(Bloomberg) -- England’s top soccer clubs are putting their own interests ahead of the national team, for now at least.

Premier League teams told Football Association officials that at this stage they don’t plan to reduce the number of overseas players they sign after Brexit, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

They’re concerned that doing so could hurt their ability to compete in European competitions and reduce the league’s attractiveness to television broadcasters, the people said, asking not to be identified as they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.

The comments were made during a meeting on Thursday with Martin Glenn, chief executive of the Football Association, who proposed cutting the maximum number of overseas players in a team’s 25-strong squad from 17 to 12. Homegrown players currently account for about 30 percent of playing minutes in England’s top tier, a lower proportion than in rival European leagues, and the FA wants to increase that to benefit the national team.

The Premier League and the FA declined to comment on the details of the meeting. The government has asked the sport’s top two bodies to come up with proposals to change the system of issuing visas to overseas players after the U.K. leaves the European Union.

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