Brera Holdings’ Soccer Team AP Brera Strumica U19s Makes Its Debut in the Elite UEFA Youth League Draw in Nyon, Switzerland
September 06 2024 - 8:00AM
In its inaugural year, AP Brera Strumica, a North Macedonian U-19s
football club 90%-owned by Brera Holdings PLC, the first
publicly-listed football (American soccer) focused company in the
world of professional sports multi-club ownership and investment
(Nasdaq: BREA), is set to grace the international stage. Following
a stellar league campaign last season, which saw the team clinch
the title with 17 victories out of 22 matches and an impressive
tally of 99 goals, Brera Strumica’s U19s are poised to make their
debut in the prestigious UEFA Youth League.
The young "neroverdi" (black and green) have been placed in the
'Domestic Champions Path,' a new format for this year that includes
champions from 52 out of 55 UEFA-affiliated leagues. This path
consists of three knockout rounds, played over two legs each—home
and away. Should the team advance through all three rounds, they
would qualify for the second phase, commencing in February 2025,
which also features clubs that have progressed from the 'Champions
League Path.'
UEFA Senior Club Competitions Manager Tom Barlow draws out the
card of FK AP Brera Strumica
On September 3rd in Nyon, Switzerland, Brera Strumica
participated in the draw for the 11th edition of Europe's premier
youth tournament for the first time. In the opening round,
scheduled to be played on September 17th at home and October 2nd
away, the club will face FK Sarajevo from Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
A view of the draw results during the UEFA Youth League 2024/25
Domestic Champions Path Round 1, 2 and 3 Draw at the UEFA
Headquarters, The House of European Football, on September 3, 2024,
in Nyon, Switzerland. SOURCE: UEFA
The victor will proceed to the second round, where they will
meet Maccabi Petah Tikva from Israel. Should they advance further,
a potential third-round clash awaits against either Trabzonspor
(Turkey), Buducnost Podgorica (Montenegro), or Dinamo Tbilisi
(Georgia).
A general view of the Youth League trophy
ABOUT BRERA HOLDINGS PLC
Brera Holdings PLC (Nasdaq: BREA) is focused on expanding its
social impact football (American soccer) business by developing a
global portfolio of emerging football and other sports clubs with
increased opportunities to earn tournament prizes, gain
sponsorships, and provide other professional football- and
sports-related consulting services.
The Company seeks to build on the legacy and brand of Brera FC,
the first football club that was acquired by the Company in 2022.
Brera FC, known as "The Third Team of Milan," is an amateur
football association which has been building an alternative
football legacy since its founding in 2000. The Company owns the
trademarked FENIX Trophy Tournament, a nonprofessional pan-European
football competition recognized by UEFA, inaugurated in September
2021 and organized by Brera FC. "FENIX" is an acronym for "Friendly
European Nonprofessional Innovative Xenial." BBC Sport has called
the FENIX Trophy "the Champions League for amateurs," and ESPN
covered the 2024 FENIX Trophy finals. In October 2022, the Internet
Marketing Association at its IMPACT 22 Conference named Brera FC as
its award recipient for "Social Impact Through Soccer," recognizing
the Company's focus at an international level with this
distinction.
In March 2023, the Company expanded to Africa with the
establishment of Brera Tchumene FC, a team then admitted to the
Second Division League in Mozambique, a country of nearly 32
million people. Brera Tchumene FC won its post-season tournament
and in November 2023 was promoted to Mocambola, the First Division
in Mozambique. In April 2023, the Company acquired 90% of the
European first division football team Fudbalski Klub Akademija
Pandev, now known as Brera Strumica FC, in North Macedonia, a
country with participation rights in two major Union of European
Football Association ("UEFA") competitions.
In June 2023, Brera acquired a strategic stake in Manchester
United PLC, a portion of which was subject to a tender offer by Sir
Jim Radcliffe and sold at a 74% realized gain. In July 2023, the
Company completed the acquisition of a majority ownership in the
Italian Serie A1 women's professional volleyball team UYBA Volley
S.s.d.a.r.l. In September 2023, the Company assumed control of
Bayanzurkh Sporting Ilch FC, a team in the Mongolian National
Premier League, which became Brera Ilch FC when the football season
resumed in March 2024. In January 2024, the Company announced the
launch of a proactive search for an Italian Serie B football club
target designed to bring multi-club ownership of the highest tiers
of professional sports ownership to mass investors through the
Company's Nasdaq-listed shares. In February 2024, the Brera
Holdings Advisory Board was established with MLS founder and World
Cup director Alan Rothenberg, luxury lifestyle executive Massimo
Ferragamo, sports business leaders Paul Tosetti and Marshall
Geller, and Italian football icon Giuseppe Rossi.
In June 2024 the North Macedonian women’s football club Tiverija
Strumica officially become part of the Brera family with the
establishment of a joint-stock company controlled by Brera Holdings
called Women's Football Club Tiverija Brera AD Strumica (“Brera
Tiverija”). Brera Tiverija is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Brera Strumica FC. This is a landmark transaction that marks a
first in women’s football in North Macedonia, showing Brera
Holdings’ ongoing dedication and commitment to investing in women’s
sports, gender equity, and social impact globally.
As part of Brera Strumica, Brera Tiverija will continue to build
upon the work that Brera Strumica President Goran Pandev has done
in North Macedonia towards professionalizing the sport in the
country. Brera Tiverija is the first joint-stock company in women’s
football in North Macedonia, and Brera Holdings is also the first
foreign investor in women's football in North Macedonia. The move
away from an association ownership will open the door for future
investment into Brera Tiverija.
Brera Holdings PLC is focused on bottom-up value creation from
undervalued sports clubs and talent, innovation powered business
growth, and socially-impactful outcomes. See
www.breraholdings.com
CONTACT INFORMATION:
FOR MEDIA AND INVESTOR RELATIONSPierre Galoppi, Chief Executive
Officer, Brera Holdings PLCEmail: pierre@breraholdings.com
- A view of the draw results during the UEFA Youth League 2024/25
Domestic Champions Path Round 1, 2 and 3 Draw at the UEFA
Headquarters, The House of European Football, on September 3, 2024,
in Nyon, Switzerland. SOURCE: UEFA
- UEFA Senior Club Competitions Manager Tom Barlow draws out the
card of FK AP Brera Strumica
- A general view of the Youth League trophy
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