article_snippet: Together with new Home Office rules on work permits for non-EU footballers, agreed with FA and set to be introduced in May, Greg Dyke believes this can increase the ratio of English players in the Premier League from 35 to over 40 per cent and produce an England team to win the World Cup in 2022.
article_snippet: While there is a slight increase in the number of English players in the Premier League
article_snippet: However, only 22% of the starters in the current top four teams are qualified to play for England, compared to 28% last year.
article_snippet: In 2014, just 23 English players appeared in the Champions League group stage, compared with 78 Spaniards, 55 Germans and 51 Brazilians.
article_snippet: This season the three English clubs that reached the knockout stages of the Premier League started only 10 English players, compared to 12 French and nine Spanish in those three sides.
article_snippet: In the last two weeks only five English players started in the second legs of the knockout stage.
article_snippet: Of that 18-man match-day squad, only four have gone on to play more than 20 top-flight games, while double that from the Spanish squad have done so in La Liga.
article_snippet: Of the 12 clubs who have played in each of the last five the Premier League seasons, the average number of home-grown players per squad has gone from 11.4 to 9.4.
article_snippet: Only 62% of current home-grown players are qualified to play for England.
article_snippet: This takes players like Cesc Fabregas out of the equation, and others signed at 16. 2)
article_snippet: Only 23 English players appeared in the Champions League group stage this season, and three - John Terry (left), Steven Gerrard (centre) and Frank Lampard (right) - have retired from international duty .
article_snippet: Only 23 English players appeared in the Champions League group stage this season, compared with 51 Brazilians, 55 Germans and 78 Spanish players.
article_snippet: Three - John Terry, Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard - have retired from international duty.
article_snippet: Only five English players started in the second leg of the last 16 ties: Terry, Gary Cahill, Joe Hart, James Milner and Danny Welbeck. '
article_snippet: Gary Cahill (left) was one of just five English players to start in the second leg of the Premier League's last 16 .