List of Croatia international footballers born outside Croatia

This is a list of the Croatian soccer players who played for the Croatia senior national football team, born outside Croatia. Most of them are born in the former Yugoslavia countries, especially Bosnia and Herzegovina, or outside Yugoslavia they're born in Germany. In this list are included naturalized players and born abroad.

Players in bold are currently playing for the Croatia national football team or active, in brackets there are their caps. The list is updated as 27 March 2026.

Australia

• Joey Didulica 2004–2006 (4) (0)
• Anthony Å erić 1998–2006 (16) (0)
• Josip Å imunić 2001–2013 (105) (3)

Austria

• Franjo Ivanović 2025– (9) (2)
• Mateo Kovačić 2013– (111) (5)
• Luka Sučić 2021– (19) (1)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Austria-Hungary

• Miroslav Brozović 1940–1944 (17) (0)
• Mirko Kokotović 1941–1944 (15) (2)
• Antun Pogačnik 1941 (1) (0)
• Sulejman Rebac 1956 (1) (2)
• Aleksandar Živković 1940 (1) (0)

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

• Florijan Matekalo 1940 (4) (1)

SFR Yugoslavia

• Mladen Bartulović 2006–2009 (2) (0)
• Mario Bazina 2002 (1) (0)
• Stanko Bubalo 1999–2000 (2) (0)
• Ante Budimir 2020– (35) (6)
• Nino Bule 1999–2004 (3) (0)
• Vedran Ćorluka 2006–2018 (103) (4)
• Darko Dražić 1990–1991 (2) (0)
• Sejad Halilović 1994 (1) (0)
• Mato Jajalo 2014–2015
• Nikica Jelavić 2009–2014 (36) (6)
• Vedran JeÅ¡e 2006–2008 (2) (0)
• Krunoslav Jurčić 1997–2000 (21) (0)
• Goran Jurić 1997–1999 (15) (0)
• Marin Leovac 2014– (5) (0)
• Dejan Lovren 2009–2022 (78) (5)
• Mato Neretljak 2001–2006 (10) (1)
• Željko Pavlović 1996–2001 (7) (0)
• Mladen Petrić 2001–2013 (45) (13)
• Mladen Romić 1992 (3) (0)
• Mario Stanić 1995–2003 (49) (7)
• Mario Tokić 1998–2006 (28) (0)
• Stjepan Tomas 1998–2006 (49) (1)
• Boris Živković 1999–2007 (39) (2)

Born after Bosnia's Independence from Yugoslavia

• Jakov Filipović 2017– (3) (0)
• Nikola Katić 2017 (1) (0)
• Mirko Marić 2017– (1) (0)
• Petar Sučić 2024– (14) (1)
• Ivan Å unjić 2017– (1) (0)
• Josip Å utalo 2022– (30) (0)

Brazil

• Eduardo da Silva 2004–2014 (64) (29)
• Sammir 2012–2014 (7) (0)

Germany

West Germany

• Ivo Iličević 2010–2013 (9) (1)
• Niko Kovač 1996–2008 (83) (14)
• Robert Kovač 1999–2009 (84) (0)
• Ivan Klasnić 2004–2011 (41) (12)
• Marijo Marić 2002–2004 (8) (1)
• Tomislav Marić 2002–2003 (9) (2)
• Robert Prosinečki 1994–2002 (49) (10)
• Filip Tapalović 2002 (3) (0)
• Vladimir Vasilj 1998–2002 (2) (0)

Born after German reunification

• Antonio Čolak 2020– (3) (0)
• Igor Matanović 2024– (8) (2)
• Marco PaÅ¡alić 2023– (12) (1)
• Mario PaÅ¡alić 2014– (82) (11)
• Marin Pongračić 2020– (17) (0)
• Josip StaniÅ¡ić 2021– (28) (0)

Kosovo

SFR Yugoslavia

• Ardian Kozniku 1994–1998 (7) (2)
• Kujtim Shala 1990 (1) (0)

Montenegro

SFR Yugoslavia

• Dževad Turković 1994–1995 (6) (0)

Serbia

Austria-Hungary

• Svetozar Džanić 1941 (1) (0)

Slovenia

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

• Antun LokoÅ¡ek 1944 (1) (1)

SFR Yugoslavia

• Srebrenko Posavec 2006 (1) (0)
• Gregor Židan 1990 (1) (0)

Switzerland

• Ivan Rakitić 2007–2019 (106) (15)

United States of America

• Zvonko Jazbec 1940 (3) (1)

Records

This section is only about players born outside Croatia. Players in bold are currently active.

Most capped players

Top goalscorers

Stats by country of birth

References