Why isn't this illegal?

[Huck the Dog]

After getting beat in an EPL match, I wanted to compare rosters and noticed that my opponent has only 4 homegrown players on its full roster or 25 players. My league rules say I have to have a minimum of eight. How are they skirting the rules? A few other EPL teams also seem to have full rosters without 8 homegrown players, too.

 

[Jack Fulham]

A few if the home grown players may be in the reserve teams?

 

[CsAtlantis]

You can register a squad with less players if you don't have enough homegrown ones, like say 21 with 4 homegrown players?

Oh yea, how do you check other teams registered squads for the Premier League?

 

[Matt_T]

At the moment, the rule stops teams having more than 17 foreign players in their squad rather than forcing them to have 8 home grown players

 

[iantheiceberg]

Perhaps some of players on that roster are aged 20 or below, allowing them to play in the EPL without being registered...

 

[Huck the Dog]

A few if the home grown players may be in the reserve teams?

I think this must be it, but I think I don't understand how it works. Still seems a little fishy to me. On his first team, he has the full complement of 25 players, and only 4 home-grown. So he clearly has more than 17 foreign players (also fyi none of them are aged 20 or below). On his reserve squad, he has 16 players, 5 of whom are home-grown (though three of them are on loan to other clubs). But I thought the eight home-grown requirement was for the first team.

 

[Jack Fulham]

I think this must be it, but I think I don't understand how it works. Still seems a little fishy to me. On his first team, he has the full complement of 25 players, and only 4 home-grown. So he clearly has more than 17 foreign players (also fyi none of them are aged 20 or below). On his reserve squad, he has 16 players, 5 of whom are home-grown (though three of them are on loan to other clubs). But I thought the eight home-grown requirement was for the first team.

You can still be foreign and home grown if they've come up through an English club for three years between the ages 16-21.

 

[Grenwald]

You can still be foreign and home grown if they've come up through an English club for three years between the ages 16-21.

Like Fabregas at Arsenal, just as an example...