This is a list about the American players who represented the United States men's national soccer team naturalized and born abroad. Many of this players immigrated from all over the world, from continents like Europe (especially British countries), Africa, Asia and Latin America. There are also players who are born outside the U.S. but because a family member was working there (for example some players were born in Germany because their father was doing the military service there).^[1]

Last update on 24 March 2024; players in bold are currently representing United States internationally.

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Birthplace	Player	Caps	Goals	Debut	Last cap	Notes	Ref.
Argentina	Tony Bonezzi	1	0	1961	1961	He switched to Israel	[2]
Argentina	Ivan Borodiak	1	0	1964	1964		[3]
Argentina	Efrain Chacurian	4	1	1953	1954		[3]
Argentina	Dan Califano	1	0	1973	1973		[4]
Argentina	Angelo DiBernardo	20	3	1979	1985	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Argentina	Paul DiBernardo	1	0	1985	1985	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Argentina	Miguel Malizewski	3	0	1968	1968		[3]
Argentina	Pablo Mastroeni	65	0	2001	2009	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[6]
Argentina	Mike Noha	1	0	1964	1964		[3]
Austria	Carl Fister	2	1	1960	1960		[3]
Austria	Rudy Kuntner	2	2	1928	1928	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Austria	Mike Winter	6	0	1972	1973	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Austria	Wally Ziaja	4	0	1973	1973		[4]
Belgium	Alain Maca	5	0	1973	1975	U.S. citizen at birth.	[4]
Belgium	Joe Maca	3	1	1950	1950		[3]
Bermuda	Dale Russell	1	0	1978	1978	Immigrated to the U.S. for college.	[4]
Bolivia	Windsor Del Llano	1	0	1973	1973	He switched to Bolivia	[7]
Bolivia	Carlos Scott	1	0	1975	1975	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Boris Bandov	33	2	1976	1983	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[8]
Brazil	Alex Ely	4	0	1960	1965		[3]
Brazil	Benny Feilhaber	44	2	2007	2017	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[9]
Brazil	Carlos Metidieri	8	0	1973	1973		[7]
Brazil	Curt Onalfo	1	0	1988	1988	U.S. citizen at birth.	[5]
Brazil	Jorge Siega	8	0	1973	1973		[7]
Cameroon	Tony Tchani	1	0	2016	2016	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. He switched to Cameroon	[10]
Canada	Teal Bunbury	4	1	2010	2012	U.S. citizen at birth. He previously represented Canada at youth level	[11]
Canada	Fred Cameron	5	0	1959	1969		[3]
Canada	Mark Chung	24	2	1992	1998	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[8]
Canada	John Kerr Jr.	16	2	1984	1995	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Cape Verde	John DeBrito	6	0	1991	1992	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in the Portuguese Cape Verde	[12]
Cape Verde	Pedro DeBrito	1	0	1983	1983	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in the Portuguese Cape Verde	[5]
China	Mike Ivanow	10	0	1973	1975	U.S. citizen at birth.	[4]
China	Archie Roboostoff	7	0	1973	1975	U.S. citizen at birth.	[4]
Colombia	Jorge Acosta	12	0	1991	1992	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[12]
Colombia	Juan Agudelo	28	3	2010	2018	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[13]
Colombia	Jesús Ferreira	23	15	2020	2023	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[14]
Colombia	Diego Gutiérrez	1	0	2001	2001	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[15]
Colombia	Carlos Llamosa	29	0	1998	2002		[8]
Costa Rica	Ringo Cantillo	11	0	1979	1982	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Costa Rica	Sergio Mora	1	0	1972	1972		[4]
Croatia	Tom Cecic	1	0	1968	1968	Born in the Independent State of Croatia	[3]
Croatia	Tony Donlic	7	0	1977	1977	Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[4]
Croatia	Fred Grgurev	14	1	1973	1976	Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[4]
Croatia	Mark Liveric	16	3	1973	1980	Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[4]
Croatia	Njego Pesa	7	0	1979	1982	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[5]
Czech Republic	Miro Rys	3	1	1976	1976	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in Czechoslovakia	[4]
Denmark	Svend Engedal	3	0	1956	1957		[3]
Denmark	Kristoffer Lund	3	0	2023	2023	U.S. citizen at birth (mother). He previously represented Denmark at youth level.
Ecuador	Chico Borja	11	3	1982	1988	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Egypt	Amr Aly	8	0	1984	1985	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
El Salvador	Miguel Lopez	1	0	1977	1977	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
El Salvador	Hugo Pérez	73	13	1984	1994	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
England	John Best	1	0	1973	1973		[4]
England	Gordon Bradley	1	0	1973	1973		[4]
England	Michael Brady	3	0	1984	1985	Born in Chicago, moved to England at 6 months old, returned to the U.S. for college.	[5]
England	George Brown	1	0	1957	1957	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
England	Cameron Carter-Vickers	16	0	2017	2024	U.S. citizen at birth.	[16]
England	Paul Child	2	0	1973	1973		[4]
England	Elvis Comrie	4	0	1984	1984	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
England	Irving Davis	5	0	1924	1925		[3]
England	Dom Dwyer	4	2	2017	2017	Immigrated to the U.S. for college.	[17]
England	Gary Etherington	7	0	1977	1979	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
England	Alan Green	1	0	1984	1984		[5]
England	Dick Hall	4	0	1973	1975		[4]
England	Alan Hamlyn	4	0	1972	1975		[4]
England	Mick Hoban	1	0	1973	1973		[4]
England	Bernie James	2	0	1988	1988	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
England	Barry Mahy	4	0	1973	1973		[4]
England	Neil Megson	2	0	1988	1988	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
England	Alan Merrick	1	0	1983	1983	He previously represented England at youth level	[5]
England	George Moorhouse	7	0	1926	1934		[3]
England	Mike Renshaw	2	0	1973	1973		[4]
England	Giovanni Reyna	26	8	2020	2024	U.S. citizen at birth.	[18]
England	Antonee Robinson	41	4	2018	2023	U.S. citizen at birth.	[19]
England	Arthur Rudd	2	0	1924	1924		[3]
England	Terry Springthorpe	2	0	1953	1957		[3]
England	Roy Turner	2	0	1973	1973		[4]
France	Jeremy Ebobisse	1	0	2019	2019	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[20]
France	Romain Gall	1	0	2018	2018	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[21]
Germany	Orest Banach	4	0	1969	1972	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Germany	Terrence Boyd	14	0	2012	2016	U.S. citizen at birth. Born in West Germany	[22]
Germany	John Brooks	45	3	2013	2021	U.S. citizen at birth. He previously represented Germany at youth level	[23]
Germany	Timothy Chandler	29	1	2011	2016	U.S. citizen at birth. Born in West Germany	[24]
Germany	Otto Decker	1	2	1953	1953		[3]
Germany	Rolf Decker	4	0	1953	1955		[3]
Germany	Thomas Dooley	81	7	1992	1999	U.S. citizen at birth. Born in West Germany	[8]
Germany	Dieter Ficken	1	0	1972	1972	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Germany	Julian Gressel	6	0	2023	2023	Immigrated to the U.S. for college.	[25]
Germany	Jermaine Jones	69	4	2010	2017	U.S. citizen at birth. Born in West Germany. He previously represented Germany	[26]
Germany	Fabian Johnson	57	2	2011	2017	U.S. citizen at birth. Born in West Germany. He previously represented Germany at youth level	[27]
Germany	Jerome Kiesewetter	2	0	2016	2016	U.S. citizen at birth.	[28]
Germany	Cornell Krieger	4	0	1965	1965		[3]
Germany	Lennard Maloney	2	0	2023	2023		[29]
Germany	Michael Mason	5	0	1997	1997	U.S. citizen at birth. Born in West Germany	[30]
Germany	Alfredo Morales	16	0	2013	2019	U.S. citizen at birth. Born in West Germany	[31]
Germany	Horst Rick	1	0	1964	1964		[3]
Germany	Willy Roy	20	9	1965	1973	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Germany	Manfred Seissler	1	0	1973	1973		[4]
Germany	Alex Skotarek	10	0	1975	1976	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Germany	Malik Tillman	10	0	2022	2024	U.S. citizen at birth. He previously represented Germany at youth level	[32]
Germany	Timothy Tillman	1	0	2024	2024	U.S. citizen at birth. He previously represented Germany at youth level	[33]
Germany	David Wagner	8	0	1996	1998	U.S. citizen at birth. Born in West Germany. He previously represented Germany at youth level	[30]
Germany	Danny Williams	23	2	2011	2017	U.S. citizen at birth. Born in West Germany. He previously represented Germany at youth level	[34]
Germany	Mike Windischmann	50	0	1984	1990	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in West Germany	[8]
Germany	Andrew Wooten	1	0	2015	2015	U.S. citizen at birth. Born in West Germany	[35]
Germany	David Yelldell	1	0	2011	2011	U.S. citizen at birth. Born in West Germany	[36]
Ghana	Freddy Adu	17	2	2006	2011	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[37]
Greece	George Athineos	1	1	1953	1953		[3]
Greece	Frank Klopas	39	12	1987	1995	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[8]
Greece	John Lignos	1	0	1982	1982	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Haiti	Dave Cayemitte	1	0	1984	1984	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Haiti	Ronil Dufrene	2	0	1991	1991	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[12]
Haiti	Pat Fidelia	1	0	1979	1979	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Haiti	Joe Gaetjens	1	0	1950	1950	Immigrated to the U.S. for college. He previously represented Haiti	[38]
Haiti	Jacques LaDouceur	10	2	1984	1985	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Hungary	Jim Benedek	4	0	1968	1968	Immigrated to the U.S. for college.	[3]
Hungary	Andy Cziotka	4	0	1965	1965		[3]
Hungary	Sandy Feher	2	0	1968	1968		[3]
Hungary	Bob Gansler	5	0	1968	1968	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Hungary	Charles Horvath	1	0	1964	1964		[3]
Hungary	Andy Mate	1	0	1964	1964		[3]
Hungary	Juli Veee	4	2	1976	1982	He previously represented Hungary at youth level	[4]
Ireland	Cornelius Casey	4	1	1954	1954		[3]
Ireland	Kenny Finn	2	0	1960	1961		[3]
Ireland	Ed Kelly	2	0	1974	1974		[4]
Israel	Ben Zinn	1	0	1959	1959	Born in Mandatory Palestine	[3]
Israel	Abbie Wolanow	1	0	1961	1961		[3]
Italy	Tony Crescitelli	1	0	1983	1983	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Italy	Sergio Notarnicola	11	0	1953	1957
Italy	Emmanuel Sabbi	1	0	2023		Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[39]
Italy	Paul Scurti	1	0	1975	1975	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Italy	Steve Sengelmann	1	0	1986	1986	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Jamaica	Jeff Cunningham	14	1	2001	2010	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. He previously represented Jamaica	[40]
Jamaica	Colin Fowles	18	0	1977	1980	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Jamaica	Robin Fraser	27	0	1988	2001	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[8]
Liberia	Doc Lawson	1	0	1979	1979	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Liberia	Darlington Nagbe	25	1	2015	2018	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[41]
Martinique	David Regis	28	0	1998	2002	Born in a French overseas department	[8]
Mexico	Martín Vásquez	7	0	1996	1997	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. He previously represented Mexico	[30]
Mexico	William Yarbrough	3	0	2015	2016	U.S. citizen at birth.	[42]
Mexico	Alejandro Zendejas	7	1	2023	2023	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. He previously represented Mexico, a violation of FIFA rules.	[43]
Montenegro	Sadri Gjonbalaj	5	1	1986	1993	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Montenegro	Mirsad Huseinovic	1	0	1992	1992	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[12]
Netherlands	Sergiño Dest	33	2	2019	2024	U.S. citizen at birth.	[44]
Netherlands	Hank Liotart	4	0	1975	1975		[4]
Netherlands	Earnie Stewart	101	17	1990	2004	U.S. citizen at birth.	[45]
New Zealand	Tyler Boyd	10	2	2019	2019	U.S. citizen at birth. He previously represented New Zealand	[46]
Nicaragua	Bayardo Abaunza	3	0	1965	1969		[3]
Nigeria	George Bello	7	0	2021	2022	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.
Nigeria	Ade Coker	5	3	1984	1984		[5]
Nigeria	Jean Harbor	15	0	1992	1997	Immigrated to the U.S. for college.	[12]
Nigeria	Ugo Ihemelu	2	0	2006	2009	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[47]
North Macedonia	Ane Mihailovich	5	0	1977	1977	Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[4]
North Macedonia	George Nanchoff	10	1	1977	1979	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[4]
North Macedonia	Louis Nanchoff	10	1	1979	1980	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[4]
Northern Ireland	Dale Ervine	5	0	1985	1993	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Northern Ireland	Cecil Moore	1	0	1953	1953	He previously represented Ireland	[3]
Northern Ireland	Brian Quinn	48	1	1991	1994		[12]
Norway	Mix Diskerud	38	6	2010	2016	U.S. citizen at birth. He previously represented Norway at youth level	[48]
Norway	Werner Nilsen	2	0	1934	1934		[3]
Peru	Jorge Benitez	2	0	1972	1972		[4]
Peru	Carlos Bustamente	1	0	1961	1961		[3]
Peru	Richard Green	1	0	1973	1973		[4]
Peru	Carlos Jaguande	2	0	1992	1992	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[12]
Peru	George Pastor	7	0	1988	1989		[5]
Poland	Dietrich Albrecht	9	2	1968	1969	Born during World War II in an area of Poland annexed by Nazi Germany.	[3]
Poland	Janusz Michallik	44	1	1991	1994		[12]
Poland	Jerry Panek	3	0	1973	1973		[4]
Poland	Andy Racz	1	0	1964	1964		[3]
Poland	Zenon Snylyk	5	0	1957	1961	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Poland	Stefan Szefer	3	0	1973	1973	He previously represented Poland	[49]
Portugal	Altino Domingues	4	0	1976	1976	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Portugal	Fred Pereira	6	1	1977	1977	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Portugal	Telmo Pires	1	0	1975	1975	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Romania	Adolph Bachmeier	15	0	1959	1969		[3]
Romania	Erhardt Kapp	5	1	1983	1985	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Scotland	Andy Auld	5	2	1926	1930		[3]
Scotland	Barney Battles Jr.	1	0	1925	1925	He switched to Scotland	[3]
Scotland	Jim Brown	4	1	1930	1930		[3]
Scotland	Gordon Burness	1	0	1926	1926	He previously represented Canada	[50]
Scotland	Bill Carnihan	2	0	1925	1926		[3]
Scotland	Willie Carson	1	0	1959	1959		[3]
Scotland	Walter Dick	1	0	1934	1934		[3]
Scotland	Neil Clarke	2	0	1916	1916		[3]
Scotland	Doug Farquhar	1	0	1959	1959		[3]
Scotland	Jock Ferguson	1	0	1925	1925		[3]
Scotland	Thomson Ferrans	3	0	1937	1937	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Scotland	William Findlay	4	0	1924	1928	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Scotland	Jimmy Gallagher	5	1	1928	1934	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Scotland	Malcolm Goldie	1	0	1925	1925		[3]
Scotland	Willie Herd	1	0	1925	1925		[3]
Scotland	Stuart Holden	25	3	2008	2013	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[51]
Scotland	Jack Hynes	4	0	1949	1949	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Scotland	Findlay Kerr	1	0	1926	1926		[3]
Scotland	Dominic Kinnear	54	9	1990	1993	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[12]
Scotland	Jack Lyons	2	0	1928	1928		[3]
Scotland	Jack Marshall	1	1	1926	1926	He previously represented Scotland	[52]
Scotland	John Mason	1	0	1977	1977	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Scotland	Charlie McCully	11	0	1973	1975		[4]
Scotland	Henry McCully	2	1	1975	1975		[4]
Scotland	Tommy McFarlane	1	0	1925	1925		[3]
Scotland	Bart McGhee	3	1	1930	1930	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Scotland	Johnny McGuire	1	0	1925	1925		[3]
Scotland	Ed McIlvenny	3	0	1950	1950		[3]
Scotland	Willie McLean	2	0	1934	1934		[3]
Scotland	Doug McMillan	2	0	1974	1974		[4]
Scotland	Peter Millar	13	9	1968	1972		[3]
Scotland	Robert Millar	2	0	1925	1925		[3]
Scotland	Roy Milne	1	0	1953	1953		[3]
Scotland	Johnny Moore	11	0	1972	1975	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Scotland	Billy Morris	1	0	1926	1926		[3]
Scotland	Ed Murphy	18	5	1955	1969		[3]
Scotland	Tommy O'Hara	1	0	1982	1982		[5]
Scotland	George O'Neill	2	0	1973	1973		[4]
Scotland	David Robertson	1	0	1925	1925		[3]
Scotland	Edmund Smith	1	0	1926	1926		[3]
Scotland	Derek Spalding	1	0	1982	1982		[5]
Scotland	Archie Stark	2	5	1925	1925	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Scotland	Tommy Stark	1	0	1925	1925	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Scotland	Tommy Steel	1	0	1925	1925		[3]
Scotland	Andy Straden	4	3	1924	1924		[3]
Scotland	Doug Wark	1	0	1975	1975	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Scotland	Alexander Wood	4	0	1930	1930	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[3]
Serbia	Rudy Getzinger	8	1	1972	1973	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Serbia	Ilija Mitic	1	0	1973	1973	Born in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia	[53]
Serbia	Preki	28	4	1996	2001	Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[54]
Serbia	Steve Ralbovsky	15	0	1976	1978	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[4]
Serbia	Scoop Stanisic	1	0	1993	1993	Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[12]
Slovenia	Werner Roth	15	0	1972	1975	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in the SFR Yugoslavia	[4]
South Africa	Andrew Parkinson	2	0	1984	1984		[5]
South Africa	John Thorrington	4	0	2001	2008	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[55]
South Africa	Roy Wegerle	41	7	1992	1998	Immigrated to the U.S. for college.	[8]
Spain	Santiago Formoso	7	0	1976	1977	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Spain	Manuel Hernandez	2	0	1974	1974	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[4]
Sweden	Carl Johnson	2	0	1924	1924		[3]
Switzerland	Jeff Agoos	134	4	1988	2003	U.S. citizen at birth.	[56]
Tanzania	Bernard Kamungo	1	0	2024	2024		[57]
Togo	Gale Agbossoumonde	1	0	2010	2010	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[58]
Trinidad and Tobago	Hayden Knight	3	0	1984	1984	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[5]
Turkey	Dave Coskunian	3	0	1973	1974		[4]
Ukraine	Walter Chyzowych	3	0	1964	1965	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in Ukraine when it was part of Poland	[3]
Ukraine	Nick Krat	14	0	1968	1972	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth. Born in Ukraine when it was part of Nazi Germany	[4]
Ukraine	Adam Wolanin	1	0	1950	1950	Born in Ukraine when it was part of Poland	[3]
Uruguay	Fernando Clavijo	61	0	1990	1994		[8]
Uruguay	Tab Ramos	81	8	1988	2000	Immigrated to the U.S. as a youth.	[8]
Wales	Bert Evans	1	0	1959	1959		[3]

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