The purchases of Leoni to Liverpool, Savona to Nottingham Forest, Coppola to Brighton, and Donnarumma to Manchester Metropolis considerably enhance the quota of Italians within the Premier League.
With 11 gamers + one coach, Italy now enters the TOP 10 of probably the most represented nations within the Premier, on par with Wales, which supplies the championship with 12 gamers.
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Let’s now see the record of Italians in England plus a bonus record: who’s “Italian” because of the passport to which we add one other participant registered within the Premier, who’s briefly on mortgage.
11 Italian gamers + 1 coach
Gianluigi Donnarumma – Manchester Metropolis
Sandro Tonali – Newcastle
Guglielmo Vicario – Tottenham
Future Udogie – Tottenham
Riccardo Calafiori – Arsenal
Michael Kayode – Brentford
Federico Chiesa – Liverpool
Giovanni Leoni – Liverpool
Nicolò Savona – Nottingham Forest
Enzo Maresca – Chelsea (coach)
The Italian participant who has been within the Premier League the longest is Wilfried Gnonto: because the summer time of 2022 when he moved from Zurich to Leeds, a membership that was relegated to the Championship after which promoted in 2025.
Nonetheless, Maresca is probably the most “long-standing” Italian within the Premier: from 2020 to 2021 he coached Manchester Metropolis’s Below 23, then returned to England as Guardiola’s assistant coach in 2022 and subsequently went to Leeds and Chelsea.
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We remind that in 2025 additionally ended the journey of Ogbonna in England after 10 years between West Ham and Watford (final 12 months within the Championship).
The Italians “solely” by passport
There are additionally gamers who don’t play for Italy however have an Italian passport, they’re 7:
Gabriel Martinelli: Brazil – Italy
Alexis Mac Allister: Argentina – Italy
Facundo Buonanotte: Argentina – Italy
Nicolas Dominguez: Argentina – Italy
Marcos Senesi: Argentina – Italy
Guido Rodriguez: Argentina – Italy
Lucas Perri: Brazil – Italy
Bonus: Koleosho registered however on mortgage
Luca Koleosho won’t play within the Premier League this 12 months however formally he’s a Burnley participant, who has loaned him to Espanyol. The striker born within the USA performed the Below 21 European Championship final summer time with the Azzurri.
This text was translated into English by Synthetic Intelligence.
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