The match is the first of our tour of New Zealand and Australia, and can be viewed live on the Chelsea Official App and the Chelsea website's homepage. Just make sure you are signed in!

We will create history when we kick off at Eden Park at 4pm local time (5am UK) as the first Women's Super League team to play a fixture in New Zealand.

Head coach Sonia Bompastor has selected Livia Peng to start in goal, while Kadeisha Buchanan takes the armband for the afternoon.

New signings Giulia Dragoni and Nelly Las are named on the substitutes' bench, and are joined by Maika Hamano following last season's loan spell at Tottenham Hotspur and Mayra Ramirez, who has returned from a lengthy layoff in 2025/26.

Chelsea: Peng, Carpenter, Buchanan (c), Girma, McCabe, Nusken, Potter, Kaptein, Baltimore, Thompson, Beever-Jones

Chelsea substitutes: Hampton, Cox, Bronze, Buurman, Dragoni, Las, Hamano, Brown, Ramirez, Sarwie