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2014–15 UEFA Youth League

The 2014–15 UEFA Youth League was the second season of the UEFA Youth League, a European youth club football competition organised by UEFA. It was contested by the under-19 youth teams of the 32 clubs qualified for the group stage of the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League.[1]

2014–15 UEFA Youth League
The Colovray Stadium in Nyon hosted the semi-finals and final.
Tournament details
Dates16 September 2014 – 13 April 2015
Teams32 (from 18 associations)
Final positions
ChampionsEngland Chelsea (1st title)
Runners-upUkraine Shakhtar Donetsk
Tournament statistics
Matches played111
Goals scored397 (3.58 per match)
Top scorer(s)England Dominic Solanke (12 goals)

The final was played on 13 April 2015 at the Colovray Stadium in Nyon, Switzerland, between Shakhtar Donetsk and Chelsea. Chelsea won 3–2 and secured their first title in the competition. Barcelona were the title holders, but were eliminated by Anderlecht in the round of 16.

Players must be born on or after 1 January 1996.[1]

Teams

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The youth teams of the 32 clubs which participated in the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League group stage entered the competition.

Association Teams
  Spain Real Madrid
Atlético Madrid
Barcelona
Athletic Bilbao
  England Manchester City
Liverpool
Chelsea
Arsenal
  Germany Bayern Munich
Borussia Dortmund
Schalke 04
Bayer Leverkusen
  Italy Juventus
Roma
  Portugal Benfica
Sporting CP
Porto
  France Paris Saint-Germain
Monaco
  Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk
  Russia CSKA Moscow
Zenit Saint Petersburg
  Netherlands Ajax
  Turkey Galatasaray
  Belgium Anderlecht
  Greece Olympiacos
  Switzerland Basel
  Cyprus APOEL
  Belarus BATE Borisov
  Sweden Malmö FF
  Bulgaria Ludogorets Razgrad
  Slovenia Maribor

Round and draw dates

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The schedule of the competition was as follows.[2][3]

Phase Round Draw date Match date(s)
Group stage Matchday 1 28 August 2014
(Monaco) 		16–18 September 2014
Matchday 2 30 September–2 October 2014
Matchday 3 21–23 October 2014
Matchday 4 4–6 November 2014
Matchday 5 25–27 November 2014
Matchday 6 9–11 December 2014
Knockout phase Round of 16 15 December 2014
(Nyon) 		17–18 & 24–25 February 2015
Quarter-finals 10–11 & 17–18 March 2015
Semi-finals 10 April 2015 at Colovray Stadium, Nyon
Final 13 April 2015 at Colovray Stadium, Nyon

Note: Round of 16 and quarter-final matches may be played outside of the scheduled dates.

On 23 September 2014, UEFA announced a change to the schedule of the semi-finals and finals, which were originally due to take place on 24 and 27 April respectively.[4]

Group stage

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Main article: 2014–15 UEFA Youth League group stage
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Location of teams of the 2014–15 UEFA Youth League.
  Brown: Group A;   Red: Group B;   Orange: Group C;   Yellow: Group D;   Green: Group E;   Blue: Group F;   Purple: Group G;   Pink: Group H.

The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four, with the group compositions being the same as in the draw for the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League group stage, which was held on 28 August 2014, 17:45 CEST, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.[2][5][6]

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays were 16–18 September, 30 September–2 October, 21–23 October, 4–6 November, 25–27 November, and 9–11 December 2014, with the matches played on the same matchday as the corresponding Champions League matches, but not necessarily on the same day. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16.

Group A

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Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification ATM OLY JUV MAL
1   Atlético Madrid 6 5 0 1 11 5 +6 15 Advance to knockout phase — 0–2 1–0 3–1
2   Olympiacos 6 4 1 1 12 4 +8 13 1–2 — 1–1 2–0
3   Juventus 6 1 2 3 5 10 −5 5 0–3 0–3 — 2–0
4   Malmö FF 6 0 1 5 5 14 −9 1 1–2 1–3 2–2 —
Source: UEFA

Group B

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Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification RMA LIV BSL LUD
1   Real Madrid 6 4 0 2 19 7 +12 12 Advance to knockout phase — 4–1 2–0 6–0
2   Liverpool 6 4 0 2 16 9 +7 12 3–2 — 3–0 4–0
3   Basel 6 4 0 2 17 9 +8 12 3–2 3–2 — 6–0
4   Ludogorets Razgrad 6 0 0 6 0 27 −27 0 0–3 0–3 0–5 —
Source: UEFA

Group C

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Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BEN ZEN LEV MON
1   Benfica 6 4 1 1 12 8 +4 13 Advance to knockout phase — 0–0 4–1 3–0
2   Zenit Saint Petersburg 6 3 1 2 12 9 +3 10 5–1 — 0–3 0–3
3   Bayer Leverkusen 6 2 0 4 12 14 −2 6 2–3 1–4 — 4–0
4   Monaco 6 2 0 4 7 12 −5 6 0–1 1–3 3–1 —
Source: UEFA

Group D

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Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification AND ARS GAL DOR
1   Anderlecht 6 4 1 1 15 8 +7 13 Advance to knockout phase — 4–3 3–0[a] 5–0
2   Arsenal 6 4 0 2 15 8 +7 12 1–2 — 5–1 1–0
3   Galatasaray 6 2 0 4 10 18 −8 6 3–0 1–3 — 3–2
4   Borussia Dortmund 6 1 1 4 8 14 −6 4 1–1 0–2 5–2 —
Source: UEFA
Notes:
  1. ^ The match was awarded as a 3–0 win for Anderlecht after the match was abandoned in the 90+5th minute (with Anderlecht leading 2–0) due to crowd disturbances by Galatasaray supporters.[7]

Group E

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Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification MCI ROM BAY CSKA
1   Manchester City 6 6 0 0 22 4 +18 18 Advance to knockout phase — 2–1 6–0 4–2
2   Roma 6 3 0 3 9 10 −1 9 0–4 — 1–0 3–1
3   Bayern Munich 6 2 0 4 8 18 −10 6 1–4 3–2 — 3–2
4   CSKA Moscow 6 1 0 5 8 15 −7 3 0–2 0–2 3–1 —
Source: UEFA

Group F

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Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification AJX BAR PAR APO
1   Ajax 6 4 2 0 19 7 +12 14 Advance to knockout phase — 1–0 6–1 4–1
2   Barcelona 6 2 3 1 10 7 +3 9 2–2 — 0–0 3–0
3   Paris Saint-Germain 6 2 2 2 15 14 +1 8 3–6 2–2 — 6–0
4   APOEL 6 0 1 5 3 19 −16 1 0–0 2–3 0–3 —
Source: UEFA

Group G

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Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification CHE SCH SPO MRB
1   Chelsea 6 5 0 1 24 3 +21 15 Advance to knockout phase — 4–1 6–0 2–0
2   Schalke 04 6 5 0 1 19 7 +12 15 2–0 — 3–0 5–0
3   Sporting CP 6 2 0 4 8 20 −12 6 0–5 2–3 — 3–2
4   Maribor 6 0 0 6 4 25 −21 0 0–7 1–5 1–3 —
Source: UEFA

Group H

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Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification SHK POR ATH BATE
1   Shakhtar Donetsk 6 4 2 0 15 3 +12 14 Advance to knockout phase — 1–1 6–0 1–0
2   Porto 6 2 3 1 7 5 +2 9 1–1 — 2–0 2–0
3   Athletic Bilbao 6 3 0 3 9 12 −3 9 0–2 3–1 — 4–0
4   BATE Borisov 6 0 1 5 2 13 −11 1 1–4 0–0 1–2 —
Source: UEFA

Knockout phase

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Main article: 2014–15 UEFA Youth League knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over one match. If scores were level after full-time, the match was decided by penalty shoot-out (no extra time was played).[1] The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

  • In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the match. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other.
  • In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other. The draw also decided the home team for each quarter-final, and the "home" team for administrative purposes for each semi-final and final (which were played on neutral ground).

Bracket

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The draw for the knockout phase was held on 15 December 2014, 14:00 CET, at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[2][8][9] On 17 July 2014, the UEFA emergency panel ruled that Ukrainian and Russian clubs would not be drawn against each other "until further notice" due to the political unrest between the countries.[10] Therefore, Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk and Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg could not be drawn against each other in the round of 16. The winners of the ties involving these two clubs could also not be drawn against each other in the quarter-finals.

Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
        
  Anderlecht 1
  Barcelona 0
  Anderlecht 5
  Porto 0
  Real Madrid 1(1)
  Porto (p) 1(3)
  Anderlecht 1
  Shakhtar Donetsk 3
  Benfica 2
  Liverpool 1
  Benfica 1(4)
  Shakhtar Donetsk (p) 1(5)
  Shakhtar Donetsk (p) 1(5)
  Olympiacos 1(4)
  Shakhtar Donetsk 2
  Chelsea 3
  Ajax 0(5)
  Roma (p) 0(6)
  Roma 2
  Manchester City 1
  Manchester City (p) 1(3)
  Schalke 04 1(1)
  Roma 0
  Chelsea 4
  Chelsea 3
  Zenit Saint Petersburg 1
  Chelsea 2
  Atlético Madrid 0
  Atlético Madrid 1
  Arsenal 0

Round of 16

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The round of 16 matches were played on 27 January, 17, 23, 24 and 25 February 2015.

HomeScoreAway
Atlético Madrid  1–0  Arsenal
Real Madrid  1–1 (1–3 p)  Porto
Shakhtar Donetsk  1–1 (5–4 p)  Olympiacos
Anderlecht  1–0  Barcelona
Benfica  2–1  Liverpool
Manchester City  1–1 (3–1 p)  Schalke 04
Ajax  0–0 (5–6 p)  Roma
Chelsea  3–1  Zenit Saint Petersburg

Quarter-finals

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The quarter-finals were played on 10, 17 and 18 March 2015.

HomeScoreAway
Chelsea  2–0  Atlético Madrid
Benfica  1–1 (4–5 p)  Shakhtar Donetsk
Roma  2–1  Manchester City
Anderlecht  5–0  Porto

Semi-finals

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The semi-finals were played on 10 April 2015 at the Colovray Stadium in Nyon, Switzerland.

HomeScoreAway
Anderlecht  1–3  Shakhtar Donetsk
Roma  0–4  Chelsea

Final

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The final was played on 13 April 2015 at the Colovray Stadium in Nyon, Switzerland.

Shakhtar Donetsk  2–3  Chelsea
Christensen   37' (o.g.)
Kovalenko   90+2'		 Report Brown   7', 55'
Solanke   47'
Attendance: 4,000[11]

Statistics

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Top goalscorers

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Rank Player Team Goals Minutes played
1   Dominic Solanke   Chelsea 12 765
2   Aaron Leya Iseka   Anderlecht 9 650
3   Borja Mayoral   Real Madrid 7 552
4   Zakaria El Azzouzi   Ajax 6 188
  Jerome Sinclair   Liverpool 6 604
  Jack Byrne   Manchester City 6 653
7   Nikos Vergos   Olympiacos 5 408
  Leonardo Acevedo   Porto 5 418
  Marc Brašnić   Bayer Leverkusen 5 450
  Daniel Crowley   Arsenal 5 630
  Charlie Colkett   Chelsea 5 889

Source: UEFA.com[12]

Top assists

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Rank Player Team Assists Minutes played
1   Andy Kawaya   Anderlecht 6 520
2   Arxhend Cani   Basel 5 502
  Yakou Meïté   Paris Saint-Germain 5 540
  João Carvalho   Benfica 5 654
  Izzy Brown   Chelsea 5 744
  Andreas Christensen   Chelsea 5 900
7   Renato Sanches   Benfica 4 438
  Thierry Ambrose   Manchester City 4 703
  Dominic Solanke   Chelsea 4 765
  Denys Arendaruk   Shakhtar Donetsk 4 815
  Charlie Colkett   Chelsea 4 889
  Oleksandr Zubkov   Shakhtar Donetsk 4 897

Source: UEFA.com[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Regulations of the UEFA Youth League 2014/15" (PDF). UEFA.com. 1 May 2014.
  2. ^ a b c "2014–15 UEFA Youth League – Draws". UEFA.com.
  3. ^ "Competition format". UEFA.com.
  4. ^ "New dates for Youth League conclusion in Nyon". UEFA.com. 23 September 2014.
  5. ^ "UEFA Champions League group stage draw pots". UEFA.com. 28 August 2014.
  6. ^ "Contenders learn group stage opponents". UEFA.com. 28 August 2014.
  7. ^ "Disciplinary updates". UEFA.org. 8 November 2014.
  8. ^ "Media accreditation for club knockout draws". UEFA.com. 8 December 2014.
  9. ^ "UEFA Youth League knockout stage draw". UEFA.com. 15 December 2014.
  10. ^ "Emergency Panel decisions". UEFA.org. 17 July 2014.
  11. ^ "Shakhtar Donetsk vs Chelsea". UEFA.
  12. ^ "Statistics — Tournament phase — Player statistics — Goals". UEFA.com. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  13. ^ "Statistics — Tournament phase — Player statistics — Assists". UEFA.com. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
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