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Post by ScholesEvilTwin on Jun 6, 2013 13:41:50 GMT
Apparently there is a new European Youth League starting up this coming season - The tournament will be open to players aged 19 and under. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_UEFA_Youth_League32 teams will play in the group stage: the 10 winners from the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League play-off round (5 champions and 5 non-champions), and the following 22 teams which are expected to enter in this stage. Manchester United Manchester City Chelsea Barcelona Real Madrid Atlético Madrid Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund Bayer Leverkusen Juventus Napoli Porto Benfica Paris Saint-Germain Marseille CSKA Moscow Ajax Shakhtar Donetsk Olympiacos Galatasaray Anderlecht Copenhagen The 32 teams will be drawn into eight groups of four. The group winners and runners-up will advance to the round of 16. Could be intereting.... |
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Post by Bestie on Jun 6, 2013 13:46:45 GMT
UEFA's answer to the NextGen Series by any chance?
It'll hopefully be good to see the youngsters competing in competitive European competition even at a youth level.
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Post by ScholesEvilTwin on Jun 6, 2013 14:24:04 GMT
I'd forgotten that the NextGen series wasnt UEFA's. Should be good to give the youth players a chance in a proper competitive European tournament. And give the fans more Euro Away trips  |
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Post by ScholesEvilTwin on Sept 9, 2013 15:41:59 GMT
United's group fixtures have been announced:
UEFA Youth League fixtures
17/9/13: Bayer Leverkusen (H)
16.00 BST, Salford City Stadium
2/10/13: Shakhtar Donetsk (A)
13.00 BST, Olimpiyskiy Stadium
23/10/13: Real Sociedad (H)
14.00 BST, Salford City Stadium
TBC: Real Sociedad (A)
TBC, Zubleta Training Ground
TBC: Bayer Leverkusen (A)
TBC, Ulrich-Haberland Stadium
9/12/13: Shakhtar Donetsk (H)
19:00 GMT, Leigh Sports Village
Nicky Butt is to take charge of an Under-19 squad for a competition that mirrors the Champions League at the group stages. The opening game will kick off at 4pm BST ahead of the senior clash at Old Trafford later that evening.
Two of the three away clashes in Group A have still to be confirmed but the final home match of the opening stages, against Ukrainians Shakhtar Donetsk, will be held at Leigh Sports Village.
The knockout rounds are all single matches rather than two legs with the draw taking place on 13 December. There is no extra time with the ties going straight to penalties if level after 90 minutes.
The final will take place in Nyon on Monday 14 April to decide the winners of the Lennart Johansson Trophy, which is named after UEFA's honorary president.
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Post by ScholesEvilTwin on Sept 10, 2013 18:53:37 GMT
Squad announced:
1. Pierluigi Gollini (GK), 2. James Weir, 3. Louis Rowley, 4. Paddy McNair, 5. Liam Grimshaw, 6. Ben Pearson, 7. Sam Byrne, 8. Joe Rothwell, 9. James Wilson, 10.Adnan Januzaj, 11.Andreas Pereira, 12.Sean Goss, 13.Joel Castro Pereira (GK), 14.Ashley Fletcher, 15.Josh Harrop, 16.Callum Evans, 17.Matthew Willock, 18.Nicholas Ioannou, 19.Ben Barber, 20.Kieran O'Hara.
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Post by traffordbrown on Sept 10, 2013 22:11:10 GMT
Best of luck to our lads.
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Post by ratbag on Sept 11, 2013 7:26:55 GMT
I am ashamed to say that I only recognise about 7 or so of those names but I look forward to reading of their success.
Best of luck lads...
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Post by ScholesEvilTwin on Sept 11, 2013 16:06:39 GMT
Eurosport to show Youth League:
Eurosport is the first official broadcaster of the event and will show the first-pick match each matchweek, which will include the semi-finals and final.
The first match to be broadcast live on Eurosport will be Nicky Butt’s Manchester United, who face Bayer Leverkusen on September 17.
Marketing director of UEFA EventsGuy-Laurent Epstein said of the awarding of the rights: "UEFA is delighted to announce Eurosport as the first rights holder of the 2013-15 UEFA Youth League.
"UEFA is looking forward to working with Eurosport in order to build and promote this newly created competition.
"Eurosport’s wide reach and promotional and production expertise are key assets for the exposure of the competition and, as a long-term partner of UEFA’s other youth competitions, Eurosport is a natural fit for the UEFA Youth League."
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Post by Bestie on Sept 11, 2013 17:35:52 GMT
i. e. Sky and ITV don't care.
EDIT: Glad it's on somewhere though!
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Post by reefer on Sept 11, 2013 17:40:48 GMT
Least part of it is televised, I'm looking forward to this |
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Post by ScholesEvilTwin on Mar 10, 2015 12:57:30 GMT
Current season EYL is in the QF stage. Interesting to see which teams have made it this far (and which haven't) Chelsea U19 VS Atlético Madrid U19 Benfica U19 VS Shakhtar Donetsk U19 Roma U19 VS Manchester City U19 Anderlecht U19 VS Porto U19 Poor Ludogrets managed to score 0 and concede 27 in their 6 group games  Juve, Dortmund, Munich, PSG & Bilbao all eliminated in the group stage. |
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Post by ScholesEvilTwin on May 27, 2015 21:47:28 GMT
UEFA Youth League will become a permanent UEFA competition starting from the 2015/16 season, with the tournament expanded from 32 to 64 teams. The new format of the competition will see the two groups of teams compete in separate paths until the play-offs: - In the UEFA Champions League path, the 32 Champions League youth teams will retain the group stage format and schedule which correspond to the Champions League group stage. The group winners will advance to the round of 16, and the group runners-up will advance to the play-offs.
- In the Domestic Champions path, the 32 youth domestic champions will play two rounds of two-legged ties, with the eight winners advancing to the play-offs.
- In the play-offs, the youth domestic champions will play a single match at home against the UEFA Champions League path group runners-up.
- In the round of 16, the UEFA Champions League path group winners will play a single match against the winners of the play-offs (home team determined by draw).
- In the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final, teams will play each other over a single match (quarter-finals home team determined by draw, semi-finals and final played at neutral venues).
The under-19 age limit will be retained, but clubs will be able to include a maximum of three under-20 players in their overall list of 40 players for the competition, in order to alleviate the burden on players having school duties. |
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Post by ScholesEvilTwin on Sept 10, 2015 13:38:55 GMT
As per above post, the UEFA Youth League has been expanded.
The usual mirroring of the regular CL groups is still there, but the domestic champions of the top 32 nations are also now included in a separate straight knockout section. There were no seedings, but the 32 teams were split into four groups defined by sporting and geographical criteria prior to the draw.
Group 1
Villarreal
Torino
APOEL
Servette
Rad
Domžale
Senica
Puskás Akadémia
Group 2
Middlesbrough
Stade de Reims
Anderlecht
Brann
Celtic
Elfsborg
HJK
Stjarnan
Group 3
Schalke 04
Ajax
Midtjylland
Příbram
Red Bull Salzburg
Željezničar
Saburtalo Tbilisi
Zimbru Chișinău
Group 4
Spartak Moscow
Beşiktaş
Legia Warsaw
Viitorul Constanța
Minsk
Litex Lovech
Ravan Baku
Kazakhstan Aktobe
1st Round:
1. Villarreal VS Servette
2. APOEL VS Puskás Akadémia
3. Senica VS Torino
4. Rad VS Domžale
5. Stade de Reims VS Middlesbrough
6. Elfsborg VS Stjarnan
7. Brann VS Anderlecht
8. HJK VS Celtic
9. Schalke 04 VS Ajax
10. Příbram VS Zimbru Chișinău
11. Red Bull Salzburg VS Željezničar
12. Midtjylland VS Saburtalo Tbilisi
13. Aktobe VS Beşiktaş
14. Spartak Moscow VS Ravan Baku
15. Minsk VS Viitorul Constanța
16. Litex Lovech VS Legia Warsaw
2nd Round:
Winner of match 2 VS Winner of match 8
Winner of match 4 VS Winner of match 6
Winner of match 1 VS Winner of match 7
Winner of match 5 VS Winner of match 3
Winner of match 14 VS Winner of match 9
Winner of match 13 VS Winner of match 11
Winner of match 12 VS Winner of match 16
Winner of match 10 VS Winner of match 15
Playoff Round:
The 8 winners from Round 2 will go into a draw along with the 8 teams that finish 2nd in their Groups.
Knockout Phase:
Round of 16:
The 8 winners from the Playoff Round then go into the draw alongside the 8 Group Winners.
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Post by ScholesEvilTwin on Sept 10, 2015 14:04:14 GMT
Goss, Fletcher, Weir, Rothwell, Pearson, Harrop, Grimshaw, Love & El Fitouri are all too old to play.
Would guess the 3 U-20 players that will be registered are J-C. Pereira, Redmond & either Willock or Riley.
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Post by Sméagol on Sept 10, 2015 19:17:08 GMT
Goalkeepers:
1 Dean Henderson
13 Oliver Byrne
22 Llias Moutha-Sebtaoui
24 George Dorrington
Defenders:
2 Tyler Reid
3 Cameron Borthwick-Jackson
4 Axel Tuanzebe
5 Ro-Shaun Williams
6 Timothy Fosu-Mensah
17 Tyrell Warren
26 Charlie Scott
Midfielders:
7 Zachary Dearnley
8 Matthew Willock
10 Callum Gribbin
11 Devonte Redmond
12 Scott Mctominay
15 Demetri Mitchell
16 Ethan Hamilton
18 Indy Boonen
19 Tosin Kehinde
21 Jake Kenyon
23 Makela Faustin
25 Joshua Doughty
27 James Dunne
28 Callum Whelan
29 Thomas Sang
Forwards:
9 Marcus Rashford
20 Kayne Diedrick-Roberts
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