Youth & Reserves

We’ve reached the nominal halfway mark of the 2015-16 season; many European leagues have now embarked upon their winter break and there are no more matches to be played before Christmas in England. It’s therefore the most appropriate time to bring you the (now seemingly traditional) first comprehensive and exclusive look at every goal scored by Chelsea’s substantial group of loanees so far this campaign. http://vimeo.com/149775178 The goals have been…

Chelsea’s Under-21s signed off for 2015 with a narrow and hard-fought 1-0 win over Middlesbrough at Cobham on Monday night. Both sides came into the match at the wrong end of the Barclays Under-21 Premier League table and the damage was done early on as Kasey Palmer’s ninth goal of the season proved enough to keep the three points down South and bring the Blues level on points with the…

Chelsea’s Under-18s ended a wonderful 2015 by extending their unbeaten run to twelve matches in all competitions courtesy of a last-minute equaliser away to Brighton on Saturday. In a tightly-fought and often fractious pre-Christmas fixture, Iké Ugbo gave the Blues the lead from the penalty spot early in the second half only for Brighton to turn things around. Daniel Mandriou struck an equaliser and Jordan Maguire-Drew looked to have won…

Chelsea are off and running in the defence of their FA Youth Cup crown as they swept aside a dogged Huddersfield Town 6-1 at Aldershot’s EBB Stadium on Wednesday night. The Blues are seeking to become the first team in sixty years to win three successive Youth Cup titles and kicked off this year’s campaign with a win that was hard-fought at times but wholly deserved. Tammy Abraham continued his…

The FA Youth Cup returns in earnest this Wednesday as Chelsea begin the defence of their crown once again and, having won both the 2013-14 and 2014-15 editions, are seeking to become the first club to win three in a row since Manchester United claimed five in a row at the competition’s inception in the early 1950s. It promises to be a tough ask, not least because a considerable number…

Chelsea’s Under-18s remain very much on course to finish atop the Southern standings this season as they produced another typically rampant performance to beat West Ham United 4-0 at Cobham on Saturday. Jacob Maddox opened the scoring with little more than a minute played and, although they had to wait until the second half before Miro Muheim, Trevoh Chalobah and Iké Ugbo added to the tally, the young Blues were…

Chelsea secured a place in the last eight of this season’s Barclays Under-21 Premier League International Cup on Friday night courtesy of a 5-0 walloping of Celtic at Aldershot’s EBB Stadium. Four goals in twenty-three resounding first-half minutes paved the way for their progression as Mukhtar Ali, Kevin Wright, Charly Musonda and Kasey Palmer all got on the scoresheet in a display of relentless and clinical attacking play. The remainder…