Youth & Reserves

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…

Chelsea are Under-19 Champions of Europe for the second season running after overcoming Paris Saint-Germain in a dramatic Final at Nyon’s Stade du Colovray on Monday afternoon. Goals from Fikayo Tomori and Kasey Palmer either side of a Yakou Meite equaliser were enough to keep the Lennart Johansson trophy at Cobham for another year but it required a staunch and terrific defensive effort throughout, a Brad Collins penalty save, and…

On Monday afternoon Chelsea will take to the field at Nyon’s Stade du Colovray bidding to be the first team of any age level to retain the most prestigious UEFA competition at their respective age group. No senior club side has retained the Champions League since the revamp from the European Cup in 1993 and, although it remains in its infancy, the same can be said of the Under-19 UEFA…

Chelsea’s defence of their UEFA Youth League title will go all the way to the Final as they reached the showpiece occasion for a second successive year, dismissing Anderlecht 3-0 in Friday’s Semi Final to set up a Monday finale against either Paris Saint-Germain or Real Madrid. Returning to Nyon’s Stade du Colovray on the shores of Lake Geneva, around the corner from UEFA’s headquarters, the Blues were never really…

Little more than twelve hours after booking their place in a fifth consecutive FA Youth Cup Final, Chelsea’s Under-18s ensured they remained in the hunt for a national league title too as they won 2-0 away to West London rivals Fulham. Joe Edwards took charge of an almost entirely different Blues side for the trip to Motspur Park but his even younger charges, with four schoolboys involved, emerged with three…