Youth Setup Category?

[Calif_Ramette]

I am getting back into the game and have no idea what a Youth Setup Category is? What does this mean?

[Bluewinterz]

What is EPPP?

The Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP) is a long-term strategy designed to take Premier League Youth Development to the next level. The EPPP is the result of consultation between the Premier League and its clubs, representatives of the Football League, the Football Association and other key football stake holders.

It has six fundamental principles

• Increase the number and quality of Home Grown Players gaining professional contracts in the clubs and playing first-team football at the highest level

• Create more time for players to play and be coached

• Improve coaching provision

• Implement a system of effective measurement and quality assurance

• Positively influence strategic investment into the Academy System, demonstrating value for money

• Seek to implement significant gains in every aspect of player development

What is different to the current system?

• A new four-tier academy system

• Set tariffs to replace the tribunal system for the sale of home-grown players

• End of the 90-minute rule

• Increased payments to all clubs for youth development

• Will be introduced from the 2012-2013 season

Category Criteria

Category 1

• The top level category will require clubs to have an approximate budget of £2.325m

• Have a full time staff of at least 18

• Provide at least 5 hours contact time with players each week

• The current 90 minute travel rule will not apply

Category 2

• Clubs that cannot meet the required budget requirement and staff levels demanded by Category 1, but still have an indoor training facility

• Will be allowed to take players from age 4 and sign players from the age of 9

• Will require an estimated budget of £969k

• The current 90 minute travel rule will not apply

Category 3

• Clubs in this category will not be permitted to coach youngsters until they are 11

• Will require an estimated budget of £315k

Category 4

• Clubs in this category will be used to pick up youngsters that are late developers or have been released from other Academies or Centres of

Excellence. Players will be 16 years of age or above

[duduric]

It increases the quality of the players that come to the club... it depends on your training facilities level IIRC. The higher the training facilities, the better your category, and with a better category, better young players come.