Starting next season, the national football league clubs will be allowed to field up to five foreign players after the local football governing body (Ferwafa) approved a 5-5 quota rule regarding the restriction of foreign players in the topflight league.
The development follows longstanding pleas from many clubs which have on several occasions been pushing for a move to increase foreign players in the league from three players in a starting line-up under the current 3-3 rule.
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