# 2024 Unicredit Youth America's Cup

The 2024 Unicredit Youth America's Cup is the 3rd Youth Americas Cup and will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from 17 to 26 September. Both the Youth and Women's America's Cup will use the America's Cup 40 AC40 class, a one-design 12 m (40 ft) foiling monohull class. The yachts have 4 crew onboard (two helms and two trimmers) and teams can have mixed crews with many female athletes competing in the youth and 2024 PUIG Women's America's Cup. All athletes must be aged between 18 and 25.

## Teams

Twelve teams are split into two pools of six for an initial fleet racing series, Group A contains clubs which entered into the America's Cup challenger series of that year and Group B contain clubs which have been invited to take part. The top three of each division then progress to the final series of 3–4 fleet races which decide the top two teams, who subsequently compete in a single match-race final to determine the overall winners of the event.

### Group A

| Team | Yacht Club | Skipper | Helm |
| Athena Pathway | Royal Yacht Squadron | Nick Robins | Nick Robins James Grummet |
| Emirates Team New Zealand | Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron | | Leo Takahashi Seb Menzies |
| Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team | Circolo della Vela Sicilia | | Marco Gradoni Gianluigi Ugolini |
| NYYC American Magic | New York Yacht Club | | Harry Melges Kyle Navin |
| Alinghi Red Bull Racing | Société Nautique de Genève | Jann Schüpbach | Arnaud Grange Andrea Aschieri Joshua Richner |
| Orient Express Racing Team | Société Nautique de Saint-Tropez | Enzo Balanger | Matisse Pacaud Enzo Balanger |

### Group B

| Team | Yacht Club | Skipper | Helmswomen |
| Sail Team Barcelona | Real Club Náutico de Barcelona | | |
| Jajo Team DutchSail | Koninklijke Roei- en Zeilvereniging De Maas Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeil- en Roeivereeniging | | |
| Concord Pacific Racing | Royal Vancouver Yacht Club | Andrew Wood | |
| AC Team Germany | Kieler Yacht-Club Norddeutscher Regatta Verein | | Julian Hoffman |
| Swedish Challenge powered by Artemis Technologies | Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club Royal Swedish Yacht Club | | Oscar Engström Lugvig Lindqvist Hanno Seifert |
| Andoo Team Australia | Cruising Yacht Club of Australia | | Cole Tapper |

## Results

Points are awarded to each of the finishing boats with 1st place awarded 10 pts, 2nd awarded 7, 3rd 5, 4th 3, 5th 2 and 6th 1. To progress to the semi-final series teams must rank in the top three of their qualification series group. Likewise to qualify for the final teams must rank in the top two of the semi-final series.

### Qualification series
#### Group A

| Pos | Team |
| Pos | Team | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | Points |
| 1 | Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 63 |
| 2 | NYYC American Magic | 2 | 1 | INR$^†$ | INR | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 50 |
| 3 | Athena Pathway | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 37 |
| 4 | Orient Express Racing Team | INR | INR | INR | INR | 3 | 4 | 1 | DNF$^{††}$ | 35 |
| 5 | Emirates Team New Zealand | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 34 |
| 6 | Alinghi Red Bull Racing | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 23 |
| Citation: ||
$^†$ Instructed Not to Race (INR) – Teams that are instructed not to race by the racing committee are awarded 4 points.
$^{††}$ Did Not Finish (DNF) – Team withdrew part way through the race. The team is still awarded 1 pt.

#### Group B

| Pos | Team |
| Pos | Team | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | Points |
| 1 | Swedish Challenge powered by Artemis Technologies | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 62 |
| 2 | Sail Team Barcelona | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 45 |
| 3 | Andoo Team Australia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 43 |
| 4 | Concord Pacific Racing | 2 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 31 |
| 5 | Jajo Team DutchSail | DNS$^*$ | 3 | 3 | 5 | INR | 2 | 5 | 4 | 28 |
| 6 | AC Team Germany | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 17 |
| Citation: ||
$^*$ Did Not Start (DNS) – Teams are awarded no points.

### Semi-final series

| Pos | Team |
| Pos | Team | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Points |
| 1 | Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 31 |
| 2 | NYYC American Magic | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | Athena Pathway | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 19 |
| 4 | Swedish Challenge powered by Artemis Technologies | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
| 5 | Andoo Team Australia | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| 6 | Sail Team Barcelona | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| Citation: ||

### Final

| Team | 1 |
| Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team | ● |
| NYYC American Magic | |
| Citation: ||