I've not been following this. What is this for re UCD - the Youth Champions League ?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
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I've not been following this. What is this for re UCD - the Youth Champions League ?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
We're in the Youth Champions League as LoI U-19 champions.
Full details here (mostly - we're aware there's an error somewhere)
Draw is on Tuesday - there's no pools as yet of course, but Cork's pool was regionalised, so a possible pool would be Ajax, Hammarby, Molde, KaPa, Breidablik, UCD, Dudelange and Esbjerg. Inter and Bordeaux are possibles too, though then one of the 8 others would have to drop out.
But we'll know more on Tuesday. First round in late Sept/early Oct.
Jaysus - that's exciting stuff ! Well done UCD :)Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Great stuff and a real incentive for the u19 league winners
Pity it's not more certain that they can quality for Europe, but I suppose we're lucky to have the chance at all. A guaranteed European spot, even if an earlier round was created to ensure that, would be a great carrot for players playing in the u19 league to know for sure it was there.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
It'll be easier for this year's winners to qualify thanks to Dundalk.
The first 32 countries in the UEFA rankings have their champions qualify automatically. Liechtenstein are one of those, and they don't have a league, so that means 33 gets in by default. After that, you're relying on a club to both qualify for the CL groups and win their underage league (or the UEFA Youth League). As Ireland were 41st in the rankings, we needed 8 clubs to do that before we qualified (we got 10, plus this discrepancy of 1)
But Dundalk's run last year saw the league move up to 38th, so this year's winners will need 3 fewer "doubles". Cobh are going quite well, which would be interesting seeing as they're one of the only LoI teams never to have been in Europe before.
What's the money like for an u19 European league.
Away match expenses only, I think?
Maribor of Slovenia was the error on the wiki page; they won the U-17 league, but wiki had the U-19 winners, who did qualify last year.
I think even the away match expenses are capped at some level. So hope that you don't draw Astana...
Pools are regionalised - so I think it'll be either a Nordic or a Benelux country. Maybe France or Italy instead, but no farther.
Even in round 2 (usual proviso on "if we somehow get there", etc, etc), it's fairly regionalised, though the two western pools get merged and the two eastern groups get merged so there's a bit of a wider spread.
Cork got HJK of Finland and then Roma, which would be ok travel-wise.
I see Rosenborg beat Ajax home and away to reach the Europa League group stages. Puts Dundalk's result in a bit of perspective
And Ajax were in the final last year, mad really. Could've been a whole different story had kilduff got his shot a few inches lower in extra timeQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Draw is today at 1pm, streamed on UEFA.com. No pools as yet - and UEFA only says the teams "may" be split into pools - but there was regional splits the last two years, when the non-CL teams were invited.
If it's the Nordics and the Benelux countries in our pool, then Ajax are surely the plum draw, though you could see it being close to double figures (they got to the quarters the last two years)
I have literally no idea what to expect here (imagine Cork were the same last year, and they won a round). I presume it's this year's team that enters, not last year's team, but we're going well in the league this year again anyway.
Pool as expected but with Legia Warsaw in instead of Dudelange
Stream here now
UCD in pot 2
Molde of Norway; home first
And winners to play Zimbru/Vllaznia in the second round. So there's a ready made excuse for losing to Molde anyway. :)
€8K fine for Shams for "people standing in the stairwell during the home Europa League tie with Mlada Boleslav" :eek::eek:
https://www.buzz.ie/football/shamroc...es-year-252168
A lot of clubs get fined for that, not that it should be too difficult to police.
I was shocked at the size of the fine more than anything tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I suppose i shouldn't be after the fine we got for the Palestine flags v Split but its getting ridiculous now.
Maybe the observer was looking over at half-time when Shams fans were looking to use the bogs at half-time or looking to leave the ground at full-time and just looking at the dying minutes of the match from the stairwell?Benefit of the doubt and common sense should be applied.
The observers reports would be an interesting read.