List of foreign Liga I players

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 (2015–2016) 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.

Last updated on March 7, 2016.
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Albania Albania

Arben Minga was one of the first foreign footballers that arrived in Romania after the 1989 Romanian Revolution.

Algeria Algeria

Angola Angola

Argentina Argentina

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 was the Liga I Foreign Player of the Year in 2009.
Sixto Peralta won three Liga I titles with CFR Cluj.

Armenia Armenia

Australia Australia

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

Austria Austria

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan

Belarus Belarus

Belgium Belgium

Bolivia Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina

Branko Grahovac won the Liga I title with Oțelul Galați.

Brazil Brazil

Juliano Spadacio scored 25 goals in 107 Liga I games for Rapid București and Astra Ploiești.
Rafael Bastos won the Liga I title with CFR Cluj.
Gláuber Berti is the only Brazilian international that played in Liga I.

Bulgaria Bulgaria

Zhivko Milanov appeared in 104 Liga I games for FC Vaslui.

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso

Burundi Burundi

Cameroon Cameroon

Canada Canada

Cape Verde Cape Verde

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 Central African Republic

Chad Chad

Chile Chile

Colombia Colombia

Dayro Moreno and Juan Toja played together at Steaua Bucureşti.

Republic of the Congo Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo DR

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

Costa Rica Costa Rica

Croatia Croatia

International Saša Bjelanović played for CFR Cluj in two different periods.

Curaçao Curaçao

Cyprus Cyprus

Czech Republic Czech Republic

Denmark Denmark

Djibouti Djibouti

Egypt Egypt

El Salvador El Salvador

England England

Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea

Estonia Estonia

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

France France

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

Gabon Gabon

Georgia (country) Georgia

Germany Germany

Ghana Ghana

Greece Greece

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

Guadeloupe Guadeloupe

Guinea Guinea

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau

Haiti Haiti

Honduras Honduras

Hungary Hungary

Romanian-Hungarian Iuliu Bodola is one of the footballers who represented both Romania and Hungary at international level, he also won two consecutive Liga I titles with Venus București during the interwar period.

Iraq Iraq

Israel Israel

Italy Italy

Federico Piovaccari scored 10 goals and won the Liga I title in his single season spent at Steaua București.

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast

CFR Cluj was Lacina Traoré's first European club.

Japan Japan

Jordan Jordan

Kenya Kenya

Latvia Latvia

Lebanon Lebanon

Liberia Liberia

Lithuania Lithuania

Giedrius Arlauskis has won the Liga I title with Unirea Urziceni and Steaua București.

Republic of Macedonia Macedonia

Mali Mali

Moldova Moldova

Eugeniu Cebotaru spent five years at Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț.

Montenegro Montenegro

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

Morocco Morocco

Mozambique Mozambique

Netherlands Netherlands

New Zealand New Zealand

Nigeria Nigeria

Panama Panama

Paraguay Paraguay

Peru Peru

Philippines Philippines

Poland Poland

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

Portugal Portugal

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 four different Liga I clubs in over 100 games.

Russia Russia

Rwanda Rwanda

Saint Lucia Saint Lucia

Scotland Scotland

Senegal Senegal

Serbia Serbia

Milan Perendija won the Liga I title with Oțelul Galați.

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone

Slovakia Slovakia

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

Slovenia Slovenia

South Korea South Korea

Spain Spain

Pablo de Lucas played in Liga I for Petrolul Ploiești and Viitorul Constanța.

Suriname Suriname

Sweden Sweden

Switzerland Switzerland

Tajikistan Tajikistan

Togo Togo

Tunisia Tunisia

Turkey Turkey

Ukraine Ukraine

United States United States

Uruguay Uruguay

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

Venezuela Venezuela

Zambia Zambia

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe

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