Question: how many players on a premier league team

title: Homegrown Player Rule (England)
text: 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 .