2014–15 UEFA Youth League

2014–15 UEFA Youth League

The Colovray Stadium in Nyon hosted the semi-finals and final.
Tournament details
Dates	16 September 2014 – 13 April 2015
Teams	32 (from 18 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Chelsea (1st title)
Runners-up	Shakhtar Donetsk
Tournament statistics
Matches played	111
Goals scored	397 (3.58 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Dominic Solanke (12 goals)
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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]

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]

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

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

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]

Madrid

Barcelona

Athletic

London

Liverpool

Man. City

Bayern

Leverkusen

Dortmund

Schalke

Juventus

Roma

Lisbon

Porto

Monaco

PSG

Shakhtar

CSKA

Zenit

Ajax

Galatasaray

Anderlecht

Olympiacos

Basel

APOEL

BATE

Malmö

Ludogorets

Maribor

Madrid teams Atlético Madrid
Real Madrid

London teams Arsenal
Chelsea

Lisbon teams Benfica
Sporting

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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.

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

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).

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

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

Home team	Score	Away team
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

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

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

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

Home team	Score	Away team
Anderlecht	1–3	Shakhtar Donetsk
Roma	0–4	Chelsea

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

13 April 2015

16:00

Shakhtar Donetsk	2–3	Chelsea
Christensen 37' (o.g.) Kovalenko 90+2'	Report	Brown 7', 55' Solanke 47'

Colovray Stadium, Nyon

Attendance: 4,000^[11]

Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

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]

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]

• 2014–15 UEFA Youth League
• Final tournament: Nyon 2015
• Final tournament official programme