The senior team’s qualification for the Champions League group stage also means an opportunity for a Reds Academy side to compete at European level.
An U19s selection will face the same opponents as the first team – namely Maribor, Sevilla and Spartak Moscow – in the coming months.
And U18s manager Gerrard, a Champions League winner with Liverpool in 2005, is set to take charge of the side, who begin the tournament at home to Sevilla on Wednesday.