This is our penultimate home match of the season.

With four Premier League games to play, Chelsea are currently eighth on 48 points. We are 10 points behind Aston Villa in fifth and Liverpool in fourth, who are both on 58. Nottingham Forest are 16th on 39 points, five points above the drop zone.

Head-to-head

Chelsea have won our past two league matches against Nottingham Forest. We have only won three league games in a row against them once before - in 1966.

Chelsea are seeking our first home Premier League win against Nottingham Forest since they returned to the top flight in 2022 (two draws, one defeat since then).

Our last home league victory against Forest was in September 1998, when Gianluca Vialli was in charge of the Blues. Gianfranco Zola and Gustavo Poyet scored our goals in a 2-1 win.

Nottingham Forest have won one of their last nine Premier League meetings with Chelsea (three draws, five defeats), a 1-0 victory at Stamford Bridge in September 2023.

In the reverse fixture at the City Ground in October, Chelsea won 3-0 with goals from Josh Acheampong, Pedro Neto and Reece James. Forest’s head coach Ange Postecoglou was sacked 19 minutes after the final whistle.

Four of Nottingham Forest’s seven Premier League goals against Chelsea since their return to the division in 2022/23 have come from set-pieces.

Chelsea’s youngest scorer in the Premier League is Mikael Forssell, who was aged 17 years and 342 days when he opened the scoring against Nottingham Forest at the City Ground, on 20 February 1999.

Head-to-head (all competitions)

Played: 101
Won: 43
Drawn: 31
Lost: 27

Last five meetings at Stamford Bridge

5 January 2019 FA Cup W 2-0 Morata 2
5 January 2020 FA Cup W 2-0 Hudson-Odoi, Barkley
13 May 2023 Premier League D 2-2 Sterling 2
2 September 2023 Premier League L 1-0
6 October 2024 Premier League D 1-1 Madueke

Biggest win for each team

Nottingham Forest 1-5 Chelsea 1925/26 Division Two
Chelsea 5-1 Nottingham Forest 2017/18 League Cup
Nottingham Forest 7-0 Chelsea 1990/91 Division One

Forest's biggest win at Stamford Bridge is 6-2 in Division One in 1986/87.

Chelsea stats

The Blues have won each of our last six home Premier League games on a Monday.

Chelsea have conceded 11 goals from corners in the Premier League in 2025/26, our joint-most in a campaign, along with the 1994/95 season. We have scored 18 goals in all competitions this season from corners, six more than we managed last season.

Enzo Fernandez has scored 13 goals for Chelsea in all competitions this season. The only midfielder to score more for a Premier League club in 2025/26 is Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White (16).

Joao Pedro has 19 Premier League goal involvements this season (14 goals, five assists) and could become the sixth player to reach 20 in his debut season for Chelsea, after Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink in 2000/01 (32), Eden Hazard in 2012/13 (20), Diego Costa (23) and Cesc Fabregas (21) in 2014/15 and Cole Palmer in 2023/24 (33).

Premier League scorers
Joao Pedro 14, Palmer 9 (5 pens), Fernandez 8 (2 pens), Neto 5, Caicedo 3, Chalobah 3, Gusto 2, Estevao 2, James 2, Acheampong 1, Cucurella 1, Delap 1, Garnacho 1, own goal 1

Premier League assists
Joao Pedro 5, Garnacho 4, James 4, Neto 4, Cucurella 3, Fernandez 3, Gusto 3, Estevao 2, Gittens 2, Caicedo 1, Fofana 1, Guiu 1, Palmer 1, Sanchez 1

Most Premier League minutes played
Sanchez 2,795, Fernandez 2,761, Chaobah 2,651, Neto 2,489, Caicedo 2,447, Joao Pedro 2,404, Cucurella 2,350, Gusto 2,002, James 1,896, Palmer 1,606

Milestones

Pedro Neto made his 100th appearance for the club in all competitions at Wembley last week.

If selected, Moises Caicedo will start a Premier League game for the 100th time for the Blues and Joao Pedro will make his 50th appearance for us. Tosin Adarabioyo’s next start will be his 50th for Chelsea.

Fernandez and Neto are both one game away from a half-century of games for Chelsea this season.

Nottingham Forest stats

This season’s Premier League stats

Most minutes played: Milenkovic 3,060, Anderson 3,044, Gibbs-White 2,909
Most goals: Gibbs-White 13, Igor Jesus 5, Anderson 3, Hudson-Odoi 3, Wood 3
Most assists: Hudson-Odoi 4, Hutchinson 4, Igor Jesus 4
Most duels won: Anderson 274, Williams 196, Igor Jesus 141, Milenkovic 128
Clean sheets: Sels 7, Ortega 1, Victor 1
Most fouls conceded: Anderson 52, Sangare 39, Igor Jesus 37, Williams 27
Most yellow cards: Anderson 7, Milenkovic 6, Williams 5
Red cards: Williams 1

Nottingham Forest have won three of their past four Premier League games (one draw) and are looking for three consecutive wins for the first time since last April.

Forest are unbeaten in their last six Premier League matches (three wins, three draws), their best run of the season.

Away from home, Forest have won 21 points from 17 games this season. Their six wins on the road have come at Liverpool, Wolverhampton Wanderers, West Ham United, Brentford, Tottenham Hotspur and Sunderland.

By beating Sunderland 5-0 last week, Nottingham Forest inflicted the Black Cats’ joint-heaviest home defeat in their Football League history.

Morgan Gibbs-White has seven goals in his past seven Premier League appearances and is level with Danny Welbeck as the top English scorer this season (13).

Elliot Anderson has covered more distance than any other Premier League player this season (375km).

Only West Ham (32) have used more players in the Premier League this season than Nottingham Forest (31).

Vitor Pereira's management record vs Chelsea

Won: 0
Drawn: 0
Lost: 2

Last five results

Aston Villa (h) D 1-1
Porto (Europa League, h) W 1-0
Burnley (h) W 4-1
Sunderland (a) W 5-0
Aston Villa (Europa League, h) W 1-0

Last Premier League line-up

Sunderland 0-5 Nottingham Forest
Friday 24 April
Team (4-4-2): Sels; Aina, Milenkovic, Cunha (Morato 50), Williams; Hutchinson (Netz 67), Sangare (Dominguez h-t), Anderson, Gibbs-White (c); Igor Jesus (Yates 67), Wood (Awoniyi 88)
Scorers: Hume og 17, Wood 31, Gibbs-White 34, Igor Jesus 37, Anderson 90+5

Discipline

There are no suspensions.

Ten bookings will no longer will result in a suspension. Any player who now reaches 15 yellow cards before the end of the season will be suspended for three matches.

Match officials

Referee: Anthony Taylor
Assistants: Gary Beswick, Adam Nunn
Fourth official: Michael Salisbury
VAR: James Bell
Assistant VAR: Dan Robathan

Anthony Taylor is officiating his fourth Chelsea match this season (all at Stamford Bridge), having previously refereed our wins over Liverpool and West Ham, and our 1-1 draw against Arsenal.