2009 Squad

QUOTA RULES

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At least 5 "home grown" players
No more than 5 overseas quota players
No more than 10 "overseas trained" players inc 5 OQs
Rest of squad to be from players trained within same Federation [/i[/size

2009
At least 6 "home grown" players
No more than 5 overseas quota players
No more than 8 "overseas trained" players inc 5 OQs
Rest of squad to be from players trained within same Federation

2010
At least 7 "home grown" players
No more than 5 overseas quota players
No more than 6 "overseas trained" players inc 5 OQs
Rest of squad to be from players trained within same Federation

2011
At least 8 "home grown" players
No more than 5 overseas quota players
No more than 5 "overseas trained" players inc 5 OQs
Rest of squad to be from players trained within same Federation

Where

"home grown" = any player still under 21 and/or has completed 3 years service with same club before turning 21.

same federation = any player still under 21 and/or has completed 3 years service before turning 21 with other clubs within UK for UK SL clubs or France for Catalans etc. OR was registered with the RFL before 1 February 2008.

overseas quota = as per current rules i.e. anyone unable to prove origins within EU or Kolpak countries.

and

"overseas trained" = any other player.

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RFL "RELAX" RESTRICTIONS ON EXISTING OVERSEAS PLAYERS:

The RFL has now announced that clubs will be able to renew or extend the contracts of non-federation players who were signed before the rule was changed in June 2007.

Those players can be retained on top of the non-federation players that clubs are allowed, though the new dispensation will expire if players switch clubs or at the end of any contract extension.

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SUPER LEAGUE CLUBS AGREE EXTENSION:

Tuesday 21st October 08

After consultation with engage Super League clubs at this week’s end of season meeting, the RFL board has approved an extension to a recent exemption to the club trained rules.

At the meeting held in Harrogate, engage Super League clubs unanimously agreed that the club trained rules should remain and that a number of players registered in the competition prior to the adoption of the club trained rules should count as federation trained players.

Clubs also agreed that any legal case brought against the RFL for introducing such rules should be defended vigorously.

Rod Findlay, the RFL’s in-house lawyer said: “The club trained rules were introduced at the start of the year to increase the number of home produced players in the top flight. Clubs are fully behind these rules and reaffirmed their support this week.

“What this extension does is accommodate those players who have made a career in the game before they were aware of the possibility of club trained rules. Long term once the people qualify for the current exemption retire the club trained rules will do what they were designed to do and that is bring through more home grown talent.”

To take advantage of the extension of the exemption a player must apply to the RFL to be ‘federation trained’ at the end of their current contract. They also must have registered with the RFL prior to 1 February 2008, the date when the club trained rules were introduced.

Their status as a federation trained will then apply throughout their career, even if they move clubs in the future.