List of foreign football players in Serbia

This is a list of foreign players that play or have played in the top league in football clubs from the territory of Serbia.

In this list are included the foreign players that:

Notes:

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Albania Albania

Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina Argentina

Hernan Barcos, Argentinian international, Red Star.

Armenia Armenia

Australia Australia

Austria Austria

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina

Branimir Bajić spent 7 seasons with Partizan and became regular in the Bosnian national team.
Nemanja Bilbija, Vojvodina.
Mario Božić played in several Serbian clubs.
Dario Damjanović, Bosnian international with spells in Obrenovac, Novi Pazar and Jagodina.
Branko Grahovac, Borac Čačak.
Faruk Hujdurović, Bosnian international, played with OFK Beograd and Hajduk Kula.
Đorđe Kamber, OFK Beograd.
Rade Krunić, Bosnian U21 international, playing with Donji Srem and Borac Čačak.
Amer Osmanagić, OFK Beograd.
Sead Ramović, one of several Bosnian players Novi Pazar brought to their ranks after being promoted to the SuperLiga in 2011.
Vule Trivunović, Obilić.

Excluded the players that played before 1992 when Bosnia and Herzegovina became independent and counted as domestic.

Bosnian internationals that played in Serbian top league clubs only during Yugoslav period:

Brazil Brazil

Adilson made impact in Red Star in the 1990s.
Aílton, former Bundesliga topscorer, joined Red Star in 2006.
Cléo, the first foreigner that played for both rivals, Red Star and Partizan.
Evandro, former Brazilian youth international, had his first spell in Europe with Red Star.
William, OFK Beograd.

Brunei Brunei

Former Juventus striker Valeri Bojinov signed with Partizan in summer 2015.

Bulgaria Bulgaria

Blagoy Georgiev, Red Star
Ivan Ivanov, Partizan

Cameroon Cameroon

Eric Djemba-Djemba

Canada Canada

Milan Borjan, Canadian national team goalkeeper.

Central African Republic Central African Republic

Chad Chad

Chile Chile

China China

Colombia Colombia

Congo D.R. Democratic Republic of the Congo

Côte d'Ivoire Ivory Coast

Croatia Croatia

Excluded the players that played before 1991 when Croatia became independent.

Matej Delač, Vojvodina.
Robert Prosinečki, first as player, then more recently as coach, at Red Star.
Zlatko Čajkovski, Partizan.

Croatian internationals that played in Serbian top league clubs only during Yugoslav period:

Players that represented Independent State of Croatia NDH (Independent State of Croatia):

Cyprus Cyprus

Czech Republic Czech Republic

Ecuador Ecuador

Segundo Castillo, Red Star.

El Salvador El Salvador

France France

Damian Le Tallec, Red Star.

Gabon Gabon

Georgia Georgia (country)

Germany Germany

Ghana Ghana

Stephen Appiah, Vojvodina.
Haminu Draman, Red Star.
Prince Tagoe, Partizan.

Greece Greece

Guinea Guinea

Moreira, Partizan fans idol.

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau

Honduras Honduras

Hungary Hungary

Ferenc Plattkó, before spending 7 seasons in FC Barcelona, played with KAFK Kula.
László Köteles, another Hungarian goalkeeper that spent part of his career in Serbia.

Israel Israel

Italy Italy

Japan Japan

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan

Hong Yong-jo, North Korean captain at the WC2010 played with Bežanija.

Korea D.P.R. North Korea

Korea Republic South Korea

Kim Chi-woo

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan

Latvia Latvia

Liberia Liberia

Libya Libya

Lithuania Lithuania

Macedonia Republic of Macedonia

Excluded the players that played before 1992 when Macedonia became independent.

Mario Đurovski, Bežanija and Vojvodina.
Nikola Gligorov, Bežanija.
Vlatko Grozdanoski, Vojvodina.
Goran Popov, Red Star.
Mitko Stojkovski, Red Star and Macedonian national team standard defender during 1990s.
Ivan Tričkovski, Red Star.

Macedonian internationals that played in Serbian top league clubs only during Yugoslav period:

Malta Malta

Moldova Moldova

Montenegro Montenegro

Excluded the players that played before 2006 when Montenegro became independent. Montenegrin players that were internationals for FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro are indicated in italics.

Mladen Božović, Partizan.
Vladimir Božović, OFK Beograd.
Stevan Jovetić, Partizan.
Mladen Kašćelan, OFK Beograd and Voždovac.
Ivan Kecojević, Čukarički and OFK Beograd.
Stefan Savić, BSK Borča and Partizan, before moving to the Premier League.
Marko Vešović, Red Star.
Vladimir Volkov, OFK Beograd and Partizan.
Simon Vukčević, Partizan and Vojvodina.
Ivan Vuković, OFK Beograd.
Radoslav Batak, Vojvodina.
Bojan Brnović, Partizan and Obilić.
Andrija Delibašić, Partizan.
Miodrag Džudović, OFK Beograd.
Milorad Peković, OFK Beograd and Partizan.

Montenegrin internationals that only played in Serbian top league clubs before Montenegrin independence.

Namibia Namibia

Serginho Greene, Vojvodina

Netherlands Netherlands

Nigeria Nigeria

Abiola Dauda, Red Star

Palestine State of Palestine

Tomasz Rząsa played with Partizan in the Champions League.

Peru Peru

Poland Poland

Portugal Portugal

Hugo Vieira, Red Star.

Romania Romania

Romanian international Belodedici, European and world champion with Red Star in 1991.

Russia Russia

Senegalese Lamine Diarra

Senegal Senegal

Mohamed Kamara - Medo

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone

Singapore Singapore

Slovakia Slovakia

Maroš Klimpl, Sloboda Užice.

Slovenia Slovenia

Milenko Ačimovič was Red Star and Slovenian national team playmaker in the turn of the century.

Excluded the players that played before 1991 when Slovenia became independent.

Nejc Pecnik
Srečko Katanec, one of Partizans icons from late 1980s.

Slovenian internationals that played in Serbian top league clubs during Yugoslav period:

South Africa South Africa

Red Stars Bernard Parker, South African international.

Spain Spain

Sweden Sweden

Former ManUtd and Swedish U21 midfielder, Bojan Djordjic, played with Red Star.

Switzerland Switzerland

Tajikistan Tajikistan

Tunisia Tunisia

Turkey Turkey

Uganda Uganda

Ukraine Ukraine

United States United States

Freddy Adu played with Jagodina in 2014.

Uruguay Uruguay

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe

Doubts

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Notes

  1. Mehmet Dragusha at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Pristina, he represented Albania internationally.
  2. Besnik Hasi at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Đakovica, he represented Albania internationally.
  3. Eli Babalj at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Sarajevo, he represents Australia internationally.
  4. Branko Buljevic at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Split he represented Australia internationally.
  5. Milan Ivanovic at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Sivac, he represented Australia internationally.
  6. Doug Utjenesovic at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Belgrade as Dragan Utješenovic, he represented Australia internationally.
  7. Goran Kartalija at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Kljajićevo, he represented Austria internationally.
  8. Sandor Nemes at EU-Football.info - Born in Budapest, Hungary, he played 3 matches for Hungary in 1918 and 1919 as Sándor Nemes, and then played 2 matches for Austria in 1925 as Alexander Neufeld. He was also known as Antal Nemes in Yugoslavia and Alex Nemesch in som sources. He is located in the Austrian section of this list as that is the last country he represented internationally, and the one closer to the period of his spell in BSK.
  9. Murad Huseynov at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Makhachkala, he represents Azerbaijan internationally.
  10. Branimir SUbasic at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Belgrade, he represents Azerbaijan internationally.
  11. Zoran Jankovic at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Inđija, he represented Bulgaria internationally.
  12. Predrag Pazin at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Nevesinje, he represented Bulgaria internationally.
  13. Dragoljub Simonovic at National-Football-Tema.com - Born in Belgrade, he represented Bulgaria internationally.
  14. Kiril Simonovski at EU-Football.info - Born in Skopje, he played 2 matches for Bulgaria in 1942 as Kiril Simeonov, later he played 10 matches for Yugoslavia as Kiril Simonovski. At the time prior WWII he was known as Kiril Simonović.
  15. Milan Borjan at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Knin, he represents Canada internationally.
  16. Stefan Cebara at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Zadar, he represents Canada internationally.
  17. Dejan Jakovic at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Karlovac, he represents Canada internationally.
  18. Mike Stojanovic at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Lapovo as Momčilo Stojanović, he represented Canada internationally.
  19. David Manga at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Paris, France, he represents the Central African Republic internationally.
  20. 1 2 When Jia and Liu arrived in Partizan, they became the third and fourth Chinese players ever to play abroad. Just a year earlier, Xie Yuxin became the first Chinese ever to play abroad.
  21. Ardian Kozniku at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Đakovica, he represented Croatia internationally.
  22. Kujtim Shala at National-Football-Teams.com - Born in Prizren, he represented Croatia internationally.
  23. Svetozar Đanić at Reprezentacija.rs - Born in Manđelos, he played 3 matches for Yugoslavia in 1940 before accepting to play for NDH playing 4 matches and scoring once.

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