Welcome to
our new blog for the university subject of Sport Business 15/16. The main topic
of our blog, as the name indicates, is the UEFA Youth League. We will try to
approximate the less known of the UEFA’s competitions to all of you, because we
think that they will continue growing and increasing their impact in the next
years as they have done since its creation in 2013.
Originally
titled as UEFA Under-19 is a competition for all under age players registered
to the 32 senior clubs that qualify for the group stage of the UEFA Champions
League, but this year the number of teams that participate in this Youth League
has increased to 64, including 32 domestic youth champions, in an innovative and entertaining new competition system that we will explain in the following posts of the blog.
Apart from
the competition system, the (brief) history, the impact in the academies of the different
clubs and the business and economic part of this competition, we will also talk
about similar competitions related with young players and the importance of
this kind of tournaments in all of the mentioned aspects.
You can
follow the competition here:
www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/index.html
