Finished 10th in the 2025/26 Premier League at 14-10-14. The 2026/27 Premier League season opens away at Fulham on Mon Aug 24, 2026.
Data as of 2026-08-05 · results through the 2025/26 season
2025/26 finish
10th
52 points
Premier League
Record (W-D-L)
14-10-14
38 matches
Goals scored
58
5th most of 20
Goals conceded
52
11th fewest of 20
Goal difference
+6
6th best of 20
Most-used starting XI
Premier League 2025/26 · 38 matches · most common formation 4-2-3-1 (32 of 38)
The eleven players with the most 2025/26 league starts, each shown in the line he most often started in, with his season start count. This is a record of last season, not a predicted lineup: team sheets come from the openfootball public-domain archive and cover the 2025/26 season in full. Rows follow the source team sheets, so a player used across several roles appears in his most common one.
Betting stats: goals, BTTS and clean sheets
Premier League 2025/26 · 38 matches · counts of what happened, not predictions
Record
Count
Rate
Over 2.5 goals
25 of 38
66%
Both teams scored (BTTS)
24 of 38
63%
Clean sheets
9 of 38
24%
Failed to score
7 of 38
18%
Draws
10 of 38
26%
Home record (W-D-L)
7-5-7
Away record (W-D-L)
7-5-7
Against the top five
Record vs the top-5 finishers of the 2025/26 Premier League
Opponent
Finished
W-D-L
Goals
Arsenal
1st
0-1-1
2-3
Manchester City
2nd
0-1-1
1-4
Manchester United
3rd
0-0-2
1-3
Aston Villa
4th
1-0-1
5-3
Liverpool
5th
1-1-0
3-2
All five
2-3-5
12-15
2026/27 opening fixtures
First five league fixtures · head-to-head is all Premier League meetings in our archive
Date
Fixture
Chelsea W-D-L
Last meeting
Mon Aug 24
Fulham v Chelsea
23-11-4 in 38
Fulham 2-1 Chelsea
Sat Aug 29
Chelsea v Brighton
9-4-5 in 18
Brighton 3-0 Chelsea
Sat Sep 5
Arsenal v Chelsea
17-17-18 in 52
Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea
Sat Sep 12
Chelsea v Hull City
8-2-0 in 10
Chelsea 2-0 Hull
Sat Sep 19
Brentford v Chelsea
3-4-3 in 10
Chelsea 2-0 Brentford
Closing form, 2025/26
Premier League · last ten matches · sequence WLLLLLLDWL (oldest first)
Date
Result
Venue
2026-05-24
Sunderland 2-1 Chelsea
L
A
2026-05-19
Chelsea 2-1 Tottenham
W
H
2026-05-09
Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea
D
A
2026-05-04
Chelsea 1-3 Nott'm Forest
L
H
2026-04-21
Brighton 3-0 Chelsea
L
A
2026-04-18
Chelsea 0-1 Man United
L
H
2026-04-12
Chelsea 0-3 Man City
L
H
2026-03-21
Everton 3-0 Chelsea
L
A
2026-03-14
Chelsea 0-1 Newcastle
L
H
2026-03-04
Aston Villa 1-4 Chelsea
W
A
Season history
Last six seasons, competition named on every row, from our own match archive
Season
Competition
Finish
W-D-L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
2025/26
Premier League
10th
14-10-14
58
52
+6
52
2024/25
Premier League
4th
20-9-9
64
43
+21
69
2023/24
Premier League
6th
18-9-11
77
63
+14
63
2022/23
Premier League
12th
11-11-16
38
47
-9
44
2021/22
Premier League
3rd
21-11-6
76
33
+43
74
2020/21
Premier League
4th
19-10-9
58
36
+22
67
Squad
Current first-team squad · as of 2026-08-05
Show full squad (36 players)
#
Player
Position
Age
1
Max Merrick
Goalkeeper
20
1
Robert Sánchez
Goalkeeper
28
12
F. Jörgensen
Goalkeeper
23
28
T. Sharman-Lowe
Goalkeeper
22
44
G. Słonina
Goalkeeper
21
2
M. Palestra
Defender
20
4
T. Adarabioyo
Defender
28
5
B. Badiashile
Defender
24
6
L. Colwill
Defender
22
19
M. Sarr
Defender
20
21
J. Hato
Defender
19
23
T. Chalobah
Defender
26
24
R. James
Defender
26
27
M. Gusto
Defender
22
29
W. Fofana
Defender
25
34
Joshua Kofi Acheampong
Defender
19
Denner
Defender
18
8
E. Fernández
Midfielder
24
10
C. Palmer
Midfielder
23
11
J. Bynoe-Gittens
Midfielder
21
14
Dário Essugo
Midfielder
20
25
M. Caicedo
Midfielder
24
27
M. Rogers
Midfielder
23
41
Estêvão
Midfielder
18
43
Harrison Bettoni
Midfielder
18
45
R. Lavia
Midfielder
21
72
M. Eboue
Midfielder
17
75
C. Holland
Midfielder
16
76
R. Kavuma McQueen
Midfielder
16
7
Pedro Neto
Attacker
25
9
L. Delap
Attacker
22
10
E. Emegha
Attacker
22
20
João Pedro
Attacker
24
38
Marc Guiu
Attacker
19
57
Geovany Tcherno Quenda
Attacker
18
62
Shumaira Mheuka
Attacker
18
Injuries and availability
Current season
Not yet connected
No injury feed for the current season
StatusThis block stays empty rather than stale
Where these numbers come from
Results, tables, head-to-head and betting stats. Our own match archive of Premier League and Premier League finals through 2025/26, derived from final scores. Every block names its competition and window.
2026/27 fixtures. The openfootball public-domain fixture file (CC0 1.0).
Starting XI. openfootball 2025/26 team sheets (CC0 1.0); the construction is stated under the graphic.
Squad. API-Football (api-sports.io). Injury data for the current season is not yet in our data plan, so that block renders empty rather than out of date.
Information, not betting advice. This page reports what happened: results, goal counts and team-sheet history from stated sources over stated windows. The betting stats are counts of past outcomes. It contains no picks, no projections and no recommendations.