In that way, this year aren't only going to participate the U19 teams of the clubs involved in the Champions League groups phase, but the Domestic Champions in U19 category from the 32 countries with more UEFA coefficient. In the case that one of that Domestic Champions has its senior team in the Champions League groups phase, its place is released for the champion of the next federation of the UEFA ranking, and so on. In this edition, FC Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk, Olympiacos, Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Dinamo Zagreb have allowed that Kazakhstan, Finland, Bosnia, Georgia and Iceland have a team in the UEFA Youth League.
For example, an icelandic team can play UYL via UEFA Champions League Path, if their senior team classifies for the Champions League groups phase or via Domestic Champions Path, as they are good enough positioned in the UEFA's federations classification.
Applied to spanish football, Villarreal is playing the UYL as the champion of Copa de Campeones in the Domestic Champions Path while FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atlético, Valencia and Sevilla are playing the UYL in the UEFA Champions League Path.
The Domestic Champions Path includes 32 U19 national champions. These teams will play up to two knockout rounds already drawn in a home-and-away format and 8 teams will come out from this.
This 8 teams will play (as the away team) against the 8 2nd classified teams from the UEFA Champions League Path groups in a playoff with the objective of being in the Top 16 knockout. The champions of the UEFA Champions League Path groups will be the home teams in this round.
The next rounds of the competition where already explained in the post "The competition system (I): UEFA Champions League Path"
You can follow the results and the details of the matches of the UYL Domestic Champions Path here: http://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/season=2016/matches/results/index.html
Source: Una UEFA Youth League mucho más amplia | MarcadorInt
I find it really nice that young players from such countries as Ukraine, Bosnia, Georgia and others have a chance to participate in such competition as UEFA youth league, as I believe that the level of football in these countries is not that nice so participation in this competition can help younger generations of these countries to develop their skills and perform much better than they do back home
ResponderEliminarWhat a long way to reach the finals! I agree with Liza, young players should also have the chance toplay there.
ResponderEliminarDo you guys know how much a team gets if it wins the youth league?
Nice! Now I get this ;)
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