Youth & Reserves

At one point or another during the 2012-13 season, Chelsea have had 32 players playing away from Stamford Bridge on loan. Some are first-team players who have had to find their football elsewhere, and some are aspiring young professionals who don’t necessarily meet the work permit criteria to play in England, but the vast majority of them are young prospects with the potential to develop into very good players somewhere…

Chelsea produced another stunning FA Youth Cup performance to add to their scrapbook on Monday night as they defeated Charlton in Round Four of this year’s competition. Having faced a two-goal deficit at half time, the young Blues might have appeared to many to be losing their grip on the trophy they won last April, but seasoned veterans know better than to write these boys off. Second half strikes from…

2012 was quite a year for the Chelsea FC academy. FA Youth Cup winners for the second time in three seasons back in May, the club then achieved Category One status in the new Elite Player Performance Plan, and have been leading the way in the 2012-13 Premier Academy League season ever since. Nine wins, two draws and just one defeat – away to Fulham in mid-December – secured their…

Chelsea kicked off their 2013 fixture list at Under-21 with a local derby against Fulham and ran out impressive 2-0 winners. Second-half strikes from Islam Feruz and Lewis Baker secured three points for Dermot Drummy’s team in a game which saw John Terry make his playing return from an injury which has sidelined him for the past two months. Sam Walker and Milan Lalkovic, back after relatively unsuccessful loan spells,…

Chelsea get the second half of their Under-21 league campaign underway this evening against Fulham in a match which is live on Chelsea TV. It’ll be the third time they’ve faced their West London neighbours at this level this season, and the second time in a month that they’ve hosted them. They do so again this time around because both teams have found themselves placed in Tier One of the…

Chelsea’s Under-21 team started the season well but a poor run of form scuppered their chances of matching the Under-18 team’s qualification to the Elite Group of competition. A late rally put them in contention but results elsewhere meant that they take their place in Tier One of the post-Christmas format; the second of three groups ranked by first-half performance. Winning the group will allow them a chance at winning…

Chelsea’s Under-18 team have been arguably the nation’s best so far this season, with a berth amongst the Elite Eight confirmed well before the Christmas break. Now, with the new year well and truly here, they know who they’ll be facing and when they’ll be doing so. They have a tough opponent on the slate every single week but it’s exactly what they wanted; the most competitive games programme possible….