CHERRIES had the highest percentage of players developed in UK youth systems in the Premier League last season.

A survey carried out by Press Association Sport revealed the Dorset club's total was 90.3 per cent.

The study looked at which academies players had finished their youth careers at, with playing time calculated from publicly available data on soccerway.com.

In terms of playing time, Cherries' own academy accounted for only 0.1 per cent thanks to single substitute appearances for Baily Cargill and Matt Worthington.

Defender Cargill came on for the final 12 minutes of Cherries' memorable 1-1 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford in March.

And midfielder Worthington was a 76th-minute replacement for Ryan Fraser during the 1-1 draw at Leicester on the final day of the season.

Cargill and Worthington are both products of the Cherries youth ranks.

Arsenal leaned more heavily on their academy than any other Premier League club last season.

The study discovered that 19.4 per cent of Arsenal's total top-flight minutes were played by graduates of their youth set-up, with six players contributing to the tally.

Manchester United fielded more of their own academy graduates than any other top-flight club – 10 – but as a percentage of minutes played overall that equated to 17.1 per cent, with a number of youngsters fielded in the run-in as the Europa

League became manager Jose Mourinho's priority.

Of the Arsenal six, only Kieran Gibbs and Ainsley Maitland-Niles are still eligible to play for England. Maitland-Niles was part of England's victorious squad at the Under-20 World Cup earlier this summer.

The single biggest contributor to the Arsenal homegrown tally was Spanish full-back Hector Bellerin, who played 2,498 league minutes.

Burnley were the only club to use players developed exclusively in the UK or Europe, with UK-developed players accounting for 85 per cent.

However, 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.

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.

Kelechi Iheanacho was the only City academy graduate to be used in the Premier League by Pep Guardiola and even then sparingly – for a paltry 526 minutes.

Watford's percentage of UK-developed players was the second-lowest at 17.2 per cent.