NextGen Series (U19)

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE "U-19" starts in august! " 1st edition"

The tournament, the first of its kind in Europe, organised by UEFA aims to help academy players make the transition from youth to first team. Organiser Mark Warburton believes the tournament will help prepare young playersfor the pressures associated with elite level football.

There will be four groups of four teams each, with the top two from each group progressing to the knock-out stages, which begin in January.

Barca will be competing against Liverpool, Inter Milan, Man City, Marseille, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Sporting Lisbon, Wolfsburg, PSV, Celtic, FC Basel, Molde, Fenerbahce & Rosenborg.

Was reading about this a few weeks ago. Fantastic idea and really hoping it will be televised and we can catch it. Hope its another trophy for Barca and more proof we have the best youth set-up in Europe

Expecting another trophy~

oooo cool.

hope its on TV over here, with those english teams it should be

perfect thing to happen
Deulofeu, Rafinha, Espinosa, Gomez and maybe even Samper and other talents getting some European football experience and we can finally watch those guys!

Interesting to note no RM. I am sure they were invited to participate as well.

it will be a slightly weaken team, as the likes of Rafinha, Espinosa, Gomez will likely be promoted, so i hope the players that will replace them are as good or better

Be interesting to see which players we take to this. Should be fascinating to watch though, great idea.

Cal-FCB said:

Be interesting to see which players we take to this. Should be fascinating to watch though, great idea.

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yup ...cant wait to take a look...gives these youngsters a great platform to show how good they are against their euro peers

If I'm not mistaken only the knockout stage will be aired on TV... And considering that Deulofeu and Rafinha are going to be part of B team as Juveniles, they'll be able to play it...

wohoo! the club of my city is also represented: FC BASEL! Man I'd just love if they play against barca here in our stadium! what a dream that would be to watch them

are there more infos, like when the groups are made etc.?

wonder why noone has posted this yet:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Liverpool-mini-Champions-League-fixtures.html

Group One

Barcelona
Manchester City
Celtic
Marseille

FIXTURES - Aug 17: Marseille v Celtic.
Aug 31: Celtic v Barcelona.
Sept 14: Man City v Barcelona; Celtic v Marseille.
Sept 28: Barcelona v Marseille.
Oct 5: Marseille v Man City.
Oct 19: Man City v Celtic; Marseille v Barcelona. Nov 2: Barcelona v Man City.
Nov 9: Celtic v Man City.
Nov 23: Man City v Marseille; Barcelona v Celtic.

Group Two

Liverpool
Sporting Lisbon
Molde
Wolfsburg

FIXTURES - Aug 17: Liverpool v Sporting.
Aug 18: Molde v Wolfsburg.
Aug 31: Sporting v Wolfsburg; Molde v Liverpool. Sept 14: Liverpool v Wolfsburg.
Sept 21: Sporting v Molde.
Sept 29: Liverpool v Molde.
Oct 5: Wolfsburg v Liverpool; Molde v Sporting. Oct 19: Wolfsburg v Sporting.
Nov 2: Wolfsburg v Molde.
Nov 23: Sporting v Liverpool.

Group Three

FC Basle
Tottenham
PSV Eindhoven
Inter Milan

FIXTURES Aug 17: Basle v Tottenham.
Aug 31: Basle v PSV; Tottenham v Inter Milan. Sept 14: Inter Milan v PSV.
Sept 28: Inter Milan v Basle; PSV v Tottenham. Oct 19: Basle v Inter Milan; Tottenham v PSV. Nov 2: Inter Milan v Tottenham; PSV v Basle. Nov 23: Tottenham v Basle; PSV v Inter Milan.

Group Four

Ajax
Rosenborg
Aston Villa ~
Fenerbahce

FIXTURES Aug 24: Ajax v Rosenborg; A Villa v Fenerbahce.
Sept 7: Rosenborg v A Villa; Ajax v Fenerbahce. Sept 21: A Villa v Ajax; Fenerbahce v Rosenborg.
Oct 5: Rosenborg v Ajax; Fenerbahce v A Villa. Oct 12: Rosenborg v Fenerbahce.
Nov 2: Fenerbahce v Ajax; A Villa v Rosenborg. Nov 23: Ajax v A Villa.

wow what a great group barca has!

Really looking forward to this. Barca, Ajax and Liverpool are stand outs.

absolutely wanna watch this! the club of my hometown plays against tottenham next month, I'm gonna watch it infact I'm gonna watch all three homegames (inter and psv)

hope we'll kick Gai's ass, so he will always remember how awesome club he left.

btw any squad?