{"id":6410,"date":"2026-01-20T23:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2026-01-20T23:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:00:03","slug":"champions-league-can-january-signings-play-in-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6410","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Can January signings play in the competition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City&#8217;s Max Alleyne will however be eligible to play in the competition, despite being recalled from a loan spell at Championship side Watford in January. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Champions League clubs must register a List A squad which is comprised of 25 first-team players and at least eight &#8216;locally trained players&#8217; before the league phase starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Alleyne is eligible for List B, a secondary squad made up of youth players born after 1 January 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He meets the criteria as he is 20 years old and has spent three consecutive years at City with a maximum of one loan move inside his association lasting no longer than one year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Uefa phased out the cup-tied rule for the Champions League ahead of the 2018-19 campaign, allowing players to feature for two different clubs in the competition in the same season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paris St-Germain signed Khvicha Kvaratskhelia from fellow European side Napoli last January, and the Georgian winger helped the Parisians win the competition for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This article is the latest from BBC Sport&#8217;s <i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Ask Me Anything<\/i> team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City&#8217;s Max Alleyne will however be eligible to play in the competition, despite being recalled from a loan spell at Championship side Watford in January. Champions League clubs must register a List A squad which is comprised of 25 first-team players and at least eight &#8216;locally trained players&#8217; before the league phase starts. However, Alleyne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}