It has been another successful year in the 120-year history of Chelsea Football Club, and club historian Rick Glanvill and club statistician Paul Dutton look over the standout stats and records for our men's team over the last 12 months.

Year

Played

Won

Drawn

Lost

For

Against

Clean sheets

2021

65

39

16

10

108

43

35

2022

54

31

11

12

88

53

21

2023

52

16

13

23

61

72

12

2024

56

33

11

12

135

73

14

2025

63

37

11

15

119

66

25

Most games played: Marc Cucurella 59, Enzo Fernandez 56, Pedro Neto 56, Malo Gusto 54, Moises Caicedo 52, Reece James 52

Most goals scored: Enzo Fernandez 12, Pedro Neto 12, Joao Pedro 10, Cole Palmer 10, Tyrique George 6

Most assists: Enzo Fernandez 11, Reece James 8, Pedro Neto 7, Cole Palmer 7, Tyrique George 6

Clean sheets: Robert Sanchez 19 (45 games), Filip Jorgensen 6 (17 games)

Biggest attendance: 81,118 v PSG, 13 July, FIFA Club World Cup final, MetLife Stadium, New Jersey

Biggest win: 5-0 v Morecambe, 11 January, FA Cup third round

Home of Trophies

Following our Conference League and Club World Cup victories, Chelsea are now the most successful English club in the 21st century:

Chelsea - 21
Manchester City - 20
Manchester United - 18
Liverpool - 17
Arsenal - 9

Key facts and highlights

In 2025, Chelsea have defeated the reigning Champions League winners (Paris Saint-Germain), the current Premier League and La Liga champions (Liverpool and Barcelona) and the 2025 Europa League winners (Tottenham Hotspur).

The Blues have won 12 home Premier League games in 2025, last beating that figure in a calendar year in 2017 (16).

Chelsea have become only the second team in Premier League history to complete 50 consecutive matches without including a player aged 30 or older in their starting line-up. Aston Villa hold the record (59 games between September 2012 and January 2014) and the Blues are just two shy of that.


We maintained our remarkable Premier League record in March, with the Blues unbeaten in the month since 2001 when Sunderland won 4-2 at the Bridge. Forty-one have passed since, with 33 Chelsea wins and seven draws.

We faced Djurgarden in the two-legged UEFA Conference League semi-finals in May. In the first game of the tie, Reggie Walsh became the third-youngest debutant in our history, aged 16 years 193 days.

Walsh made further Chelsea history in the second leg. Included in the side at Stamford Bridge by Enzo Maresca, the young midfielder became our youngest-ever European starter (16 years and 200 days). Shim Mheuka (17 years and 137 days) had claimed the record earlier in the campaign.


Walsh also wore the highest ever shirt number (No.81) for Chelsea, beating Mheuka (No.76) Lewis Hall (No.75) and Callum Hudson-Odoi (No.70).

The oldest player in our starting XI against Real Betis in the Conference League final was Marc Cucurella (26). We became only the second side to start a major UEFA final without a player aged 27 or above (Red Star Belgrade v Borussia Monchengladbach in the 1978/79 UEFA Cup final being the first instance).

In June, Trevoh Chalobah became the eighth different Chelsea player to debut for England since 2019, a feat unmatched by any other club in this period.


Chelsea's 2-0 win over Los Angeles FC at the Club World Cup was the first competitive meeting between clubs from England and the United States.

With four minutes of the 90 to play, our Club World Cup match against Benfica was suspended for one hour 57 minutes due to a severe weather warning. The match eventually finished four hours 38 minutes after it kicked off.

That game saw the Blues win an extra-time contest by a margin of three goals for just the second time, also defeating Swindon Town (5-2) after extra time in a first-round replay in the 1914/15 FA Cup.

Chelsea began the 2025/26 season just 35 days after lifting the Club World Cup in New York. That marked our shortest-ever break between seasons, two days fewer than the Covid-affected 2019/20 and 2020/21 campaigns.

Our clash at Old Trafford against Manchester United in September was the first match in Premier League history to see two goals, two red cards, and two substitutions in the first half.

In that defeat, Robert Sanchez was our first Premier League goalkeeper sent off since Thibaut Courtois in April 2016. His fifth-minute red card was Chelsea's earliest in the competition.

Estevao Willian became the third youngest Brazilian player to appear in the Premier League (18y 115d) after Rafael in 2008 (18y 39d) and Gabriel Martinelli in 2019 (18y 54d). He also became the youngest player in the competition's history to assist a goal for Chelsea (18y 120d v West Ham away).


Reece James made his 200th Chelsea appearance against Nottingham Forest in October and Enzo Fernandez, Marc Cucurella, Trevoh Chalobah, Moises Caicedo, Cole Palmer and Malo Gusto all made their 100th appearance for the club during the year.

We played our 200th Champions League game proper against Ajax in October. And in that game, Estevao (18y 181d) became our youngest Champions League goalscorer, beating the record held by Marc Guiu (19y 291d) for just 33 minutes. Reece James (19y 332d) was the record holder after scoring in a 4-4 draw with Ajax in 2019.

In Guiu (19), Estevao (18) and Tyrique George (19), we became the first side in Champions League history to have three different teenagers score in a single match.

Against Ajax, aged (17y 2d), Walsh became our youngest Champions League debutant. The record was previously set by Dominic Solanke (17y 38d) in October 2014 against Maribor.

We became the first Premier League side of all-time with four different scorers aged 21 or younger in a match in all competitions – Andrey Santos (21), George (19), Estevao (18) and Jamie Gittens (21) – when we overcame Wolves in the League Cup in October.

Chelsea have won more Premier League games at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium than any other visiting side since the ground opened in April 2019 (six). Our victory in November marked our 1,500th top-flight win in 3,636 matches

Against Qarabag in November, Chelsea (23y 97d) named the second-youngest ever starting XI by average age for an English club in an away Champions League match, only behind Arsenal's v Olympiakos in December 2009 (21y 215d).

Chelsea extended our unbeaten home Premier League record to 31 games against Everton (18 wins, 13 draws). It’s our longest run without defeat against an opponent at Stamford Bridge in our top-flight history. Our previous record was 27 set against Tottenham between 1990 and 2018.

At Newcastle in December, Chelsea avoided defeat in a Premier League away game despite trailing by two or more goals at half-time for only the fourth time, after August 1992 v Sheffield Wednesday (3-3), September 2020 v West Brom (3-3), and April 2024 v Aston Villa (2-2).

Robert Sanchez’s assist for Joao Pedro at Newcastle in December was the fourth time a goalkeeper assisted a Premier League goal for Chelsea – and first since Petr Cech for a Didier Drogba goal against Tottenham Hotspur in December 2010.

Remembering our former players who were lost in 2025

Joey Jones | 1955-2025

Marvin Hinton | 1940-2025