List Of VFL/AFL Players Born Outside Of Australia
This is a list of players who have played at least one senior game in the Australian Football League (AFL), previously known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), who were born outside of Australia (including the Australian colonies prior to Federation). The first non-Australian-born players were Ivan Astruc (Fitzroy; born in Mauritius), George Hastings (Essendon; born in Ireland) and Henry McPetrie (Carlton; born in England), who each played for their respective clubs in round one of the inaugural VFL season in 1897. There are currently 13 AFL-listed players who have played at least one game for their clubs. Peter Bell (Fremantle and the Kangaroos; born in South Korea) holds the games record for a non-Australian-born player, having played 286 games between 1995 and 2008. Jim Stynes (Melbourne, born in Ireland) is the only non-Australian-born player to win a Brownlow Medal, and Alex Jesaulenko (Carlton and St Kilda; born in Austria) was the only non-Australian-born player named in the VFL/AFL Team of the Century.
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