Clubs reveal their 25-man squads

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Clubs had to name a line-up of players who are OVER 21 and at least eight of them had to be homegrown.

A homegrown player is one who has been registered with an English or Welsh club for three years before they are 21.

Managers can use as many under 21 players as they want, regardless of nationality.

A home-grown player means one who, irrespective of his nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to the Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons or 36 months prior to his 21st birthday (or the end of the season during which he turns 21).

Players under the age of 21 (for the 2011/12 campaign those born on or after January 1, 1990) are eligible over and above the limit of 25 players, which explains why the likes of Mario Balotelli are not listed at Manchester City even though he is a part of the first-team.

Everton named just 18 players - seven short of the maximum - in their official squad and - despite much speculation - Wayne Bridge, the out-of-favour left-back, was selected in Manchester City's squad of 24.

(*Squad lists do not include registered under-21 players as information is not yet available)

ARSENAL

Manuel Almunia, Andrey Arshavin, Mikel Arteta, Yossi Benayoun, Marouane Chamakh, Abou Diaby, Johan Djourou, Lukasz Fabianski, Gervinho, Kieran Gibbs, Laurent Koscielny, Vito Mannone, Per Mertesacker, Chu-Young Park, Tomas Rosicky, Bacary Sagna, Andre Santos, Alex Song, Sebastien Squillaci, Robin Van Persie, Thomas Vermaelen and Theo Walcott

ASTON VILLA

Gabriel Agbonlahor, Marc Albrighton, Barry Bannan, Darren Bent, Habib Beye, Ciaran Clark, James Collins, Carlos Cuellar, Fabian Delph, Richard Dunne, Shay Given, Brad Guzan, Chris Herd, Emile Heskey, Stephen Ireland, Eric Lichaj, Shane Lowry, Andrew Marshall, Stillyian Petrov, Stephen Warnock, Charles N'Zogbia, Jermaine Jenas and Alan Hutton.

BLACKBURN

Chris Samba, Michel Salgado, Ryan Nelsen, Jason Roberts, Bruno Ribeiro, David Dunn, Paul Robinson, Mark Bunn, Alexander Blackman, Martin Olsson, Mauro Formica, Radosav Petrovic, Gael Givet, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Steven Nzonzi, David Goodwillie, Vince Grella, Simon Vukcevic, Yakubu, Scott Dann, Brett Emerton, Herold Goulon and Amine Linganzi.

BOLTON

James Blake, Adam Bogdan, Gary Cahill, Kevin Davies, Mark Davies, Mark Eagles, Ricardo Gardner, Stuart Holden, Juusi Jaaskelainen, Ivan Klasnic, Zat Knight, Robert Lainton, Tyrone Mears, Fabrice Muamba, Temitope Obadeyi, Martin Petrov, Darren Pratley, Nigel Reo-Coker, Sam Ricketts, Paul Robinson, Tuncay Sanli, Gretar Steinsson, David Wheater and David Ngog.

CHELSEA

Petr Cech, Branislav Ivanovic, Ashley Cole, David Luiz, Michael Essien, Ramires, Frank Lampard, Fernando Torres, Juan Mata, Didier Drogba, John Obi Mikel, Florent Malouda, Raul Meireles, Jose Bosingwa, Paulo Ferreira, Salomon Kalou, Ross Turnbull, Daniel Sturridge, John Terry, Alex, Ryan Bertrand, Nicolas Anelka and Henrique Hilario.

EVERTON

Victor Anichebe, Leighton Baines, Tim Cahill, Tony Hibbert, Phil Jagielka, Phil Neville, Leon Osman, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Seamus Coleman, Sylvian Distin, Marouane Fellaini, John Heitinga, Tim Howard, Jan Mucha, Louis Saha, Joseph Yobo, Royston Drenthe and Denis Stracqualursi.

FULHAM

Chris Baird, Simon Davies, Mousa Dembele, Clint Dempsey, Damien Duff, Dickson Etuhu, Marcel Gecov, Zdenek Grygera, Orlando Sa, Brede Hangeland, Aaron Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Stephen Kelly, Daniel Murphy, Bjorn Helge Riise, John Arne Riise, Bryan Ruiz, Mark Schwarzer, Philippe Senderos, Steven Sidwell, Csaba Somogyi, Bobby Zamora and David Stockdale.

LIVERPOOL

Bradley Jones, Glen Johnson, Jose Enrique, Daniel Agger, Fabio Aurelio, Luis Suarez, Steven Gerrard, Andy Carroll, Maxi Rodriguez, Dirk Kuyt, Stewart Downing, Jay Spearing, Jamie Carragher, Pepe Reina, Charlie Adam, Donieber Marangon, Martin Skrtel, Lucas Leiva and Craig Bellamy.

MANCHESTER CITY

Micah Richards, Joe Hart, Stuart Taylor, Joleon Lescott, Gareth Barry, James Milner, Adam Johnson, Gael Clichy, Costel Pantilimon, Pablo Zabaleta, Vincent Kompany, Kolo Toure, Aleksandar Kolarov, Nigel De Jong, Yaya Toure, David Silva, Samir Nasri, Edin Dzeko, Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aguero, Nedum Onuoha, Wayne Bridge, Gunnar Nielsen and Owen Hargreaves.

MANCHESTER UNITED

Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Johnny Evans, Michael Owen, Anderson, Dimitar Berbatov, Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Chris Smalling, Ji-Sung Park, Javier Hernandez, Nemanja Vidic, Michael Carrick, Nani, Ashley Young, Tom Cleverley, Darren Fletcher, Antonio Valencia, Darron Gibson, Tomasz Kuszczak, Mame Biram Diouf and Anders Lindegaard.

NEWCASTLE

Shola Ameobi, Demba Ba, Hatem Ben Arfa, Leon Best, Yohan Cabaye, Fabricio Coloccini, Robert Elliot, Danny Gutherie, Jonas Gutierrez, Stephen Harper, Tim Krul, Peter Lovenkrands, Sylvain Marveaux, Gabriel Obertan, James Perch, Daniel Simpson, Alan Smith, Steven Taylor, Ryan Taylor, Cheik Tiote and Mike Williamson.

NORWICH

John Ruddy, Russell Martin, Adam Drury, Bradley Johnson, Steven Morison, Zak Whitbread, Andrew Crofts, James Vaughan, Grant Holt, Simeon Jenkinson, Andrew Surman, Anthony Pilkington, Wesley Hoolahan, David Fox, Chris Martin, Elliott Bennett, Simon Lappin, Leon Barnett, Elliott Ward, Marc Tierney, Ritchie De Laet, Kyle Naughton and Aaron Wilbraham.

QPR

Paddy Kenny, Bradley Orr, Clint Hill, Shaun Derry, Fitz Hall, Danny Gabbison, Adel Taarabt, Kieron Dyer, Junior Campbell, Jay Bothroyd, Alejandro Faurlin, James Mackie, Armand Traore, Akos Buzsaky, Bruno Caldini, Matthew Connolly, Joey Barton, Luke Young, Tommy Smith, Heidar Helguson, Radek Cerny, Brian Murphy, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Anton Ferdinand and Jason Puncheon.

STOKE

Diego Arismendi, Asmir Begovic, Peter Crouch, Rory Delap, Salif Diao, Matthew Etherington, Ricardo Fuller, Danny Higginbotham, Robert Huth, Kenwyne Jones, Carlo Nash, Wilson Palacios, Jermaine Pennant, Ryan Shawcross, Ryan Shotton, Mamady Sidibe, Thomas Sorensen, Matthew Upson, Jonathan Walters, Glenn Whelan, Dean Whitehead, Andrew Wilkinson, Marc Wilson, Jonathan Woodgate and Cameron Jerome.

SUNDERLAND

Phil Bardsley, Titus Bramble, Wes Brown, Fraizer Campbell, Trevor Carson, Lee Cattermole, Jack Colback, Nicklas Bendtner, Craig Gardner, Seb Larsson, Kieran Richardson, Michael Turner, John O'Shea, David Vaughan, Keiren Westwood, Ahmed Elmohamady, Asamoah Gyan, Simon Mignolet, Stephane Sessegnon, James McClean, David Meyler, Marcos Angeleri, Craig Gordon, Matthew Kilgallon and Nyron Nosworthy.

SWANSEA

Michel Vorm, Ashley Williams, John Taylor, Alan Tate, Ferrie Bodde, Leon Britton, Andrea Stabilin, Craig Beattie, Daniel Graham, Scott Sinclair, Nathan Dyer, Stephen Dobbie, Wayne Routledge, Garry Monk, David Cotterill, Leroy Lita, Luke Moore, Jose Moreira, Angel Rangel, Germaine Agustien, Mark Gower, Thomas Butler and Gerhard Tremmel.

TOTTENHAM

Brad Friedel, Heurelho Gomes, Carlo Cudicini Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Michael Dawson, William Gallas, Ledley King, Younes Kaboul, Sebastian Bassong, Vedran Corluka, Aaron Lennon, Jake Livermore, Tom Huddlestone, Luka Modric, Niko Kranjcar, Gareth Bale, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Jermain Defoe, Rafael Van Der Vaart, Sandro, Emmanuel Adebayor, Steven Pienaar, Giovanni Dos Santos, Ben Alnwick and Scott Parker.

WEST BROM

Roman Bednar, Chris Brunt, Simon Cox, Graham Dorrans, Mar-Antoine Fortune, Ben Foster, Marton Fulop, Zoltan Gera, Gonzalo Jara, Billy Jones, Shane Long, Gareth McAuley, James Morrison, Youssouf Mulumbu, Peter Odemwingie, Jonas Olsson, Steven Reid, Paul Scharner, Nicky Shorey, Gabriel Tamas, Jerome Thomas, Somen Tchoyi and Luke Daniels.

WIGAN

Chris Kirkland, Michael Pollitt, Ben Watson, Emmerson Boyce, Gary Caldwell, David Jones, Hendry Suazo, James McArthur, Jordi Gomez, Hugo Rodallega, Mohamed Diame, Maynor Figueroa, Steve Gohouri, Antolin Alcaraz, Franco Di Santo, Ali Al-Habsi, Ronnie Stam, Adrian Rodriguez, Conor Sammon, Shaun Maloney and Albert Crusat.

WOLVES

Wayne Hennessey, George Elokobi, David Edwards, Richard Stearman, Jody Craddock, Michael Kightly, Karl Henry, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Steven Fletcher, Stephen Ward, Stephen Hunt, Carl Ikeme, Roger Johnson, Christophe Berra, Matt Jarvis, Sam Vokes, Adam Hammill, Nenad Milijas, Ronald Zubar, Jamie O'Hara, Kevin Doyle, Dorus De Vries, Kevin Foley and Adlene Guedioura.

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Missing in action: Playing for Belgium will be the only European action for Chelsea's Romelu Lukaku this season

Andre Villas-Boas has left £20million striker Romelu Lukaku out of Chelsea's Champions League squad.

Lukaku, 18, has been sacrificed by Villas-Boas because Chelsea did not have enough 'homegrown' players to maximise their 25-man squad.

Michael Essien has also been omitted because of his long-term knee injury and so has Ryan Bertrand, an English victim of spending so long on loan at different clubs.

Chelsea have only been able to name 22 players on their 'A List' for the Champions League because they only have John Terry who qualifies as one of four allotted 'club trained' places.

It is a problem every year. Last year, Paulo Ferreira missed out but since the sale of Yury Zhirkov and failure to sign Alvaro Pereira from Porto Ferriera will be needed as potential cover at left-back.

Frank Lampard, Daniel Sturridge, Ross Turnbull and Ashley Cole make up the four 'association trained' places. Teenagers Josh McEachran and Nathaniel Chalobah can both play because they qualify on the 'B List'.

Bertrand's omission makes a mockery of the homegrown rule. He is English born but fails to meet the criteria because he was not registered at Chelsea for three years between the ages of 15 and 21.

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Chelsea's new signing Romelu Lukaku has been omitted from their 22-man Champions League squad.

With only 17 non-homegrown players allowed by UEFA regulations, the 18-year-old striker, who cost a reported £20million from Anderlecht, will not be able to feature in the group stages.

Given only four of the eight homegrown players can be "association trained", England under-21 international left-back Ryan Bertrand is another not included.

However, promising young midfielder Josh McEachran will be available as the 18-year-old is set to be part of Chelsea's 'B' list.

Chelsea's other summer signings Oriol Romeu, Juan Mata and Raul Meireles are all in the 22-man group.

Regulations for the domestic Premier League are different, and would see Lukaku counted as one of Chelsea's under-21 players, so not part of the 25-man quota.

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Hargreaves joined Manchester City this week and immediately targeted the group-stage tie with his old club.

But the midfielder's hopes have been squashed after he was left out of City's Champions League squad.

He may yet play in the tournament though, as Roberto Mancini can review the 25-man list in January.

Wayne Bridge also missed out although there is a spot for Kolo Toure, who has served his six-month drug ban.