List of foreign Veikkausliiga players

This is a list of all foreign players in the Finnish Veikkausliiga, which commenced play in 1990. The following players must meet both of the following two criteria:

  1. Have played at least one Veikkausliiga regular season game. Players who were signed by Veikkausliiga clubs, but only played in playoff stages, 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 Finland determined by the following:
A player is considered foreign if his allegiance is not to play for the national team of Finland.

More specifically,

  • If a player has been capped at 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 Finnish players with dual citizenship.
  • If a player has not been capped at international level, his country of birth is used, except those who were born abroad from Finnish parents or moved to Finland at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched his nationality to another nation.

Clubs listed are those for which the player has played at least one Veikkausliiga game – and seasons are those in which the player has played at least one Veikkausliiga game. Note that a Veikkausliiga season is same as the calendar year.

In bold: players still active in Veikkausliiga and their respective teams in current season.

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Argentina

Armenia

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

Tariq KaziIlves – 2018–19[b FIN][c FIN U19][c FIN U18][c FIN U17]

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Cameroon

Canada

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chile

China

Colombia

Costa Rica

Croatia

Curaçao

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

England

Equatorial Guinea

Estonia

Ethiopia

France

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Grenada

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Hong Kong

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Ivory Coast

Jamaica

Japan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kosovo

Kyrgyzstan

Latvia

Lebanon

Liberia

Lithuania

Mali

Martinique

Mexico

Moldova

Montenegro

Morocco

Namibia

Netherlands

New Zealand

Niger

Nigeria

North Macedonia

Northern Ireland

Norway

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

  • Isidro LeguizamónMyPa – 2006

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Puerto Rico

Romania

Russia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Scotland

Senegal

Serbia

Sierra Leone

Slovakia

Slovenia

Somalia

South Africa

South Korea

Spain

Sudan

  • Patrick PeterTPS – 2004

Suriname

Sweden

Switzerland

Togo

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Uganda

Ukraine

United States

Uruguay

Wales

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Notes

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    Born in Belgium
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    Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina (then part of Yugoslavia)
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    Born in Brazil
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    Born in Canada
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    Born in Ivory Coast
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    Born in Cameroon
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    Born in the Czech Republic (then part of Czechoslovakia)
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    Born in England
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    Born in Finland
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    Born in France
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    Born in Georgia (then part of the Soviet Union)
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    Born in Germany
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    Born in Ghana
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    Born in Guinea
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    Born in Guyana
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    Born in Iran
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    Born in Israel
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    Born in Jamaica
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    Born in Liberia
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    Born in Morocco
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    Born in Malta
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    Born in the Netherlands
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    Born in Portugal
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    Born in Russia
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    Born in Russia (then part of the Soviet Union)
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    Born in Saudi Arabia
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    Born in Senegal
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    Born in Serbia (then part of Yugoslavia)
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    Born in Suriname
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    Born in Sweden
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    Born in Ukraine
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    Born in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union)
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    Born in the United States
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    Born in Zimbabwe
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    Capped for the Poland national under-15 football team
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    Capped for the Turkey national under-15 football team
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