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,

  • 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 Romanian players with dual citizenship. Players who played for Romania but came as foreign players (such as István Avar) 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 Romanian parents or moved to Romania at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched their nationality to another nation.

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 (2019–2020) 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.

Albania

Roland Agalliu was the first foreign footballer that arrived in Romania after the 1989 Romanian Revolution.

Algeria

Angola

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 Viitorul Constanța, also being named the Liga I Foreign Player of the Year in 2009.
Emmanuel Culio won four Liga I titles with CFR Cluj.

Armenia

Australia

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

Austria

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Belgium

Benin

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Branko Grahovac won the Liga I title with Oțelul Galați.
International Mateo Sušić won the Liga I title with CFR Cluj.

Brazil

Juliano Spadacio scored 25 goals in 107 Liga I games for Rapid București and Astra Ploiești.
Júnior Morais played in 247 Liga I matches, winning the title with Astra Giurgiu.
During his period spent at Astra, William De Amorim managed to win the Liga I title.
Rafael Bastos won the Liga I title with CFR Cluj.
Adaílton ended his European career with a two-year spell at FC Vaslui scoring 17 goals in 59 Liga I appearances.

Bulgaria

Zhivko Milanov appeared in 104 Liga I games for FC Vaslui.
Plamen Iliev played in Liga I for FC Botoșani and Astra Giurgiu.

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Patrick Ekeng died while playing for Dinamo București in a Liga I game against Viitorul Constanța.

Canada

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

Chad

Chile

Colombia

Dayro Moreno and Juan Toja played together at Steaua Bucureşti.

Comoros

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

Croatia

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

Curaçao

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Djibouti

Egypt

El Salvador

England

Equatorial Guinea

Estonia

Faroe Islands

Finland

France

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

French Guiana

Gabon

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Greece

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

Guadeloupe

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary

The member of Hungary's Mighty Magyars, Gyula Lóránt (left) and one of the Romanian-Hungarians who represented both Romania and Hungary at International level, József Pecsovszky (right) managed to win the Liga I title in their single season spent together at UTA Arad.

Iraq

Ireland

Israel

Italy

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

Ivory Coast

CFR Cluj was Lacina Traoré's first European club.

Japan

Jordan

Kenya

Kosovo

Latvia

Lebanon

Liberia

Lithuania

Giedrius Arlauskis won four Liga I titles with three different teams: Unirea Urziceni, Steaua București and CFR Cluj.

Mali

Martinique

Mauritius

Moldova

Eugeniu Cebotaru spent five years at Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț.

Montenegro

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

Morocco

Mozambique

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nigeria

Kehinde Fatai started his senior career playing in Romania for Farul Constanța but scored all his 41 Liga I goals for Astra Giurgiu.

North Macedonia

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

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

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 five different Liga I clubs winning the title with Astra Giurgiu.
Geraldo Alves spent the last years of his career playing for three teams in Liga I, winning the title with Astra Giurgiu.
Rui Duarte appeared in over 100 Liga I matches for FC Brașov and Rapid București.

Russia

Rwanda

Saint Lucia

Saudi Arabia

Scotland

Senegal

Serbia

Milan Perendija won the Liga I title with Oțelul Galați.

Sierra Leone

Slovakia

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

Slovenia

Miha Mevlja made his International debut for Slovenia during his spell at Dinamo București.

South Africa

South Korea

Spain

The twin Oriol brothers Joan (left) and Eduard (right) played together in their short spell at Rapid București.
Pablo de Lucas played in Liga I for Petrolul Ploiești and Viitorul Constanța.

Sudan

Suriname

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

Tajikistan

Togo

Tunisia

Turkey

Uganda

Ukraine

United States

Uruguay

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

Venezuela

Zambia

Zimbabwe

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