Youth Cup
Youth Cup Round up
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
Youth Cup and Shield S15 Knockout Stages
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.
| The following clubs all forfeited games and are out of the New Free Agent Prize Draw | ||
| Tottenham | 5 | |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 | |
| Fenerbahce | 4 | |
| WBA | 3 | |
| Sporting Clube de Portugal | 2 | |
| Sevilla | 2 | |
| Chelsea | 1 | |
| Genoa | 1 | |
| VfB Stuttgart | 1 | |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 1 | |
| Feyenoord | 1 | |
| Manchester United | 1 | |
| Monaco | 1 | |
| Anderlecht | 1 | |
| Liverpool | 1 | |
| Twente | 1 |
Youth Cup and Shield Winners and Prizes S14
Youth Cup Winners
Juventus beat Atletico Madrid over two legs (0-2 and 0-0) to become the first team to win a hattrick of Youth Cups. (4-0 wasn't the score, it just means they won all four of their knockout stage matches).
All the results can be found over at the Challonge tournament website.
Youth Shield Winners
Benfica beat D5 Olympiacos 5-2 over two legs (2-2 and 0-3) to become the first club to win the Shield twice, with manager ruts66 .. notching a record third triumph in the competition (once each with Bayern, Stoke and now Benfica).
All the results can be found over at the Challonge tournament website.
New Free Agent Prize Draw
All non-final winning managers who made it through all the group stage and knockout games without forfeiting any matches (for fielding overage players or failing to organise a fixture) are entered into a draw to select one manager as the winner of a 'wild card' prize to choose a new free agent during the month of April 2021 (see rules blow).
The draw will take place at 10am UK time on Thursday 18 March 2021.
And the winner is... Hertha Berlin manager Dan Wallace!
New Free Agent Prize Rules
For the month of April 2021, the managers of the Youth Cup and Shield winners, DP 91 and ruts66 .., plus the winners of the prize draw above Dan Wallace, can claim exclusive bidding rights on one new free agent – when they do so, anyone who has already bid must withdraw, and no one else must bid.
DP 91 and ruts66 ..,plus the winners of the prize draw Dan Wallace, 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 DP 91 and ruts66 ..,plus the winners of the prize draw Dan Wallace, on the newsfeed by 10 am on the day that the player is added.
In the event that DP 91 and ruts66 ..,plus the winners of the prize draw Dan Wallace, claim the same player, DP 91 will get priority as Youth Cup Winner followed by ruts66 .. as Youth Shield Winner.
Any dispute will be settled by the game world owner (Beddows).
Youth Cup and Youth Shield next round draws
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
Youth Cup Knockout Stage Draw S14
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.
