Creating Chances is the Premier League's flagship community programme and once again this season community groups, charities and good causes were afforded the opportunity to win the services of one of 20 Barclays Premier League players along with a cash donation.

The deadline for applications has now passed but details of successful applicants will appear on this page in September 2008.

Places for Players is part of Creating Chances, the Premier League's flagship good cause programme that was launched last season and showcases the vast amount of work that the 20 Barclays Premier League Clubs do in their local communities.

Full details of what the players did at every Barclays Premier League Club can be found by clicking here.

Many of the Premier League's top players were put to inventive use by a range of good causes last season. These included: Teesside Hospice having Jonathan Woodgate perform 25 tasks that one of their volunteers does on a daily basis; Meningitis UK having Newcastle United players Geremi and Obafemi Martins packing bags at a local supermarket; the Roy Castle Foundation using Liverpool player John Arne Riise, whose father had died of lung cancer, to launch an anti-smoking initiative; and Scope North West getting David Bentley to work in their shop in Blackburn for the afternoon.

Richard Scudamore, Chief Executive Premier League, said: "We want to build on last season's achievements where we successfully showcased all of the work that takes place right across the League on a daily basis.

"Places for Players is a very important initiative for the Barclays Premier League because community engagement is now woven into the fabric of football and the size and scope of that commitment today really is something of which the Premier League, our clubs and the players can be extremely proud."

Click here to review Creating Chances 2007/08