Since 1971, when Greek teams were allowed to acquire foreign players for the first time, Panathinaikos signed more than 200 foreigners! The Latin-American players had the lion’s share. Argentina had 24 representatives, the same as Brazil with 23 and Spain with 16. Very close is Croatia with 15 plus one more “unofficially”, as Velimir Zajec was registered as Yugoslavian – though he was of Croatian origin – because when he was transferred this country was still united.

Further on players were coming all over the world: 13 Swedish, 9 Portuguese, 9 French, 9 Polish, 8 Dutch, 6 Cypriots, 6 Romanians, 6 Hungarians, 5 Germans, 5 Yugoslavs, 5 Danish, 4 Italians, 4 Ghanaians, 4 Norwegians, 4 Senegalese, 3 Cameroonians, 3 Malians, 3 Congolese, 3 Slovenians, 3 Albanians, 3 Serbians, 2 Finnish, 2 Austrians, 2 Peruvians, 2 Nigerians, 2 South-Africans, 2 Bulgarians, 2 Colombians, 2 Icelanders, 2 Uruguayans and one player coming from England, Algeria, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Paraguay, Venezuela, Angola, Mozambique, Ivory Coast, Uzbekistan, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel, Ecuador, Russia, USA and Turkey.

The first player in participation, playing in 390 matches being also the first scorer ever, with 244 goals, was Christof Warzycha. Following in this list with the most frequent participations are Josef Wandzik 249, Juan Ramon Rocha 226 and as scorers Oscar Alvarez with 55 goals and Djibril Cissé with 47.

PANATHINAIKOS’ ALL TIME FOREIGNERS PLAYERS

FOOTBALLERSNATIONALITYPOSITIONPERIODMATCHESGOALS
Carlos LinarisArgentinianM1971-731
Araquem José de MeloBrazilianM-S1972-743719
Juan Ramón VerónArgentinianM-S1972-745723
Roberto GramajoArgentinianS1972-7492
Severiano IralaParaguayanM-S1972-733
Nikolay BudicicYugoslav (Serbia)D1974-758
Daniel FuxFrenchS1974-756
Siegert MuicicYugoslav (Bosnia)S1975-76167
Dimitris OikonomouCyprianS1975-7723
Borivoje ĐorđevićYugoslav (Serbia)M-S1975-78366
Dimitris KizasCyprianD1976-80734
Raoul VillainArgentinianM-S1976-7711
Óscar Marcelino ÁlvarezArgentinianS1976-8011455
Walter WagnerGermanS1978-79173
Anthony GomezBrazilianM-S1978-7991
Juan José OréPeruvianM-S1979-80196
Helmut KirisitsAustrianM1979-8014
Juan Ramón RochaArgentinianM1979-8922612
Roberto Néstor AgueropolisArgentinianD1980-8225
Luis Antonio AndreuchiArgentinianS1980-81184
Roque Raúl AlfaroArgentinianM1980-81102
Doru NicolaeRomanianS1980-82579
Arne DokkenNorwegianS1981-833011
Tschen La LingDutchM-S1982-84464
Velimir ZajecYugoslav (Croatia)M1984-886610
Márton EsterházyHungarianM-S1986-88111
Claus NielsenDanishS1988-89206
Hristo KolevBulgarianM1988-903311
József FitosHungarianM1988-906
Jason PolakAustralianM1989-905
Krzysztof WarzychaPolishS1990-05390244
Dănuț LupuRomanianM1990-91101
Józef WandzikPolishGK1990-99249
Victor Hugo DelgadoArgentinianM1991-921
Juan José BorrelliArgentinianM1991-979325
Eliomar CarvalhoBrazilianS1995-961
Kostas MalekosCyprianS1996-97121
Bledar KolaAlbanianM1996-0110610
Vladan MilojevićYugoslav (Serbia)D1997-00615
Erik MyklandNorwegianM1997-00713
Frank StrandliNorwegianS1997-99309
Jafar IrismetovUzbekS1997-981
Igor SibnievskiPolishM-S1997-01538
Aljoša AsanovićCroatianM1998-00449
Carlos Mauro Pereira da SilvaBrazilianS1998-99204
Julio CesarBrazilianD-M1998-993
René HenriksenDanishD1999-05136
Fernando GalettoArgentinianM1999-02501
Percy OlivaresPeruvianD-M1999-01422
Helgi SigurðssonIcelanderS1999-013210
Karlheinz PflipsenGermanM1999-01198
Marco VillaGermanM-S1999-013
Paulo Manuel Carvalho SousaPortugueseM2000-0210
Goran VlaovićCroatianS2000-046429
Daniel ŠarićCroatianD2000-03431
Michalis KonstantinouCyprianS2001-059434
Derek BoatengGhanaianM-S2001-02244
Emmanuel OlisadebePolish/NigerianS2001-067424
Joonas KolkkaFinnM-S2001-03453
Jan MichaelsenDanishM2001-04664
Robert JarniCroatianD-M20025
Erik LincarRomanianM2002-0310
Carlos ChaínhoPortugueseM2002-036
Nasief MorrisSouth AfricanD2003-08122
Joël EpalleCameroonianM2003-05151
Markus MünchGermanD2004-05443
Silvio MarićCroatianM2003-05332
Raimondas ŽutautasLithuanianM2003-05212
Njogu Demba-NyrénSwedishS2003-059
Lucian SânmărteanRomanianM2003-06241
Ezequiel GonzálezArgentinianM2004-087214
Mario GalinovićCroatianGK2004-10117
Rudolf SkácelCzechM2004-05161
Dumitru MituRomanianM2003-056
Maciej BykowskiPolishS2003-0574
Alain RaguelFrenchD2004-05
Anderson de Lima FreitasBrazilianM2004-051
Kostas CharalambidesCyprianM2004-06451
Nordin WooterDutchM-S2004-06211
Michalis SiimitrasCyprianGK2005-06
Srđan AndrićCroatianM2005-07252
Flávio ConceiçãoBrazilianM2005-06151
Sándor TorghelleHungarianS2005-0611
Igor BišćanCroatianM2005-07353
Pierre EbédeCameroonianGK2005-0722
Anthony ŠerićCroatianD-M2005-08511
Mikael NilssonSwedishD-M2005-0989
Sebastián RomeroArgentinianM-S2006-08404
Andreas IvanschitzAustrianM2006-097112
Víctor SánchezSpanishM-S2006-0712
Hans Mikael AntonssonSwedishD2006-077
Ricardo Souza BóvioBrazilianM2006-07241
Marcelo Mendonça de MattosBrazilianM2007-09503
Dame N’DoyeSenegaleseM-S2007-08233
Josu SarriegiSpanishD2007-121183
Arkadiusz MalarzPolishGK2007-0812
Joseph EnakarhireNigerianD2007-082
Simão Mate JuniorMozambicanD-M2007-121181
Hélder PostigaPortugueseS2007-08142
ManuchoAngolanS2007-0894
Gilberto SilvaBrazilianM2008-11835
Rodrigo SousaBrazilianS2008-0941
Bryce MoonSouth AfricanM2008-09121
Gabriel Rodrigues dos SantosBrazilianD-M2008-10356
Ante RukavinaCroatianM-S2008-10367
Alexandre Silva CleytonBrazilianM-S2008-126412
David BrazBrazilianD2008-093
Jakub WawrzyniakPolishD2008-099
Djibril CisséFrenchS2009-116147
Sebastián LetoArgentinianM2009-13, Jan.2016-179835
Cédric KantéMalianD2009-12671
Mattias BjärsmyrSwedishD2009-10, 2011-1226
Jean-Alain BoumsongFrenchD2010-13635
Luis GarcíaSpanishM2010-11182
Sidney GovouFrenchM-S2010-11201
Damien PlessisFrenchM2010-114
Daniel FernandesPortugueseGK2010-11
Gergely RudolfHungarianS2011-1281
TochéSpanishS2011-134620
Victor VitoloSpanishM2011-13514
Owusu-Abeyie QuincyGhanaianM-S2011- Dec.13434
Zeca José Carlos Gonçalves RodriguesPortuguese/GreekM2011-2017, 2023-continues1638
Pape Habib SowSenegaleseM2012-2013162
José Manuel VelázquezVenezuelanD2012-201391
André PintoPortugueseD2012-201316
Ibrahim SissokoIvorianM2012-2013282
Bruno Fornaroli MezzaUruguayanS2012-201317
Kostas BarbarousisNew ZealanderS2012-201311
Luciano Gabriel FigueroaArgentinianS2012-2013156
Jokin EsparzaSpanishM2012-20139
Yōhei KajiyamaJapaneseM2012-20138
Nicky KuiperDutchD2012-20133
Emir BajramiSwedishM2013-201512
Gordon SchildenfeldCroatianD2013-2015572
David Mendes da SilvaDutchM2013-201545
Mladen PetrićCroatianS2013-20165812
NanoSpanishD2013-2016863
Danijel PranjićCroatianM2013-2016809
Abdul AjagunNigerianM2013-20166610
Mehdi AbeidAlgerianM2013-14, 2015-166012
Marcus BergSwedishS2013-201711474
Adrián Martín Balboa CamachoUruguayanS2013-14
Ouasim BouyDutchM2014-201513
Valmir BerishaSwedishS2014-20151
Luke SteeleBrazilianGK2014-201766
Michael EssienGhanaianM2015-2016121
Sergio SánchezSpanishD2015-201610
Jens WemmerGermanD2015-20164
Robin LodFinnM2015-20187512
Rasmus ThelanderDanishD2015-2017261
Olivier BoumalCameroonianSJan.2016-2017302
Giandomenico MestoItalianDJan.2016-201731
Yuri MamuteBrazilianSJan.2016-June.20167
Lucas EvangelistaBrazilianMJan.2016-June.2016111
Rodrigo MoledoBrazilianDJan.2016-Jan.2018454
Lucas Martín VillafáñezArgentinianMJan.2016-Jan.2018 & 2020-2210512
Ivan IvanovBulgarianD2016-Jan.20177
Víctor IbarboColombianS2016-Jan.20178
Niklas HultSwedishD2016-Jan.201842
Nuno ReisPortugueseD2016-Jan.201825
Mubarak WakasoGhanaianM2016-Jan.201781
Cristian Raúl LedesmaArgentinianM2016 – Dec.201663
Lautaro RinaldiArgentinianS2016-20178
Ousmane CoulibalyMalianD2016-201952
Paul-Jose MpokuCongoleseM-S2016-2017252
Christopher SambaCongoleseD2016-Jan.20172
Guillermo MolinsSwedishSJan.2017-2018256
Omri AltmanIsraeliM2017- 2019304
Bryan CabezasEcuadorianS2017- Jan. 20189
Luciano da Rocha NevesBrazilianM-S2017-201892
Mattias JohanssonSwedishD2017- 2020635
Andrés ChávezArgentinianS2017- Jan.201861
Emanuel InsúaArgentinianD2017- 2020604
Yacouba SyllaMalianM2017- Jan.20189
Anthony MounierFrenchM2017-2019303
Oscar HiljemarkSwedishM2017- Jan.2018162
Ergys KaçeAlbanianMJan.2018- 2019302
Federico MachedaItalianS2018-2210636
Christian KonanItalianS2019-Jan.2021
Ghayas ZahidNorwegianM2019-2020254
João NunesPortugueseD2019-202011
Yohan MolloFrenchM2019-2021291
Bart SchenkeveldDutchD2019-continues1054
Juan José PereaColombianS2019-21233
Uffe BechDanishM2019-22141
Fausto Antonio Tienza NúñezSpanishM2019-20
Anuar Mohamed TuhamiSpanishMJan. 2020-202016
Dominik NagyHungarianMJan. 2020-202091
Yassin AyoubDutchΜJan.2020-202216
CarlitosSpanishSJan.2020-20226216
Fran VélezSpanishD2020-22542
Aitor CantalapiedraSpanishΜ2020-continues6118
António XavierPortugueseΜ2020-227
Facundo SánchezArgentinianD2020-2023562
Juan Carlos JuankarSpanishD2020-continues883
AntoñitoSpanishD2020-Jan.2021
Jose MauricioBrazilianΜ2020-22507
Younousse SankharéSenegaleseΜJan. 2021-2021103
Yeni NgbakotoCongoleseΜJan. 2021-Jan. 202214
Cheikh NiasseSenegaleseΜJan. 2021-202113
Rubén PérezSpanishΜ2021-continues67
Zvonimir ŠarlijaCroatianD2021-2341
Ramon Pascal LundqvistSwedishΜ2021-22111
Mateus VitalBrazilianΜ2021-22331
Sebastián PalaciosArgentinianΜ2021-continues6717
Alberto BrignoliItalianGK2021-continues59
Mijat GaćinovićSerbianΜJan.2022- Jun.202213
Yuri LodyginRussian/GreenGK2022-continues2
Cristian GaneaRomanianD2022-Sept.20239
Adam Gnezda CerinSlovenianM2022-continues341
Hordur Björgvin MagnússonIcelanderD2022-continues241
Andraž ŠporarSlovenianS2022-continues3211
Benjamin VerbicSlovenianM2022-continues262
Jonas ToróBrazilianM2022-On loan
Bernard DuarteBrazilianM2022-continues312
Alexis TrouilletFrenchM2022-Jun 2023, On loan1
Enis CokajAlbanianM2022-Jan. 2023, On loan20
Tymoteusz PuchaczPolishDJan.2023-Jun.202313
Laszlo KleinheislerHungarianMJan.2023-Jan.2024, On loan152
Alexander JeremejeffSwedishSJan.2023-On loan,June 2023-continues
Daniel ManciniArgentinianMJan.2023-continues173
Filip MladenovicSerbianD2023-continues
Filip DjuricicSerbianM2023-continues
Tonny VilhenaDutchM2023-continues
Tin JedvajCroatiaD2023-continues
Erik Palmer-BrownAmericanD2023-continues
Willian AraoBrazilianM2023-continues
Samet AkaydinTurkishDJan. 2024-continues
Bartlomiej DragowskiPolishGKJan. 2024-continues
Vitor HugoBrazilianDJan. 2024-continues

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