List of foreign Ligue 1 players: F
This is a list of foreign players in the Ligue 1, which commenced play in 1932. The following players must meet both of the following two criteria:
- Have played at least one Ligue 1 game. Players who were signed by Ligue 1 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.
- Are considered foreign, i.e., outside France and its dependencies (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion Island or French Polynesia), determined by the following:
- A player is considered foreign if he is not eligible to play for the national teams of France.
More specifically,
- If a player has been capped on international level, the national team is used; if he has been capped by more than one country, the highest level (or the most recent) team is used. These include French players with dual citizenship. Players who played for France but came as foreign players (such as Miguel Ángel Lauri) are also listed.
- If a player has not been capped on international level, his country of birth is used, except those who were born abroad from French parents or moved to France at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched his nationality to another nation.
Clubs listed are those that the player has played at least one Ligue 1 game for.
Seasons listed are those that the player has played at least one Ligue 1 game in. 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.
In bold: players still active in Ligue 1 and their respective teams in current season.
Last updated February 14, 2013
Finland
- Nils Rikberg – Toulouse FC (1937) – 1953–57
- Aulis Rytkönen – Toulouse FC (1937) – 1953–60
- Timo Stavitski – Caen – 2017–19
- Teemu Tainio – Auxerre – 1997–2005
French Guyana
- Ludovic Baal – Le Mans, Lens, Rennes – 2007–10, 2014–15, 2015–[b FRA]
- Jean-Claude Darcheville – 1995–98, 2001–07, 2008–09[c FRA U21]
- Donovan Léon – AJ Auxerre – 2011–12
- Kévin Rimane – Paris SG – 2015–16
- Yoann Salmier – RC Strasbourg – 2017–18[b FRA]
- Jean-Clair Todibo – Toulouse FC – 2018–
French players born abroad
Thus list includes the French players born outside France: this means naturalized players and not, and players born in the Overseas department of France.
Born in the French Guyana
- Raoul Diagne – RC Paris, Toulouse FC (1937) – 1930–44
- Odsonne Edouard – Toulouse FC – 2016–17
- Marc-Antoine Fortuné – Lille, Nancy – 2002–04, 2006–09
- Florent Malouda – Châteauroux, Guingamp, Lyon, Metz – 1997–98, 2000–07, 2014–15
Born in the French Polynesia
- Pascal Vahirua – Auxerre, Caen – 1984–95, 1996–97
Born in Guadeloupe
- Pegguy Arphexad – Lens, Lille – 1995–97
- Jean-Michel Capoue – Cannes – 1991–92, 1993–98
- Dimitri Kévin Cavaré – Lens, Rennes – 2014–15, 2016–17
- Jean-Pierre Cyprien – Le Havre, Saint-Étienne, Rennes, Marseille – 1987–88, 1990–94, 1995–96, 1999–2000
- Wylan Cyprien – Lens, Nice – 2014–15, 2016–
- Bernard Lambourde – Cannes, Bordeaux, Bastia – 1991–92, 1993–94, 1995–97, 2001–02
- Jordan Leborgne – Caen – 2015–
- Thomas Lemar – Caen, Monaco – 2014–18
- Vincent Marcel – Nice – 2016–
- Jordan Tell – Caen, Rennes – 2016–18
- Lilian Thuram – Monaco – 1990–96
- Marius Trésor – Ajaccio, Marseille, Bordeaux – 1969–84
Born in Martinique
- Patrick Burner – Nice – 2016–
- Emmanuel Rivière – Saint-Étienne, Toulouse FC, Monaco, Metz – 2008–14, 2017–18
Born in the New Caledonia
- Christian Karembeu – Nantes, Bastia – 1990–95, 2004–05
Born in Réunion
- Didier Agathe – Montpellier – 1998–99
- Guillaume Hoarau – Paris Saint-Germain, Bordeaux – 2008–14
- Dimitri Payet – Nantes, Saint-Étienne, Lille, Marseille – 2005–15, 2016–
- Bertrand Robert – Montpellier, Lorient – 2001–04, 2007–09
- Laurent Robert – Montpellier, Paris SG – 1994–2002
- Florent Sinama Pongolle – Le Havre, Saint-Étienne – 2002–03, 2011–12
- Samuel Souprayen – Rennes, Dijon – 2010–12
Born outside the DOM
Samassi Abou – Lyon, Cannes – 1992–98 Kodjo Afanou – Bordeaux – 1995–2006 Zana Allée – Rennes – 2013–14 Bernard Allou – Paris SG – 1994–98 Ibrahim Amadou – Nancy, Lille – 2012–13, 2015–18 Ibrahim Ba – Le Havre, Bordeaux, Marseille – 1992–97, 2001–02 Ivan Bek – Saint-Étienne – 1935–39 Basile Boli – Auxerre, Marseille, Monaco – 1983–94, 1995–96 Jean-Alain Boumsong – Le Havre, Auxerre, Lyon – 1997–2004, 2007–10 Grégory Noel Campi – Lille – 2002–03 René Charrier – Marseille, Paris FC – 1974–80 Néstor Combin – Lyon, Metz – 1959–64, 1970–73 Karim Coulibaly – Nancy – 2012–13, 2016–17 Carlos Curbelo – Nancy, Nice – 1972–88 Mouhamadou Dabo – Caen – 2004–10, 2011–17 Julien Darui – Lille, Montpellier – 1937–40, 1942–43, 1944–45, 1953–54 Marcel Desailly – Nantes, Marseille – 1987–94 Oumar Dieng – Lille, Paris SG, Auxerre, Sedan – 1989–90, 1992–96, 1998–2000 Martin Djetou – Strasbourg, Monaco, Nice – 1992–2001, 2004–05 Manuel dos Santos – Monaco, Montpellier, Marseille, Strasbourg – 1994–2004, 2005–08 Fabrice Ehret – Strasbourg, Evian – 1998–2001, 2002–04, 2011–14 Patrice Evra – Monaco, Marseille – 2002–06, 2016–17 Joachim Fernandez – Bordeaux, Caen, Toulouse FC – 1995–97, 1998–99 Luis Fernández – Paris SG, RC Paris, Cannes – 1980–93 Dario Grava – Strasbourg, Nice – 1968–77 Patrick Guillou – Saint-Étienne, Sochaux – 1999–2000, 2001–02 Giannelli Imbula – Marseille, Toulouse FC – 2013–15, 2017–18 Olivier Kapo – Auxerre, Monaco, US Boulogne – 1998–2004, 2005–06, 2009–10, 2011–12 Yann Karamoh – Caen, Bordeaux – 2016–17, 2018– Jirès Kembo Ekoko – Rennes – 2006–13 Ferenc Kocsur – Nice, Saint-Étienne – 1949–61 Alban Lafont – Toulouse FC – 2015–18 Peguy Luyindula – Strasbourg, Lyon, Marseille, Auxerre, Paris SG – 1998–2013 Claude Makélélé – Nantes, Marseille, Paris SG – 1991–98, 2008–11 Steed Malbranque – Lyon, Saint-Étienne, Caen – 1997–2001, 2011–17 Steve Mandanda – Marseille – 2007–16, 2017– Hemza Mihoubi – Metz – 2004–06 Vincent Péricard – Saint-Étienne – 1999–2000 Ángel Rambert – Lyon – 1968–70 Amara Simba – Paris SG, Cannes, Monaco, Caen, Lille – 1986–97 Henri Skiba Marcus Thuram – Guingamp – 2017– Joseph Ujlaki – Nice, RC Paris, Metz – 1953–65 Samuel Umtiti – Lyon – 2011–16 Patrick Vieira – Cannes – 1993–96 Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa – Montpellier, Lyon – 2009–13, 2015–
Notes
- ^ Born in France
- ^ Capped for the France national under-21 football team
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