The kids are alright

The average age of Chelsea’s starting XI in the Premier League this season was 24 years 36 days – the youngest ever by a team in a single campaign in the competition's history, beating the previous record set by Leeds United in 1999/00 (24 years 162 days).

Chelsea did not use a single player over the age of 27 in a Premier League match this season, with this run of 38 games the longest by a side in Premier League history. The previous longest had been a run of only six by Liverpool in April/May 2000.

Chelsea’s starting XI against Man City (h) had an average age of 23 years, 180 days: the second youngest by a Premier League team on matchday one, after Man City in 2008/09 (22y 360d).

Saintly stuff and Toffee delight

Chelsea scored five goals at Southampton with five different scorers and five different assisters for the first time for an away Premier League match.

The only other occasion it happened was at Stamford Bridge against Man City in March 2003 when we won 5-0. Our goals were from Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (assist Gianfranco Zola), John Terry (Graeme Le Saux), Mario Stanic (Terry), Frank Lampard (Carlton Cole) and William Gallas (Stanic).

Chelsea remain unbeaten in our last 30 Premier League home games against Everton (17 wins, 13 draws). It’s our longest run without defeat against an opponent at Stamford Bridge in our top-flight history exceeding our previous record 27 set against Tottenham between 1990 and 2016.

A European campaign to remember

Chelsea became the first club to win all of UEFA's major trophies after we claimed the Conference League.

We achieved a club record nine consecutive wins in European competition. Our previous best was six during our 2018/19 season in the Europa League.

The Blues kicked off a European campaign proper with nine consecutive victories for the first time.

Chelsea achieved a club-record 17 different scorers in a single European campaign (excluding play-offs). The previous best of 13 was set in 2021/22 (excluding own goals).

Thirty-seven players played in our European campaign this season, a club record, including Romeo Lavia who played 12 minutes in the first leg of our play-off against Servette.

Chelsea are the first English club to have a 100 per cent record in both men’s and women’s group/league stage matches in the same season of UEFA competition.

The away fixture against Astana was the furthest we have travelled for a game in European competition. It is 3,500 miles between London and Almaty, Kazakhstan, which is where the game was played, and we faced an extended flight time of eight hours to take a non-direct route avoiding conflict zones in Ukraine, Russia and Syria. The previous record was 2,500 miles, and a five-and-a-half hour flight, to Baku, Azerbaijan in 2017 to play a Champions League group match against Qarabag and in 2019 to face Arsenal in the Europa League final.

And finally…

Chelsea recorded eight consecutive wins across all competitions for the first time since our club record run of 10 between October and December 2016.

For the fourth time in six seasons, Chelsea beat Tottenham Hotspur home and away in the league.

Against Noah, Christopher Nkunku scored our all-time 500th successful penalty on our 665th attempt, a 75 per cent success rate.

We maintained our remarkable record in March, not losing a Premier League home game since 2001 when Sunderland won 4-2 at the Bridge, 41 games ago (33 wins, seven draws).

There were 14 yellow cards shown by referee Anthony Taylor at the Vitality Stadium in September (eight for Chelsea and six for Bournemouth), the most ever issued in a Premier League game.