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Trabzonspor have won the Turkish U19 Elit, the winners of which qualified for the Youth League in previous seasons.

https://twitter.com/Trabzonspor/status/ ... 5085472945

Oh cool - starting to roll in now. Be interesting to see how some of the smaller clubs do. Plus as a UCD fan, this is now starting to firm up who might be in our pool!

Cheers for that; there's some excellent work there

Not much more to share really. Lincoln Red Imps have won the Gibraltar U17 league - though I'm not sure if that's what decides Youth League qualification. They don't seem to have an U19 league though. https://www.gibraltarfa.com/competitions/u17-championship-23-24-2493311 Similarly the Maltese U17 l...

Thanks - very useful info there! Ireland has definitely changed to being the U17 league winners qualifying, which is UCD (the only underage title Shamrock Rovers didn't win). See here - https://twitter.com/leagueofireland/status/1720855139836203173?t=JbUe6OkB5XKOhRq-3ZKIA&s=08 And Cliftonville a...

I presume entry to the first/second round may vary depending on whether Olympiakos also win the Greek underage league? (Which I think they're doing at the moment). I think if a club qualifies for the CL group stages and has their underage team win the underage league, then the runners-up in the unde...

Firnen wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 23:57 KA is facing a shaky Dundalk next time, can Iceland beat Ireland again?

KA isn't Breidablik though, they are a midtable club.

Dundalk aren't Shamrock Rovers either though; they're a mid-table club.

Not a great year for the LoI teams at all.

Just a quick post that may interest a few people on the forum here (and many thanks to Bert for the permission to plug!). My book, One Night In Dudelange - Adventures in the UEFA Europa League , was recently published by Vision Sports Publishing. It tells the inside story of a small team competing i...

Come on Dudelange! I think RTL's stream just crashed with that goal

Imagine a Luxembourg club still with half the side that lost to an Irish second division side three years ago in the group stages

The Europa League is a far more interesting tournament than the CL

Ah shite. You could well be right actually. I missed that looking at the current season rankings - very little ranking difference.

Still, as you say, 41st did qualify this year, and though I doubt it will do so next year, it makes the original query about the other leagues still valid I guess!

So this is obviously exceptionally early, but... A couple of teams are starting to qualify for this - maybe. Breidablik and UCD (from Iceland and Ireland) have both qualified - if enough countries higher up have their underage winner get into the Champions' League proper. UCD - who were in the Europ...

There's a crest I won't forget in a long time!

Had hoped Dudelange would do well this year after we knocked ye out last year - doesn't seem to have quite happened for ye.

Next year maybe! :p

In case they weren't posted earlier, here's the highlights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STPG6MFI8e0 From sun to lashing rain in one match - nicely sums up autumn in Ireland! Interestingly, I thought Cork did much better than Dundalk in their first leg tie last week; Dundalk were a bit lucky to ...

The LoI changed to summer soccer in 2002 - if this is the vindication, it's been a long time coming! We've had some awful years in Europe too - including Pat's losing in Luxembourg this year, Cork losing in Iceland last year when 1-0 up and a man up after half an hour, Pat's losing home and away to ...

There was one other time when this could have happened, though it didn't. In 1991/92, East German teams were admitted into Europe, though there was no more East Germany. The teams were based on the 1990/91 East German Oberliga, which was the last season of it, and in 1991/92, all the teams were play...

What an incredible, incredible game in Dudelange. We were 1-0 up, 2-0 up on aggregate and quite comfortable. Dudelange had to attack, so we could sit back and counter. I'm quite happy there's no way we were going to lose the match - until the red. (F91 were also quite dirty - general consensus is th...