The 2018–19 UEFA Youth League Domestic Champions Path began on 2 October and ended on 28 November 2018.
[1] A total of 32 teams competed in the Domestic Champions Path to decide 8 of the 24 places in the knockout phase (play-offs and the round of 16 onwards) of the 2018–19 UEFA Youth League.
[3] If there is a vacancy (associations with no youth domestic competition, as well as youth domestic champions already included in the UEFA Champions League path), it is first filled by the title holders should they have not yet qualified, and then by the youth domestic champions of the next association in the UEFA ranking.
[4] For the Domestic Champions Path, the 32 teams were drawn into two rounds of two-legged home-and-away ties.
[5][6] There were no seedings, but the 32 teams were split into groups defined by sporting and geographical criteria prior to the draw.
In both rounds, if the aggregate score is tied after full time of the second leg, the away goals rule is used to decide the winner.
If still tied, the match is decided by a penalty shoot-out (no extra time is played).