Ten teenagers set to shine in the 2025-26 Champions League

Desire Doue was one of the teenage stars last season as Paris helped St-Lgemain winning the Champions League for the first time.

Lamal Yamal was named from Barcelona, ​​another teenager, in the competition team.

But which young stars will impress this year’s championship?

The European Champions League has returned – with this week’s matches on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The BBC Sport took a look at 10 teenagers aimed at making their fingerprints this season.

age: 19. position: Midfielder. nationality: Black Mountain.

The Black Montecine midfielder, Vasilie Edzik, joined Juventus in a three -year deal in 2024 after Bodocosti Bodgorica helped win the league title in his home in his first season when he was only 16.

He played nine times with Juve in 2024-25, including one appearance in the Champions League, and played in the club’s World Cup loss against Manchester City on June 26.

ADZIC is already his country, he scored for the first time on June 9, in a 2-2 draw against Armenia.

age: 19. position: Midfielder. nationality: English.

Only like The older brother has verb, Job Bellingham moved from England to Borussia Dortmund, leaving Sunderland in the summer after helping to win the tournament.

Job Bellingham, who commissioned the German giants to 27 million pounds, dates back to a large extent as a defensive midfielder or square to a box, although he was sometimes displayed as a medium to Sunderland.

He represented England at a level of less than 21 years and will return to his homeland to the Champions League, where Dortmund faces matches in Manchester City and Tottenham.

age: 19. position: Attacking the midfielder/wing. nationality: Argentina.

Manchester City fans will be very eager to see how Claudio Eishvirieri gets a season -long loan at Bayer Leverkusen. City has the option to return the Argentine to the Union Stadium in January if they wish.

Echeverri joined City in a deal worth 12.5 million pounds in January 2024, but it remained on loan at River Plate in the next 12 months. He appeared for the first time in the Premier League on the last day of the 2024-25 season, then an alternative appeared in the final loss of the FA Cup in the city.

He scored his first goal in the city with a wonderful free kick against his family during the club’s World Cup in the summer.

age: 19. position: Defender. nationality: Dutch.

At the age of nineteen, Jorrel Hato played more than 120 games for the club and represented the Grand Netherlands team on six occasions.

Hato, who could play either in the full back or in the central defense, appeared for the first time with Ajax at the age of sixteen, and led the team when he was only 17 – to become the youngest captain Ajax in a European match.

Last season, his offers called the best under -21 player in Eredivisie before the transfer of 37 million pounds to Chelsea in August.

age: 19. position: attacker. nationality: Nigerian / French.

The profession of the rapid and strong striker George Elenegna is progressing at a rapid rate.

He had a talisman in the second French section with Amiens, then he had a great campaign in 2023-24 in Royal Antwerp, which helped win the Belgian Super Cup in 2023.

After getting 14 goals in 49 games that season, he moved to Monaco. He scored a goal against Barcelona in the Champions League in each of the past two seasons-in Antwerp’s 3-2 victory in December 2023 at the age of 17, then again in Monaco’s 2-1 victory in September 2024.

age: 18. position: Midfielder. nationality: Argentina.

Franco Mastantono of Real Madrid is one of the brightest possibilities in world football.

On June 13, Real Madrid announced that MASTANUONO will join the club on its eighteenth birthday, August 14, and signed a six -year deal after they agreed to pay the requirement for its release of 39 million pounds (45 million euros) to buy it from River Plate.

He made his first international appearance of 17-year-old Argentina in June and played in all the three La Liga matches so far in 2025-26.

age: 19. position: Midfielder. nationality: French.

At the age of nineteen, Senny Mayulu won the two French titles for his name, won French father, and they registered in the Paris Saint -Germain victory in the Champions League and played in the club’s World Cup final.

He made his first appearance in Paris Saint -Germain in 2024 and represented France at a level of less than 20.

Mayulu midfielder was largely used as a substitute for Paris Saint-Germain, but he strengthened his growing reputation when he got out of the bench to score the fifth club goal in crushing 5-0 from Inter Milan in the Champions League final in May.

age: 17. position: Suite / midfielder’s suite. nationality: English.

Rio Nagomo was at the Chelsea Academy before moving to Liverpool in 2024 and he was only 16 years old when he first appeared on the Reds team, in a 4-0 victory in the Federation Cup for Akrington in January 2025.

Ngumoha scored quickly, directly and ranked great individual goals in the pre -season season against Yokohama and Athletic Club.

Then he got his place in REDS records in August by becoming their youngest scorer in the Premier League with his victory in the exciting victory 3-2 against Newcastle – with a goal four days before his seventeenth birthday.

age: 18. position: Attacking the midfielder / wing. nationality: English.

After arriving in the ranks of the Arsenal Academy, Ethan Nawanry, at the age of fifteen, became the youngest player to appear on the first trip in England when he appeared against Brentford in September 2022.

He started 16 games in all competitions Larsenal in 2024-25, with 21 other games as a substitute, where he scored nine goals, including the Champions League.

His offers for his nomination for the PFA Young Player of the Year award, and in the summer he helped England win the European U -21 Championship.

age: 18. position: Wing / death. nationality: Portuguese.

Chelvany Quenda will see closely this season, as the skilled Portuguese wing will join the Blues next summer for a fee of 44 million pounds.

He played an integral part with Sporting’s victory in the League and Double Cup in 2024-25, as he moved to Chelsea in March.

After that, Kinda admired the European U -21 Championship, scoring three goals for Portugal and was named in the tournament team.

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