2022/23 UEFA Youth League

[amirbachar]

With new CL firmat coming in 2024 will UYL also get s new format? and if so what will it be do we reckon?

Probably same format as CL - top 8 go straight to R16, 9-16 to playoffs.
The matches in LP would also be the same as CL

What about Domestic Champions Path?

Probably same as now

[Jackson Harrison]

Probably same format as CL - top 8 go straight to R16, 9-16 to playoffs.
The matches in LP would also be the same as CL

What about Domestic Champions Path?

Probably same as now

Probably.

So 9-16 v DCP in PO?

[amenina]

Play-off ties

Tuesday 7 February
Young Boys vs Salzburg (18:00)
Hibernian vs Borussia Dortmund (20:00)

Wednesday 8 February
Ruh Lviv vs Inter (14:00)
Genk vs Juventus (16:00)
AZ Alkmaar vs Eintracht Frankfurt (18:00)
Hajduk Split vs Shakhtar Donetsk (18:00)
MTK Budapest vs Ajax (18:00)
Panathinaikos vs Porto (18:00)

All times CET

Is there extra time in the Youth League?
In all UEFA Youth League knockout ties, if scores are level at the end of normal time, the game progresses straight to a penalty shoot-out with no extra time.

https://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/ne ... -february/

Youth League play-offs start Tuesday.

The winners will progress to join the teams that topped the eight groups in the round of 16, with a straight knockout from then on to decide the four teams that reach April's Nyon finals.

[Dragonite]

UYL returns today.

I expect the following teams to advance: Salzburg, Dortmund, Inter, Genk, Porto, Ajax, Hajduk Split and AZ Alkmaar.

UEFA.tv will broadcast four of these matches.

[SimonB]

I expect the following teams to advance: Salzburg, Dortmund, Inter, Genk, Porto, Ajax, Hajduk Split and AZ Alkmaar.

UEFA.tv will broadcast four of these matches.

You have started with 2 correct here although they both appear to have been close. I can't imagine that the senior team of Hibernian would be that close to Dortmund in standard. Somewhat confusingly UEFA.com has a 3-2 away win for Salzburg against Young Boys but lists 4 different goal scorers underneath for Salzburg. I assume that the 2-3 score-line is the correct one as I have seen that final score on another site.

[Dragonite]

I expect the following teams to advance: Salzburg, Dortmund, Inter, Genk, Porto, Ajax, Hajduk Split and AZ Alkmaar.

UEFA.tv will broadcast four of these matches.

You have started with 2 correct here although they both appear to have been close. I can't imagine that the senior team of Hibernian would be that close to Dortmund in standard. Somewhat confusingly UEFA.com has a 3-2 away win for Salzburg against Young Boys but lists 4 different goal scorers underneath for Salzburg. I assume that the 2-3 score-line is the correct one as I have seen that final score on another site.

I watched both matches.

You're right, Young Boys vs Salzburg was 2-3. That Pejazic 4th goal in minute 90+4 never happened, it's a mistake in UEFA.com.

UEFA.com had an even more confusing thing regarding the other match, Hibernian vs. Dortmund. They had Hibernian's Aiken with a red card in the previous match against Nantes, which would make him ineligible for this match. But apparently that card was for another player so Aiken could play.


The quality of these UEFA.com "matchcenters" used to be better. As someone who uses it as source for my own statistics, I've been noticing more mistakes lately, and the information that they provide also used to be richer (CL matches for instance used to have tactical displays with each players "average position", now they don't do this anymore).

It's still a great website, but hopefully it will get better in the future, not worse.

[Jackson Harrison]

https://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/ne ... aw-monday/

Looks like they're going back to random draw for R16. Stupid.

[amenina]

UYL returns today.

I expect the following teams to advance: Salzburg, Dortmund, Inter, Genk, Porto, Ajax, Hajduk Split and AZ Alkmaar.

UEFA.tv will broadcast four of these matches.

Young Boys 2-3 Salzburg

Hibernian 1-2 Borussia Dortmund

Ruh Lviv 1-1 Inter (4-3 pens)

Genk 0-0 Juventus (4-3 pens)

AZ Alkmaar 5-0 Eintracht Frankfurt

Hajduk Split 1-0 Shakhtar Donetsk

MTK Budapest 0-1 Ajax

Panathinaikos 0-1 Porto

[amenina]

UEFA Youth League knockout draw

https://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/ne ... on-monday/

The UEFA Youth League knockout draw streamed live from 13:00 CET on Monday sets the ties from the round of 16 through to the four-team knockout finals in April in Nyon.

Contenders
Group winners:
AC Milan (ITA, Group E)
Atlético (ESP, Group B)
Barcelona (ESP, Group C)
Liverpool (ENG, Group A)
Manchester City (ENG, Group G)
Paris Saint-Germain (FRA, Group H)
Real Madrid (ESP, Group F)
Sporting CP (POR, Group D)

Play-off winners:
Ajax (NED, Group A runners-up)
AZ Alkmaar (NED, Domestic champions path)
Borussia Dortmund (GER, Group G runners-up)
Genk (BEL, Domestic champions path)
Hajduk Split (CRO, Domestic champions path)
Porto (POR, Group B runners-up)
Ruh Lviv (UKR, Domestic champions path)
Salzburg (AUT, Group E runners-up)

How the Youth League knockout ties are formed

The eight group winners of the UEFA Champions League path group stage are drawn against the eight winners of the play-offs; the draw determines which will be the home teams. Exact procedure to follow.

The winners and runners-up of the same group in the Champions League path cannot be drawn against each other.

There is no country protection, with any restrictions announced ahead of the draw.

The quarter-final, semi-final and final draws are open. The semi-finals and final will be held at Colovray Stadium, Nyon.

Matches in the round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final are all played as single-leg knockout matches. If the teams are level at full time, there is no extra time, with games being determined by a penalty shoot-out.

Meet the Youth League contenders

Barcelona (winners in 2013/14 and 2017/18) are aiming to be the first three-time champions. Porto (2018/19), Real Madrid (2019/20) and Salzburg (2016/17) are the other former winners still involved. Paris were finalists in 2015/16.

Salzburg were runners-up last season, when Atlético also made the Nyon finals. Ajax and Man City have also previously made the semis.

Dortmund, Liverpool, Paris and Sporting reached last season's quarter-finals, with AZ, Genk and Madrid eliminated in the round of 16.

Madrid keep up their record of reaching the round of 16 in all nine editions with an eighth appearance at this stage for Atlético.
Milan are at this stage for the first time since the inaugural 2013/14 season.

Ruh are in their debut season.

Hajduk are also in the round of 16 for the first time.

The road to Nyon
Round of 16: 28 February/1 March
Quarter-finals: 14/15 March
Semi-finals: 21 April, Colovray Stadium, Nyon
Final: 24 April, Colovray Stadium, Nyon

[Club-Mate]

[Club-Mate]

[Club-Mate]

** after 8 years of competition of YCL a new and balanced format could be relaunched from Uefa.
The YCL should be separated from CL format of senior teams unless they travel together by plane. The amount of GS (32) and LP teams could be determined according to the achievements of a country ranking YCL plus the potential of the participating countries. So Spain in this model would get 3 fixed GS places plus one in qualifiers. Another possibility could be regional subdivisions in GS to avoid too long travels.

[amenina]

How the Youth League knockout ties are formed

Round of 16 (28 February/1 March)

The eight group winners of the UEFA Champions League path group stage are drawn against the eight winners of the knockout round play-offs.

The winners and runners-up of the same group in the Champions League path cannot be drawn against each other.

Draw procedure

Two pots are prepared, one for the eight group winners and the other for the eight winners of the knockout round play-offs.

The balls containing the eight group winners are placed in a bowl marked ‘Group winners’ and the balls containing the eight winners of the knockout round play-offs are placed in a bowl marked ‘Winners of the knockout play-offs’.

One ball is taken from each bowl and placed in a large empty bowl, where they are shuffled. The first team drawn will play at home against the second team drawn.

The same procedure is carried out with the remaining balls to complete all the round of 16 pairings.

If the winners and runners-up of the same group in the Champions League path are drawn to play each other, the team drawn second is put to one side. In its place, another ball is drawn from the corresponding bowl to complete the pairing. The team put to one side will be the away team in the next pairing. Another ball will be drawn from the other bowl, to determine the home team in this pairing.

If the winners and runners-up of the same group in the Champions League path are the last two teams remaining in the draw, the team drawn as the visiting team in the second-to-last pairing will instead be the visiting team in the last pairing. One of the last two will be drawn from the corresponding bowl to complete the second-to-last pairing. The remaining ball will then be drawn as the home team in the last pairing.

Quarter-finals (14/15 March)

Eight balls containing slips of paper marked ‘Winners of match 1’ to ‘Winners of match 8’ are placed in a large central bowl and shuffled.

The first and second balls drawn determine the first quarter-final pairing, the first ball drawn representing the home team.

The procedure is repeated with the remaining balls in the bowl to complete the quarter-final pairings.

Semi-finals (21 April, Nyon)

Four balls containing slips of paper marked ‘Winners of quarter-final 1’ to ‘Winners of quarter-final 4’ are placed in a large central bowl and shuffled.

The first and second balls drawn determine the first semi-final pairing, the first ball drawn representing the home team (for administrative reasons).

The procedure is repeated with the remaining balls in the bowl to complete the semi-final pairings.

Final (24 April, Nyon)

Two balls containing slips of paper marked ‘Winners of semi-final 1’ and ‘Winners of semi-final 2’ are placed in a large central bowl and shuffled. The first ball drawn designates the home team for the final (for administrative reasons).

[amenina]

** after 8 years of competition of YCL a new and balanced format could be relaunched from Uefa.
The YCL should be separated from CL format of senior teams unless they travel together by plane. The amount of GS (32) and LP teams could be determined according to the achievements of a country ranking YCL plus the potential of the participating countries. So Spain in this model would get 3 fixed GS places plus one in qualifiers. Another possibility could be regional subdivisions in GS to avoid too long travels.

What is the source of this information about a potential new format of UYL? Or are you just expressing your opinion?

[Club-Mate]

** after 8 years of competition of YCL a new and balanced format could be relaunched from Uefa.
The YCL should be separated from CL format of senior teams unless they travel together by plane. The amount of GS (32) and LP teams could be determined according to the achievements of a country ranking YCL plus the potential of the participating countries. So Spain in this model would get 3 fixed GS places plus one in qualifiers. Another possibility could be regional subdivisions in GS to avoid too long travels.

What is the source of this information about a potential new format of UYL? Or are you just expressing your opinion?

yes it's just my opinion. I don't think that Uefa will change the format in the next time. However present format is unbalanced and no more fair. Examples for instance are Denmark. They have 2 strong teams (Midtjylland and FCK) but they only get 1 spot similar for Croatia, Belgium, Ukraine etc. In Austria RBS is 'blocking' any other team so almost no chance to participate ever in YCL. At least Uefa could give some better ranked countries one LP spot or 2 spots if senior team can't qualify for CL.