Tourney Name: | Premier League International Cup |
Year: | 2014–15 |
Dates: | 15 October 2014 – 8 May 2015 |
Num Teams: | 16 |
Associations: | 6 |
Champion Other: | Manchester City |
Count: | 1 |
Second Other: | Porto |
Matches: | 31 |
Goals: | 96 |
Top Scorer: | Harry Panayiotou Leandro Silva (6 goals) |
Nextseason: | 2015–16 |
The 2014–15 Premier League International Cup was the inaugural season of the Premier League International Cup, a European club football competition organised by the Premier League for under-21 players.[1]
For English sides qualification was via performance in the 2013–14 Barclays Under 21 Premier League with the top eight sides qualifying for the competition. Liverpool U21s and Manchester United U21s did not take up the opportunity to enter the competition and they were replaced with West Ham U21s and Norwich City U21s who finished 9th and 10th respectively.[2] Entry of European teams was by invitation and was influenced by the quality of each club's academy.[1]
Group-stage matches were played between 15 October 2014 and 31 January 2015. The teams were drawn into four groups of four with two English sides and two European sides in each group.
[3] Host team listed first
Bold winner
Rank | Player | Club | Goals | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Harry Panayiotou | Leicester City | 6 | |
Leandro Silva | Porto | |||
3 | Jorge García | Athletic Bilbao | 5 | |
4 | Olivier Ntcham | Manchester City | 3 | |
Ange-Freddy Plumain | Fulham | |||
6 | Brandon Barker | Manchester City | 2 | |
Benjamin Berg | Borussia Mönchengladbach | |||
Kieran Bywater | West Ham United | |||
Leigh Griffiths | Celtic | |||
Tom Hopper | Leicester City | |||
Kelechi Iheanacho | Manchester City | |||
Paul McCallum | West Ham United | |||
José Ángel Pozo | Manchester City | |||
Dominic Solanke | Chelsea | |||
15 | 55 players | N/A | 1 |
Rank | Player | Club | Against | Own Goals |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Adel Gafaiti | Norwich City | Chelsea | 1 |
Victor Lindelöf | Benfica | Leicester City | ||
Josh Pask | West Ham United | Athletic Bilbao | ||
Ali Suljić | Chelsea | Fulham |
Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Leonardo Fasan | Celtic | 2 |
Angus Gunn | Manchester City | ||
3 | Jesse Bertrams | PSV Eindhoven | 1 |
Miguel Santos | Benfica | ||
Adam Smith | Leicester City | ||
Ben Hamer | Leicester City | ||
Russell Griffiths | Everton | ||
Declan Rudd | Norwich City | ||
Mitchell Beeney | Chelsea | ||
Vito Mannone | Sunderland | ||
Miguel Bañuz | Villarreal | ||
Ricardo Nunes | Porto |