The Blues claimed the Women’s League Cup for the second year in a row, thanks to a 2-0 win over Manchester United in the final, before defeating the same opponents on the last day of the Women’s Super League season to secure a third-place finish and UEFA Women’s Champions League qualification.

That is on top of the season-ending triumph at the World Sevens tournament, completed with yet another victory against Manchester Utd in the final, this time 6-5 after fighting back from 4-1 down.

In addition to a good finish to the season, Chelsea made a strong start to our 2025/26 campaign, picking up where we left off the previous year. When we came away from Liverpool with a 1-1 draw on 16 November, we broke our own competition record in the WSL.

That result made it 34 matches without tasting defeat in the league, surpassing our and the competition’s previous best unbeaten streak of 33, set between February 2019 and January 2021.

Signing off in style

At the end of 2025/26, we said goodbye to club legend Sam Kerr, but she said her farewell the only way she knows how, by doing her talking on the pitch.

She became only the second person ever to reach a century of goals for Chelsea Women when she found the net for the 100th time in Blue to complete the scoring in a 3-1 win at Aston Villa in September. It was an even more significant moment given that the goal came on her first appearance in 637 days due to injury.

There was more to come, though. As we approached the end of the season, Kerr contributed to another 3-1 win, this time away at Leicester City, to surpass Fran Kirby’s record and become Chelsea’s all-time highest scorer in the WSL, with 64 goals to her name.

And on the Australian’s final appearance for the Blues, against Man Utd at Stamford Bridge on the last day of the season, she made that 65 WSL goals and equalled Kirby’s record 115 goals for Chelsea Women across all competitions.

History makers

Kerr and Kirby were among the elite list – alongside Erin Cuthbert – of people to be voted Chelsea Women Player of the Year on two occasions, and a fourth name was added to that double roll of honour in 2026.

That was Lauren James, who took home her second such award at the end of a campaign which saw her make her 100th appearance for the Blues, in our League Cup semi-final win away at Manchester City, en route to lifting the trophy.

James still has a way to go to catch up with our retiring captain Millie Bright, who made her 300th Chelsea appearance in the home league win over London rivals Tottenham Hotspur in October.

Before hanging up her boots and calling time on a glittering career with the Blues when she retired at the end of the season, Bright wrote her name in the history books by breaking the all-time WSL appearance record, playing her 211th game in that competition against Liverpool.

Hitting the landmarks

A number of other players also hit significant appearance milestones for Chelsea Women during the 2025/26 campaign.

Impressively, Cuthbert reached 300th appearances for the club in our FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City at Stamford Bridge.

Guro Reiten played her 200th game for the club against Brighton & Hove Albion in December, before departing later in the campaign for a new challenge at Gotham FC. Sjoeke Nusken, meanwhile, reached her century when she made her 100th appearance away at Everton late in the season.

Nathalie Bjorn, Wieke Kaptein, Sandy Baltimore and Lucy Bronze all surpassed 50 appearances for Chelsea Women during our 2025/26 campaign.