FA technical chief Sir Trevor Brooking wants England's next coach to be homegrown.
Italian Fabio Capello is contracted to be England coach until 2012 and is the FA's second overseas appointment after Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson.
"I think longer-term, after Fabio, we'd like to go English," the FA's director of development told BBC Radio 5 live.
The FA wants a young English coach to join Capello's backroom team as it attempts to groom a successor.
Former England full-back Stuart Pearce is already part of Capello's largely Italian team of coaches, and is also in charge of the under-21 side, while ex-Tottenham and Liverpool keeper Ray Clemence is also involved in the set-up.
"The third English coach is something the board is interested in," said Brooking, who did not rule out former England striker Alan Shearer as a possible candidate.
"We want to create a spell where we appoint English coaches and Fabio can help us enormously to bridge that gap and help that transition.
"We've got a short-term priority of the qualifying games but over the next couple of years the National Football Centre will hopefully be built, and that's going to be the hub site for the future development of English coaches.
"But it's important to have someone experienced in now for the next couple of years because the next two, four, six years are going to be a challenge for whoever's managing the team."
