Wilfredo Leon, Zenit Kazan
Italy – 82 foreigners (74 playing as foreigners)
Serie A1 is at the top of the list with no less than 82 foreign players in the 2016/17 season. It is important to mention that 74 of them play as foreigners, while 8 of them got an Italian citizenship so they are registered as domestic players.
Main stars: Aleksandar Atanasijević (Serbia), Earvin Ngapeth (France), Maxwell Holt (USA), Kevin Le Roux (France), Jenia Grebennikov (France), Micah Christenson (USA)…
Poland – 51 foreigners (50 playing as foreigners)
The second spot on this list belongs to PlusLiga. There will be 51 foreign players in 16 Polish teams in the 2016/17 season. Time will tell if that is too much or not.
Main stars: Benjamin Toniutti (France), Kevin Tillie (France), Gavin Schmitt (Canada), Marko Ivović (Serbia) Srećko Lisinac (Serbia), Nicolas Uriarte (Argentina)…
Germany – 41 foreigners
The 2016/17 campaign in Bundesliga should be very interesting, while there will be 41 foreigners playing for German clubs in the upcoming season.
Main stars: Paul Cerroll (Australia), Nikola Kovačević (Serbia)…
Russia – 18 foreigners (17 playing as foreigners)
Russian clubs are obviously trying to reduce the number of foreign players, as their national team suffered a failure at the last Olympic Games. There will be 18 foreigners in this league (1 of them will play as domestic player).
Man stars: Wilfredo Leon (Cuba), Matt Anderson (USA), Teodor Salparov (Bulgaria), Kawika Shoji (USA), Erik Shoji (USA)…
Japan – 8 foreigners
If only the Japanese clubs were allowed to have more foreigners per team, there would definitely be more of them in this country. Still, in the 2016/17 season, there will be a total number of 8 foreign players.
Main stars: Michal Kubiak (Panasonic Panthers), Matey Kaziyski (JTEKT Stings)…
Brazil – 4 foreigners
Brazilian Superliga will consist mostly of domestic players. Actually, there will be only 4 foreign players in the 2016/17 campaign, while it is also worth mentioning that 10 out of 12 players from Brazil men’s Olympic team will play for domestic clubs in the upcoming season.
Main stars: Yoandy Leal (Cuba), Robertlandy Simon (Cuba).
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Good Article. I did not know Poland had this much..I wonder how much Argentina has also?
look at brazil only 4 foreign players thats why they are pretty damn good because they developed local players to shine and make them superstars not like in europe the foreign players always shine
In fact, 5 foreign players in Brazilian Superliga 2016-2017.
Beyond Simon and Leal, from Cuba (Sada-Cruzeiro), Bisset from Cuba (Minas Tênis), Isbel Mesa from Cuba (Funvic Taubaté), also the young Argentine Juan Mendez will be the libero of UFJF Universidade Juiz de Fora in this season.
Juan is son of Argentine Sada Cruzeiro coach, Marcelo Mendez.