64 teams registered, same as last season.

Full tournament groups and fixture schedule on Challonge.com as usual.

Scroll to bottom for screenshots of groups and fixtures.

Seeds

🔥 Elite Tier (84+)

🟣 Espanyol — 86
🟣 Genoa — 86
🔵 Barcelona — 84
🔵 Bayern Munich — 84
🔵 CSKA — 84
🔵 Levante — 84
🔵 Sporting — 84

💪 Strong Contenders (82–83)

🟢 Club Brugge — 83
🟢 Juventus — 83
🟢 Leicester Youth — 83
🟢 River Plate — 83
🟢 Dynamo Moskva — 82
🟢 Hamburg — 82
🟢 Hertha Berlin — 82
🟢 Independiente — 82
🟢 SC Internacional — 82
🟢 Swansea — 82

⚔️ Losers Shield Contenders (80–81)

🟡 Atletico Madrid — 81
🟡 Besiktas — 81
🟡 Chelsea — 81
🟡 Dortmund — 81
🟡 Man City Academy — 81
🟡 São Paulo — 81
🟡 Anderlecht — 80
🟡 Aston Villa — 80
🟡 Athletic Club — 80
🟡 CR Flamengo — 80
🟡 Marseille — 80
🟡 Monaco — 80
🟡 Partizan — 80
🟡 Tottenham — 80

😬 Shield Fodder (78–79)

🟠 AC Milan — 79
🟠 Arsenal — 79
🟠 Celtic Factory — 79
🟠 Fenerbache — 79
🟠 Real Madrid — 79
🟠 Sampdoria — 79
🟠 Stoke City — 79
🟠 West Brom — 79
🟠 Wolfsburg — 79
🟠 Benfica — 78
🟠 Cruzeiro — 78
🟠 Leverkusen — 78
🟠 Liverpool — 78
🟠 Roma — 78
🟠 Werder Bremen — 78

💀 Here For The Prize Draw (≤77)

🔴 Dynamo Kyiv U21 — 77
🔴 FC Basel — 77
🔴 Montpellier — 77
🔴 Newcastle United — 77
🔴 Sevilla FC — 77
🔴 Udinese — 77
🔴 Atalanta — 76
🔴 PSV — 76
🔴 Borussia Mönchengladbach — 75
🔴 Santos — 75
🔴 Crystal Palace — 74
🔴 Lazio — 74
🔴 Olympiacos — 74
🔴 Saint Etienne — 74
🔴 Southampton — 74
🔴 Villarreal — 74
🔴 Chievo Verona — 73
🔴 Valencia — 73

Format and Rules

Group Stage starts 21 February.

16 groups, 4 teams in each group. Teams play each other twice, home and away. Six matches in total. Top two qualify.

3rd placed teams will drop into the Youth Shield.

Last placed teams will be out (unless a team above them is disqualified for forfeiting three or more matches).

All fixtures must be arranged – home teams must send friendly requests to away teams asap.

If you are the away team and you haven’t received a friendly request, please message the home team manager to buy their best player for cash give them a friendly reminder.

If there’s a problem, please screenshot any messages sent or received and send them to me on WhatsApp, FB or email.

No loan players are allowed at any time.

All players must be aged 21 or under at the start of the season, i.e., on 27 January 2026. If a player turns 22 since 27 January (i.e., on 28 January or after), he’s eligible to play throughout the tournament.

Managers who fail to arrange fixtures or select eligible players and teams will forfeit those matches 0-3, and be excluded from the end of season prize draw.

Groups

Fixtures

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