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Hammers second in Premier League home grown table

Crystal Palace had homegrown players play the most minutes in the Premier League last season with their Academy graduates playing a total of 6,095 minutes on the pitch helped largely by Wilfried Zaha and Aaron Wan-Bisaka.

West Ham were a close second in the table with 5,978 minutes played by homegrown talent thanks to Declan Rice, Mark Noble, Connor Coventry, Grady Diagana and Ben Johnson playing during the season.  Manchester United were a little way off in third place with 5,013 minutes played.

Watford and Cardiff had no homegrown players play any minutes while Huddlesfield Town was restricted to 83 minutes.

League Champions Manchester City were one of the worst with 327 minutes leaving them in 17th place.

19 (Tied). Cardiff – 0 minutes

19 (Tied). Watford – 0 minutes

18. Huddersfield Town – 83 minutes

17. Manchester City – 327 minutes

16. Bournemouth – 414 minutes

15. Wolverhampton Wanderers – 647 minutes

14. Burnley – 1598 minutes

13. Everton – 1676 minutes

12. Chelsea – 1988 minutes

11. Fulham – 2312 minutes

10. Liverpool – 2467 minutes

9. Newcastle United – 2673 minutes

8. Arsenal – 3026 minutes

7. Brighton & Hove Albion – 3153 minutes

6. Southampton – 3477 minutes

5. Tottenham Hotspur – 4610 minutes

4. Leicester City – 4855 minutes

3. Manchester United – 5013 minutes

2. West Ham United – 5978 minutes

1. Crystal Palace – 6095 minutes

 

About Sean Whetstone

I am Season Ticket Holder in West stand lower at the London Stadium and before that, I used to stand in the Sir Trevor Brooking Lower Row R seat 159 in the Boleyn Ground and in the Eighties I stood on the terraces of the old South Bank. I am a presenter on the West Ham Podcast called MooreThanJustaPodcast.co.uk. A Blogger on WestHamTillIdie.com a member of the West Ham Supporters Advisory Board (SAB), Founder of a Youtube channel called Mr West Ham Football at http://www.youtube.com/MrWestHamFootball, I am also the associate editor here at Claret and Hugh. Life Long singer of bubbles! Come on you Irons! Follow me at @Westhamfootball on twitter

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