BURNLEY were the only Premier League side last season to use players developed exclusively in the UK or Europe, a new study has found.

A Press Association investigation has looked at the number of minutes played in last season's top-flight by Academy graduates.

It showed that 85 per cent of minutes played by Burnley players last season were by players developed in the UK.

But the study said the Clarets were one of only two sides who did not give a single minute of action to one of their own academy products, along with Swansea.

Burnley did give Premier League action to two players who had recently joined their Academy though in Aiden O'Neill and Dan Agyei, while Jay Rodriguez came through the Clarets Academy and played 885 minutes of top flight football for Southampton last season.

Australian midfielder O'Neill arrived at Turf Moor as a 16-year-old and he played 83 minutes of Premier League football for Burnley last season before heading to Oldham on loan for the second half of the campaign.

Striker Agyei signed for Burnley from AFC Wimbledon as an 18-year-old and he played 24 minutes in the Premier League last season, featuring three times off the bench.

Arsenal leaned more heavily on their academy than any other Premier League club last season according to the study, with 19.4 per cent of top-flight minutes played by graduates of their youth set-up.

Manchester City had the lowest total of UK-developed players, with just 14 per cent of their minutes played total made up of footballers from the UK system. They also had the greatest proportion - 41 per cent - of players developed outside Europe.