UEFA has unveiled its proposed rules on home grown players

The proposed regulations, which would apply to all future UEFA club competitions, has been revealed after a lengthy consultation process between UEFA and clubs, leagues, national associations, players' bodies, coaches, European political authorities and politicians, and national governments. UEFA has also asked its 52 member associations to apply the same rule for their domestic competitions. The proposals will now be presented to the national associations for official approval at the UEFA Ordinary Congress in Tallinn, Estonia in April. The new regulations suggest that the list submitted by teams for UEFA club competitions will continue to be limited to 25 players, however from season 2006/07, at least two places on this list will be reserved for players trained by the club's own football academy and a further two places for players trained by other clubs from within the same association of the said club. In the following two seasons, one additional place for a club-trained and one additional place for an association-trained player will be reserved on the list, so that by the 2008/09 season, each club will have in its 25-man squad four club-trained and four association-trained players. A club-trained player is defined as a player who has been registered for a minimum of three seasons with the club between the age of 15 and 21, whereas an association-trained player is a player who has been registered for at least three seasons by the club or by other clubs affiliated to the same association of the said club between the age of 15 and 21.

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