VFL/AFL players with international backgrounds
Australian Football League players come from diverse backgrounds, with 15 per cent of all players either born overseas or have a parent born overseas.[1] A total of 121 players from a multicultural background (at least one parent born overseas) are among the 817 AFL listed players in 2013. Richmond Football Club has the most multicultural players with 30% and Carlton Football Club has the least with almost 5%.[2] Of those 121 multicultural players, more than half have one parent from Anglophone countries, mainly the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.[3]
Albania
Barbados
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Cook Islands
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
East Timor
- Lin Jong (Taiwanese mother, Timorese-Chinese father)
Egypt
Ahmed Saad (Egyptian parents)[27]
Estonia
Fiji
Germany
Greece
see: Greek Team of the Century[35]
Hungary
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Kenya
Latvia
Lebanon
Lithuania
Macedonia
Malaysia
Malta
Myanmar
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Poland
Russia
Samoa
Seychelles
Serbia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan/South Sudan
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
- Lin Jong (Taiwanese mother, Timorese-Chinese father)
Thailand
Tonga
Turkey
Tuvalu
Ukraine
United Kingdom
England
- Alf Bartlett (Born in England, UK)
- Mark Bayliss (Born in England, UK)
- Lawrence Bingham (Born in England, UK)
- Wayne Blackwell (Born in England, UK)
- Percy Bowyer (Born in England, UK)
- Chris Burton (Australian footballer) (Born in England, UK)[42]
- Ian Dargie (Born in England, UK)
- Harry Davie (Born in England, UK)
- Bill Eason (Born in England, UK)
- Jack Edgeley (Born in England, UK)
- Fred Fairweather (Born in England, UK)
- Jack Frost (footballer, born 1870) (Born in England, UK)
- Paul Harding (Australian rules footballer) (Born in England, UK)
- Barney Lazarus (Born in England, UK)
- Johnny Leonard (Born in England, UK)
- Fred Mann (footballer) (Born in England, UK)
- Frank Maple (Born in England, UK)
- Brad Moran (footballer) (Born in England, UK)[42]
- Brian Mynott (Born in England, UK)
- Bill Perkins (Australian rules footballer) (Born in England, UK)
- Ralph Robertson (Born in England, UK)
- Bobby Royle (Born in England, UK)
- Ted Staniland (Born in England, UK)
- Syd Tate (Born in England, UK)
- Will Thursfield (Born in England, UK)
- Clive Waterhouse (Born in England, UK)[42]
- Fergus Watts (Born in England, UK)
- Liam Anthony (Born in England, UK)
- Daniel Kerr (See above India)
- Garrick Ibbotson (English mother)[40]
- Ryan Lester (Father born in South Africa; mother born in the England, UK)
- Chris Mayne (English father)[40]
- Paul Medhurst (English father)
- Matthew Scarlett[21]
- Billie Smedts (English mother, Dutch father)
- David Swallow (Dutch mother, English father)
- Jack Watts (Parents born in England, UK)
- John Worsfold[21]
Scotland
Wales
United States of America
Yugoslavia
Zimbabwe
See also
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