Top 5: Potential future rule changes in the Premier League

One club-developed player

From the start of the 2018-19 English Football League campaign, all 72 clubs will need to name at least one ‘club-developed’ player in their match-day squads; with a ‘club-developed’ player defined as a player who has been with a club for at least a year before the end of his Under-19 campaign.

This is something that all current clubs agreed to in February and was formally approved at the latest general meeting. This will be in addition to current rules that state each match day squad must have at least seven homegrown players from the start of the 2018-19 season.

This is a great step forward for English football and has been designed to increase the number of players progressing into first-team football from their respective club’s youth set-up.

Should this be successful, the Premier League could definitely adopt it and ditch its own homegrown player rule and, if implemented in the Premier League, some teams may be affected and would be forced to rethinking their match day squads.

With all things considered, this would provide a further step forward in the thinking around nurturing young English talent.