ALL ESC eligible starters from UEFA Qualifying so far

Exclusively for paid subscribers, find out which players are now ESC eligible for THIS window

Some said I was crazy. Some said it would take forever. Even I said, “Why am I doing this?”

But it is done.

In this article you will find a list of 230 players who are now ESC eligible via the UEFA Qualifying campaign that is currently underway.

The first ties have been completed. Many clubs have now been eliminated. But the players born in 2003 and later are now ESC eligible for almost two years.

This means that English clubs have the opportunity to sign some of the players on this list for five transfer windows: Summer 2026, Winter 2027, Summer 2027, Winter 2028, and the beginning of Summer 2028 (unless the ESC rules change between times!)

The other thing that will prevent some of these players from signing in future windows will be age. Some of the players on this list will age out by the next window, and even some of the 21yo players will be 2004 born, so not eligible by 2028.

This is all because of the new rules for 2026 which means that players getting ESC have to be born in the year 2003 or later.

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