As of the 2008-2009 season, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has required football clubs to include a minimum of eight so-called home-grown players on the squad size limit list sheet that contains a maximum of 25 players. Home-grown players are defined as players who, regardless of their nationality, have been trained by their club or by another club in the same national league for at least three years between the ages of 15 and 21. Out of these eight players, four at...

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