Month: April 2015

Chelsea’s Under-21s kept up their hopes of retaining the Barclays Under-21 Premier League trophy after they came away from a potentially tricky trip to Southampton with a richly-deserved 2-0 victory. The young Blues controlled the contest throughout and were rarely threatened by their highly-rated hosts, and after Kasey Palmer had given them the lead with his latest highlight-reel strike, they looked good value for a victory eventually secured by Dominic…

Chelsea are FA Youth Cup winners yet again. For the fourth time in six years, the sixth time in club history, and for the second consecutive seasons the Blues are the cream of the country’s crop in Under-18 knockout football and secured their crown in beating Manchester City 2-1 at Stamford Bridge on Monday night, ensuring a 5-2 aggregate scoreline. They become the first side to retain the most prestigious…

Chelsea returned to Under-21 league action on Thursday evening and they did so with a win, defeating Everton 3-0 courtesy of Jordan Houghton’s opener, a late own goal by former Milton Keynes Dons defender Brendan Galloway which may yet be claimed by Tammy Abraham, who then added a third deep into stoppage time having come off the bench to great effect. With the match coming during a busy period of…

Chelsea have one hand firmly on the grasp of their FA Youth Cup title after coming away from the first leg of this season’s Final with a 3-1 win over Manchester City at the City Football Academy Stadium on Monday night. Tammy Abraham opened the scoring in spectacular style and although Isaac Buckley equalised almost immediately, Abraham’s 36th of the season restored that advantage after twenty minutes and it was…

So here we are again. To accept it as an inevitability would be doing the academy an immense disservice but for the fourth consecutive season and the fifth time in six years, Chelsea are in the FA Youth Cup Final. During that time they’ve won it on three occasions but are yet to successfully retain it, and so the aim against Manchester City over the next two Monday nights is…

Chelsea’s Under-18s returned to winning form in academy league action on Saturday with a 3-1 win over West Bromwich Albion at a sun-baked Cobham. First half goals from Miro Muheim and Iké Ugbo secured an advantage the young Blues never looked like ceding, and Mukhtar Ali capped the performance with a fine late free kick, just before George Cater grabbed a consolation for the visitors. A match day squad featuring…

Chelsea are Under-19 Champions of Europe. The Blues became the first English team to win the UEFA Youth League after beating Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2 in Nyon, Switzerland, on Monday afternoon, with a brace from captain Izzy Brown leading the way and yet another Dominic Solanke effort sandwiched in between, rendering a late first-half own goal by Andreas Christensen and a late Viktor Kovalenki goal as little more than afterthoughts on…

On Monday afternoon Chelsea’s Under-19s will take to the field in the Stade Colovray, a picturesque venue on the banks of Lake Geneva in Switzerland (close to UEFA’s Nyon Headquarters) bidding to become Champions of Europe. Adi Viveash’s young charges square off against Shakhtar Donetsk looking to be crowned UEFA Youth League winners 2014-15 and write a new chapter in what has been a staggeringly successful decade on the pitch…