We use the friendly fixture schedule to arrange matches. Home team managers must send friendly requests for all their home games. Away team managers must accept all friendly requests. If you sent a request and it hasn’t been accepted or you are expecting a request but you haven’t received it, the quickest way to resolve the matter is to message the other manager.
Managers who fail to arrange their games, or who fail to field eligible players (i.e., aged 21 or younger on 10 June 2025) will forfeit their match 3-0. Managers who forfeit will not be included in the end of season prize draw, and may be excluded from the knockout stages.
Group Stage
- 7 pots of 8 teams each
- 7 groups of 8 teams (one from each pot)
- 7 matches per team in group stage
- Group games start on 2 August every Saturday using the friendly fixture schedule
Qualification to Knockout Stage
- Top 4 from each group (28 teams)
- 4 best 5th place teams (4 teams)
- Total: 32 teams advance to knockout stage
- ** Knockout games will be played every Saturday and Wednesday from 21 September**
Youth Shield
- 3 worst 5th placed teams, all 7 6th placed teams and 6 best 7th placed teams enter Youth Shield
- worst 7th placed team and all last placed teams eliminated
- 16 teams in Youth Shield competition will be joined by 16 losers from the 1st Round of the Youth Cup knockout round
Tournament Seeding - 56 Teams
📊 Pot Strength Analysis
- Pot 1: 81-84 average
- Pot 2: 80-81 average
- Pot 3: 78-80 average
- Pot 4: 77-78 average
- Pot 5: 76-77 average
- Pot 6: 74-76 average
- Pot 7: 70-74 average
🏅 POT 1 (Teams 1-8)
| Rank |
Team |
Average |
| 1 |
Barcelona |
83.82 |
| 2 |
Porto |
83.36 |
| 3 |
Chelsea |
83.27 |
| 4 |
Nice |
83.18 |
| 5 |
Real Madrid |
82.82 |
| 6 |
PSG |
82.64 |
| 7 |
Union Berlin |
82.09 |
| 8 |
Monaco |
81.45 |
🏅 POT 2 (Teams 9-16)
| Rank |
Team |
Average |
| 9 |
Juventus |
81.36 |
| 10 |
Real Sociedad |
81.36 |
| 11 |
Strasbourg |
81.36 |
| 12 |
Union Saint-Gilloise |
81.27 |
| 13 |
Manchester City |
81.27 |
| 14 |
Freiburg |
81.09 |
| 15 |
Newcastle |
80.36 |
| 16 |
RB Leipzig |
80.27 |
🏅 POT 3 (Teams 17-24)
| Rank |
Team |
Average |
| 17 |
Bournemouth |
79.82 |
| 18 |
Lens |
79.73 |
| 19 |
FC København |
79.73 |
| 20 |
Ajax |
79.45 |
| 21 |
Getafe |
79.09 |
| 22 |
Valencia |
78.73 |
| 23 |
Real Betis |
78.64 |
| 24 |
Al Nassr |
78.45 |
🏅 POT 4 (Teams 25-32)
| Rank |
Team |
Average |
| 25 |
Atletico Madrid |
78.36 |
| 26 |
Osasuna |
78.27 |
| 27 |
Slavia Praha |
77.91 |
| 28 |
Mamelodi Sundowns |
77.73 |
| 29 |
Tottenham |
77.55 |
| 30 |
Crystal Palace |
77.36 |
| 31 |
Villarreal |
77.27 |
| 32 |
Fiorentina |
77.18 |
🏅 POT 5 (Teams 33-40)
| Rank |
Team |
Average |
| 33 |
Palmeiras |
77.00 |
| 34 |
Bayern Munich |
76.82 |
| 35 |
Dortmund |
76.64 |
| 36 |
Fenerbahce |
76.55 |
| 37 |
Roma |
76.55 |
| 38 |
Lazio |
76.27 |
| 39 |
Lille |
76.09 |
| 40 |
Benfica |
76.09 |
🏅 POT 6 (Teams 41-48)
| Rank |
Team |
Average |
| 41 |
Everton |
75.91 |
| 42 |
Anderlecht |
75.55 |
| 43 |
Milan |
75.09 |
| 44 |
Bologna |
74.91 |
| 45 |
Atalanta |
74.64 |
| 46 |
Racing Club |
74.55 |
| 47 |
Arsenal |
74.09 |
| 48 |
Derby County |
74.09 |
🏅 POT 7 (Teams 49-56)
| Rank |
Team |
Average |
| 49 |
Inter |
73.91 |
| 50 |
West Ham |
73.91 |
| 51 |
Athletic Bilbao |
73.64 |
| 52 |
**Gala |
|
| tasaray** |
72.64 |
|
| 53 |
New England Revolution |
71.09 |
| 54 |
Mainz |
70.18 |
| 55 |
Burnley |
70.00 |
| 56 |
Rangers |
68.91 |
We use Challonge.com to shuffle the seeds and draw the teams into groups. You can see all fixtures for the Group Stage here.
