The UEFA „Home-Grown Players Rule“: Does it Fulfill Its Aim?

In the article the author will analyse how newly- introduced football rules are affecting the legal and labour status of sportspeople, exactly football players. To illustrate the author’s thesis that those rules are not fulfilling its aim of encouraging the recruitment and training of young players in clubs and national associations for the good of national teams, there will be used some statistical dates with the analyse of the English and Italian football championship. On the one hand, the author takes the English premier league since the English FA introduced those rules which are compulsory in the UEFA competitions in its national championship, and on the other hand the author takes the Italian league which clubs have the obligation to comply with those rules when are competing in UEFA competitions. Along with the analyse of those UEFA rules, the author will give a complete illustration of the legal relationship between UEFA and EU institutions, especially their support to the rule. Furthermore, the author will also give his opinion on the possible alternatives of those rules