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. Brazil has 25 representatives and Argentina follows with 24 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, 6 Germans, 5 Yugoslavs, 5 Danish, 4 Italians, 4 Ghanaians, 4 Norwegians, 4 Senegalese, 4 Serbians, 3 Cameroonians, 3 Malians, 3 Congolese, 3 Slovenians, 3 Albanians, 3 Icelanders, 3 Uruguayans, 2 Finnish, 2 Austrians, 2 Peruvians, 2 Nigerians, 2 South-Africans, 2 Bulgarians, 2 Colombians, 2 English and one player coming from Algeria, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Paraguay, Venezuela, Angola, Mozambique, Ivory Coast, Uzbekistan, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel, Ecuador, Russia, USA, Turkey and Morocco.
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 | |||||
| FOOTBALLERS | NATIONALITY | POSITION | PERIOD | MATCHES | GOALS |
| Carlos Linaris | Argentinian | M | 1971-73 | 1 | – |
| Araquem José de Melo | Brazilian | M-S | 1972-74 | 37 | 19 |
| Juan Ramón Verón | Argentinian | M-S | 1972-74 | 57 | 23 |
| Roberto Gramajo | Argentinian | S | 1972-74 | 9 | 2 |
| Severiano Irala | Paraguayan | M-S | 1972-73 | 3 | – |
| Nikolay Budicic | Yugoslav (Serbia) | D | 1974-75 | 8 | – |
| Daniel Fux | French | S | 1974-75 | 6 | – |
| Siegert Muicic | Yugoslav (Bosnia) | S | 1975-76 | 16 | 7 |
| Dimitris Oikonomou | Cyprian | S | 1975-77 | 23 | – |
| Borivoje Đorđević | Yugoslav (Serbia) | M-S | 1975-78 | 36 | 6 |
| Dimitris Kizas | Cyprian | D | 1976-80 | 73 | 4 |
| Raoul Villain | Argentinian | M-S | 1976-77 | 11 | – |
| Óscar Marcelino Álvarez | Argentinian | S | 1976-80 | 114 | 55 |
| Walter Wagner | German | S | 1978-79 | 17 | 3 |
| Anthony Gomez | Brazilian | M-S | 1978-79 | 9 | 1 |
| Juan José Oré | Peruvian | M-S | 1979-80 | 19 | 6 |
| Helmut Kirisits | Austrian | M | 1979-80 | 14 | – |
| Juan Ramón Rocha | Argentinian | M | 1979-89 | 226 | 12 |
| Roberto Néstor Agueropolis | Argentinian | D | 1980-82 | 25 | – |
| Luis Antonio Andreuchi | Argentinian | S | 1980-81 | 18 | 4 |
| Roque Raúl Alfaro | Argentinian | M | 1980-81 | 10 | 2 |
| Doru Nicolae | Romanian | S | 1980-82 | 57 | 9 |
| Arne Dokken | Norwegian | S | 1981-83 | 30 | 11 |
| Tschen La Ling | Dutch | M-S | 1982-84 | 46 | 4 |
| Velimir Zajec | Yugoslav (Croatia) | M | 1984-88 | 66 | 10 |
| Márton Esterházy | Hungarian | M-S | 1986-88 | 11 | 1 |
| Claus Nielsen | Danish | S | 1988-89 | 20 | 6 |
| Hristo Kolev | Bulgarian | M | 1988-90 | 33 | 11 |
| József Fitos | Hungarian | M | 1988-90 | 6 | – |
| Jason Polak | Australian | M | 1989-90 | 5 | – |
| Krzysztof Warzycha | Polish | S | 1990-05 | 390 | 244 |
| Dănuț Lupu | Romanian | M | 1990-91 | 10 | 1 |
| Józef Wandzik | Polish | GK | 1990-99 | 249 | – |
| Victor Hugo Delgado | Argentinian | M | 1991-92 | 1 | – |
| Juan José Borrelli | Argentinian | M | 1991-97 | 93 | 25 |
| Eliomar Carvalho | Brazilian | S | 1995-96 | 1 | – |
| Kostas Malekos | Cyprian | S | 1996-97 | 12 | 1 |
| Bledar Kola | Albanian | M | 1996-01 | 106 | 10 |
| Vladan Milojević | Yugoslav (Serbia) | D | 1997-00 | 61 | 5 |
| Erik Mykland | Norwegian | M | 1997-00 | 71 | 3 |
| Frank Strandli | Norwegian | S | 1997-99 | 30 | 9 |
| Jafar Irismetov | Uzbek | S | 1997-98 | 1 | – |
| Igor Sibnievski | Polish | M-S | 1997-01 | 53 | 8 |
| Aljoša Asanović | Croatian | M | 1998-00 | 44 | 9 |
| Carlos Mauro Pereira da Silva | Brazilian | S | 1998-99 | 20 | 4 |
| Julio Cesar | Brazilian | D-M | 1998-99 | 3 | – |
| René Henriksen | Danish | D | 1999-05 | 136 | – |
| Fernando Galetto | Argentinian | M | 1999-02 | 50 | 1 |
| Percy Olivares | Peruvian | D-M | 1999-01 | 42 | 2 |
| Helgi Sigurðsson | Icelander | S | 1999-01 | 32 | 10 |
| Karlheinz Pflipsen | German | M | 1999-01 | 19 | 8 |
| Marco Villa | German | M-S | 1999-01 | 3 | – |
| Paulo Manuel Carvalho Sousa | Portuguese | M | 2000-02 | 10 | – |
| Goran Vlaović | Croatian | S | 2000-04 | 64 | 29 |
| Daniel Šarić | Croatian | D | 2000-03 | 43 | 1 |
| Michalis Konstantinou | Cyprian | S | 2001-05 | 94 | 34 |
| Derek Boateng | Ghanaian | M-S | 2001-02 | 24 | 4 |
| Emmanuel Olisadebe | Polish/Nigerian | S | 2001-06 | 74 | 24 |
| Joonas Kolkka | Finn | M-S | 2001-03 | 45 | 3 |
| Jan Michaelsen | Danish | M | 2001-04 | 66 | 4 |
| Robert Jarni | Croatian | D-M | 2002 | 5 | – |
| Erik Lincar | Romanian | M | 2002-03 | 10 | – |
| Carlos Chaínho | Portuguese | M | 2002-03 | 6 | – |
| Nasief Morris | South African | D | 2003-08 | 122 | – |
| Joël Epalle | Cameroonian | M | 2003-05 | 15 | 1 |
| Markus Münch | German | D | 2004-05 | 44 | 3 |
| Silvio Marić | Croatian | M | 2003-05 | 33 | 2 |
| Raimondas Žutautas | Lithuanian | M | 2003-05 | 21 | 2 |
| Njogu Demba-Nyrén | Swedish | S | 2003-05 | 9 | – |
| Lucian Sânmărtean | Romanian | M | 2003-06 | 24 | 1 |
| Ezequiel González | Argentinian | M | 2004-08 | 72 | 14 |
| Mario Galinović | Croatian | GK | 2004-10 | 117 | – |
| Rudolf Skácel | Czech | M | 2004-05 | 16 | 1 |
| Dumitru Mitu | Romanian | M | 2003-05 | 6 | – |
| Maciej Bykowski | Polish | S | 2003-05 | 7 | 4 |
| Alain Raguel | French | D | 2004-05 | – | – |
| Anderson de Lima Freitas | Brazilian | M | 2004-05 | 1 | – |
| Kostas Charalambides | Cyprian | M | 2004-06 | 45 | 1 |
| Nordin Wooter | Dutch | M-S | 2004-06 | 21 | 1 |
| Michalis Siimitras | Cyprian | GK | 2005-06 | – | – |
| Srđan Andrić | Croatian | M | 2005-07 | 25 | 2 |
| Flávio Conceição | Brazilian | M | 2005-06 | 15 | 1 |
| Sándor Torghelle | Hungarian | S | 2005-06 | 11 | – |
| Igor Bišćan | Croatian | M | 2005-07 | 35 | 3 |
| Pierre Ebéde | Cameroonian | GK | 2005-07 | 22 | – |
| Anthony Šerić | Croatian | D-M | 2005-08 | 51 | 1 |
| Mikael Nilsson | Swedish | D-M | 2005-09 | 89 | – |
| Sebastián Romero | Argentinian | M-S | 2006-08 | 40 | 4 |
| Andreas Ivanschitz | Austrian | M | 2006-09 | 71 | 12 |
| Víctor Sánchez | Spanish | M-S | 2006-07 | 12 | – |
| Hans Mikael Antonsson | Swedish | D | 2006-07 | 7 | – |
| Ricardo Souza Bóvio | Brazilian | M | 2006-07 | 24 | 1 |
| Marcelo Mendonça de Mattos | Brazilian | M | 2007-09 | 50 | 3 |
| Dame N’Doye | Senegalese | M-S | 2007-08 | 23 | 3 |
| Josu Sarriegi | Spanish | D | 2007-12 | 118 | 3 |
| Arkadiusz Malarz | Polish | GK | 2007-08 | 12 | – |
| Joseph Enakarhire | Nigerian | D | 2007-08 | 2 | – |
| Simão Mate Junior | Mozambican | D-M | 2007-12 | 118 | 1 |
| Hélder Postiga | Portuguese | S | 2007-08 | 14 | 2 |
| Manucho | Angolan | S | 2007-08 | 9 | 4 |
| Gilberto Silva | Brazilian | M | 2008-11 | 83 | 5 |
| Rodrigo Sousa | Brazilian | S | 2008-09 | 4 | 1 |
| Bryce Moon | South African | M | 2008-09 | 12 | 1 |
| Gabriel Rodrigues dos Santos | Brazilian | D-M | 2008-10 | 35 | 6 |
| Ante Rukavina | Croatian | M-S | 2008-10 | 36 | 7 |
| Alexandre Silva Cleyton | Brazilian | M-S | 2008-12 | 64 | 12 |
| David Braz | Brazilian | D | 2008-09 | 3 | – |
| Jakub Wawrzyniak | Polish | D | 2008-09 | 9 | – |
| Djibril Cissé | French | S | 2009-11 | 61 | 47 |
| Sebastián Leto | Argentinian | M | 2009-13, Jan.2016-17 | 98 | 35 |
| Cédric Kanté | Malian | D | 2009-12 | 67 | 1 |
| Mattias Bjärsmyr | Swedish | D | 2009-10, 2011-12 | 26 | – |
| Jean-Alain Boumsong | French | D | 2010-13 | 63 | 5 |
| Luis García | Spanish | M | 2010-11 | 18 | 2 |
| Sidney Govou | French | M-S | 2010-11 | 20 | 1 |
| Damien Plessis | French | M | 2010-11 | 4 | – |
| Daniel Fernandes | Portuguese | GK | 2010-11 | – | – |
| Gergely Rudolf | Hungarian | S | 2011-12 | 8 | 1 |
| Toché | Spanish | S | 2011-13 | 46 | 20 |
| Victor Vitolo | Spanish | M | 2011-13 | 51 | 4 |
| Owusu-Abeyie Quincy | Ghanaian | M-S | 2011- Dec.13 | 43 | 4 |
| Zeca José Carlos Gonçalves Rodrigues | Portuguese/Greek | M | 2011-2017, 2023-continues | 204 | 8 |
| Pape Habib Sow | Senegalese | M | 2012-2013 | 16 | 2 |
| José Manuel Velázquez | Venezuelan | D | 2012-2013 | 9 | 1 |
| André Pinto | Portuguese | D | 2012-2013 | 16 | – |
| Ibrahim Sissoko | Ivorian | M | 2012-2013 | 28 | 2 |
| Bruno Fornaroli Mezza | Uruguayan | S | 2012-2013 | 17 | – |
| Kostas Barbarousis | New Zealander | S | 2012-2013 | 11 | – |
| Luciano Gabriel Figueroa | Argentinian | S | 2012-2013 | 15 | 6 |
| Jokin Esparza | Spanish | M | 2012-2013 | 9 | – |
| Yōhei Kajiyama | Japanese | M | 2012-2013 | 8 | – |
| Nicky Kuiper | Dutch | D | 2012-2013 | 3 | – |
| Emir Bajrami | Swedish | M | 2013-2015 | 12 | – |
| Gordon Schildenfeld | Croatian | D | 2013-2015 | 57 | 2 |
| David Mendes da Silva | Dutch | M | 2013-2015 | 45 | – |
| Mladen Petrić | Croatian | S | 2013-2016 | 58 | 12 |
| Nano | Spanish | D | 2013-2016 | 86 | 3 |
| Danijel Pranjić | Croatian | M | 2013-2016 | 80 | 9 |
| Abdul Ajagun | Nigerian | M | 2013-2016 | 66 | 10 |
| Mehdi Abeid | Algerian | M | 2013-14, 2015-16 | 60 | 12 |
| Marcus Berg | Swedish | S | 2013-2017 | 114 | 74 |
| Adrián Martín Balboa Camacho | Uruguayan | S | 2013-14 | – | – |
| Ouasim Bouy | Dutch | M | 2014-2015 | 13 | – |
| Valmir Berisha | Swedish | S | 2014-2015 | 1 | – |
| Luke Steele | Brazilian | GK | 2014-2017 | 66 | – |
| Michael Essien | Ghanaian | M | 2015-2016 | 12 | 1 |
| Sergio Sánchez | Spanish | D | 2015-2016 | 10 | – |
| Jens Wemmer | German | D | 2015-2016 | 4 | – |
| Robin Lod | Finn | M | 2015-2018 | 75 | 12 |
| Rasmus Thelander | Danish | D | 2015-2017 | 26 | 1 |
| Olivier Boumal | Cameroonian | S | Jan.2016-2017 | 30 | 2 |
| Giandomenico Mesto | Italian | D | Jan.2016-2017 | 31 | – |
| Yuri Mamute | Brazilian | S | Jan.2016-June.2016 | 7 | – |
| Lucas Evangelista | Brazilian | M | Jan.2016-June.2016 | 11 | 1 |
| Rodrigo Moledo | Brazilian | D | Jan.2016-Jan.2018 | 45 | 4 |
| Lucas Martín Villafáñez | Argentinian | M | Jan.2016-Jan.2018 & 2020-22 | 105 | 12 |
| Ivan Ivanov | Bulgarian | D | 2016-Jan.2017 | 7 | – |
| Víctor Ibarbo | Colombian | S | 2016-Jan.2017 | 8 | – |
| Niklas Hult | Swedish | D | 2016-Jan.2018 | 42 | – |
| Nuno Reis | Portuguese | D | 2016-Jan.2018 | 25 | – |
| Mubarak Wakaso | Ghanaian | M | 2016-Jan.2017 | 8 | 1 |
| Cristian Raúl Ledesma | Argentinian | M | 2016 – Dec.2016 | 6 | 3 |
| Lautaro Rinaldi | Argentinian | S | 2016-2017 | 8 | – |
| Ousmane Coulibaly | Malian | D | 2016-2019 | 52 | – |
| Paul-Jose Mpoku | Congolese | M-S | 2016-2017 | 25 | 2 |
| Christopher Samba | Congolese | D | 2016-Jan.2017 | 2 | – |
| Guillermo Molins | Swedish | S | Jan.2017-2018 | 25 | 6 |
| Omri Altman | Israeli | M | 2017- 2019 | 30 | 4 |
| Bryan Cabezas | Ecuadorian | S | 2017- Jan. 2018 | 9 | – |
| Luciano da Rocha Neves | Brazilian | M-S | 2017-2018 | 9 | 2 |
| Mattias Johansson | Swedish | D | 2017- 2020 | 63 | 5 |
| Andrés Chávez | Argentinian | S | 2017- Jan.2018 | 6 | 1 |
| Emanuel Insúa | Argentinian | D | 2017- 2020 | 60 | 4 |
| Yacouba Sylla | Malian | M | 2017- Jan.2018 | 9 | – |
| Anthony Mounier | French | M | 2017-2019 | 30 | 3 |
| Oscar Hiljemark | Swedish | M | 2017- Jan.2018 | 16 | 2 |
| Ergys Kaçe | Albanian | M | Jan.2018- 2019 | 30 | 2 |
| Federico Macheda | Italian | S | 2018-22 | 106 | 36 |
| Christian Konan | Italian | S | 2019-Jan.2021 | – | – |
| Ghayas Zahid | Norwegian | M | 2019-2020 | 25 | 4 |
| João Nunes | Portuguese | D | 2019-2020 | 11 | – |
| Yohan Mollo | French | M | 2019-2021 | 29 | 1 |
| Bart Schenkeveld | Dutch | D | 2019-continues | 122 | 4 |
| Juan José Perea | Colombian | S | 2019-21 | 23 | 3 |
| Uffe Bech | Danish | M | 2019-22 | 14 | 1 |
| Fausto Antonio Tienza Núñez | Spanish | M | 2019-20 | – | – |
| Anuar Mohamed Tuhami | Spanish | M | Jan. 2020-2020 | 16 | – |
| Dominik Nagy | Hungarian | M | Jan. 2020-2020 | 9 | 1 |
| Yassin Ayoub | Dutch | Μ | Jan.2020-2022 | 16 | – |
| Carlitos | Spanish | S | Jan.2020-2022 | 62 | 16 |
| Fran Vélez | Spanish | D | 2020-22 | 54 | 2 |
| Aitor Cantalapiedra | Spanish | Μ | 2020-2024 | 74 | 21 |
| António Xavier | Portuguese | Μ | 2020-22 | 7 | – |
| Facundo Sánchez | Argentinian | D | 2020-2023 | 56 | 2 |
| Juan Carlos Juankar | Spanish | D | 2020-2024 | 106 | 3 |
| Antoñito | Spanish | D | 2020-Jan.2021 | – | – |
| Jose Mauricio | Brazilian | Μ | 2020-22 | 50 | 7 |
| Younousse Sankharé | Senegalese | Μ | Jan. 2021-2021 | 10 | 3 |
| Yeni Ngbakoto | Congolese | Μ | Jan. 2021-Jan. 2022 | 14 | – |
| Cheikh Niasse | Senegalese | Μ | Jan. 2021-2021 | 13 | – |
| Rubén Pérez | Spanish | Μ | 2021-continues | 89 | – |
| Zvonimir Šarlija | Croatian | D | 2021-23 | 41 | – |
| Ramon Pascal Lundqvist | Swedish | Μ | 2021-22 | 11 | 1 |
| Mateus Vital | Brazilian | Μ | 2021-22 | 33 | 1 |
| Sebastián Palacios | Argentinian | Μ | 2021-Jun.2024 | 92 | 23 |
| Alberto Brignoli | Italian | GK | 2021-Jun.2024 | 69 | – |
| Mijat Gaćinović | Serbian | Μ | Jan.2022- Jun.2022 | 13 | – |
| Yuri Lodygin | Russian/Greek | GK | 2022-continues | 17 | – |
| Cristian Ganea | Romanian | D | 2022-Sept.2023 | 9 | – |
| Adam Gnezda Cerin | Slovenian | M | 2022-continues | 60 | 4 |
| Hordur Björgvin Magnússon | Icelander | D | 2022-continues | 27 | 2 |
| Andraž Šporar | Slovenian | S | 2022-continues | 59 | 19 |
| Benjamin Verbic | Slovenian | M | 2022-continues | 47 | 6 |
| Jonas Toró | Brazilian | M | 2022 | – | – |
| Bernard Duarte | Brazilian | M | 2022-2024 | 62 | 12 |
| Alexis Trouillet | French | M | 2022-Jun 2023, Jun.2024- | 1 | – |
| Enis Cokaj | Albanian | M | 2022-Jan. 2023, Jun.2024- | 22 | – |
| Tymoteusz Puchacz | Polish | D | Jan.2023-Jun.2023 | 13 | – |
| Laszlo Kleinheisler | Hungarian | M | Jan.2023-Jan.2024, Jun.2024- | 17 | 2 |
| Alexander Jeremejeff | Swedish | S | Jan.2023-On loan,June 2023-continues | 15 | 8 |
| Daniel Mancini | Argentinian | M | Jan.2023-continues | 47 | 5 |
| Filip Mladenovic | Serbian | D | 2023-continues | 30 | 1 |
| Filip Djuricic | Serbian | M | 2023-continues | 19 | 3 |
| Tonny Vilhena | Dutch | M | 2023-continues | 25 | 1 |
| Tin Jedvaj | Croatia | D | 2023-continues | 24 | 2 |
| Erik Palmer-Brown | American | D | 2023-continues | 3 | – |
| Willian Arao | Brazilian | M | 2023-continues | 32 | 3 |
| Samet Akaydin | Turkish | D | Jan. 2024-Jun.2024 | 12 | – |
| Bartlomiej Dragowski | Polish | GK | Jan. 2024-continues | 12 | – |
| Vitor Hugo | Brazilian | D | Jan. 2024-Jun.2024 | 8 | – |
| Nemanja Maksimovic | Serbian | M | 2024- | ||
| George Baldock | English/Greek | D | 2024 | 3 | – |
| Sverrir Ingi Ingason | Icelander | D | 2024- | ||
| Tete | Brazilian | M | 2024- | ||
| Philipp Max | German | D | 2024- | ||
| Facundo Pellistri | Uruguayan | Μ | 2024- | ||
| Azzedine Ounahi | Moroccan | M | 2024- | ||
