2018–19 Chelsea F.C. Women season

Chelsea
2018–19 season
Chairman	Bruce Buck
Manager	Emma Hayes
Stadium	Kingsmeadow
FA WSL	3rd
FA Cup	Semi-finals
FA WSL Cup	Semi-finals
Champions League	Semi-finals
Home colours	Away colours
	← 2017 2019–20 →

The 2018–19 season is Chelsea Women's 27th competitive season and 9th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. It is the first season after the naming switch from Chelsea Ladies FC and also the first season in the rebranded FA WSL.^[1] The season covers the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.

Squad information

First team squad

As of 4 January 2019.^[2]

No.	Name	Since	Date of birth (Age)	Signed from
Goalkeepers
1	Hedvig Lindahl	2014	(1983-04-29) 29 April 1983 (age 41)	Kristianstads DFF
12	Lizzie Durack	2018	(1994-05-20) 20 May 1994 (age 30)	Everton
28	Carly Telford	2017	(1987-07-07) 7 July 1987 (age 37)	Notts County
30	Ann-Katrin Berger	2019	(1990-10-09) 9 October 1990 (age 34)	Birmingham City
Defenders
2	Maria Thorisdottir	2017	(1993-06-05) 5 June 1993 (age 31)	Klepp
3	Hannah Blundell	2013	(1994-05-25) 25 May 1994 (age 30)	Homegrown
4	Millie Bright (vice-captain)	2014	(1993-08-21) 21 August 1993 (age 31)	Doncaster Rovers Belles
6	Anita Asante	2018	(1985-04-27) 27 April 1985 (age 39)	FC Rosengård
11	Ali Riley	2018	(1987-10-30) 30 October 1987 (age 37)	FC Rosengård
16	Magdalena Eriksson	2017	(1993-09-06) 6 September 1993 (age 31)	Linköpings
20	Jonna Andersson	2017	(1993-01-02) 2 January 1993 (age 31)	Linköpings
21	Deanna Cooper	2017	(1993-06-19) 19 June 1993 (age 31)	London Bees
25	Jade Bailey	2016	(1995-11-11) 11 November 1995 (age 29)	Arsenal
Midfielders
5	Sophie Ingle	2018	(1991-09-02) 2 September 1991 (age 33)	Liverpool
7	Jessica Carter	2018	(1997-10-27) 27 October 1997 (age 27)	Birmingham City
8	Karen Carney (captain)	2016	(1987-08-01) 1 August 1987 (age 37)	Birmingham City
10	Ji So-yun	2014	(1991-02-21) 21 February 1991 (age 33)	INAC Kobe Leonessa
18	Maren Mjelde	2017	(1989-11-06) 6 November 1989 (age 35)	Avaldsnes IL
24	Drew Spence	2008	(1992-10-23) 23 October 1992 (age 32)	Homegrown
Forwards
14	Fran Kirby	2015	(1993-06-29) 29 June 1993 (age 31)	Reading
15	Beth England	2016	(1994-06-03) 3 June 1994 (age 30)	Doncaster Rovers Belles
17	Adelina Engman	2018	(1994-10-11) 11 October 1994 (age 30)	Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC
22	Erin Cuthbert	2016	(1998-07-19) 19 July 1998 (age 26)	Glasgow City
23	Ramona Bachmann	2017	(1990-10-25) 25 October 1990 (age 34)	Wolfsburg

New contracts

No.	Pos	Player	Contract end	Date	Source
10	MF	Ji So-yun	2020	21 May 2018	^[3]
18	MF	Maren Mjelde	2021	29 May 2018	^[4]
14	FW	Fran Kirby	2021	1 June 2018	^[5]
16	DF	Magdalena Eriksson	2021	21 August 2018	^[6]
4	DF	Millie Bright	2021	22 August 2018	^[7]

Transfers

In

Pos	Player	Transferred From	Fee	Date	Source
GK	Lizzie Durack	Everton	Undisclosed	8 June 2018	^[8]
MF	Sophie Ingle	Liverpool	Undisclosed	14 June 2018	^[9]
MF	Jessica Carter	Birmingham City	Undisclosed	19 June 2018	^[10]
DF	Ali Riley	FC Rosengård	Undisclosed	26 June 2018	^[11]
FW	Adelina Engman	Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC	Undisclosed	29 June 2018	^[12]
GK	Ann-Katrin Berger	Birmingham City	Undisclosed	4 January 2019	^[13]

Out

Pos	Player	Transferred To	Fee	Date	Source
MF	Katie Chapman	Retired		10 May 2018	^[14]
FW	Eniola Aluko	Juventus	Free	16 May 2018	^[15]
DF	Claire Rafferty	West Ham United	Free	17 May 2018	^[16]
GK	Becky Spencer	West Ham United	Free	21 May 2018	^[17]
GK	Fran Kitching	Sheffield United	Free	22 May 2018	^[18]
FW	Gemma Davison	Reading	Free	13 June 2018	^[19]
DF	Gilly Flaherty	West Ham United	Undisclosed	25 June 2018	^[20]

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Manager	Emma Hayes
Assistant Manager	Paul Green
Coach	TJ O'Leary
Head of Player Development	Robert Udberg

Source: Chelsea F.C.

Non-competitive

Pre-season

2 August 2018 Friendly	Montpellier	3–2	Chelsea	Montpellier
18:00 EST	Cayman 11' Le Bihan 45', 63'	Report	Cuthbert 37' Ji 70'	Stadium: Domaine de Grammont

5 August 2018 Friendly	FC Barcelona	1–1	Chelsea	Barcelona
19:00 EST	Bárbara 78'	Report	Carney 90+1'	Stadium: Mini Estadi

8 August 2018 Friendly	Chelsea	3–0	Juventus	Kingston upon Thames
19:00 BST	Bachmann 42' Mjelde 86' Kirby 90'	Report		Stadium: Kingsmeadow

Competitions

Women's Super League

Matches

Sun 9 Sept 2018 1	Chelsea	0–0	Manchester City	Kingston upon Thames
14:00 BST	Eriksson 53'	Report	Beattie 3' Bonner 67'	Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 2,501 Referee: Rebecca Welch

Wed 19 Sept 2018 2	Bristol City	0–0	Chelsea	Bristol
19:00 BST		Report		Stadium: Stoke Gifford Stadium Attendance: 459 Referee: Stacey Pearson

Sun 23 Sept 2018 3	Everton	0–0	Chelsea	Southport
14:00 BST		Report	Eriksson 64' Mjelde 74'	Stadium: Merseyrail Community Stadium Attendance: 213 Referee: Helen Conley

Sun 30 Sept 2018 4	Chelsea	2–0	Brighton & Hove Albion	Kingston upon Thames
14:00 BST	Kirby 32' Cuthbert 36' Thorisdottir 67'	Report		Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 1,175 Referee: Abby Marriott

Sun 14 Oct 2018 5	Chelsea	0–5	Arsenal	Kingston upon Thames
14:00 BST	Spence 63'	Report	K. Little 21' (pen.) Miedema 38', 57' Nobbs 52', 67'	Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 2,020 Referee: Sam Purkiss

Sun 21 Oct 2018 6	Birmingham City	0–0	Chelsea	Solihull
12:30 BST	Scott 62' Ladd 12' 85'	Report	Bright 48'	Stadium: Automated Technology Group Stadium Attendance: 1,177 Referee: Amy Fearn

Sun 28 Oct 2018 7	Chelsea	1–0	Liverpool	Kingston upon Thames
14:00 GMT	Eriksson 27' Spence 53' Cuthbert 69'	Report	Babajide 65'	Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 1,528 Referee: Stacey Pearson

Sun 4 Nov 2018 8	West Ham United	0–2	Chelsea	Rush Green
15:00 GMT	Flaherty 29' de Graaf 50'	Report	Bachmann 62', 85' Andersson 83'	Stadium: Rush Green Stadium Attendance: 962 Referee: Paul Howard

Sun 18 Nov 2018 9	Chelsea	5–0	Yeovil Town	Kingston upon Thames
14:00 GMT	Bright 20' Ji 27' Cuthbert 42' Bachmann 45' Carney 76' England 79'	Report	Cousins 40'	Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 1,484 Referee: Kirsty Dowle

Sun 2 Dec 2018 10	Chelsea	1–0	Reading	Kingston upon Thames
14:00 GMT	Ji 49'	Report		Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 1,741 Referee: Lucy Oliver

Sun 9 Dec 2018 11	Brighton & Hove Albion	0–4	Chelsea	Crawley
14:30 GMT		Report	Eriksson 59' 65' England 69', 90+1' Ji 76'	Stadium: Broadfield Stadium Attendance: 733 Referee: David Rick

Sun 6 Jan 2019 12	Chelsea	3–0	Everton	Kingston upon Thames
14:00 BST	England 6' Spence 60' Blundell 68'	Report		Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 3,221 Referee: Lee Brennan

Sun 13 Jan 2019 13	Arsenal	1–2	Chelsea	Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
12:30 BST	Miedema 80'	Report	Cuthbert 26', 63' Carney 38' Ingle 80'	Stadium: Meadow Park Attendance: 3,019 Referee: Rebecca Welch

Sun 27 Jan 2019 14	Chelsea	2–3	Birmingham City	Kingston upon Thames
14:00 BST	Cuthbert 13', 83' Bachmann 63'	Report	Follis 36' Quinn 61' Williams 82' White 90+3'	Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 2,053 Referee: Helen Conley

Sun 10 Feb 2019 15	Manchester City	2–2	Chelsea	Manchester
14:00 BST	Bright 6' Spence 18' Ji 50', 89'	Report	Wullaert 12' Stanway 24' Walsh 90'	Stadium: Academy Stadium Attendance: 3,078 Referee: Matthew Dicicco

Wed 20 Feb 2019 16	Chelsea	6–0	Bristol City	Kingston upon Thames
19:30 BST	Kirby 2', 34', 82' (pen.) England 6', 61', 89'	Report	Pattinson 68' Evans 82'	Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 1,821 Referee: Tom Bishop

Thur 14 Mar 2019 17	Liverpool	0–4	Chelsea	Birkenhead
20:00 BST	L. Little 39'	Report	Kirby 17', 22' (pen.), 52' Engman 90+4'	Stadium: Prenton Park Attendance: 237 Referee: Joe Hull

Sun 31 Mar 2019 18	Chelsea	1–1	West Ham United	Kingston upon Thames
14:00 BST	Carter 15' England 42'	Report	Reichardt 35' Flaherty 65'	Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 2,854 Referee: Stacey Pearson

Sun 21 Apr 2019 19	Yeovil Town	0–8	Chelsea	Dorchester
15:00 BST		Report	England 4', 27', 45+2' Cuthbert 16', 51' Engman 28' Kirby 84', 87'	Stadium: The Avenue Stadium Attendance: 843 Referee: Gary Parsons

Sun 12 May 2019 20	Reading	2–3	Chelsea	Buckinghamshire
14:00 BST	Harding 50' Williams 52' Allen 75'	Report	Ji 8' Carney 51' England 64'	Stadium: Adams Park Attendance: 612 Referee: Abigail Bryne

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Arsenal (C)	20	18	0	2	70	13	+57	54	Qualification for the Champions League
2	Manchester City	20	14	5	1	53	17	+36	47	Qualification for the Champions League
3	Chelsea	20	12	6	2	46	14	+32	42
4	Birmingham City	20	13	1	6	29	17	+12	40
5	Reading	20	8	3	9	33	30	+3	27

Source: FA WSL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions

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
20	12	6	2	46	14	+32	42	6	2	2	21	9	+12	6	4	0	25	5	+20

Last updated: 2 December 2018.
Source: FA WSL

Results by matchday

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Result	D	D	D	W	L	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	D	W	W	D	W	W
Position	5	5	6	5	5	5	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3

Updated to match(es) played on 12 May 2019. Source: FA WSL
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

FA Cup

Sun 3 Feb 2019 Fourth Round Proper	Everton	0–2	Chelsea	Cheshire
15:00 BST		Report	Spence 66' Blundell 90+2'	Stadium: The Select Security Stadium Referee: Dean Watson

Sun 17 Feb 2019 Fifth Round Proper	Chelsea	3–0	Arsenal	Kingston upon Thames
14:00 BST	England 5', 58' Andersson 39'	Report	Mitchell 69'	Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 2,232 Referee: Paul Howard

Sun 17 Mar 2019 Quarter-finals	Durham	0–1	Chelsea	Durham
12:00 BST		Report	Ji 28'	Stadium: New Ferens Park Attendance: 1,629 Referee: David Richardson

Sun 14 Apr 2019 Semi-finals	Manchester City	1–0	Chelsea	Manchester
15:30 BST	Wullaert 60' Stanway 75' Eriksson 90+2' (o.g)	Report	Ingle 17'	Stadium: Academy Stadium Referee: Rebecca Welch

WSL Cup

Group 1 South

Sun 19 Aug 2018 1	Chelsea	3–1	Brighton & Hove Albion	Kingston upon Thames
14:00 BST	Spence 45' Kirby 68' England 87'	Report	Whelan 59' 77'	Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 1,095 Referee: Jack Packman

Sun 26 Aug 2018 2	London Bees	1–6	Chelsea	Canons Park
14:00 BST	Pickett 44'	Report	Bachmann 7', 45' Spence 9', 36' Kirby 79' England 81'	Stadium: The Hive Stadium Attendance: 374 Referee: Neil Morrison

Sun 16 Sept 2018 3	Crystal Palace	0–4	Chelsea	London
14:00 BST	Nuttall 31' Nash 68'	Report	Engman 10' England 56', 64' Spence 59'	Stadium: The H2T Group Stadium Attendance: 476 Referee: David Spain

Wed 5 Dec 2018 4	Chelsea	7–0	Yeovil Town	Kingston upon Thames
19:30 GMT	Engman 2', 77' Spence 17', 63' England 24' Cousins 37' (o.g) Cuthbert 75'			Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 916 Referee: Lisa Benn

Wed 12 Dec 2018 5	Tottenham Hotspur	0–5	Chelsea	Cheshunt
19:30 GMT	Naz 69'	Report	Cooper 11' Riley 19' 68' Carney 46' England 60', 72'	Stadium: Cheshunt Stadium Attendance: 358 Referee: Abigail Marriott

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	WPEN	LPEN	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chelsea	5	5	0	0	0	25	2	+23	15	Advance to knock-out stage
2	Brighton & Hove Albion	5	3	0	1	1	15	8	+7	10	Advance to knock-out stage
3	Crystal Palace	5	2	1	0	2	10	12	−2	8
4	Tottenham Hotspur	5	1	1	1	2	9	12	−3	6
5	London Bees	5	1	1	0	3	9	19	−10	5
6	Yeovil Town	5	0	0	1	4	2	17	−15	1

Source: thefa.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored

Knockout rounds

Wed 9 Jan 2019 Quarter-finals	Chelsea	4–0	Reading	Kingston upon Thames
19:30 GMT	Kirby 3', 86' Asante 37' Riley 90+1'	Report		Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 973 Referee: Abigail Marriott

Wed 6 Feb 2019 Semi-finals	Chelsea	0–2	Manchester City	Kingston upon Thames
19:30 GMT	Cooper 48' Eriksson 56'	Report	Parris 49', 81'	Stadium: Kingsmeadow Attendance: 1,358 Referee: David Rock

Champions League

Round of 32

12 September 2018

15:00 BST

SFK 2000	0–5	Chelsea
Nikolic 48' Bojat 52' Spahić 81' Hadžić 90+3'	Report	Bright 6' Spence 22' Thorisdottir 36' Ji 87' Engman 89'

Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium, Sarajevo

Attendance: 2,200

Referee: Frida Nielsen (Denmark)

26 September 2018

19:30 BST

Chelsea	6–0	SFK 2000
Spence 4' Kirby 31', 77' Mjelde 50' Blundell 86' Cuthbert 90'	Report

Kingsmeadow, Kingston upon Thames

Attendance: 667

Referee: Simona Ghisletta (Switzerland)

Chelsea won 11–0 on aggregate.

Round of 16

17 October 2018

19:35 BST

Chelsea	1–0	Fiorentina
Carney 8' (pen.)	Report

Kingsmeadow, Kingston upon Thames

Attendance: 804

Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

31 October 2018

18:30 BST

Fiorentina	0–6	Chelsea
	Report	Spence 23' Kirby 38' 53' (pen.) 63' Cuthbert 57' Bachmann 67'

Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence

Attendance: 3,015

Referee: Lina Lehtovaara (Finland)

Chelsea won 7–0 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

21 March 2019

19:05 BST

Chelsea	2–0	Paris Saint-Germain
Blundell 73' Cuthbert 88'	Report

Kingsmeadow, Kingston upon Thames

Attendance: 2,616

Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)

27 March 2019

18:00 BST

Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Chelsea
Diani 47' Berger 56' (o.g.)	Report	Mjelde 90+1'

Stade Jean-Bouin, Paris

Attendance: 13,220

Referee: Sandra Bastos (Portugal)

Chelsea won 3–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

21 April 2019

16:00 BST

Lyon	2–1	Chelsea
Cascarino 27' Henry 39'	Report	Cuthbert 72'

Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Décines-Charpieu

Attendance: 22,911

Referee: Katalin Kulcsár (Hungary)

28 April 2019

14:00 BST

Chelsea	1–1	Lyon
Ji 34'	Report	Le Sommer 17'

Kingsmeadow, Kingston upon Thames

Attendance: 4,670

Referee: Sara Persson (Sweden)

Lyon won 3–2 on aggregate.

References

^ "Introducing Chelsea Football Club Women". Chelsea FC. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
^ https://www.chelseafc.com/en/teams/women?pageTab=players
^ "Ji So-Yun: Chelsea Ladies midfielder signs new deal with WSL 1 champions". BBC. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
^ "Mjelde commits". Chelsea FC. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
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^ "Magdalena Eriksson signs new contract extension until 2021". Chelsea FC. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
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^ "Flaherty moves east". Chelsea FC. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

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[2] ttps://www.chelseafc.com/en/teams/women?pageTab=players

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[4] "Mjelde commits". Chelsea FC. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

[5] "Kirby signs new contract". Chelsea FC. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

[6] "Magdalena Eriksson signs new contract extension until 2021". Chelsea FC. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2018.

[7] "Bright future assured with new deal signed". Chelsea FC. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2018.

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[10] "Carter joins Chelsea Women". Chelsea FC. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

[11] "Women to recruit Riley". Chelsea FC. 26 June 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

[12] "Women agree Engman transfer". Chelsea FC. 29 June 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

[13] "Ann-Katrin Berger signs for Chelsea FC Women". Chelsea FC. 4 January 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.

[14] "Katie Chapman: Chelsea Ladies captain & England midfielder to retire this summer". BBC. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

[15] "Aluko to move on". Chelsea FC. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

[16] "Rafferty departure confirmed". Chelsea FC. 17 May 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

[17] ".@BeckySpencer2 will leave the Blues this summer... Thank you and good luck, Becky! 💙". Twitter. Chelsea FC Women. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

[18] "Thank you, and good luck @FranKitching!". Twitter. Chelsea FC Women. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

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