Manchester City will be unable to field young strikers Kelechi Iheanacho and Patrick Roberts in the Champions League after omitting them from the squad they have registered with UEFA for the group stages.
Third-choice goalkeeper Richard Wright and recent signing Aleix Garcia are other absentees from the 21-man list that includes all of City's major players, including their £54 million club-record buy Kevin De Bruyne.
Raheem Sterling, Fabian Delph and Nicolas Otamendi, their other major summer recruits, are all named in the squad.
Clubs are permitted to name a 25-man party but at least eight must qualify as homegrown, and City only have four players who meet the criteria, and none who are club-trained -- Sterling, Delph, goalkeeper Joe Hart and left-back Gael Clichy, thanks to his time in Arsenal's youth system.
They are also allowed to field an unlimited number of young players born on or after Jan. 1, 1994 who have been at the club for at least two years.
And that rules out Nigerian attacker Iheanacho, plus Roberts, who joined City from Fulham this summer for up to £11m.
Both were on the bench for Saturday's win over Watford, with Iheanacho coming on to make his competitive debut.
So City have only named two out-and-out strikers, in Sergio Aguero and Wilfried Bony, with Sterling nominated by manager Manuel Pellegrini recently as the midfielder he could use further forward.
Winger Garcia, who arrived last week for £2.1m, is another who signed too recently to qualify.
City squad: Hart, Caballero; Zabaleta, Sagna, Kompany, Mangala, Demichelis, Otamendi, Clichy, Kolarov; Fernando, Fernandinho, Delph, Toure, Navas, Nasri, Silva, Sterling, De Bruyne; Aguero, Bony.