2024–25 Chelsea F.C. season

Chelsea
2024–25 season
Owner	BlueCo
Chairman	Todd Boehly
Head Coach	Vacant
Stadium	Stamford Bridge
Premier League	Pre-season
FA Cup	Third round
EFL Cup	Third round
UEFA Conference League	Playoff round
FIFA Club World Cup	Group stage
	← 2023–24 2025–26 →

The 2024–25 season will be the 119th season in the history of Chelsea Football Club and their 36th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. In addition to the domestic league, the club will participate in the FA Cup and the EFL Cup.

In international football, Chelsea will contest both the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League, with this season being their first participation in the latter.

This will be the first season since 2019–20 without Thiago Silva who left after 4 years playing in the club in order to join Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fluminense.

Squad

Squad information

Players and squad numbers last updated on 25 May 2024. Appearances include all competitions. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Player	Positions	Date of birth (age)	Signed in	Contract ends	Signed from	Transfer fee	Apps.	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	Robert Sánchez (HG)	GK	(1997-11-18) 18 November 1997 (age 26)	2023	2030	Brighton & Hove Albion	£25M	21	0
13	Marcus Bettinelli (HG)	GK	(1992-05-24) 24 May 1992 (age 32)	2021	2026^[1]	Fulham	Free^[2]	1	0
28	Đorđe Petrović	GK	(1999-10-08) 8 October 1999 (age 25)	2023	2030	New England Revolution	£12.5M	29	0
	Kepa Arrizabalaga	GK	(1994-10-03) 3 October 1994 (age 30)	2018	2025	Athletic Bilbao	£71.6M	163	0
	Eddie Beach (U21)	GK	(2003-10-09) 9 October 2003 (age 21)	2023	2024	Academy	N/A	0	0
	Lucas Bergström (U21)	GK	(2002-09-05) 5 September 2002 (age 22)	2022	2025	Academy	N/A	0	0
	Kai Crampton (U21)	GK	(2007-01-15) 15 January 2007 (age 17)	2023	2024	Academy	N/A	0	0
	Jamie Cumming (HG)	GK	(1999-09-04) 4 September 1999 (age 25)	2020	2024	Academy	N/A	0	0
	Gabriel Slonina (U21)	GK	(2004-05-15) 15 May 2004 (age 20)	2022	2028	Chicago Fire	£8.1M	0	0
Defenders
2	Axel Disasi	CB	(1998-03-11) 11 March 1998 (age 26)	2023	2029	Monaco	£38.8M	44	3
3	Marc Cucurella	LB / CB	(1998-07-22) 22 July 1998 (age 26)	2022	2028	Brighton & Hove Albion	£56M^[3]	57	1
5	Benoît Badiashile	CB	(2001-03-26) 26 March 2001 (age 23)	2023	2030	Monaco	£35M	31	2
14	Trevoh Chalobah (HG)	CB / RB	(1999-07-05) 5 July 1999 (age 25)	2018	2028	Academy	N/A	78	5
21	Ben Chilwell (vice-captain) (HG)	LB	(1996-12-21) 21 December 1996 (age 27)	2020	2027^[4]	Leicester City	£45M^[5]	106	9
24	Reece James (captain) (HG)	RB / CB	(1999-12-08) 8 December 1999 (age 24)	2018	2028	Academy	N/A	157	11
26	Levi Colwill (U21)	CB	(2003-02-26) 26 February 2003 (age 21)	2021	2029	Academy	N/A	32	1
27	Malo Gusto (U21)	RB	(2003-05-19) 19 May 2003 (age 21)	2023	2030	Lyon	£26.3M	35	0
33	Wesley Fofana	CB	(2000-12-17) 17 December 2000 (age 23)	2022	2029	Leicester City	£70M	20	2
42	Alfie Gilchrist (U21)	CB	(2003-11-28) 28 November 2003 (age 20)	2023	2026	Academy	N/A	17	1
63	Josh Acheampong (U21)	RB / CB	(2006-05-05) 5 May 2006 (age 18)	2024	2026	Academy	N/A	1	0
	Malang Sarr	CB	(1999-01-23) 23 January 1999 (age 25)	2020	2025	Nice	Free	21	0
	Bashir Humphreys (U21)	CB	(2003-03-15) 15 March 2003 (age 21)	2023	2027	Academy	N/A	2	0
	Ian Maatsen	LB / LW	(2002-03-10) 10 March 2002 (age 22)	2019	2026	Academy	N/A	16	0
Midfielders
8	Enzo Fernández	CM / AM / DM	(2001-01-17) 17 January 2001 (age 23)	2023	2031	Benfica	£106.7M	62	7
16	Lesley Ugochukwu (U21)	DM	(2004-03-26) 26 March 2004 (age 20)	2023	2030	Rennes	£23M	13	0
17	Carney Chukwuemeka (U21)	CM / AM	(2003-10-20) 20 October 2003 (age 21)	2022	2028	Aston Villa	£20M	27	2
23	Conor Gallagher (HG) (3rd captain)	CM	(2000-02-06) 6 February 2000 (age 24)	2019	2025	Academy	N/A	93	10
25	Moisés Caicedo	DM	(2001-11-02) 2 November 2001 (age 23)	2023	2031	Brighton & Hove Albion	£100M^[6]	46	0
31	Cesare Casadei (U21)	CM	(2003-01-10) 10 January 2003 (age 21)	2023	2028	Academy	N/A	9	0
45	Roméo Lavia (U21)	DM	(2004-01-06) 6 January 2004 (age 20)	2023	2030	Southampton	£53M	1	0
49	Jimi Tauriainen (U21)	CM	(2004-03-08) 8 March 2004 (age 20)	2024	2026	Academy	N/A	2	0
54	Leo Castledine (U21)	AM	(2005-08-20) 20 August 2005 (age 19)	2024	2027	Academy	N/A	1	0
68	Michael Golding (U21)	AM	(2006-05-23) 23 May 2006 (age 18)	2024	2025	Academy	N/A	1	0
	Tino Anjorin (HG)	AM	(2001-11-23) 23 November 2001 (age 22)	2019	2025	Academy	N/A	5	0
	Lewis Hall (U21)	DM / LB	(2004-09-08) 8 September 2004 (age 20)	2021	2026	Academy	N/A	12	0
	Omari Hutchinson (U21)	AM / RW	(2003-10-30) 30 October 2003 (age 21)	2022	2025	Academy	N/A	2	0
	Alex Matos (U21)	AM	(2004-10-03) 3 October 2004 (age 20)	2023	2026	Academy	N/A	2	0
	Dion Rankine (U21)	RW / LW	(2002-10-15) 15 October 2002 (age 22)	2023	2025	Academy	N/A	0	0
	Andrey Santos (U21)	CM	(2004-05-03) 3 May 2004 (age 20)	2023	2030	Vasco da Gama	£18M	0	0
	Harvey Vale (U21)	AM	(2003-09-11) 11 September 2003 (age 21)	2021	2025	Academy	N/A	5	0
	Charlie Webster (U21)	CM	(2004-01-31) 31 January 2004 (age 20)	2023	2024	Academy	N/A	0	0
Forwards
7	Raheem Sterling (HG)	LW / RW	(1994-12-08) 8 December 1994 (age 29)	2022	2027	Manchester City	£47.5M	79	18
10	Mykhailo Mudryk	LW / AM	(2001-01-05) 5 January 2001 (age 23)	2023	2031	Shakhtar Donetsk	£62M	57	7
11	Noni Madueke	RW / ST	(2002-03-10) 10 March 2002 (age 22)	2023	2030	PSV	£30.6M	44	9
15	Nicolas Jackson	ST	(2001-06-20) 20 June 2001 (age 23)	2023	2031	Villarreal	£32M	42	17
18	Christopher Nkunku	LW / AM	(1997-11-14) 14 November 1997 (age 27)	2023	2029	RB Leipzig	£52M	12	2
20	Cole Palmer	RW / AM	(2002-05-06) 6 May 2002 (age 22)	2023	2030	Manchester City	£40M	43	24
36	Deivid Washington (U21)	RW / LW	(2005-06-05) 5 June 2005 (age 19)	2023	2030	Santos	£13.7M	3	0
43	Diego Moreira (U21)	LW / RW	(2004-12-21) 21 December 2004 (age 19)	2023	2028	Benfica	Free	1	0
	Hakim Ziyech	RW / AM	(1993-03-19) 19 March 1993 (age 31)	2020	2025	Ajax	£37M	107	14
	Armando Broja (HG)	ST	(2001-09-10) 10 September 2001 (age 23)	2020	2028	Academy	N/A	38	3
	Mason Burstow (U21)	ST	(2003-08-04) 4 August 2003 (age 21)	2022	2025	Charlton Athletic	£1.8M	3	0
	David Datro Fofana (U21)	ST	(2002-12-22) 22 December 2002 (age 21)	2023	2029	Molde	£8M	4	0
	Romelu Lukaku (HG)	ST	(1993-05-13) 13 May 1993 (age 31)	2021	2026	Internazionale	£97.5M	59	15
	Ângelo Gabriel (U21)	RW / LW	(2004-12-21) 21 December 2004 (age 19)	2023	2029	Santos	£13M	0	0
Out on loan

Notes:

Player (HG) – Player who fulfils the Premier League's "Home Grown Player" criteria.
Player (U21) – Player who is registered by Chelsea as an Under-21 Player on the 2023–24 Premier League Squad List.

Transfers

In

Date	Position	Player	From	Fee	Ref
24 April 2025	RW	Estêvão Willian	Palmeiras	£29,700,000	^[7]

Out

Date	Position	Player	To	Fee	Ref

Loaned in

Date	Position	Player	From	Date until	Ref

Loaned out

Date	Position	Player	To	Date until	Ref

Released / Out of Contract

Date	Position	Player	Subsequent club	Join date	Ref
30 June 2024	CB	Thiago Silva	Fluminense	1 July 2024	^[8]^[9]

Pre-season and friendlies

On 8 March, Chelsea announced a planned return to the United States during pre-season with matches later confirmed against Wrexham, Club América, Celtic, Manchester City and Real Madrid.^[10]^[11]

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

24 July 2024 Friendly	Chelsea	v	Wrexham	Santa Clara, United States
TBC PDT				Stadium: Levi's Stadium

27 July 2024 Friendly	Chelsea	v	Celtic	Notre Dame, United States
TBC CDT				Stadium: Notre Dame Stadium

31 July 2024 Friendly	Chelsea	v	Club América	Atlanta, United States
TBC EDT				Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Stadium

3 August 2024 Friendly	Chelsea	v	Manchester City	Columbus, United States
TBC EDT				Stadium: Ohio Stadium

6 August 2024 Friendly	Chelsea	v	Real Madrid	Charlotte, United States
TBC EDT				Stadium: Bank of America Stadium

Competitions

Premier League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Liverpool	11	9	1	1	21	6	+15	28	Qualification for the Champions League league phase
2	Manchester City	11	7	2	2	22	13	+9	23
3	Chelsea	11	5	4	2	21	13	+8	19
4	Arsenal	11	5	4	2	18	12	+6	19
5	Nottingham Forest	11	5	4	2	15	10	+5	19	Qualification for the Europa League league phase

Updated to match(es) played on 10 November 2024. Source: Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) If the champions, relegated teams or qualified teams for UEFA competitions cannot be determined by rules 1 to 3, rules 4.1 to 4.3 are applied – 4.1) Points gained in head-to-head record between such teams; 4.2) Away goals scored in head-to-head record between such teams; 4.3) Play-offs^[12]

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated: pre-season.
Source: Soccerway

Matches

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

FA Cup

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

EFL Cup

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

UEFA Conference League

Chelsea will enter the UEFA Conference League in the play-off qualification round. The draw for the play-off round will be held on 5 August 2024.

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

Play-off round

FIFA Club World Cup

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

Group stage

Statistics

Appearances and goals

As of 1 July 2024

List includes all first team players and any other matchday squad players

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premier League		FA Cup		EFL Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards

References

^ "Bettinelli remains a Blue". www.chelseafc.com. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
^ "Blues sign former Fulham keeper Bettinelli". BBC Sport. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
^ Naylor, Andy. "Brighton and Chelsea agree Cucurella fee". The Athletic. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
^ "Chilwell commits to Chelsea". Chelsea F.C. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
^ "Ben Chilwell: Chelsea sign Leicester defender on five-year deal for £45m". BBC Sport. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
^ "Chelsea sign Brighton's Caicedo for initial £100m". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
^ "Estevao Willian: Chelsea agree initial 34m euro (£29m) fee for teenage forward". BBC Sport. 2024-05-18. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
^ "Thiago Silva to depart Chelsea at the end of the season". Chelsea FC. 29 April 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
^ "Thiago Silva to join Fluminense". Chelsea FC. 7 May 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
^ "First two dates unveiled for USA 2024". Chelsea FC. 8 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
^ "United States date for Chelsea vs Celtic". Chelsea FC. 18 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
^ Premier League Handbook: Season 2024/25 (PDF). 25 July 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024.

[1] "Bettinelli remains a Blue". www.chelseafc.com. Retrieved 2023-03-27.

[2] "Blues sign former Fulham keeper Bettinelli". BBC Sport. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

[Cucurella-3] Naylor, Andy. "Brighton and Chelsea agree Cucurella fee". The Athletic. Retrieved 5 August 2022.

[4] "Chilwell commits to Chelsea". Chelsea F.C. Retrieved 2023-08-13.

[5] "Ben Chilwell: Chelsea sign Leicester defender on five-year deal for £45m". BBC Sport. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2020.

[6] "Chelsea sign Brighton's Caicedo for initial £100m". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2023-08-14.

[7] "Estevao Willian: Chelsea agree initial 34m euro (£29m) fee for teenage forward". BBC Sport. 2024-05-18. Retrieved 2024-05-25.

[8] "Thiago Silva to depart Chelsea at the end of the season". Chelsea FC. 29 April 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2024.

[9] "Thiago Silva to join Fluminense". Chelsea FC. 7 May 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2024.

[10] "First two dates unveiled for USA 2024". Chelsea FC. 8 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.

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