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The 2015–16 UEFA Youth League is the third season of the UEFA Youth League, a European youth club football competition organised by UEFA. After a two-year trial period, the UEFA Youth League became a permanent UEFA competition starting from this season, with the tournament expanded from 32 to 64 teams.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UEFA Youth League retained and expanded )〕 Chelsea are the defending champions. ==Format changes== The UEFA Executive Committee held on 18 September 2014 approved the following changes to the UEFA Youth League starting from the 2015–16 season:〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Milan to host 2016 UEFA Champions League final )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UEFA Youth League retained and expanded )〕 *The tournament will be expanded from 32 to 64 teams. The 64 teams will include the youth teams of the 32 clubs which participate in the UEFA Champions League group stage, which have been included since the first edition, as well as the youth domestic champions of the top 32 associations according to their UEFA country coefficients, which will be included starting this edition. Associations without a youth domestic champion as well as domestic champions already included in the UEFA Champions League path will be replaced by the next association in the UEFA ranking. *The new format of the competition will see the two groups of teams compete in separate paths until the play-offs: * *In the UEFA Champions League path, the 32 Champions League youth teams will retain the group stage format and schedule which correspond to the Champions League group stage. The group winners will advance to the round of 16, and the group runners-up will advance to the play-offs. * *In the Domestic Champions path, the 32 youth domestic champions will play two rounds of two-legged ties, with the eight winners advancing to the play-offs. * *In the play-offs, the youth domestic champions will play a single match at home against the UEFA Champions League path group runners-up. * *In the round of 16, the UEFA Champions League path group winners will play a single match against the winners of the play-offs (home team determined by draw). * *In the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final, teams will play each other over a single match (quarter-finals home team determined by draw, semi-finals and final played at neutral venues). *The under-19 age limit will be retained, but clubs will be able to include a maximum of three under-20 players in their overall list of 40 players for the competition, in order to alleviate the burden on players having school duties. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015–16 UEFA Youth League」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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