<P> The Homegrown Player Rule has been an initiative in England and the Premier League to allow for more domestic, English players to be a brought up from a younger age in hopes of creating more talented English players . Currently, the Premier League does not have a maximum restriction on the number of foreign players allowed on a team, but does require at least eight homegrown players . Greg Dyke, new chairman of the Football Association (FA), wants to implement much stronger regulation of foreign players . His intention is clear as stated in an op - ed piece so that England can win the 2022 World Cup in Qatar . Some of Dyke's propositions include: homegrown players in a top - flight 25 - man first - team squad be increased from eight to 12 two of which must be brought up in the teams youth system, and also changing the definition of what it is to be a homegrown player . Currently, to be classified as homegrown one must be on an English team for at least three years before the age of twenty - one in which Dyke would like to reduce to eighteen years . This would mean a teenager would have to be with the club at a maximum age of fifteen and players are not allowed to move across national boundaries, even European Union boundaries, before 16 . Meaning such that, if a foreign player joined an English youth academy at sixteen, in three years time he would be nineteen . Thus said player failing to qualify as a homegrown player due to the fact he would be older than eighteen . </P> <P> Each season the Premier League lists the squads for each of its clubs for the season on 1 September (after the summer transfer window closes). Each club is able to list up to 17 senior players that are not English or Welsh & did not spend a significant period in an English or Welsh academy, plus 8' home - grown' players, plus an unlimited number of academy & youth players . The list for 2017 contains a number of' home - grown players' that are not English / Welsh born or qualified including Chelsea's Cesc Fabregas (110 Spain caps), Manchester United's Paul Pogba (once a world record transfer fee for the France midfielder), Manchester United's Romelu Lukaku (Belgium national team record goalscorer), Nigerian Chelsea player Victor Moses & Arsenal's Spain international Hector Bellerin . </P>

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