Group One - FC Barcelona, Tottenham Hotspur, Olympiacos, Vfl Wolfsburg. Group Two - Manchester City, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Fenerbahce. Group Three - Chelsea, AFC Ajax, CSKA Moscow, Molde FK. Group Four - Arsenal, Athletic Bilbao, Olympique de Marseille, RSC Anderlecht. Group Five - Liverpool, Borussia Dortmund, Internazionale, Rosenborg BK. Group Six - Sporting Clube de Portugal, Celtic, Aston Villa, PSV Eindhoven Hopefully we don't field a couple of ineligible players this time...
Was just about to post this as I hadn't seen it on here. Seems like a tough group judging purely by their first team's strength, although there don't seem to be any easy looking ones. Looking forward to seeing our future stars pitting themselves against some of the top talent from Europe again next season. Is there any news on whether more of the games will be at Brisbane Road? There wasn't much communication on where the games would be last time and I quite fancy heading to see a game or two this season.
There is no qualification as such Spurlock, I think it's open to whoever wants to apply. As you no doubt know, it's an under 19 competition, although 3 overaged players are allowed but with only 2 of these allowed on the pitch at the same time ( a rule we fell foul of last season). Inter won it last season a few months after we had stuffed them 7-1 in the group stages. Hope that helps
It's still in it's infancy and I think it was pretty much taking all the teams that wanted to enter last season. I think a few clubs wanted to see if the competition really hit off before entering their team for a tournament with so much travel. This season they've got 9 new teams with two new groups created so presumably one team from last season decided to drop out and the knockouts will have an extra round with 4 of the 3rd places also qualifying.
thank you Spurcat and YV...clears it up for me. i try to kind of follow it..think ill make more effort in doing so this year.
"Is there any news on whether more of the games will be at Brisbane Road? There wasn't much communication on where the games would be last time and I quite fancy heading to see a game or two this season." Either at new training ground, or Enfield Town FC. Both are within walking distance for me, would prefer the latter if the coffers went to that club (they are creeping up the non-league, and the Spurs testimonial game had an attendance of 1000) .
"Enfield town,how the mighty fall.i remember the time when they were a top amature side" Think they got into financial trouble. Then there was a schism (two clubs formed, Enfield Town FC and "Enfield 1893" ) . The former now play at the athletics ground (at the other end of the playing field to their old ground) . Twas a nice pitch for the testimonial match. And the location/amenities might tempt some ad-hoc attendance for the NextGen games.
