Quote: Mild Rover "I've had a look and I can't see anything about a well-enforced German-born quota in the Bundesliga. In fact, behind the EPL they seem to have more foreign players than anybody else. Any chance of a link?
The Kolpak agreement resulted from a challenge to the quota in German handball, via EU law.
Russia (outside the EU obviously) has a well enforced quota in football - with mixed results.'"
Seems I may be slightly badly informed though this may well be what I have been told of
For the Season 2006/2007, the limits on foreign (non-EU) players were lifted, based on a decision of Deutscher Fußballbund (DFB) and Ligaverband made on 21 December 2005. At the same time, the UEFA local player ruling was introduced. This ruling stipulates, that a certain number of locally produced players must be enrolled at each club. For the 2006/2007 season, this was at least 4 such players, for the 2007–08 season 6 players and for the 2008–09 season 8 such players.
A locally produced player is a player which, during the age of 15–21 years, was licenced to play for the club for three different seasons or years
In 2009 / 10 they had a 45% ratio of foreign players in the league. Still leaves 55% ratio of German nationals who I assume are eligable for the national squad.
