Chelsea's 2026 pre-season tour is officially underway as the Blues departed the UK today and we have gathered together some of our favourite images as the players and staff took flight for Australia.
The first leg of our pre-season tour takes in two matches in Sydney, against Western Sydney Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur, with those games and every fixture during this tour available to watch live on CFC+.
New manager Xabi Alonso has taken an initial 27-man travelling squad to Australia, which departed Cobham for the long flight down under on Friday, and that number will grow during the tour as our internationals who were on World Cup duty over the summer return to join their fellow Blues for pre-season.
Below you can see images we captured as Alonso and his 27-man squad departed the UK en route to Australia for the start of our pre-season tour...
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