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 Nathan Ake captained Netherlands Under 17s to the European title in Slovenia on Wednesday evening, the Dutch emerging victorious after a shootout against Germany. Much focus will be on the forward lines selected by the two clubs just one win away from lifting the European Cup on Saturday, but Frank Lampard is anticipating a fascinating contest in the centre of the park... Stamford Bridge stores will be open for extended hours on Sunday if we hold a parade following the Champions League Final.
Our former sporting director Frank Arnesen, now at Hamburg, has watched Bayern Munich closely this season and gives the official Chelsea website the low down on our Champions League opponents… After kicking off their mini-series yesterday, Chelsea TV today (Wednesday) brings us the second installment of their fans' guide to Munich.
Gary Cahill believes his race to be fit for the Champions League Final is being won... Roberto Di Matteo says Saturday's Champions League Final could be the biggest match in Chelsea's history...
Gary Cahill and David Luiz both trained with the rest of the squad on Tuesday afternoon, but Florent Malouda is a doubt for Munich...
Player of the Year Juan Mata is hoping a good season for him can become a great one for the club in Munich on Saturday. As this week's main event draws ever closer, columnist and former Chelsea star Pat Nevin looks at the state of the two teams eyeing the European Cup… Chelsea TV have produced a series of short clips for fans making the trip to Munich for the Champions League Final this week.
Ashley Cole is the best left-back of the Premier League era according to awards to mark 20 seasons of the competition, announced today (Tuesday)... Petr Cech has been named the Czech Republic's player of the season for a seventh time... David Luiz has given an update on his recovery from a hamstring injury, speaking optimistically about his chances of lining up in the Champions League Final... Chelsea Football Club would like to make local residents and supporters aware that if the club wins the Champions League Final we will hold a parade in the Fulham area on Sunday... Lisa Snowdon has thanked Chelsea fans for all the support they've shown Help a Capital Child over the past three years. Chelsea TV spoke to Romelu Lukaku after he celebrated his 19th birthday with his first league start for Chelsea... There is a full week of build-up on Chelsea TV to the season's big climax, starting this evening with the first Countdown to Munich, on air at 6.30pm and 10pm every day... Do you have a message of support for the players ahead of the Champions League Final? John Terry was delighted to end the league season with a victory and a goal, and says the players not involved in the Champions League Final this week can still contribute over the coming days. Uefa has produced a bumper guide for supporters travelling to Munich, ensuring fans know how to stay safe and keep entertained in the lead-up to the Champions League Final on Saturday. Clive Walker was the audio co-commentator on the official Chelsea website during the weekend's game. He described a game with chances given to young players… Roberto Di Matteo discussed the involvement of Sam Hutchinson and Romelu Lukaku in yesterday's final domestic game of the season when he spoke to Chelsea TV after the final whistle... Goals at the start of each half saw Chelsea pick up their first win of the group stage of the FA WSL Continental Cup as they beat Liverpool 2-1 at Wheatsheaf Park... Roberto Di Matteo reflected on a Sunday afternoon mission completed more or less satisfactorily after the final home game of the season... Chelsea's domestic season ended with a tight but entertaining home victory against Blackburn Rovers at a sun-drenched Stamford Bridge. Chelsea's domestic season ended with a tight but entertaining home victory against Blackburn Rovers at a sun-drenched Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea youth team defender Nathan Ake will play in the final of this year's European Under 17 Championships after the Netherlands beat Georgia 2-0 in the semi-final on Sunday evening... All four players suspended for the Champions League final are selected and there is also a return to the starting line-up for Sam Hutchinson who will play right-back... You can read tonight's matchday programme notes online... First there is the task of winning against Blackburn today to finish the league season properly and then Roberto Di Matteo can give his undivided attention to the Champions League final... Included in Juan Mata's appearance on Chelsea TV's Friday Night Live phone-in, the newly crowned Player of the Year listed the highlights so far of his memorable first season... Today (Sunday) we welcome Blackburn to the Bridge, and supporters can meet three Blues legends before the game... Roberto Di Matteo is eager for his players to finish the domestic season on a positive note, but he admits we simply haven't been good enough in the league at times...
Chelsea Player of the Year Juan Mata has been discussing the relationships he has forged since arriving at the club at the beginning of the season.
The old cliché of taking it one game at a time goes out the window this weekend when a final domestic match with no effect on league position precedes a Champions League final... As he prepares for his final outing of the campaign, Branislav Ivanovic has paid tribute to the supporters that have stuck by the team through a testing year... It is time to say goodbye to Stamford Bridge for another season… Juan Mata has been rewarded for the entertainment he has provided in his first Chelsea season by the fans voting him the club's Player of the Season... A member of the Chelsea FC Foundation's Cerebral Palsy Centre of Excellence has been selected for Team GB's CP squad in the Paralympic Games. Chelsea Football Club is delighted to launch two new official websites in the languages of Bahasa Indonesia and Korean... Supporters heading to our final league game of the season on Sunday may find the following information useful... With two FA Youth Cup wins in the past three seasons and a semi-final in between, plus another appearance in the final in 2008, the Academy have every right to be pleased with their work... This Sunday we welcome Blackburn to the Bridge, and supporters can meet three Blues legends before the game... Those supporters wishing to renew their season tickets for the 2012/13 campaign have until the following dates to do so... The board of Chelsea Pitch Owners has announced a date for an EGM... The Chelsea first team squad today helped launch our new partnership with the Sauber F1 team at our Cobham training ground, before chief executive Ron Gourlay joined the Formula 1 team's drivers in Barcelona.
With one cup final down and one to go, columnist Giles Smith reviews the domestic big day-out experience from a supporter's perspective… Abhishek Bachchan has joined the throng of celebrities backing Chelsea's Asian Star programme as the closing date for applications draws near. Tonight (Thursday), the club's in-house channel broadcasts the Chelsea Player of the Year Awards live...
A first-half goal consigned our Under 18s to defeat on the night but an emphatic first-leg victory means Chelsea have won the FA Youth Cup for the fourth time in our history... As the Chelsea Ladies became the fourth team at the club to book a place in the FA Cup Final, we spoke to manager Matt Beard, who is beginning to see talent and ability rise to the fore...
Tomorrow's [Thursday 10 May] signing session with Didier Drogba at the Stamford Bridge Megastore has now been cancelled... Our on-loan keeper Thibaut Courtois has ended the season on a high, keeping a clean sheet to win the Europa League...
Everybody at Chelsea Football Club has been saddened by the death of celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, a long-term fan of the club...
Roberto Di Matteo gave his thoughts to Chelsea TV after Tuesday night's match at Anfield... Adi Viveash has warned his side to heed the lessons from their own exploits in the competition thus far ahead of tonight's game against Blackburn Rovers... Roberto Di Matteo insisted he had fielded a side strong enough to win the match after seeing the Blues soundly beaten 4-1 by Liverpool at Anfield... The young Blues go into the FA Youth Cup final second leg with a 4-0 lead and you can follow all the action as it happens with our live text coverage...
Chelsea Ladies Under 17s won the FA Girls' Youth Cup this weekend at stadium MK following a penalty shoot-out win over Arsenal Ladies... Piara Powar, the head of European football's anti-racism group, has praised Chelsea's Asian Star campaign and called for aspiring footballers from the Asian community to sign up and get involved. Hopes of qualification for next season's Champions League via our league position were extinguished by a performance deserving of the scoreline... Hopes of qualification for next season's Champions League via our league position were extinguished by a performance deserving of the scoreline...
Just three players remain from the starting line-up in the FA Cup Final... Returning to league action following their midweek FA Cup heroics, Chelsea Ladies' latest FA WSL fixture ended 0-0 at home to Bristol Academy. The June edition of Chelsea is now on sale, and this month's main interviewee, John Mikel Obi, opens up about his insatiable appetite for securing silverware...
It's uncertain who covered the greater distance at Wembley on Saturday - goalscorer Ramires or our columnist Pat Nevin, who describes here the day in detail… Some may consider our Champions League final to fall into the category but technically, tonight at Anfield is the last away match of the season... As the 2011/12 season draws to a close, thoughts are already turning towards next campaign...
Following on from the first team's Wembley success at the weekend, our Under 18s will be hopeful of emulating them and lifting the FA Youth Cup tomorrow (Wednesday) night... It is another big few days on Chelsea TV with more exciting live programming, including Petr Cech in the studio, the FA Youth Cup Final and the Player of the Year awards...
Chelsea Football Club is delighted to announce the two final dates on our 2012 US summer tour... Two players have been added to the injury list ahead of the visit to Anfield reported Chelsea TV in the evening Blues News headlines... Chelsea TV was the only channel inside the Wembley dressing room, talking to Didier Drogba after his record-breaking FA Cup Final goal... John Terry played in his 50th FA Cup game on Saturday. Five of those matches have been finals and four ended with him lifting the iconic trophy... Clive Walker was the audio co-commentator on the official Chelsea website during the weekend's game... The Board of CPO has released a new statement containing more details from their recent meeting with councillors and planners from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham... The latest ticket selling arrangements for the Champions League Final against Bayern Munich on Saturday 19 May have been announced...
FA Cup FInal-winning goalscorer Didier Drogba will be at the Stamford Bridge Megastore on Thursday, signing the new 2012/13 home shirt the day it goes on sale... Frank Lampard felt we controlled the game for the first hour at Wembley in Saturday's FA Cup Final, and fully deserved a fourth victory in six years in the competition.... Fans who attended Wembley for the FA Cup fInal can now find themselves on a 360-degree photograph taken inside the stadium... Goalkeeper Petr Cech was delighted to get his hands on his fourth FA Cup winners' medal after making a decisive save nine minutes from time.
Once again Chelsea TV reached the parts other camera crews cannot reach after the Blues lifted the FA Cup at Wembley... Chelsea interim first team coach Roberto Di Matteo paid tribute to the inner strength and character of his players after we won the trophy for the third time in four years.
Chelsea secured the FA Cup for the seventh time thanks to goals from Ramires and Didier Drogba...
Chelsea secured the FA Cup for the seventh time thanks to goals from Ramires and Didier Drogba... Didier Drogba will lead the attack in a side that has one change from the semi-final against Tottenham... Didier Drogba will today aim to improve on his hugely impressive six goals in six Wembley finals and seven in all cup finals for Chelsea, which is a club record... As FA Cup final number five approaches, Frank Lampard insists the competition has lost none of its lustre...
Roberto Di Matteo enjoyed a rich pedigree in the FA Cup as a player... Former Blues defender Frank Sinclair represented the club twice in FA Cup Finals... With another Wembley day out now upon us, the official Chelsea website asked actor and Matthew Harding Lower season ticket holder Phil Daniels to share a few cup final memories with us… Chelsea Football Club can confirm to our fans that we have today submitted an offer, with our property development partner Almacantar, to acquire the 39-acre Battersea Power Station site... Ahead of every weekend game, Chelsea TV's Rewind looks back at relevant matches from the team's past and this time, that means FA Cup Finals... Fans attending Wembley for the FA Cup fInal will be able to find themselves on a 360-degree photograph taken inside the stadium... Roberto Di Matteo has confirmed we will be without David Luiz and Gary Cahill for Saturday's FA Cup Final, but everybody else is fit and available.
John Terry will lead the Blues out at Wembley for the FA Cup Final tomorrow making his 50th appearance in the competition... South v north, blue v red, it has all the makings of a classic FA Cup final... Voting is now open for April's Goal of the Month competition, with another five beauties to pick from, and a fantastic prize to be won.
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