nationalities that have played for city

France - Alouine Toure
Spain javier Garrido
Switzerland - gelson
Sweden - goalkeeper whose name alludes me.
 
Colin Viljoen from South Africa.

Then there was Walter Bowman, the first ever non-British player in the Football League who played for City while they were still called Ardwick and when they were called City too. He was from Canada.
 
Stephen Ireland - Cork... :)

OK that was bad. Well Cork should be a nation.

But OK then:

Djamel Belmadi - Algeria

Did anyone mention another great Algerian: Ali Benarbia...?? For shame if not.

Or Eyal Berkovic - Israel?

Just wondering; too bloody tired to check.
 
I make it around 57 registered nationalities (not necessarily birth countries)

0. Eduard Abazaj - Albania (registered but never played)
2. Ali Benarbia/Djamel Belmadi - Algeria
3. Pablo Zabaleta/Carlos Tevez/Martín Demichelis/Sergio Aguero - Argentina
4. Danny Tiatto/Simon Colosimo/Daniel Allsopp/Jason van Blerk - Australia

5. Shaun Goater - Bermuda
6. Daniel Van Buyten/Émile Mpenza/Vincent Kompany/Dedryck Boyata - Belgium
7. Edin Džeko - Bosnia and Herzegovina
8. Valeri Bojinov/Martin Petrov - Bulgaria
15. Geovanni/Elano/Fernandinho/Glauber Berti/Robinho/Sylvinho/Jo/Maicon - Brazil

9. Sun Jihai - China
10. Marc-Vivien Foé/Lucien Mettomo - Cameroon
11. Terry Dunfield/Walter Bowman (City's first international signing ever) - Canada
12. David Pizarro - Chile
13. Paulo Wanchope - Costa Rica
14. Vedran Ćorluka - Croatia

16. Mikkel Bischoff/Niclas Jensen/Ronnie Ekelund/Kasper Schmeichel/Peter Schmeichel/Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard/Ronnie Ekelund - Denmark
17. Felipe Caicedo - Ecuador
18. Gunnar Nielsen - Faroe Islands
19. Nicholas Anelka/Laurent Charvet/Gael Clichy/Sylvain Distin/Ousmane Dabo/Samir Nasri/Christian Negouai/Antoine Sibierski /David Sommeil/Bacary Sagna/Patrick Vieira/Alioune Touré/Jérémy Hélan - France

20. Georgiou Kinkladze/Murthaz Shelia/Mikhail Kavelashvili/Kakhaber Tskhadadze - Georgia
21. Bert Trautmann/Michael Frontneck/Uwe Rösler/Eike Immel/Steffen Karl/Jérôme Boateng/Maurizio Gaudino/Dietmarr Hamann/Michael Tarnat - West Germany/Germany
22. Georgious Samaras - Greece

23. Márton Fülöp/Imre Varadi - Hungary

1. Arni Arason - Iceland
24. Tal Ben Haim / Eyal Berkovic - Israel
25. Terry Phelan - Ireland (Republic of) - so many more...
26. Mario Balotelli/Rolando Bianchi/Bernardo Corradi/Luca Scapuzzi - Italy
27. Kolo Toure/Yaya Toure/Abdul Razak - Ivory Coast

28. Fitzroy Simpson/Tyrone Mears* *even though he is not Jamaican! http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20091109/sports/sports1.html- Jamaica
29. George Weah - Liberia
30. Stevan Jovetić/Stefan Savić - Montenegro
31. Nery Castillo - Mexico n.b: Matías Vuoso was born in Argentina but has represented Mexico - and not City. £3.5m well spent.

[bigimg]http://www.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/img/history/players/ronald-waterreus.jpg[/bigimg]
32. Michel Vonk/Nigel De Jong/Gerard Wiekens/Paul Bovelt/Alfons Groenendijk/Kiki Musampa/Michel Vonk/Danny Hoekman/Ronald Waterreus (http://www.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/history/Players/Player.aspx?id=864)/Karim Rekik - Netherlands
33. Steve Lomas - Northern Ireland (and so many more)
34. Dickson Etuhu/Kelvin Etuhu - Nigeria
35. Alf-Inge Håland/Abdisalam Ibrahim /Kåre Ingebrigtsen/Egil Østenstad/Åge Hareide - Norway
36. Chris Killen - New Zealand

37. Roque Santa Cruz - Paraguay
38. Kazimerez Deyna - Poland
39. Marcos Lopes - Portugal
40. Hussein Yasser http://www.mcfc.co.uk/news/match-reports/2005/september/doncaster-rovers-v-city-21-sep-2005 - Qatar
41. Costel Pantilimon - Romania
42. Andrei Kanchelskis - Russia

43. Colin Viljoen - South Africa.
44. Matt Busby - Scotland (and many many more)
45. Aleksandar Kolarov/Matija Nastasić - Serbia
46. Albert Riera/Javier Garrido/Jesus Navas/David Silva/Alvaro Negredo/Javi Garcia/Denis Suárez - Spain
47. Vladimír Weiss - Slovakia
48. John Guidetti/Andreas Issakson - Sweden
49. Gelson Fernandes/Giuseppe Mazzarelli - Switzerland

50. Emanuel Adebayor - Togo
51. Hatem Trabelsi - Tunisia
52. Ronnie Mauge - Trinidad & Tobago
0. Suree Sukha, Kiatprawut Saiwaeo and Teerasil Dangda - Thailand - http://www.mcfc.co.uk/news/team-news/2007/august/thai-trio-begin-two-week-trial - ALL DENIED WORK PERMITS initially and released following the big takeover.

53. Claudio Reyna/Gerry Baker - USA
54. Billy Meredith Wales (and many many more)
55. Dragoslav Stepanovic/Ivan Golac - Yugoslavia
56. Benjani Mwaruwari - Zimbabwe

57. Oh and ENGLAND.
 
What about the 3 Thais when Thaksin was boss, although no actual appearances.
 
acton28 said:
I make it around 56 nationalities

1. Eduard Abazaj - Albania
2. Ali Benarbia/Djamel Belmadi - Algeria
3. Pablo Zabaleta/Carlos Tevez/Martín Demichelis/Sergio Aguero - Argentina
4. Danny Tiatto/Simon Colosimo/Daniel Allsopp/Jason van Blerk - Australia

5. Shaun Goater - Bermuda
6. Daniel Van Buyten/Émile Mpenza/Vincent Kompany/Dedryck Boyata - Belgium
7. Edin Džeko - Bosnia and Herzegovina
8. Valeri Bojinov/Martin Petrov - Bulgaria
15. Geovanni/Elano/Fernandinho/Glauber Berti/Robinho/Sylvinho/Jo/Maicon - Brazil

9. Sun Jihai - China
10. Marc-Vivien Foé/Lucien Mettomo - Cameroon
11. Terry Dunfield/Walter Bowman - Canada
12. David Pizarro - Chile
13. Paulo Wanchope - Costa Rica
14. Vedran Ćorluka - Croatia

16. Mikkel Bischoff/Niclas Jensen/Ronnie Ekelund/Kasper Schmeichel/Peter Schmeichel/Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard/Ronnie Ekelund - Denmark
17. Felipe Caicedo - Ecuador
18. Gunnar Nielsen - Faroe Islands
19. Nicholas Anelka/Laurent Charvet/Gael Clichy/Sylvain Distin/Ousmane Dabo/Samir Nasri/Christian Negouai/Antoine Sibierski /David Sommeil/Bacary Sagna/Patrick Vieira/Alioune Touré/Jérémy Hélan - France

20. Georgiou Kinkladze/Murthaz Shelia/Mikhail Kavelashvili/Kakhaber Tskhadadze - Georgia
21. Bert Trautmann/Michael Frontneck/Uwe Rösler/Eike Immel/Steffen Karl/Jérôme Boateng/Maurizio Gaudino/Dietmarr Hamann/Michael Tarnat - West Germany/Germany
22. Georgious Samaras - Greece

23. Márton Fülöp/Imre Varadi - Hungary

24. Tal Ben Haim / Eyal Berkovic - Israel
25. Terry Phelan - Ireland (Republic of) - so many more...
26. Mario Balotelli/Rolando Bianchi/Bernardo Corradi/Luca Scapuzzi - Italy
27. Kolo Toure/Yaya Toure/Abdul Razak - Ivory Coast

28. Fitzroy Simpson/Tyrone Mears - Jamaica

29. George Weah - Liberia

30. Stevan Jovetić/Stefan Savić - Montenegro
31. Nery Castillo - Mexico

32. Michel Vonk/Nigel De Jong/Gerard Wiekens/Paul Bovelt/Alfons Groenendijk/Kiki Musampa/Michel Vonk/Danny Hoekman/Ronald Waterreus/Karim Rekik - Netherlands
33. Steve Lomas - Northern Ireland (and so many more)
34. Dickson Etuhu/Kelvin Etuhu - Nigeria
35. Alf-Inge Håland/Abdisalam Ibrahim /Kåre Ingebrigtsen/Egil Østenstad/Åge Hareide - Norway
36. Chris Killen - New Zealand

37. Roque Santa Cruz - Paraguay
38. Kazimerez Deyna - Poland
39. Marcos Lopes - Portugal
40. Hussein Yasser - Qatar
41. Costel Pantilimon - Romania
42. Andrei Kanchelskis - Russia

43. Colin Viljoen - South Africa.
44. Matt Busby - Scotland (and many many more)
45. Aleksandar Kolarov/Matija Nastasić - Serbia
46. Albert Riera/Javier Garrido/Jesus Navas/David Silva/Alvaro Negredo/Javi Garcia/Denis Suárez - Spain
47. Vladimír Weiss - Slovakia
48. John Guidetti/Andreas Issakson - Sweden
49. Gelson Fernandes/Giuseppe Mazzarelli - Switzerland

50. Emanuel Adebayor - Togo
51. Hatem Trabelsi - Tunisia
52. Ronnie Mauge - Trinidad & Tobago

53. Hatem Trabelsi/Claudio Reyna/Gerry Baker - USA
54. Billy Meredith Wales (and many many more)
55. Dragoslav Stepanovic/Ivan Golac - Yugoslavia
56. Benjani Mwaruwari - Zimbabwe

Has Trabelsi got dual citizenship?
 
acton28 said:
I make it around 56 nationalities

1. Eduard Abazaj - Albania
2. Ali Benarbia/Djamel Belmadi - Algeria
3. Pablo Zabaleta/Carlos Tevez/Martín Demichelis/Sergio Aguero - Argentina
4. Danny Tiatto/Simon Colosimo/Daniel Allsopp/Jason van Blerk - Australia

5. Shaun Goater - Bermuda
6. Daniel Van Buyten/Émile Mpenza/Vincent Kompany/Dedryck Boyata - Belgium
7. Edin Džeko - Bosnia and Herzegovina
8. Valeri Bojinov/Martin Petrov - Bulgaria
15. Geovanni/Elano/Fernandinho/Glauber Berti/Robinho/Sylvinho/Jo/Maicon - Brazil

9. Sun Jihai - China
10. Marc-Vivien Foé/Lucien Mettomo - Cameroon
11. Terry Dunfield/Walter Bowman - Canada
12. David Pizarro - Chile
13. Paulo Wanchope - Costa Rica
14. Vedran Ćorluka - Croatia

16. Mikkel Bischoff/Niclas Jensen/Ronnie Ekelund/Kasper Schmeichel/Peter Schmeichel/Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard/Ronnie Ekelund - Denmark
17. Felipe Caicedo - Ecuador
18. Gunnar Nielsen - Faroe Islands
19. Nicholas Anelka/Laurent Charvet/Gael Clichy/Sylvain Distin/Ousmane Dabo/Samir Nasri/Christian Negouai/Antoine Sibierski /David Sommeil/Bacary Sagna/Patrick Vieira/Alioune Touré/Jérémy Hélan - France

20. Georgiou Kinkladze/Murthaz Shelia/Mikhail Kavelashvili/Kakhaber Tskhadadze - Georgia
21. Bert Trautmann/Michael Frontneck/Uwe Rösler/Eike Immel/Steffen Karl/Jérôme Boateng/Maurizio Gaudino/Dietmarr Hamann/Michael Tarnat - West Germany/Germany
22. Georgious Samaras - Greece

23. Márton Fülöp/Imre Varadi - Hungary

24. Tal Ben Haim / Eyal Berkovic - Israel
25. Terry Phelan - Ireland (Republic of) - so many more...
26. Mario Balotelli/Rolando Bianchi/Bernardo Corradi/Luca Scapuzzi - Italy
27. Kolo Toure/Yaya Toure/Abdul Razak - Ivory Coast

28. Fitzroy Simpson/Tyrone Mears - Jamaica

29. George Weah - Liberia

30. Stevan Jovetić/Stefan Savić - Montenegro
31. Nery Castillo - Mexico

32. Michel Vonk/Nigel De Jong/Gerard Wiekens/Paul Bovelt/Alfons Groenendijk/Kiki Musampa/Michel Vonk/Danny Hoekman/Ronald Waterreus/Karim Rekik - Netherlands
33. Steve Lomas - Northern Ireland (and so many more)
34. Dickson Etuhu/Kelvin Etuhu - Nigeria
35. Alf-Inge Håland/Abdisalam Ibrahim /Kåre Ingebrigtsen/Egil Østenstad/Åge Hareide - Norway
36. Chris Killen - New Zealand

37. Roque Santa Cruz - Paraguay
38. Kazimerez Deyna - Poland
39. Marcos Lopes - Portugal
40. Hussein Yasser - Qatar
41. Costel Pantilimon - Romania
42. Andrei Kanchelskis - Russia

43. Colin Viljoen - South Africa.
44. Matt Busby - Scotland (and many many more)
45. Aleksandar Kolarov/Matija Nastasić - Serbia
46. Albert Riera/Javier Garrido/Jesus Navas/David Silva/Alvaro Negredo/Javi Garcia/Denis Suárez - Spain
47. Vladimír Weiss - Slovakia
48. John Guidetti/Andreas Issakson - Sweden
49. Gelson Fernandes/Giuseppe Mazzarelli - Switzerland

50. Emanuel Adebayor - Togo
51. Hatem Trabelsi - Tunisia
52. Ronnie Mauge - Trinidad & Tobago

53. Hatem Trabelsi/Claudio Reyna/Gerry Baker - USA
54. Billy Meredith Wales (and many many more)
55. Dragoslav Stepanovic/Ivan Golac - Yugoslavia
56. Benjani Mwaruwari - Zimbabwe
Well that killed that game. Thanks ;-)

By the way, you managed to miss out England, and that Qatari fella never played a game for us.
 

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