2023–24 UEFA Youth League

2023–24 UEFA Youth League

The Colovray Stadium in Nyon hosted the semi-finals and final
Tournament details
Dates	19 September 2023 – 22 April 2024
Teams	64 (from 35 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Olympiacos (1st title)
Runners-up	Milan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	166
Goals scored	486 (2.93 per match)
Attendance	258,941 (1,560 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Amin Chiakha (Copenhagen) Rodrigo Mora (Porto) 7 goals each
← 2022–23 2024–25 →

The 2023–24 UEFA Youth League was the tenth season of the UEFA Youth League, a European youth club football competition organised by UEFA.

The title holders were AZ, who defeated Hajduk Split 5–0 in the previous edition's final, but they were eliminated in the round of 16. Olympiacos beat Milan 3–0 in the final held at the Colovray Stadium in Nyon, Switzerland, to secure their first title in the competition and become the first Greek team to ever win a UEFA club competition (the club's senior team won the 2024 UEFA Europa Conference League final five weeks later).

Teams

A total of 64 teams from 35 of the 55 UEFA member associations entered the tournament. They were split into two sections, each with 32 teams.

• UEFA Champions League Path: The youth teams of the 32 clubs which qualified for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage entered the UEFA Champions League Path. If there was a vacancy (youth teams not entering), it was filled by a team defined by UEFA.
• Domestic Champions Path: The youth domestic champions of the top 32 associations according to their 2023 UEFA country coefficients entered the Domestic Champions Path. If there was a vacancy (associations with no youth domestic competition, as well as youth domestic champions already included in the UEFA Champions League path), it was first filled by the title holders should they have not yet qualified, and then by the youth domestic champions of the next association in the UEFA ranking.

Antwerp, Braga, Dinamo Minsk, Famalicão, İstanbul Başakşehir, Klaipėdos, Lazio, Lecce, Lens, Mainz, Newcastle, Pafos, Partizan, Sarajevo, Union Berlin, and Universitatea Craiova made their tournament debuts.^[1]

Qualified teams for 2023–24 UEFA Youth League^[1]

Rank	Association	Teams
		UEFA Champions League Path	Domestic Champions Path
1	England	Manchester City[YC] (2022–23 U18 Premier League)[2] Arsenal Manchester United Newcastle United
2	Spain	Barcelona Real Madrid[YC] (2022–23 División de Honor Juvenil U-19) Atlético Madrid Real Sociedad Sevilla
3	Italy	Napoli Lazio Inter Milan Milan	Lecce (2022–23 Campionato Primavera 1)
4	Germany	Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund RB Leipzig Union Berlin	Mainz 05 (2022–23 A-Junioren-Bundesliga)
5	France	Paris Saint-Germain Lens	Nantes (2022–23 Championnat National U19)
6	Portugal	Benfica Porto Braga[PO]	Famalicão (2022–23 Campeonato Nacional Juniores S19)
7	Netherlands	Feyenoord PSV Eindhoven[YC][PO] (2022–23 Eredivisie U19)	AZ[TH][V-RUS]
8	Austria	Red Bull Salzburg[YC] (2022–23 Jugendliga U18)[3]
9	Scotland	Celtic	Hamilton Academical (2022–23 Scottish U18 League)
11	Serbia	Red Star Belgrade	Partizan (2022–23 Serbian U19 League)
12	Ukraine	Shakhtar Donetsk	Rukh Lviv (2022–23 Ukrainian Premier League Under-19)
13	Belgium	Antwerp[PO]	Gent (2022–23 Belgian U18 League)
14	Switzerland	Young Boys[PO]	Basel (2022–23 Swiss U18 League)
15	Greece		Olympiacos (2022–23 Superleague K19)
16	Czech Republic		Sparta Prague (2022–23 Czech U19 League)
17	Norway		Molde (2022 Norwegian U19 Cup)
18	Denmark	Copenhagen[PO]	Midtjylland (2022–23 U19 Ligaen)
19	Croatia		Dinamo Zagreb (2022–23 1. HNL Juniori U19)
20	Turkey	Galatasaray[PO]	İstanbul Başakşehir (2022–23 U19 Elit)
21	Cyprus		Pafos (2022–23 Cypriot U19 League)
22	Israel		Maccabi Haifa (2022–23 Israeli U19 Noar Premier League)
23	Sweden		Malmö FF (2022 P17 Allsvenskan)
24	Bulgaria		Ludogorets Razgrad (2022–23 U18 BFU Cup)
25	Romania		Universitatea Craiova (2022–23 Liga de Tineret)
26	Azerbaijan		Gabala (2022–23 Azerbaijani U19 League)
27	Hungary		Puskás Akadémia (2022–23 Hungarian U19 League)
28	Poland		Lech Poznań (2022–23 Polish U18 Central Junior League)
29	Kazakhstan		Turan (2022 Kazakhstani U17 League)
30	Slovakia		Žilina (2022–23 Slovak U19 League)
31	Slovenia		Maribor (2022–23 Slovenian U19 League)
32	Belarus		Dinamo Minsk (2022 Belarusian U18 League)
33	Moldova		Sheriff Tiraspol[V-YC] (2022–23 Divizia Națională U19)
34	Lithuania		Klaipėdos[V-YC] (2022 Lithuanian Elite Youth League U19 Division)
35	Bosnia and Herzegovina		Sarajevo[V-YC] (2022–23 Bosnia and Herzegovina U19 Junior League)
36	Finland		HJK[V-PO] (2022 U17 B-Junior League)

Associations without any participating teams
(no teams qualified for UEFA Champions League group stage, and either with no youth domestic competition or not ranked high enough for a vacancy)

Rank Association 10  Russia[Note RUS] 37  Luxembourg 38  Latvia 39  Kosovo 40  Republic of Ireland 41  Armenia 42  Northern Ireland

Rank Association 43  Albania 44  Faroe Islands 45  Estonia 46  Malta 47  Georgia 48  North Macedonia 49  Liechtenstein

Rank Association 50  Wales 51  Gibraltar 52  Iceland 53  Montenegro 54  Andorra 55  San Marino

Notes

1. ^TH Title holders.
2. ^YC Teams playing in the UEFA Champions League Path which were also youth domestic champions.
3. ^PO Teams playing in the UEFA Champions League Path after their senior team qualified for the Champions League group stage via play-offs.
4. ^V-RUS Team playing in the Domestic Champions Path through the vacancy of Russia (excluded from UEFA competitions).
5. ^V-YC Teams playing in the Domestic Champions Path through the vacancies of teams which qualified for the Champions League group stage automatically.
6. ^V-PO Teams playing in the Domestic Champions Path through the vacancies of teams which qualified for the Champions League group stage via play-offs.
7. Russia (RUS): On 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs and national teams were suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[4] The tables reflect Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.^[5]

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows.^[6]

• For the UEFA Champions League Path group stage, in principle the teams played their matches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays of the matchdays as scheduled for UEFA Champions League, and on the same day as the corresponding senior teams; however, matches could also be played on other dates, including Mondays and Thursdays.
• For the Domestic Champions Path first and second rounds, in principle matches were played on Wednesdays (first round on matchdays 2 and 3, second round on matchdays 4 and 5, as scheduled for UEFA Champions League); however, matches could also be played on other dates, including Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Schedule for 2023–24 UEFA Youth League

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
UEFA Champions League Path Group stage	Matchday 1	31 August 2023	19–20 September 2023
	Matchday 2		3–4 October 2023
	Matchday 3		24–25 October 2023
	Matchday 4		7–8 November 2023
	Matchday 5		28–29 November 2023
	Matchday 6		12–13 December 2023
Domestic Champions Path	First round	5 September 2023	4 October 2023	25 October 2023
	Second round		8 November 2023	29 November 2023
Knockout phase	Knockout round play-offs	19 December 2023	6–7 February 2024
	Round of 16	9 February 2024	27–28 February 2024
	Quarter-finals		12–13 March 2024
	Semi-finals		19 April 2024 at Colovray Stadium, Nyon
	Final		22 April 2024 at Colovray Stadium, Nyon

UEFA Champions League Path

Main article: 2023–24 UEFA Youth League group stage

For the UEFA Champions League Path, the 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. There was no separate draw held, with the group compositions identical to the draw for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage, which was held on 31 August 2023.^[7]

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners advanced to the round of 16, while the eight runners-up advanced to the play-offs, where they would be joined by the eight second round winners from the Domestic Champions Path.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CPH	BAY	GAL	MUN
1	Copenhagen	6	4	1	1	18	7	+11	13	Advance to round of 16		—	3–2	6–0	2–2
2	Bayern Munich	6	4	0	2	11	7	+4	12	Advance to play-offs		2–1	—	2–1	2–0
3	Galatasaray	6	2	0	4	5	17	−12	6			1–5	2–1	—	1–0
4	Manchester United	6	1	1	4	5	8	−3	4			0–1	0–2	3–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LEN	SEV	PSV	ARS
1	Lens	6	4	1	1	7	4	+3	13	Advance to round of 16		—	1–1	2–1	1–0
2	Sevilla	6	2	3	1	6	5	+1	9	Advance to play-offs		0–1	—	1–0	2–1
3	PSV Eindhoven	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	7			2–0	1–1	—	1–3
4	Arsenal	6	1	1	4	6	9	−3	4			0–2	1–1	1–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	BRA	NAP	UNB
1	Real Madrid	6	4	2	0	14	1	+13	14	Advance to round of 16		—	0–0	6–0	2–1
2	Braga	6	3	3	0	8	3	+5	12	Advance to play-offs		0–0	—	1–0	1–0
3	Napoli	6	1	1	4	4	17	−13	4			0–4	2–2	—	1–0
4	Union Berlin	6	1	0	5	6	11	−5	3			0–2	1–4	4–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SAL	INT	BEN	RSO
1	Red Bull Salzburg	6	4	2	0	16	8	+8	14	Advance to round of 16		—	1–1	4–2	5–2
2	Inter Milan	6	1	4	1	9	9	0	7	Advance to play-offs		2–3	—	1–1	1–0
3	Benfica	6	1	3	2	8	10	−2	6			1–1	1–1	—	2–1
4	Real Sociedad	6	1	1	4	8	14	−6	4			0–2	3–3	2–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FEY	ATM	LAZ	CEL
1	Feyenoord	6	4	1	1	13	7	+6	13	Advance to round of 16		—	0–1	2–2	3–0
2	Atlético Madrid	6	4	0	2	10	3	+7	12	Advance to play-offs		1–2	—	0–1	4–0
3	Lazio	6	1	2	3	5	10	−5	5			1–3	0–2	—	0–2
4	Celtic	6	1	1	4	5	13	−8	4			2–3	0–2	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIL	DOR	NEW	PAR
1	Milan	6	4	0	2	14	8	+6	12	Advance to round of 16		—	4–1	4–0	3–2
2	Borussia Dortmund	6	3	1	2	9	9	0	10	Advance to play-offs		1–2	—	2–2	2–0
3	Newcastle United	6	2	1	3	8	11	−3	7			3–1	1–2	—	0–1
4	Paris Saint-Germain	6	2	0	4	5	8	−3	6			1–0	0–1	1–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MCI	RBL	RSB	YB
1	Manchester City	6	4	2	0	17	6	+11	14	Advance to round of 16		—	2–1	5–2	3–0
2	RB Leipzig	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3	11	Advance to play-offs		1–1	—	2–1	0–0
3	Red Star Belgrade	6	1	1	4	8	13	−5	4[a]			2–2	0–1	—	2–1
4	Young Boys	6	1	1	4	4	13	−9	4[a]			0–4	1–3	2–1	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. Tied on head-to head record.

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		POR	BAR	SHK	ANT
1	Porto	6	5	0	1	17	5	+12	15[a]	Advance to round of 16		—	0–2	2–0	3–1
2	Barcelona	6	5	0	1	12	5	+7	15[a]	Advance to play-offs		0–4	—	2–0	2–1
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	2	0	4	6	13	−7	6			1–4	0–3	—	3–1
4	Antwerp	6	0	0	6	5	17	−12	0			1–4	0–3	1–2	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Porto 3, Barcelona 3. Head-to-head goal difference: Porto +2, Barcelona –2.

Domestic Champions Path

Main article: 2023–24 UEFA Youth League Domestic Champions Path

For the Domestic Champions Path, the 32 teams were drawn into two rounds of two-legged home-and-away ties. The draw for both the first round and second round was held on 5 September 2023.

The eight second round winners advanced to the play-offs, where they would join by the eight group runners-up from the UEFA Champions League Path (group stage).

First round

The first legs were played on 3 and 4 October and the second legs were played on 8, 24, and 25 October 2023.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lech Poznań	1–1 (2–4 p)	Nantes	1–1	0–0
Pafos	0–6	Žilina	0–1	0–5
Rukh Lviv	4–2	Sarajevo	1–1	3–1
Sparta Prague	w/o[a]	Maccabi Haifa	1–1	Canc.
AZ	14–0	Klaipėda	12–0	2–0
Malmö FF	3–5	HJK	1–4	2–1
Molde	5–4	Hamilton Academical	3–0	2–4
Famalicão	2–2 (6–7 p)	Midtjylland	2–2	0–0
Turan	0–6	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–1	0–5
Universitatea Craiova	0–5	Partizan	0–1	0–4
Olympiacos	6–2	Lecce	3–1	3–1
Dinamo Minsk	2–1	Ludogorets Razgrad	0–1	2–0
Maribor	1–3	Mainz 05	0–2	1–1
Gent	0–3	Basel	0–1	0–2
Dinamo Zagreb	5–2	İstanbul Başakşehir	2–1	3–1
Gabala	2–1	Puskás Akadémia	1–1	1–0

Notes

1. Due to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Maccabi Haifa withdrew from the competition.^[8]

Second round

The first legs were played on 7, 8, and 29 November and the second legs were played on 22, 28, 29 November, and 3 December 2023.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rukh Lviv	1–4	Midtjylland	0–4	1–0
Nantes	1–1 (4–3 p)	HJK	1–0	0–1
Molde	3–6	AZ	3–4	0–2
Sparta Prague	6–6 (2–4 p)	Žilina	2–2	4–4
Basel	2–0	Dinamo Zagreb	2–0	0–0
Gabala	0–7	Olympiacos	0–3	0–4
Mainz 05	3–2	Dinamo Minsk	1–1	2–1
Sheriff Tiraspol	4–5	Partizan	2–0	2–5

Knockout phase

Main article: 2023–24 UEFA Youth League knockout phase

Bracket

	Knockout round play-offs					Round of 16					Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
						Bayern Munich		3
	Basel		0			Feyenoord		2
											Bayern Munich		1
	Bayern Munich		2
											Olympiacos		3
						Olympiacos (p)		2 (4)
																19 April – Nyon
	Olympiacos (p)		0 (6)			Lens		2 (2)
																Olympiacos (p)		0 (3)
	Inter Milan		0 (5)
																Nantes		0 (1)
						Red Bull Salzburg		0
	Nantes (p)		3 (3)			Nantes		1
											Nantes (p)		3 (5)
	Sevilla		3 (2)
											Copenhagen		3 (4)
						Žilina		1 (2)
																					22 April – Nyon
	Žilina		2			Copenhagen (p)		1 (4)
																					Olympiacos		3
	Borussia Dortmund		1
																					Milan		0
						Mainz 05		2
	Mainz 05 (p)		2 (6)			Manchester City		1
											Mainz 05		1
	Barcelona		2 (5)
											Porto		4
						AZ		1 (3)
																19 April – Nyon
	AZ		1			Porto (p)		1 (4)
																Porto		2 (3)
	Atlético Madrid		0
																Milan (p)		2 (4)
						Milan (p)		2 (4)
	Partizan		0			Braga		2 (2)
											Milan (p)		1 (4)
	Braga		2
											Real Madrid		1 (3)
						Real Madrid		2
	Midtjylland		1 (2)			RB Leipzig		0
	RB Leipzig (p)		1 (4)

Knockout round play-offs

The eight second round winners from the Domestic Champions Path were drawn against the eight group runners-up from the UEFA Champions League Path, with the teams from the Domestic Champions Path hosting the match. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.

The draw was conducted on 19 December 2023 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon.^[9] The knockout round play-offs were played over one leg on 6 and 7 February 2024.^[10]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Basel	0–2	Bayern Munich
Partizan	0–2	Braga
Olympiacos	0–0 (6–5 p)	Inter Milan
Žilina	2–1	Borussia Dortmund
Nantes	3–3 (3–2 p)	Sevilla
Mainz 05	2–2 (6–5 p)	Barcelona
Midtjylland	1–1 (2–4 p)	RB Leipzig
AZ	1–0	Atlético Madrid

Round of 16

The draw was conducted on 9 February 2024 at 13:00 CET in the UEFA headquarters in Nyon. The round of 16 was played over one leg on 27 and 28 February 2024.^[11]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
AZ	1–1 (3–4 p)	Porto
Milan	2–2 (4–2 p)	Braga
Real Madrid	2–0	RB Leipzig
Žilina	1–1 (2–4 p)	Copenhagen
Red Bull Salzburg	0–1	Nantes
Olympiacos	2–2 (4–2 p)	Lens
Bayern Munich	3–2	Feyenoord
Mainz 05	2–1	Manchester City

Quarter-finals

The draw was conducted on 9 February 2024 at 13:00 CET in the UEFA headquarters in Nyon. The quarter-finals were played over one leg on 12 and 13 March 2024.^[12]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Mainz 05	1–4	FC Porto
Nantes	3–3 (5–4 p)	Copenhagen
Bayern Munich	1–3	Olympiacos
Milan	1–1 (4–3 p)	Real Madrid

Semi-finals

The draw was conducted on 9 February 2024 at 13:00 CET in the UEFA headquarters in Nyon. The semi-finals were played over one leg on 19 April 2024.^[13]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Olympiacos	0–0 (3–1 p)	Nantes
FC Porto	2–2 (3–4 p)	Milan

Final

The final was played on 22 April 2024 at Colovray Stadium, Nyon.^[14]

22 April 2024 (2024-04-22)

18:00

Olympiacos	3–0	Milan
Mouzakitis 60' (pen.) Papakanellos 61' Bakoulas 66'	Report

Colovray Stadium, Nyon

Attendance: 2,026

Referee: John Brooks (England)

Top goalscorers

Rank[15]	Player	Team	Goals	Matches played
1	Amin Chiakha	Copenhagen	7	8
	Rodrigo Mora	Porto		9
3	Christos Mouzakitis	Olympiacos	6	8
	Anhá Candé	Porto		9
5	Yoël van den Ban	AZ	5	6
	Yannick Eduardo	RB Leipzig		7
	Charalampos Kostoulas	Olympiacos		8
	Diego Sia	Milan		10
	Vladimír Vaľko	Žilina		5
10	Twelve players		4	—

See also

• Under-20 Intercontinental Cup

References

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External links

• Official website