Our 3-0 win over Barcelona at Stamford Bridge in the previous game in this competition moved the Blues up to seventh in the 36-team league phase table, with ten points claimed and three games to play.

Last season, 16 points were enough to secure a top-eight spot and a place in the Round of 16, while 11 points were needed for a play-off position.

Atalanta join us as one of five sides on ten points from five matches and are tenth in the league phase table.

Chelsea vs Atalanta: Head-to-head

Together with Cypriot side Pafos, Atalanta are one of two new opponents for Chelsea in the league phase of this season’s Champions League.

This week’s match will be our first-ever game against Atalanta and our first match in Italy since we beat AC Milan 2-0 in October 2022, thanks to a Jorginho penalty and a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang goal.

The Bergamo side will be the 103rd different club we have played in European competition, and we will be playing at the 26,500 capacity Stadio di Bergamo for the first time.

Chelsea's biggest Champions League away wins

Galatasaray 0-5 Chelsea | 1999/00 | First group stage
Schalke 0-5 Chelsea | 2014/15 | Group stage

Chelsea stats

Chelsea are competing in our 20th Champions League campaign. We have made the knockout stage in each of our past eight appearances.

On matchday five, our 3-0 win against Barcelona was our biggest margin of victory over the Catalans. It also made us just the third team to defeat Barcelona at least five times in the Champions League after Bayern Munich (10) and PSG (six).

We brought an end to Barcelona’s 53-match scoring streak, which dated back to 15 December last year. Hansi Flick failed to see his team score in a Champions League game for the first time in his managerial career (35 games; 19 Barcelona, 16 Bayern Munich).

Estevao Willian (18 years 215 days) is the third teenager – and second-youngest – to score in each of his first three Champions League starts after Kylian Mbappe (18y 113d) and Erling Haaland (19y 107d).

The Blues have lost three (Juventus away in 2021, Dinamo Zagreb away in 2022 and Bayern Munich away this season) of our past 27 matches in the Champions League group stage/league phase, winning 17.

Chelsea have scored in each of our last 20 European games since a 0-2 defeat to Real Madrid in April 2023.

Champions League results

Bayern Munich (A) L 1-3
Benfica (H) W 1-0
Ajax (H) W 5-1
Qarabag (A) D 2-2
Barcelona (H) W 3-1

Champions League scorers: Estevao 3 (1 pen), Caicedo 1, Delap 1, Fernandez 1 (pen), Garnacho 1, George 1, Guiu 1, Palmer 1, own goals 2

We have played 13 away European games in Italy - winning two, drawing four and losing seven.

Our seven away group/league stage away games in Italy (all Champions League)

1999/00 AC Milan D 1-1 - Wise
1999/00 Lazio D 0-0
2003/04 Lazio W 4-0 - Crespo, Gudjohnsen, Duff, Lampard
2012/13 Juventus L 0-3
2017/18 Roma L 0-3
2021/22 Juventus L 0-1
2022/23 AC Milan W 2-0 - Jorginho pen, Aubameyang

Chelsea could come up against former Blue Davide Zappacosta, who made 52 appearances for us between 2017 and 2019 and moved to Atalanta in 2021, and Mario Pasalic, who never played competitively for Chelsea (2014–2020) and signed permanently with Atalanta in 2020 after two loan seasons there.

Milestones

This game against Atalanta marks our 100th away match in the Champions League proper. In the previous 99, we have had 41 wins, 26 draws, 32 losses, with 147 goals scored and 108 conceded.

Atalanta stats

Formation: 1907
Stadium: Stadio di Bergamo (Capacity 26,500)
Major honours: Europa League (2024), Coppa Italia (1963)

Last season

Serie A - Third
Coppa Italia - Quarter-finals
Supercoppa Italiana - Semi-finals
Champions League - Knockout phase play-offs
Super Cup - Runners-up
Top scorer all competitions: Mateo Retegui 28 (League 25)

This is Atalanta’s fifth season in the Champions League, all since 2019. They have played English opposition in each of their previous four campaigns.

Last season, they were eliminated by Club Bruges in the play-off round after finishing ninth in the league.

La Dea have lost only two of their last 19 group/league stage games in European competition (11 wins, six draws) and one of the last nine at home (four wins, four draws).

Atalanta have faced English teams 11 times, securing four victories, four losses, and three draws. At home, they have beaten Everton once, drawn with Arsenal, Manchester United and Manchester City, and suffered two defeats - both against Liverpool. This is their first fixture since a goalless draw at home to Arsenal on Matchday 1 last season.

Last season’s top scorer, Mateo Retegui, has departed to Saudi Pro League club Al-Qadsiah.

Atalanta are unbeaten in four Champions League matches and are seeking a fourth consecutive clean sheet in this season’s league phase.

Champions League league phase results

PSG (a) L 0-4
Club Brugge (h) W 2-1
Slavia Prague (h) D 0-0
Marseille (a) W 1-0
Eintracht Frankfurt (a) W 3-0

All six of Atalanta’s league phase goals this season have been scored in the second half.

Champions League scorers: Samardzic 2, De Ketelaere 1, Ederson 1, Lookman 1, Pasalic 1

Atalanta lost 3-1 at 19th placed Hellas Verona at the weekend, leaving them 12th in Serie A on 16 points from 14 games.

Atalanta’s last five results

22.11.25 Napoli (a) L 1-3
26.11.25 Eintracht Frankfurt (CL a) W 3-0
30.11.25 Fiorentina (h) W 2-0
03.12.25 Genoa (Cup h) W 4-0
06.12.25 Hellas Verona (a) L 1-3

Atalanta parted company with head coach Ivan Juric after six straight draws and two defeats dropped the team to 13th in Serie A three months into the season.

Raffaele Palladino has replaced him following spells at Monza and Fiorentina. He has never managed or played against Chelsea.

Matchweek five line-up

Wednesday 26 November
Eintracht Frankfurt 0 Atalanta 3
Team (3-4-2-1): Carnesecchi; Kossounou, Hien, Djimsiti (Kolasinac 74); Bellanova, De Roon (c), Ederson (Musah 69), Zappacosta (Zalewski 69); De Ketelaere, Lookman (Sulemana 82); Scamacca (Krstovic 69)
Goals: Lookman 60, Ederson 62, De Ketelaere 65

Discipline

There are no suspensions.

Andrey Santos is one Champions League booking away from a one-match suspension, and Enzo Maresca one yellow card away from a touchline ban.

As from the first match in the league phase, players and team officials are suspended for the next competition match after three cautions, that did not result in a red card, as well as after any subsequent odd-numbered caution (fifth, seventh, ninth, etc).

Champions League yellow cards: 8
Santos 2, Buonanotte 1, Caicedo 1, Estevao 1, Fernandez 1, James 1, Tosin 1, Maresca 2

Champions League red cards: 1
Joao Pedro 1

Match officials

Referee: Alejandro Hernandez
Assistant referees: Jose Naranjo and Diego Sanchez Rojo
Fourth official: Alejandro Muniz Ruiz
VAR: Cesar Soto Grado

All the match officials are from Spain.