The Premier League has confirmed Town’s 25-man squad list following the closure of the summer transfer window.
The Blues’ 25 includes no surprises with the number of senior players having been reduced to that figure following the deadline day loan moves of George Edmundson to Middlesbrough and Marcus Harness to Derby, as well as the termination by mutual consent of Freddie Ladapo’s contract. The striker subsequently joined Huddersfield.
Each Premier League squad - they can all be found here - features no more than 17 players who don’t fulfil the homegrown player criteria.
A homegrown player by the Premier League’s definition is a player who, irrespective of nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to the FA or the Welsh FA for a period, continuous or otherwise, of three entire seasons, or 36 months, prior to their 21st birthday, or the end of the season in which they turned 21.
The Premier League has also issued a list of all 20 clubs’ players aged under 21, which in Town’s case numbers 55, including Omari Hutchinson and Liam Delap, as well as U21s and U18s squad members.
Recent signing Tudor Mendel-Idowu is among those included, as is one surprise name, 16-year-old Shakil Nicolaou.
We understand the left winger was on trial earlier in the summer having previously with Tottenham’s academy. He won one cap at U15 level as a schoolboy and also qualifies to play international football for Cyprus.
For the 2024/25 Premier League season, U21 players were born on or after 1st January 2003.