2013–14 UEFA Youth League

2013–14 UEFA Youth League
	The Colovray Stadium in Nyon hosted the semi-finals and final.
Tournament details
Dates	17 September 2013 – 14 April 2014
Teams	32 (from 18 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Barcelona (1st title)
Runners-up	Benfica
Tournament statistics
Matches played	110
Goals scored	378 (3.44 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Munir; (11 goals)

The 2013–14 UEFA Youth League was the first 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 2013–14 UEFA Champions League.[1][2][3]

The final was played on 14 April 2014 at the Colovray Stadium in Nyon, Switzerland, between Benfica and Barcelona. Barcelona won 3–0 and became the first team to lift the Lennart Johansson Trophy, named after UEFA's honorary president.[4]

Players had to be born on or after 1 January 1995.[3]

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows.[4]

Phase	Round	Draw date	Match date(s)
Group stage	Matchday 1	29 August 2013 (Monaco)	17–18 September 2013
	Matchday 2		1–2 October 2013
	Matchday 3		22–23 October 2013
	Matchday 4		5–6 November 2013
	Matchday 5		26–27 November 2013
	Matchday 6		10–11 December 2013
Knockout phase	Round of 16	16 December 2013 (Nyon)	18–19 & 25–26 February 2014
	Quarter-finals		11–12 & 18–19 March 2014
	Semi-finals		11 April 2014
	Final		14 April 2014

Group stage

Location of teams of the 2013–14 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 determined by the draw for the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League group stage, which was held in Monaco on 29 August 2013.[5] In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays were 17–18 September, 1–2 October, 22–23 October, 5–6 November, 26–27 November, and 10–11 December 2013, with the matches played on the same matchday as the corresponding Champions League matches (though not necessarily on the same day, and some matches were played on Mondays and Thursdays). The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16.

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:[3]

higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
If, after applying criteria 1 to 4 to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 4 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the two teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 6 to 9 apply;
superior goal difference from all group matches played;
higher number of goals scored from all group matches played;
lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received during the group stage (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
drawing of lots.

Times up to 26 October 2013 (matchdays 1–3) were CEST (UTC+2), thereafter (matchdays 4–6) times were CET (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Real Sociedad	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10	Advance to knockout phase
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9	Advance to knockout phase
3	Bayer Leverkusen	6	2	1	3	11	14	−3	7
4	Manchester United	6	2	1	3	9	10	−1	7

Source:

17 September 2013