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https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-crisis-hit-reading-pull-150108220.html

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Reading have pulled their under-21s out of a newly-created competition by the Premier League in another alarming development at the crisis-hit club.

The Premier League have devised the new competition in a bid to boost elite development, with 16 non-league clubs to be pitted against 16 Premier League 2 clubs with Category One academies.

Reading were initially selected to play in Group A with Brighton, Fulham, Southampton, Aldershot, Maidenhead, Wealdstone and Woking. They have since been replaced by Championship club Derby County.

 

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57 minutes ago, angieram said:

Not many Derby fans going to be boosting the attendance at those games! 

Might have been interesting to go to a few of the non league grounds up here. Oh, well, good for the southerners! 

Too right. Got my eyes on Reading, Southampton, Aldershot, Woking 🙂

Need to keep an eye on the dates for this.

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For those looking to go to the games:

Aldershot Town Vs Derby County Under-21s
Tuesday 15th October 2024
7pm kick-off

Maidenhead United Vs Derby County Under-21s
Tuesday 5th November 2024
7:30pm kick-off

Wealdstone Vs Derby County Under-21s
Tuesday 3rd December 2024
7:30pm kick-off

Woking Vs Derby County Under-21s
Tuesday 7th January 2025
7pm kick-off

https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2024/09/academy-news-under-21s-to-take-part-in-202425-national-league-cup

1 hour ago, therealhantsram said:

Too right. Got my eyes on Reading, Southampton, Aldershot, Woking 🙂

Need to keep an eye on the dates for this.

 

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From reading the press release on the Wealdstone website and matching to the Derby website, although we're in a group with Fulham, Brighton and Southampton - the U21's teams don't play each other, just playing the non league teams. Who in turn don't play each other, and only play the U21 teams. The top two teams from each group qualify then for the knockouts starting at round of 16.

The Wealdstone fixtures for example:

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Group A stage:

vs Southampton U21s: 1st October, 19:00 KO

vs Fulham U21s: 5th November, 19:00 KO

vs Derby County U21s: TBC

vs Brighton & Hove Albion U21s: 21st January, 19:00 KO

 

https://www.wealdstone-fc.com/post/introducing-the-national-league-cup

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