Chelsea vs Crystal Palace head-to-head

Chelsea are unbeaten in our last 15 Premier League matches against Crystal Palace (13 wins, two draws), our longest current run against any of the 19 other sides involved in the 2025/26 campaign.

Crystal Palace’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea in the corresponding fixture last September ended a run of 13 consecutive Premier League defeats against the Blues. We drew for the first time since 1995, bringing an end to a 26-game run in the league without the two sides finishing level.

The Eagles’ last win against Chelsea was in October 2017 at Selhurst Park, while they last left Stamford Bridge with three points earlier that year. Both were 2-1 wins.

The Eagles have conceded at least once in each of their last 22 Premier League games against Chelsea, in a run stretching back to 2014.

Last season Crystal Palace avoided defeat against Chelsea both home and away in a single league campaign for the first time since 1991/92.

Head-to-Head (all competitions)

Played 67
Won 38
Drawn 17
Lost 12

Biggest win for each team

Chelsea 6-2 Crystal Palace 1997/98 Premier League
Crystal Palace 7-1 Chelsea 1905/06 FA Cup

Crystal Palace’s biggest league win – 2-0 in 1972/73, Selhurst Park, Division One
Crystal Palace’s biggest win at Stamford Bridge is 3-2 in 1975/76, FA Cup

Last five meetings at Stamford Bridge

3 Oct 2020: Premier League W 4-0 (Chilwell, Zouma, Jorginho 2 pens)
14 Aug 2021: Premier League W 3-0 (Alonso, Pulisic, Chalobah)
15 Jan 2023: Premier League W 1-0 (Havertz)
27 Dec 2023: Premier League W 2-1 (Mudryk, Madueke pen)
1 Sep 2024: Premier League D 1-1 (Jackson)

Chelsea stats

Chelsea will begin the 2025/26 season only 35 days after our Club World Cup victory in New Jersey, marking our shortest-ever break between seasons - two days fewer than the Covid-affected 2019/20 and 2020/21 campaigns.

This is the club's 34th Premier League season, and the 21st time we have begun the campaign at Stamford Bridge.

It’s the 15th time we have opened a league season with a London derby and the first time ever we’ve started a campaign with four consecutive games against teams from the capital. We’ve won all four opening day derbies in the Premier League.

Premier League opening day derbies

2000/01: West Ham United (h) W 4-2
2002/03: Charlton Athletic (a) W 3-2
2016/17: West Ham United (h) W 2-1
2021/22: Crystal Palace (h) W 3-0

Chelsea are unbeaten at home in the Premier League since Fulham won here on Boxing Day. We have won eight and drawn two of our ten games since then.

Chelsea have scored in 31 of our last 32 Premier League home matches, netting a total of 73 goals. The only exception was a 2-0 defeat to Manchester City on the opening weekend of last season. We haven’t lost on matchday one in consecutive campaigns since 1997/98 and 1998/99, which both came against Coventry City.

We have won nine of our last ten matches across all competitions, and are aiming for a sixth consecutive win.

Only Manchester United (22) have won more matchday one games in the Premier League than Chelsea (20).

Before the opening weekend, Chelsea and Aston Villa each had 27 players who scored on their Premier League debut - the most of any club.

We had a club record 22 debutants in 2024/25, one more than the previous campaign.

Across the last three Premier League seasons, Moises Caicedo has made more tackles (305) and won possession more times (677) than any other player.

Following goals against Fluminense and Paris Saint-Germain at the Club World Cup, Joao Pedro could become the first player to score in each of his first three starts for Chelsea in all competitions since Diego Costa in August 2014.

Nicolas Jackson is serving the third and last match of his domestic suspension following the red card received at Newcastle in May.

Crystal Palace stats

Last season

Premier League - 12th with 53 points, four more than 2023/24
FA Cup - Winners, beat Manchester City 1-0 in the final
Carabao Cup - Lost 3-2 to Arsenal in the quarter-finals
Top scorers (all competitions) - Jean-Philippe Mateta 17

Last season’s Premier League stats

Most minutes played (out of possible 3,420): Henderson 3,420, Munoz 3,233, Lacroix 3,118, Mitchell 3,102
Most goals: Mateta 14, Eze 8, Sarr 8, J Ayew 5
Assists: Eze 8, Sarr 6, Munoz 5, Mitchell 5

Crystal Palace have lost their opening league match in three of the last four seasons, with the exception being a 1-0 win at newly-promoted Sheffield United in 2023/24.

Crystal Palace lost only two of their final 15 Premier League away games last season, going unbeaten against Arsenal (2-2), Tottenham (2-0) and Liverpool (1-1) in their final three games on the road.

The Eagles ended last season unbeaten in eight games (four wins, four draws), winning three of their last four.

Palace lost four of their six away Premier League London derbies last season, with their only victory coming at Tottenham Hotspur.

Pre-season

Millwall (h): W 1-0
Crawley Town (a): W 3-0
Mainz (Austria): D 1-1
Mainz (Austria): L 2-3
Augsburg (Austria): W 3-1
Augsburg (Austria): L 0-1

Last five competitive games

Tottenham (a): W 2-0
Man City (FA Cup final): W 1-0
Wolves (h): W 4-2
Liverpool (a): D 1-1
Liverpool (Community Shield): D 2-2, won 3-2 on penalties

Crystal Palace’s XI vs Liverpool last weekend (3-4-2-1): Henderson; Richards, Lacroix, Guehi (c); Munoz, Wharton, Kamada, Mitchell; Sarr, Eze; Mateta. Their scorers were Mateta and Sarr.

Oliver Glasner’s managerial record against Chelsea

Won 0
Drawn 2
Lost 0

Crystal Palace's major summer transfers

In

Walter Benitez - PSV Eindhoven
Borna Sosa - Ajax

Out

Rob Holding - Colorado Rapids
Jeffrey Schlupp - Released, now Norwich
Joel Ward - Released

Match officials

Referee: Darren England
Assistants: Ian Hussin, Akil Howson
Fourth Official: Michael Salisbury
VAR: James Bell

This is Darren England’s first Blues appointment for nearly a year. His only Chelsea game last season was our 6-2 win at Wolves.

Digital tickets have been introduced for games at Stamford Bridge this season and you can find more information here. Supporters who need help in the build-up to Sunday's game can access various help points around Stamford Bridge. See the map below.