Manchester United have more homegrown players in squad than Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal

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The home-grown players rule in the English Premier League is often misunderstood. It has been commonly misconstrued as needing to have a certain number of young British players in the squad when in reality it has nothing to do with nationality or age.

According to the Official website, the following is the rule for home-grown players.

A home-grown player will be defined as one who, irrespective of his nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to the Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons or 36 months prior to his 21st birthday (or the end of the season during which he turns 21).

The rule states that there should be 8 home-grown players in a squad of 25 meaning there can be no more than 17 foreign players.

• The loophole to this rule is naming a squad with a strength of less than 25 (17 foreign players + no. of home grown players) which Chelsea and Tottenham have done.
• Promoted side Burnley have the highest (19) while Chelsea have the least (3).

Here are the home-grown players in each squad of the Premier League.

Arsenal (8) - Francis Coquelin, Kieran Gibbs, Damian Martinez, Aaron Ramsey, Wojciech Szczesny, Theo Walcott, Danny Welbeck, Jack Wilshere.

Aston Villa (16) - Gabriel Agbonlahor, Nathan Baker, Darren Bent, Ciaran Clark, Tom Cleverley, Joe Cole, Fabian Delph, Shay Given, Christopher Herd, Matthew Lowton, Charles N'Zogbia, Kieran Richardson, Philippe Senderson, Benjamin Siegrist, Andreas Weimann, Ashley Westwood.

Burnley (19) - Ashley Barnes, George Boyd, Aleksander Cisak, Michael Duff, Matthew Gilks, Tom Heaton, David Jones, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Michael Kightly, Kevin Long, Dean Marney, Benjamin Mee, Luke O'Neill, Steven Reid, Jason Shackell, Marvin Sordell, Matthew Taylor, Kieran Trippier, Sam Vokes.

Chelsea (3) - Gary Cahill, Cesc Fabregas, John Terry.

Crystal Palace (15) - Barry Bannan, Fraizer Campbell, Scott Dann, Ezekiel Fryers, Dwight Gayle, Wayne Hennessey, Andrew Johnson, Martin Kelly, Joe Ledley, Adrian Mariappa, Patrick McCarthy, Jason Puncheon, Jerome Thomas, Joel Ward, Wilfried Zaha.

Everton (8) - Leighton Baines, Gareth Barry, Darron Gibson, Tony Hibbert, Phil Jagielka, Conor McAleny, James McCarthy, Leon Osman.

Hull City (13) - Sone Aluko, Robert Brady, Alex Bruce, James Chester, Curtis Davies, Michael Dawson, Steve Harper, Tom Huddlestone, Thomas Ince, Jake Livermore, Paul McShane, Stephen Quinn, Liam Rosenior.

Leicester City (17) - Marc Albrighton, Adam Dawson, Ritchie De Laet, Danny Drinkwater, Ben Hamer, Dean Hammond, Matthew James, Andy King, Paul Konchesky, Wes Morgan, David Nugent, Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Adam Smith, Matthew Upson, Jamie Vardy, Chris Wood.

Liverpool (9) - Joe Allen, Fabio Borini, Steven Gerrard, Jordan Henderson, Glen Johnson, Brad Jones, Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert, Daniel Sturridge.

Manchester City (8) - Dedryck Boyata, Gael Clichy, John Guidetti, Joe Hart, Frank Lampard, James Milner, Scott Sinclair, Richard Wright.

Manchester United (12) - Ben Amos, Michael Carrick, Jonny Evans, Darren Fletcher, Phil Jones, Jesse Lingard, Rafael da Silva, Davide Petrucci, Wayne Rooney, Chris Smalling, Marnick Vermijl, Ashley Young.

Newcastle United (9) - Sammy Ameobi, Jack Colback, Paul Dummett, Robert Elliot, Tim Krul, Ryan Taylor, Steven Taylor, Haris Vuckic, Michael Williamson.

Queens Park Rangers (18) - Joey Barton, Steven Caulker, Richard Dunne, Maximilian Ehmer, Rio Ferdinand, Robert Green, Karl Henry, Clint Hill, Junior Hoilett, Alex McCarthy, Brian Murphy, Jordon Mutch, Nedum Onuoha, Matthew Phillips, Adel Taarabt, Armand Traore, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Bobby Zamora.

Southampton (9) - Ryan Bertrand, Nathaniel Clyne, Jack Cork, Kelvin Davis, Steven Davis, Fraser Forster, Shane Long, Jay Rodriguez, Morgan Schneiderlin.

Stoke City (12) - Phil Bardsley, Asmir Begovic, Peter Crouch, Robert Huth, Stephen Ireland, Victor Moses, Ryan Shawcross, Steven Sidwell, Jonathan Walters, Glenn Whelan, Andrew Wilkinson, Marc Wilson.

Sunderland (12) - Liam Bridcutt, Wes Brown, Will Buckley, Lee Catermole, Danny Graham, Adam Johnson, Billy Jones, Sebastian Larsson, Vito Mannone, John O'Shea, Jack Rodwell, Patrick van Aanholt.

Swansea City (12) - Kyle Bartley, Leon Britton, Tom Carroll, David Cornell, Nathan Dyer, Curtis Obeng, Ashley Richards, Wayne Routledge, Jonjo Shelvey, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Neil Taylor, Ashley Williams.

Tottenham (6) - Aaron Lennon, Ryan Mason, Kyle Naughton, Danny Rose, Andros Townsend, Kyle Walker.

West Brom (10) - Victor Anichebe, Chris Baird, Chris Brunt, Luke Daniels, Craig Dawson, Ben Foster, Craig Gardner, Joleon Lescott, James Morrison, Boaz Myhill.

West Ham (13) - Andy Carroll, Carlton Cole, James Collins, Aaron Cresswell, Stewart Downing, Matt Jarvis, Sebastian Lletget, Mark Noble, Kevin Nolan, Joey O'Brien, Alex Song, James Tomkins, Ricardo Vaz Te.