YOUTH CUP

YOUTH SHIELD

We have arrived at the end of another exciting group stage of Youth Cup football!

Of the 48 entries all teams that finished 1st - 3rd have advanced and will have some shot at glory. Firstly the groups - Outstanding group stages from Hamburg, Juventus, PSV and Galatasaray. Group 11 looked the tightest and Aston Villa can consider themselves very unlucky as they go out on goal difference! '

Above is how the groups then worked out. We will now break off into the Youth Cup and Youth Shield. Remember there are free agent prizes for this as well!

Those in green were the TOP 8 group winners. They will advance directly to Youth Cup round 2. They will have a home draw in a 1 legged knock out tie.

Those in red were the runners up PLUS the 4 weakest group winners. They will go to Youth Cup round one. The draw will ensure the group winners get a HOME TIE - with the runners up not seeded in any way. The winners will advance to Youth Cup Round 2 with an away tie - the losers will advance to Youth Shield round two and will have a HOME tie there.

Those in BLUE advance directly to Youth Shield Round 2 - but will have an away tie v the losers of the Youth Cup Round 1 matches. Those in YELLOW will go into Youth Shield Round 1 - an open draw with the winners advancing to an AWAY tie in Youth Shield Round 2.

Dates for games are below - PLEASE note Saturday 30th October is FREE - so feel free to arrange some YOUTH FRIENDLIES!

Any questions

Final Group Tables for the Youth Cup and all Knockout Stage fixtures can be seen on the Challonge tournament website. Winners of Groups A to H (Genoa, Stuttgart, Arsenal, Villa, Levante, Man City, Juventus, Sampdoria) get a bye into the 2nd Round. Winners of Groups I to L (Hamburg, Augsburg, Benfica, Newcastle), and all runners-up (Chelsea, Dortmund, Independiente, Barcelona, Wolfsburg, Hellas, Man Utd, Anderlecht, Real Madrid, Southampton, Leicester, Bremen) go into the 1st Round.

All third placed teams (Gladbach, Schalke, Valencia, Ajax, Rubin, Brugge, Olympiacos, Malaga, Zagreb, Sevilla, Monaco, Twente) go into the Youth Shield, along with the four best fourth placed teams (Leverkusen, Spartak, Sporting, WBA). Here's the Youth Shield tournament website.

1st Round (two legs) starts next Saturday 5 June, so please organise fixtures.

Note that in the tables 'Score' = Points, and 'Pts Diff' = Goal Difference.

Both 1 leg - both to be played on Saturday 13th January.

Youth Cup

Atletico Madrid v Bayern Munich

Man City v Hellas Verona

Juventus v Hertha Berlin

Arsenal v Levante

YOuth Shield

Rounds 1, 2 and 3 are one leg. Semi-final and Final are two legs.

Round 1 is on Saturday 30 January.

Losers in Round 1 will go into draw for the Youth Shield along with the fourth and fifth placed teams from the group stage.

Round 2 is on Saturday 6 February.

Round 3 is on Saturday 13 February.

Semi-finals are on Saturday 20 and 27 February.

Final is on Saturday 6 and 13 March.

All Group Results

38 teams have entered. Full details of format, groups, fixtures and results can be followed at https://challonge.com/t100s14yc.

Tournament will start on Saturday 21 November 2020, and end on Saturday 13 March 2021 (17 weeks).

Players who were 21 or under at 31 October 2020 are eligible to play, as are players who turned 22 on or after 1 November 2020.

Managers who fail to arrange fixtures or who play ineligible players will forfeit the match 3-0.

Prizes of exclusive choice of one new free agent added to the database in April 2021 will be awarded to the winners of the Youth Cup and Shield, as well as to one manager randomly drawn from the rest, and who has not forfeited any matches.

Format

Teams will play in a seeded regional Group Stage consisting of 9 groups A to I. Seven groups will have four teams, two groups will have five teams. There will be ten weeks of matches in each group.

Three teams will qualify from each group for the Knockout Stage, consisting of three one-legged knockout rounds, followed by two-legged semi-finals and final, over seven weeks.

Youth Shield

Five non-qualifiers from the Group Stage (excluding five managers who failed to pick their teams two or more times, and both fifth placed teams), plus the eleven losers from the first round, and then a further eight losers of the second round of the Youth Cup Knockout Stage, will enter the Youth Shield. The Youth Shield will run as a Knockout, consisting of three one-legged knockout rounds and semi-finals, followed by a two-legged final, over six weeks.

Group Stage

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New Free Agent Prize Rules

For the month of November, the managers of the Youth Cup and Shield winners, Frank and me, can claim exclusive bidding rights on one new free agent – when we do so, anyone who has already bid must withdraw, and no one else must bid.

Frank and me will take responsibility for monitoring bids and messaging managers to withdraw, as much as possible, and anyone who fails to abide by this will incur a transfer ban.

Claimed players must be announced by Frank and me on the newsfeed by 10 am on the day that the player is added.

In the event that both Frank and me claim the same player, Frank will get priority as Youth Cup Winner.

Any dispute will be settled by the game world owner (Beddows).

One leg only, Saturday 17 October. Draw for home advantage by RandomResult.

Hamburger 4-2 Standard Liege

Draw via RandomResult. One leg only ties to be played Saturday 10 October.

1. Real Madrid 2-3 Hamburger (AFET: 1-1 at 90 mins)
2. Napoli 0-1 Standard Liege

Draw via RandomResult. Two legged final to be played 10 and 17 October.

1. Genoa 3-0 Hellas Verona
2. Hellas Verona 1-3 Genoa

Genoa won 6-1 on aggregate!

Drawn by RandomResult. Matches to be played Wednesday 7 October.

1. Porto 0-1 Hellas Verona
2. Genoa 4-3 Juventus (AFET: 2-2 at 90 mins)

Drawn by RandomResult. Matches to be played Wednesday 7 October.

1. Real Madrid 3-0* Aston Villa (*overage sub)
2. Bayern Munich 1-2 Hamburger
3. Standard Liege 1-0 Atletico Madrid
4. Malaga 1-3 Napoli (AFET: 1-1 at 90 mins)

Draw made by RandomResult. Ties to be played Saturday 3 October.

1. Augsburg 1-3 Bayern Munich
2. Aston Villa 4-2 Roma (Match played in Rome)
3. Flamengo 0-1 Malaga
4. Valencia 1-3 Hamburger
5. Real Madrid 3-0* Spartak Moskva (Match played in Moscow, overage players)
6. Fenerbahce 0-1 Standard Liege
7. Napoli 2-1 Newcastle United
8. Arsenal 1-2 Atletico Madrid

Draw made by RandomResult (should have had Hellas Verona NOT Bayern!).

Ties to be played Saturday 3 October.

1. Benfica 2-3 Juventus
2. Genoa 2-0 Manchester City (AFET, 0-0 at 90 mins)
3. Porto 2-0 Chelsea (AFET, 0-0 at 90 mins)
4. Levante 1-2 Hellas Verona (match played in Verona)