Youth & Reserves

Chelsea’s wonderful Under-18 season came to a disappointing close on Saturday morning as a young team fell to a 3-0 defeat away to Blackburn. Daniel Butterworth’s first-half hat-trick proved their downfall as the demands of a hectic schedule took its toll on the group as a whole, but with many of the next generation earning important minutes and valuable experience, a number of positives can be taken away from the…

Chelsea finished up their home slate of fixtures for the Barclays Under-21 Premier League season with a narrow 1-0 defeat against Manchester United at Stamford Bridge. The depleted Blues side looked, perhaps understandably, on their last legs at the end not just of a busy season but in the immediate aftermath of UEFA Youth League and FA Youth Cup successes, and struggled to get into what is their second match…

Chelsea and Everton shared the spoils in the Barclays Under-21 Premier League on Monday as they fought to a goalless draw at Aldershot’s EBB Stadium. A relatively sleepy affair throughout, neither side truly got going and despite a handful of half-chances, there was a lack of conviction throughout and a stalemate was an appropriate outcome. The Blues’ campaign will end with four matches in the space of ten days and,…

League duty called for Chelsea’s Under-18s on Friday night as, less than two days after they won a third consecutive FA Youth Cup title, they hosted Liverpool at Aldershot. A brace from Iké Ugbo either side of Liverpool goals from Adam Phillips and Brooks Lennon ensured a 2-2 final score and a deserved reward each for a pulsating game that swung back and forth and was up for grabs right…

First there was thunder, then lightning. There was a brief snow storm at a cup final in late April. But, when it was all said and done, Chelsea won their third consecutive FA Youth Cup title, their fifth in seven years, and their second over Manchester City in succession. Their remarkable run extended into completing back-to-back double doubles, having also retained their UEFA Youth League title in Switzerland last week,…

The 2015-16 FA Youth Cup Final is finely poised at the halfway stage following a tight 1-1 draw between Manchester City and Chelsea at the City Academy Stadium on Friday night. Each side enjoyed spells in the ascendancy as the country’s two strongest academies squared off in the showpiece Under-18 occasion for the second year running, and although it was Chelsea who opened the scoring early in the second half…

Barely had they stepped off the coach having returned from Switzerland with their winners’ medals around their neck did preparations for Friday’s FA Youth Cup Final get underway for Chelsea’s academy. Monday’s UEFA Youth League triump against Paris Saint-Germain will live long in the memory as the Blues became the first club in the modern era to retain the premiere UEFA competition for their respective age group, but there’s no…