The Champions Youth Cup

The Champions Youth Cup will be an annual event and a “World Championship” for the youth teams of the world’s greatest clubs.

The Champions Youth Cup will be contested at Under 19 age group and aims to:

• Offer football as a fresh and unique spectacle.
• Offer the next generation of stars an opportunity to compete against each other.
• Demonstrate their commitment to youth and to the development of the stars of tomorrow.
• Support the communities that have supported them and assist the development of football in Asia.

The Champions Youth Cup will feature 16 teams composed of 12 European teams, 2 teams from South America, the hosts, Malaysia and a host invitee team from Asia.

The tournament will take place in a league/knock-out cup format with a total of 34 matches over 10 match days. The 2007 event will take place between the 8th and 19th August.

Tournament Format

• The initial group stages will consist of four groups of four teams each playing three matches within the group.
• Each match will be played over a period of 70 minutes and there will be no extra time throughout the tournament.
• In the group stages points shall be scored as: Win = 3 points, Draw = 1 point, Defeat = 0 points.
• The two teams finishing first and second in each group will proceed to an eight team knock-out stage, culminating in a final, (plus two ranking matches for those four teams knocked-out at the quarter-final stage).
• The tournament will be supported with a cultural and social programme with teams participating in community events to support football development in Malaysia

For more information, kindly visit CYC's official website http://www.thechampionsyouthcup.com