Youth & Reserves

Chelsea’s first Under-18 away game of the new season also saw them suffer their first defeat as they went down 3-2 to Southampton in a topsy-turvy encounter at Staplewood. Despite falling behind to Siph Mdlalose’s opener during a far from stellar start, Jody Morris’ youngsters rebounded well, and eventually established a lead courtesy of goals from midfielders Tariq Uwakwe and George McEachran. Unfortunately, a late Tyreke Johnson double ensured they…

Chelsea kicked off the new Under-18 Premier League season on Saturday morning with a 3-2 win over West London neighbours Fulham in a pulsating affair at Cobham. Harvey St Clair and Martell Taylor-Crossdale had given the Blues a commanding first half lead only for Jayden Harris to reduce the visitors’ arrears before the break with a lovely flighted effort. St Clair looked to have put the result beyond doubt twenty…

So here we go again. The 2016-17 academy season is about to get underway and, as usual, Chelsea are set to be front and centre at almost all levels once again as they bid to continue to assert themselves as the premier youth setup in England. Having retained their Category One status for another three seasons they’re armed and ready to mount another defence of an FA Youth Cup crown…

Eight years ago this spring, fifteen young boys put pen to paper as official members of the Chelsea Football Club academy, Under-8s beginning their journeys amidst dreams of becoming the next big thing. This July, seven of them become the latest scholars in a long line of recent hot prospects coming through the system at Cobham along with three team-mates who have joined them along the way. It’s a hugely…

It seems as if we have the same conversation year after year on the Under-21 front. Questions about the quality and effectiveness of the Premier League structure abound relentlessly with prognostication from all-comers as to the direction things should be taken, whilst frustration sets in for Blues fans, players and staff alike at a perceived lack of opportunities to progress into the first team at Stamford Bridge. So, whilst it…

By any stretch of the imagination, by any definition and by any standard you wish to apply, the feats achieved by Chelsea at Under-19 and Under-18 levels over the past three years have been historic. The younger group became the first side in more than sixty years, and only the second ever, to win three FA Youth Cups in a row, whilst the Under-19s became the first team of any…