Youth Cup
Youth Cup Prize Draw
UPDATE: And the winners are Regan at Hertha, Dario at Dortmund, and Dave Inglis at Zagreb (now at Villa). Well done all and many thanks to Gav for doing the live draw!
It's time for our seasonal prize draw for Youth Cup managers who didn't forfeit any games this season.
The draw will be done later today or tomorrow with three prizes of a free pick of any new player added to the database during S23.
The following clubs are in the draw. Let me know if you think I made a mistake.
Note that three managers moved clubs (in brackets).
| AC Milan |
| Anderlecht |
| Atletico Madrid |
| AZ Alkmaar |
| Barcelona |
| Bayern |
| Besiktas |
| Borussia Monchengladbach (Jay Jones/River Plate) |
| Celtic |
| CSKA |
| Dinamo Zagreb |
| Dortmund |
| Dynamo Kyiv |
| Dynamo Moskva |
| Espanyol |
| Fenerbache |
| Flamengo |
| Hamburger |
| Hellas Verona |
| Hertha Berlin |
| Independiente |
| Inter |
| Juventus |
| Lazio |
| Leicester City |
| Levante |
| Leverkusen |
| LYON |
| Manchester City |
| Manchester United |
| PSG |
| Real Madrid |
| São Paulo |
| Sassuolo |
| Schalke |
| Sevilla |
| Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Tottenham |
| Werder Bremen (Daniel Wythe/Santos) |
| VfL Wolfsburg |
For the record, here's the list of clubs that forfeited games and number of forfeits and old managers where they have since left.
Again, let me know if there's a mistake.
| Cologne | 5 |
| Montpellier | 4 |
| Standard Liege | 4 |
| West Bromwich Albion (Arturo Magnanensi) | 4 |
| Aston Villa (King Kev) | 3 |
| Sporting | 3 |
| Arsenal | 2 |
| Augsburg (Paddy D} | 2 |
| Club Brugge | 2 |
| Bordeaux | 2 |
| Chievo Verona | 2 |
| Benfica | 1 |
| Olympique MARSEILLE | 1 |
| Athletic Club | 1 |
| Chelsea | 1 |
| Fc Basel | 1 |
| Atalanta (Russell Jordan) | 1 |
| Villarreal | 1 |
| Twente | 1 |
| Samp | 1 |
| Torino | 1 |
| Genoa | 1 |
Youth Shield Final
Leicester City won their second Youth Shield beating River Plate 4-1 over two legs.
The two games were fairly even in terms of possession, but Leicester's superior quality won through.
Congratulations to Doug, and commiserations to Jay.
Youth Shield 2nd Round Results
My Hamburger were the shock winners on the night beating triple champions Juve, who had a five point average rating advantage.
Four fictional extra time games saw strong favourites Leicester edge past Hellas "the only club in" Verona, defending champions Milan crushed Spurs, former champs Lazio saw of Sevilla, and Arsenal sneaked past Chelsea.
Qualifiers for the Quarter Finals:
Leicester
Hamburg
Arsenal
Milan
River
Independiente
Kyiv
Lazio
Draw will be sometime today either live on FB or via RandomResult.com depending on what's going on at home.
Youth Shield 2nd Round Fixtures
All games are one leg only, to be played on Saturday 20 April, please.
Youth Shield 1st Round Draw
Now that 1st Round of the Youth Cup has completed, here is confirmation of the draw for the 1st Round of the Shield.
All games to be played over one leg this Saturday 13 April, please.
UPDATE: Chievo will get a bye into the 2nd Round due to Sporting forfeiting their Youth Cup game.
S21 Youth Shield Winners!
Congratulations to Milan and manager Andrew, who beat a very unlucky Benfica in the closest final we've ever seen in Top 100 history.
Both legs finished 2-1 to the home side, meaning the scores were still level after taking into account away goals, so the match was decided in controversial fashion with the long-standing, much maligned and much misunderstood and exclusive to Top 100 rule Fictional Extra Time.
There were some good teams in the Shield this season, so it was very competitive throughout.
Youth Shield
Fixtures for the Youth Shield on Challonge and below.
Rounds 1 and 2 are one leg only. Losers from the Youth Cup Round 1 will make up the draw.
Round 3 onwards is two legs.
Seeding as follows from the results of the Group Stage.
| Team | Position | Points | GD |
| CSKA | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Leicester | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Montpellier | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Celta | 3 | 3 | -2 |
| Southampton | 3 | 3 | -1 |
| Benfica | 3 | 3 | -3 |
| Roma | 3 | 3 | -3 |
| Schalke | 3 | 3 | -4 |
| PSG | 3 | 2 | -1 |
| Atletico | 3 | 1 | -2 |
| Malaga | 3 | 1 | -4 |
| Besiktas | 3 | 1 | -4 |
| Villarreal | 4 | 1 | -3 |
| Leverkusen | 4 | 1 | -4 |
| Atalanta | 4 | 1 | -4 |
| Bayern | 4 | 2 | -5 |
West Brom actually finished 3rd in their group despite forfeiting all three games, so I excluded them (albeit not the new manager's fault), and included another 4th placed team instead.
Similarly, Dortmund and Gladbach had the same record as Bayern, but both forfeited one game whereas Bayern didn't forfeit any.