Wales – Seven players
Wales is a Tier 1 nation packed with players born abroad. To suggest they are there on eligibility grounds, though, would be very misleading. Most of the foreign-born players in the squad grew up in Wales. It’s also massively down from 2015, when they had 12 foreign-born players.
- Tomas Francis – England
- Jake Ball – England
- Ross Moriarty – England
- Aaron Shingler – England
- Jonathan Davies – England
- Hadleigh Parkes – New Zealand
- Hallam Amos -England
- George North – England