Metropolis’s Elite Improvement Squad’s 3-0 win over Middlesbrough on Friday night means we’ve got confirmed our place within the prime 16 and place within the knockout stage of Premier League 2.
It’s the first time the Membership’s Underneath-21s squad have achieved the feat following the competitors’s restructure.
Previous to the 2023/24 season, the Premier League 2 was reformatted to incorporate a 20-game league-phase format adopted by a knockout stage to find out the very best staff at Underneath-21s stage.
On the finish of the earlier marketing campaign, Metropolis – underneath former Lead Coach Brian Barry-Murphy – completed twenty third after 4 wins, six attracts and 10 losses in what was a tricky season for our younger EDS squad.
Now with a barely older and extra skilled outfit, Lead Coach has led his staff to the league summit and qualification for the knockout stage with 4 video games left to play.
Thus far, Metropolis have gained 13 of our 16 video games performed, drawing one and dropping the opposite two. Our EDS have scored probably the most within the league, discovering the again of the web 49 instances – a median of three objectives per recreation – and conceded simply 19.
The play-off will see Metropolis compete in single leg matches with the winner of every progressing to the following spherical with our focus set on reaching the ultimate.
The groups might be drawn in opposition to one another primarily based on their remaining league positions after the 20 Gameweeks.
For instance, the staff who locations first will face the staff who completed sixteenth and so forth.
The upper seeded groups will play at dwelling.
Till then, Metropolis will full our 20 matches with video games in opposition to Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham and Newcastle United to be performed by mid-April.
For data on who Metropolis will face and when the fixtures might be performed, maintain throughout mancity.com and the Official app for updates following Gameweek 20.