Chinese naturalized footballers are association football players originally from another country who changed[Note 1] their nationality to Chinese (People's Republic of China) via naturalization.
Born in 1990 in Shanghai to a Tanzanian father and Chinese mother, Eddy Francis made one appearance for the China national under-14 football team in 2004.
This was the first time a multiracial player has appeared for a China national football team of any level.
[1] Since 2019, China had begun a series of naturalization on foreign-based players in order to improve the China national team's fortunes, with the naturalization of Nico Yennaris, an English-born Cypriot and Chinese player.
Footballers who have non-Chinese descent but likely had Chinese nationality at birth (e.g. Eddy Francis) or who are not notable, do not appear in the list.