Liverpool youngsters learn European fate in UEFA Youth League draw

Liverpool U19s have learned their UEFA Youth League, league phase opponents as the Reds return to the competition for the 2024/25 campaign.

Barry Lewtas will guide his side throughout six fixtures for the league phase, unlike the eight fixtures Arne Slot will endure with the senior side in the Champions League.

The youth side will play the same opponents, as announced on the club's official website [31 August], with away fixtures against AC Milan, RB Leipzig and Girona, with home ties against Bologna, Bayer Leverkusen and Real Madrid.

Liverpool handed tricky UEFA Youth League fixtures

Since the inception of the UEFA Youth League in the 2013/14 season, Liverpool have never reached the final.

In contrast to the senior side, with six Champions League titles, the youth side were eliminated in the quarter-finals during the 2022/23 season at the hands of Sporting CP.

Chelsea are the only English club to taste success in the competition, winning the trophy in consecutive years in 2015 and 2016 before suffering consecutive final defeats in 2018 and 2019.

After a season away from the competition, Lewtas will be determined for his side to make their mark in this season's edition having already proven capable of reaching the latter rounds.

The youth side will be helped in their efforts by Trey Nyoni, the 17-year-old has been training with the first team under Slot and will be vital to the side's success in Europe this season.

With a host of promising young talents at his disposal, Lewtas can attack the UEFA Youth League this term and try and achieve what no manager before him has managed in reaching the final or perhaps going on to win the whole competition.

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