List of foreign CPL players

This is a list of foreign players that have played in the Canadian Premier League, which commenced play in 2019. The following players:

1. Have played at least one CPL regular season game. Players who were signed by CPL clubs, but only played in playoff games, Canadian Championship games, or did not play in any competitive games at all, are not included.
2. Are considered foreign, i.e., outside Canada determined by the following:

A player is considered foreign if his allegiance is not to play for the national team of Canada.

More specifically,

• If a player has been capped at international level, the national team is used; if he has been capped by more than one country, the highest level (or the most recent) team is used. These include Canadian players with dual citizenship.
• If a player has not been capped at international level, his country of birth is used, except those who were born abroad from Canadian parents, or moved to Canada at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched his nationality to another nation.

This is a list of players currently occupying one of the seven spots designated for foreign players. Canadian Premier League teams may sign a maximum of seven international players, out of which only five can be in the starting lineup for each match. The following players are considered foreign players for the 2023 season.[1]

In bold (for this section): players who have been capped for their national team.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Cancelled contracts
Atlético Ottawa	Miguel Acosta	Ollie Bassett	Diego Espejo	Gianni dos Santos[b NED]	Aboubakary Sacko
Cavalry FC	José Escalante	Roberto Alarcón	Daan Klomp	Joe Mason	Udoka Chima[b ENG]	Jesse Daley	Goteh Ntignee
Forge FC	Alexander Achinioti-Jönsson	Rezart Rama	Malik Owolabi-Belewu	Aboubacar Sissoko[2]
HFX Wanderers	Callum Watson	Andre Rampersad	Lorenzo Callegari	Lifumpa Mwandwe	João Morelli	Théo Collomb	Kosi Nwafornso
Pacific FC	Bradley Vliet	Kekuta Manneh	Djenairo Daniels	Ayman Sellouf	David Brazão
Vancouver FC	Eugene Martinez	Ibrahim Bakare	Nicky Gyimah[b ENG]	Min-jae Kwak	Gael Sandoval	Emmanuel Robe[3]		Cristian Mares[con TERM]
Valour FC	Andrew Jean-Baptiste	Pacifique Niyongabire	Walter Ponce	Kian Williams	Jaime Siaj[b SPA]	Kevin Rendón
York United	Tass Mourdoukoutas	Lassana Faye	Brem Soumaoro[b GUI]	Oussama Alou	Kevin dos Santos	Osaze de Rosario	Molham Babouli[b UAE][c CAN U23][4]

In bold (for this section): players who have played at least one CPL game in the most recent season (2023 Canadian Premier League season), and are still at the clubs for which they have played. This does not include current players of a CPL club who have not played a CPL game in the current season.

If not stated otherwise, the country the player is under is the country they were born in.