La_Leyenda Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/201516_UEFA_Youth_League Was having a look through it, it's been expanded from 32 to 64 teams for next season, which should allow for two Scottish sides in it, but only Celtic's name appearing at the moment (it is of course wikipedia though). I take it Aberdeen, as the youth league champions, would only qualify should Celtic make the champions league group stages meaning their youth sides enters the CL route, freeing up the domestic league spot? Or, is it a mistake, and should it be Aberdeen have qualified in the domestic section, while Celtic need to wait and see if their first team makes the CL groups? Or are both wrong, and do Scotland only have one spot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 It's complicated. Whatever 32 clubs reach the Champions League groupstage participate in the 'group' stream... where 8 group winners progress to the Last 16 and the 8 runners-up progress to the Playoff Round. There is then a separate 'knockout' stream for the domestic youth league winners from the 32 highest-ranked countries. However if the domestic youth league winner has already qualified via CL as detailed above their slot goes to the next country down... These 32 teams play 2 knockout preliminaries, the 8 survivors going into the Playoff Round mentioned above. SFA have chosen not to use the U20 League to decide our domestic youth league winner. Instead they have used the 'non-competitive' U17 league (it is supposed to concentrate on player development not results: and therefore results and tables are not published, AFAIA). This was apparently won by Celtic. Therefore our only entrant will be Celtic, who are guaranteed one way or another. Aberdeen will not participate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Infact as you can see here... the 'domestic' slots of Portugal & Greece have already gone to George (33rd) & Kazakhstan (34th), with 8 more countries down to Macedonia (42nd) 7 more countries down to Lithuania (41st) [only maximum of 7 from 8 can reach CL groups] waiting on the outcome of who reaches CL groups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_UEFA_Youth_League#Teams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenMonster Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Celtic are through to the knockout stages of the youth Champions League after beating the Ferenc Puskas Academy 3-0(3-1) on aggregate, goals from Theo Archibald and a Calvin Miller double, they now take on a CL Group runner up in the next round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilky1878 Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Just come across this thread. Surely the spfl using the u17s was a way of keeping celtic relevant. If I was Aberdeen I'd be raging. Well done celtic on making the knockout stages though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonewolfie Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Agreed. WTF???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Just come across this thread. Surely the spfl using the u17s was a way of keeping celtic relevant. If I was Aberdeen I'd be raging. Well done celtic on making the knockout stages though. It wouldn't make sense to use the U20s league given that it allows 4/5 overage players per game. They didn't just decide to use the U17 league at the last minute - the former Hamilton Accies secretary tweeted about it around November last year, and presumably the clubs knew about it long before that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenMonster Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Celtic have been drawn against Valencia in the knockout stages of the Youth Champions League, the game will be a one off tie at the start of February and will be played in Scotland because Celtic get the home tie as they advanced through the domestic champions portion of the early rounds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenMonster Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Celtic 1-0 up at half time against Valencia, Spaniards have been the better side but Celtic lead through a goal from 15 year old Jack Aitchison who scored just before the break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gannonball Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Watching this as well,was expecting to lose without the mighty Nesbitt but fingers crossed we hold out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenMonster Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Ft 1-1 Valencia equalise late on despite being down to ten men for the last 20 minutes, game now goes straight to penalties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenMonster Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Celtic end up losing 4-3 on penalties, shooting second they twice had pens to score to win too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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