Youth Cup Group Stage
60 teams entered this season's competition.
| Team name | Average rating |
| Espanyol | 85 |
| Hamburger SV | 84 |
| Levante | 84 |
| Genoa | 83 |
| Leicester City | 83 |
| Real Madrid | 83 |
| Borussia Dortmund | 82 |
| Hertha Berlin | 82 |
| Inter | 82 |
| AC Milan | 81 |
| Arsenal | 81 |
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| Benfica | 81 |
| Club Brugge | 81 |
| internacional | 81 |
| Manchester City | 81 |
| Marseille | 80 |
| PSG | 80 |
| River Plate | 80 |
| Rubin Kazan | 80 |
| Schalke | 80 |
| Southampton | 80 |
| Montpellier | 79 |
| Sampdoria | 79 |
| Torino | 79 |
| Valencia | 79 |
| Atletico Madrid | 78 |
| Bayern | 78 |
| Chelsea | 78 |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 78 |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 78 |
| FK Partizan | 78 |
| Independiente | 78 |
| Lazio | 78 |
| Leverkusen | 78 |
| Manchester United | 78 |
| Monchengladbach | 78 |
| ROMA | 78 |
| Standard Liege | 78 |
| WBA | 78 |
| Anderlecht | 77 |
| Atalanta | 77 |
| CSKA | 77 |
| Dynamo Moskva | 77 |
| Fenerbache | 77 |
| Sevilla | 77 |
| Stuttgart | 77 |
| Villarreal | 77 |
| Celta vigo | 76 |
| Augsburg | 75 |
| Besiktas | 75 |
| Fiorentina | 75 |
| Hoffenheim | 75 |
| Lokomotiv Moskva | 75 |
| Tottenham | 75 |
| Zenit SP | 75 |
| PSV | 74 |
| Chievo Verona | 72 |
| Málaga | 72 |
| Celtic | 70 |
Due to time limitations, this season the group stage will be World Cup style, i.e., play teams in your group only once.
The top two from each group, plus the two best third placed teams, will qualify for the knockout stage - a single leg round of 32, followed by two legged rounds of 16, 8, 4 and final.
The 16 losers in the round of 32, plus the 13 remaining third placed teams and the three best fourth placed teams, will compete in the Youth Shield - single legged rounds of 32 and 16, followed by two legged rounds of 8, 4 and final.
The Group Stage is live on Challonge.com. (Ignore the finals bracket, I will do a separate draw for the knockout stage).
Group games will be played on Saturday 21 and 28 October, and 4 November.
