A homegrown participant is a participant who, no matter their nationality or age, has been affiliated with any English or Welsh membership for a interval of three total seasons or 36 months earlier than their twenty first birthday.
The identical guidelines apply to gamers who’ve three seasons or 36 months as a registered participant previous to the tip of the season wherein that participant turns 21.
An instance of that is Chelsea’s Brazilian striker Joao Pedro. The 23-year-old, born in Sao Paulo, joined Watford in 2020 aged 18. As a result of he spent three consecutive years earlier than turning 21 in England, he’s thought-about homegrown.
One other case the place the homegrown rule comes into impact is Arsenal winger Noni Madueke.
Madueke, 23, joined PSV Eindhoven’s academy in June 2018 as a 16-year-old and didn’t return to England till January 2023, becoming a member of Chelsea two months earlier than his twenty first birthday.
As a result of Madueke had been an academy participant at Crystal Palace and Tottenham previous to shifting to Eindhoven, he’s nonetheless classed as homegrown.
The foundations on this differ to Uefa’s guidelines on homegrown gamers. The qualifying interval for a participant solely counts between the ages of 15 and 21, the place because the Premier League’s beginning age is far youthful.
This text is the newest from BBC Sport’s Ask Me Something staff.
