New Football League rules

[Bruce Wayne]

The Football League has voted overwhelmingly in favour of implementing new quotas on home-grown players from the start of next season.

At least four players in every 16-man match-day squad will have to have been registered domestically for at least three years before their 21st birthday.



BBC SPORT | Football | Clubs vote for 'home-grown' rule


What a joke. So clubs can still have 12 foreign players in their squad for each match and the Football League are touting this as a big deal. I doubt league clubs even have many foreign players.

 

[CanadaToffee]

The Football League has voted overwhelmingly in favour of implementing new quotas on home-grown players from the start of next season.

At least four players in every 16-man match-day squad will have to have been registered domestically for at least three years before their 21st birthday.



BBC SPORT | Football | Clubs vote for 'home-grown' rule


What a joke. So clubs can still have 12 foreign players in their squad for each match and the Football League are touting this as a big deal. I doubt league clubs even have many foreign players.

...until Arsenal are relegated next May

 

[Scottoffee]

This is brilliant - Liverpool will struggle more than anyone, even Arsenal.

It's players that have been registered in England for 3yrs min by the time they're 21 - Fabregas, Clichy, Song, Denilson, Djourou & Bendtner would be ok on top of Ramsey, Walcott, Wilshere etc...

Liverpool only have Gerrard, Carragher & Pennant and even the majority of their reserves are Hungarian or Spanish.

 

[Cahill's Metatarsal]

There are 72 clubs in the football league. How many teams fulfilled their quota for "homegrown players" in their last game?

72

Can't see this affecting things too much as things stand