The Blues have already taken in three US cities across our 2025 Club World Cup campaign, following a trio of matches in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well as one visit each to Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia.

• Tickets are still available for our Club World Cup semi-final so support your Blues here

Now we make our way to East Rutherford, New Jersey. That is the home of the MetLife Stadium, where we will be taking on Brazilian side Fluminense with a place in the final – to be played at the same venue – up for grabs.

Kick-off against Fluminense will be at 8pm UK time on Tuesday 8 July. Tickets are still available for the match in New Jersey from FIFA here, while supporters worldwide can watch the game live on DAZN by signing up for free here.

Ahead of that game, you can refresh your memory of Chelsea men’s team’s four previous trips to New Jersey on the banks of the Hudson River…

New Jersey All-Stars 0-2 Chelsea, 30 May 1954

During a busy summer schedule in 1954, we visited New Jersey for the seventh of 10 post-season games. Ted Drake took his Chelsea side across the Atlantic to tour North America to keep the players sharp going into pre-season, and it clearly worked as the 1954/55 campaign would see us crowned as champions of England for the first time.

A year before that famous triumph, Chelsea arrived at F E Rodgers Stadium in the town of Harrison, where we took on an All-Stars team. Our own line-up had a makeshift look to it too, with Plymouth Argyle’s goalkeeper Bill Shortt keeping a clean sheet for the Blues.

At the other end of the pitch, Les Stubbs and Jim Lewis got the goals, as Drake’s side got another summer win under our belt ahead of the club’s most successful season yet.

Chelsea 1-1 AC Milan, 31 July 2005

The Blues had already met Milan once in the USA in the summer of 2005, when Arjen Robben's goal gave the newly-crowned Premier League champions a 1-0 win in Boston, before the two sides met again at Giants Stadium in New Jersey.

The honours were shared this time, when the game fired into life in the second half. Didier Drogba opened the scoring with a brilliant solo goal, beating two defenders before firing into the back of the net. We then survived a warning when the linesman's flag went up to deny Christian Vieri an equaliser, after he had tucked in the rebound following an Andrea Pirlo free-kick which came back off the woodwork.

There was no reprieve from the officials when Rui Costa curled past Petr Cech to level the scores with 10 minutes remaining, though. There was nearly a late winner for Chelsea, as Frank Lampard went agonisingly close, but in the end we had to settle for a draw.

Chelsea 2-0 AC Milan, 4 August 2013

The Blues continued our perfect pre-season with a fifth win from as many games since the return of Jose Mourinho as head coach that summer, booking our place in the final of the International Champions Cup in the process.

The game was decided in Chelsea's favour by two moments of outstanding brilliance. The first was a stunning counter-attack, which released Eden Hazard down the left to weave his way forward and draw defenders in, before finding Kevin De Bruyne in space. The latter Belgian's finish was just as good, rolling an early first-time shot into the bottom corner and leaving the keeper stranded.

The second was provided by new signing Andre Schurrle, who found the net for the first time in a Chelsea shirt with a display of technique and composure, sweeping Victor Moses' cross into the bottom-right corner with a textbook volley. That gave us victory on our only previous visit to the MetLife Stadium.

New York Red Bulls 4-2 Chelsea, 22 July 2015

The men’s team’s most recent visit to New Jersey saw us taking on the locals in their home ground, the Red Bull Arena (now known as the Sports Illustrated Stadium) in New Jersey. It wasn't a trip to remember, though.

Again heading to the USA as Premier League champions, this time we looked a little rusty in our first pre-season friendly. And that was against a second-string New York Red Bulls side, the Americans' first-choice XI having played a US Open Cup quarter-final the previous day.

All seemed to be going to plan when Loic Remy turned in Oscar's cross to give us a 1-0 lead at the break, but things went downhill after Mourinho made eight half-time substitutions. One of those introduced, goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, had a first Chelsea appearance to forget, conceding four times in his first 32 minutes of action for the Blues, meaning Hazard's goal in reply was just a consolation.

Tickets are available to see our Club World Cup semi-final against Fluminense in New Jersey so support your Blues here. You can also watch the game live anywhere in the world via DAZN by signing up for free here.