, playing in 131 Liga I games.

Morocco[edit]

Mozambique[edit]

Netherlands[edit]

New Zealand[edit]

Nigeria[edit]

Kehinde Fatai started his senior career playing in Romania for Farul Constanța, later playing for Astra Giurgiu and Argeș Pitești, scoring a total of 45 goals in Liga I.

North Macedonia[edit]

Norway[edit]

Panama[edit]

Paraguay[edit]

Peru[edit]

Philippines[edit]

Poland[edit]

Łukasz Szukała won three consecutive Liga I titles with Steaua București and was the Liga I Foreign Player of the Year in 2014.

Portugal[edit]

Mário Camora won six Liga I titles with CFR Cluj and he also gained Romanian citizenship, representing Romania’s national team internationally.
Ricardo Cadú won a hat-trick of Liga I titles with CFR Cluj and was the first foreign player that played in over 200 Liga I games.
Tony has won two Liga I titles with CFR Cluj.
International goalkeeper Beto won the Liga I title in his only season spent at CFR Cluj.
Filipe Teixeira played for five different Liga I clubs winning the title with Astra Giurgiu.
Geraldo Alves spent the last years of his career playing for three teams in Liga I, winning the title with Astra Giurgiu.
Rui Duarte appeared in over 100 Liga I matches for FC Brașov and Rapid București.

Russia[edit]

Rwanda[edit]

Saint Lucia[edit]

Saudi Arabia[edit]

Scotland[edit]

Senegal[edit]

Serbia[edit]

Milan Perendija won the Liga I title with Oțelul Galați.

Sierra Leone[edit]

Slovakia[edit]

International goalkeeper Dušan Kuciak had a three-year spell in Liga I at FC Vaslui.

Slovenia[edit]

Miha Mevlja made his International debut for Slovenia during his spell at Dinamo București.

South Africa[edit]

South Korea[edit]

Spain[edit]

The twin Oriol brothers Joan (left) and Eduard (right) played together in their short spell at Rapid București.
Pablo de Lucas played in over 100 Liga I matches for four different teams.

Sudan[edit]

Suriname[edit]

Sweden[edit]

Switzerland[edit]

Syria[edit]

Tajikistan[edit]

Togo[edit]

Tunisia[edit]

Turkey[edit]

Uganda[edit]

Ukraine[edit]

United States[edit]

Uruguay[edit]

World Cup semi-finalist and Copa América winner Álvaro Pereira spent his first season in Europe at CFR Cluj.

Venezuela[edit]

Zambia[edit]

Zimbabwe[edit]

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