UEFA rules are partially breaching EU rules, court adviser says

One of the main UEFA rules, known as “home-grown rule”, which is created to set a quota of locally trained players at clubs is partially incompatible with EU rules, an adviser to Europe’s top court said on Thursday.

The revelation comes because of a dispute between European soccer’s governing body and a Belgian club together with a player over UEFA’s home-grown player rules dating back to 2009 which set a quota of locally trained players at clubs but without any discrimination on nationality.

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Royal Antwerp FC claims that the rules hamper a professional club from recruiting and fielding players who do not meet the requirement of local or national roots, violating both EU competition and free movement of workers rules.