UEFA home-grown rule 'open to legal fight'

UEFA’s legislation imposing a minimum number of home-grown players on clubs is open to challenge in the courts for being against European Law, according to a legal expert.

From the start of the new season, each side playing in European competitions must have at least four members of their 25-man squad who have been registered with them over three seasons between the ages of 15 and 21 – such as teenager Cesc Fabregas at Arsenal – or at another club within the same country.