Having bounced back from our first defeat of the season with three consecutive victories in the Women's Super League and UEFA Women's Champions League, the Blues' attention now switches to a new competition for 2025/26, as we get under way in the Women's League Cup.

Due to our involvement in European competition, Sonia Bompastor's team received a bye for the group stage and enter directly into the knockout rounds, where we will begin our defence of the trophy we lifted in March against Liverpool.

Here is how you can follow all of the action...

When and where

We take on Liverpool at the St Helens Stadium on Sunday 21 December at 1pm UK time.

How to watch

The match will be shown live in the UK by Sky Sports.

As always, you can follow minute-by-minute updates in our Liverpool vs Chelsea Women Match Centre on the Chelsea Official App and website. You can also follow through Chelsea Women’s social media channels on X, Facebook and Instagram.

The form

The Blues have responded strongly since suffering our first loss of the season to Everton at the start of December. We got back to winning ways in the Women's Super League with a 3-0 victory at Brighton & Hove Albion thanks to strikes by Sandy Baltimore and Alyssa Thompson, either side of an own goal.

That was sandwiched by a pair of European wins, beating Roma 6-0 and Wolfsburg 2-1 in the Women's Champions League, to book our spot in the quarter-finals with a third-place finish in the league stage table.

Liverpool recovered from back-to-back defeats in the Women's Super League by securing a 2-2 draw away at West Ham United last time out, but they remain bottom of the table, awaiting their first win of the season in the WSL.

They did top their group in the Women's League Cup with maximum points, though, beating Sheffield United, Durham and Sunderland.

Recent head-to-head

Chelsea have already travelled away to Liverpool once this season, drawing 1-1 at the St Helens Stadium in the Women's Super League, just over a month ago.

On that occasion, Thompson opened the scoring early on with a brilliant strike, but Beata Olsson equalised before the break and we had to settle for a point.

We did enjoy victory on our trip to Liverpool last season, though. Two quickfire goals from Mayra Ramirez and Guro Reiten before half-time gave us the advantage, before Aggie Beever-Jones struck late on to complete a 3-0 victory.