UEFA Youth League entrants confirmed

The 64 clubs entering a UEFA Youth League have now been decided, with half entering one pull on Thursday and a other 32 in another on Tuesday.

Entrants

1: UEFA Champions League path: The 32 girl teams of a clubs that competent for a UEFA Champions League organisation stage:

• The 8 groups will be motionless by a UEFA Champions League draw during 18:00CET on Thursday.

• Among a hopefuls in this trail are initial 2013/14 winners Barcelona as good as Chelsea, victors in 2014/15 and 2015/16 though who did not validate to urge their pretension final season.

Benfica’s UEFA Youth League skills challenge-winning entry

• Anderlecht, Atlético Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern München, Benfica, CSKA Moskva, Juventus, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and Porto all keep adult their annals of entering all 5 editions of this foe (along with Domestic Champions trail hopefuls Ajax).

• Benfica, runners-up in 2014 and 2017, have played some-more games (37) and scored some-more goals (89) than any other teams in this competition; Chelsea have available a many wins (23).

Pot 1: Real Madrid (ESP), Bayern München (GER), Juventus (ITA), Benfica (POR), Chelsea (ENG), Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR), Monaco (FRA), Spartak Moskva (RUS)

Pot 2: Barcelona (ESP), Atlético Madrid (ESP), Paris Saint-Germain (FRA), Borussia Dortmund (GER), Sevilla (ESP), Manchester City (ENG), Porto (POR), Manchester United (ENG)

Pot 3: Napoli (ITA), Tottenham Hotspur (ENG), Basel (SUI), Olympiacos  (GRE), Anderlecht (BEL), Liverpool (ENG) Roma (ITA), Beşiktaş (TUR)

Pot 4: Celtic (SCO), CSKA Moskva (RUS), Sporting CP (POR), APOEL (CYP), Feyenoord (NED), Maribor (SVN), QarabaÄŸ (AZE), RB Leipzig (GER)

How Salzburg won a 2017 title

2: Domestic champions path: a domestic girl champions of a 32 best-ranked associations in a 2016 UEFA organisation fellow rankings (the same rankings used to confirm entrance to a 2017/18 UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League).

• If a organisation was authorised for both, they enter a UEFA Champions League path.

• A cavity in a domestic champions trail (including if a bar is instead authorised for a UEFA Champions League path, for instance Real Madrid) was filled by a domestic girl champion of a subsequent best-ranked association.

• Salzburg won a pretension final deteriorate after starting in a domestic champions path.

• For a initial time there are entrants from Albania, Latvia and Luxembourg.

Internazionale Milano (ITA), Bordeaux (FRA), Krasnodar (RUS), Dynamo Kyiv (UKR), Ajax (NED), Bursaspor (TUR), Sparta Praha (CZE), Dinamo București (ROU), Salzburg (AUT, holders), Lokomotiva Zagreb (CRO), Legia Warszawa (POL), Shakhtyor Soligorsk (BLR), Hammarby (SWE), Molde (NOR), Maccabi Haifa (ISR), Esbjerg (SWE), Brodarac (SRB), Kairat Almaty (KAZ), Ludogorets (BUL), Nitra (SVK), Budapest Honvéd (HUN), Zimbru Chișinău (MDA)*, Breidablik (ISL)*, Saburtalo (GEO)*, KäPa (FIN)*,  Željezničar (BIH)*, Vllaznia (ALB)**, Shkëndija (MKD)**, UCD (IRL)**, Liepāja (LVA)**, Dudelange (LUX)**, Sutjeska (MNE)**

*Entered as Real Madrid (ESP), Borussia Dortmund (GER), Chelsea (ENG), Anderlecht (BEL) and Basel (SUI) competent for a UEFA Champions League automatically
**Entered as Sporting CP, Olympiacos, APOEL, Celtic, Qarabağ and Maribor competent for UEFA Champions League around play-offs

• The pull for a dual knockout rounds will be done in Nyon on Tuesday.

2017 semi-finals: Benfica hit out Madrid

Competition system

UEFA Champions League path
The 32 clubs entering around a UEFA Champions League will contest in groups with a same make-up and tie list as a comparison competition.

• The 8 organisation winners will swell true to a turn of 16.

• The 8 runners-up will go into a play-offs.

Domestic champions path
The 32 teams will contest in dual knockout rounds of home-and-away ties. There will be no seeding.

• The 8 teams remaining after a second turn will go into a play-offs.

Play-offs
The 8 domestic champions trail survivors will be drawn during home to a 8 UEFA Champions League trail runners-up in one-off ties to confirm a 8 remaining turn of 16 berths.

Knockout proviso and final
The knockout phase, starting with a turn of 16, will include of single-leg ties.

• The semi-finals and a final will be played on 20 and 23 Apr respectively during a Colovray track conflicting UEFA’s Swiss domicile in Nyon.

More information can be seen in a competition’s official regulations.

2017 semi-finals: Salzburg jolt Barcelona

Season calendar
Pre-season draws
UEFA Champions League draw: 24 August, Monaco
Domestic champions trail pull (both rounds): 29 August, Nyon

Autumn matches
UEFA Champions League trail matchday one: 12/13 September
UEFA Champions League trail matchday two: 26/27 September
Domestic champions trail turn one, initial leg: 27 September
UEFA Champions League trail matchday three: 17/18 October
Domestic champions trail turn one, second leg: 18 October
UEFA Champions League trail matchday four: 31 October/1 November
Domestic champions trail turn two, initial leg: 1 November
UEFA Champions League trail matchday five: 21/22 November
Domestic champions trail turn two, second leg: 22 November
UEFA Champions League trail matchday six: 5/6 December

Knockout dates
Play-off draw: 11 December
Play-offs: 6/7 February
Knockout pull (round of 16 onwards): 9 February
Round of 16: 20/21 February
Quarter-finals: 13/14 March
Semi-final: 20 April, Nyon
Final: 23 April, Nyon

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