Chelsea_F.C._league_record_by_opponent

Chelsea F.C. league record by opponent

Chelsea F.C. league record by opponent

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Chelsea Football Club is a professional association football club based in Fulham, London. Founded in 1905, they were elected to play in The Football League as members of the Second Division.[1] They were promoted into the First Division in the club's second season.[2] Chelsea remained in the Football League, in the First or Second division, until 1992 when clubs in the First Division broke away from The Football League to form the Premier League.[3] The club has remained in the top division of the English football league system since 1989. In their latest spell in the Second Division Chelsea achieved their highest points total achieving 99 in the 1988–89 season.[4] As of the 2022–23 season, the club holds the records for the most clean sheets in a single Premier League season with 25 in 2004–05. Chelsea have been English football champions six times.[5]

The Chelsea team in September 1905 before their inaugural season in the Football League Second Division.

Chelsea played their inaugural league fixture as part of the Football League Second Division on 2 September 1905 against Stockport County.[6] Since that game they have faced eighty different sides in league football with their most regular opponent having been Arsenal, whom they have played on 173 occasions since their first meeting on 9 November 1907.[7] They met their most recent different league opponent, Wigan Athletic, for the first time in the 2005–06 FA Premier League season.[8] The club has won 66 of their league matches against Newcastle United which represents the most Chelsea have won against any club.[9] Chelsea have drawn more matches with Manchester United than with any other club, with 53.[10] The side has lost more league games to Liverpool than to any other club, having been defeated by them 71 times in 162 encounters.[11]

All-time league record

Statistics correct as of match played on 15 April 2024.

Colour key

Key

  • The table includes results of matches played by Chelsea in The Football League (First Division and Second Division) and the Premier League. Wartime matches are regarded as unofficial and are excluded.
  • For the sake of simplicity, present-day names are used throughout: for example, results against Small Heath, Woolwich Arsenal and The Wednesday are integrated into the records against Birmingham City, Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday, respectively.
  • Bolded clubs competed in the 2023–24 Premier League alongside Chelsea.
  • Italicised clubs are defunct.
  • P = matches played; W = matches won; D = matches drawn; L = matches lost; GF = goals for; GA = goals against; GD = goal difference; Win% = percentage of matches won.
  • The columns headed "First" and "Last" contain the first and most recent seasons in which Chelsea played league matches against each opponent.
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Notes

  1. Record against Woolwich Arsenal included.
  2. Record against Small Heath and Birmingham included.
  3. Record against Chesterfield Town included.
  4. Record against Glossop included.
  5. Record against Leicester Fosse included.
  6. Record against Clapton Orient included; record against Orient included.
  7. Record against Burslem Port Vale included.
  8. Record against The Wednesday included.
  9. Record against Stoke included.
  10. Record against Swansea Town included.

References

General
  • "Chelsea football club: record v other sides". 11v11.com. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  • "Opposition Stats". www.bounder.friardale.co.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  • "Chelsea Head To Head". Soccerbase. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  • "Chelsea » Select Opponent". Statto.com. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
Specific
  1. "Team History – Introduction". Chelsea F.C. official website. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  2. "Chelsea". Football Club History Database. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  3. "History of the Premier League". Premier League. 1 July 2015. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  4. "Second Division championship: 1988/89". Chelsea F.C. official website. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  5. McNulty, Phil (3 May 2015). "Chelsea 1 0 Crystal Palace". BBC Online. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  6. "Head-to-head v Arsenal". Soccerbase. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
  7. "Head-to-head v Wigan". Soccerbase. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
  8. "Head-to-head v Newcastle". Soccerbase. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  9. "Head-to-head v Liverpool". Soccerbase. Retrieved 2 March 2024.

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