Chelsea Fixtures 2026/27: Next Match, Schedule & Key Games

Last updated: 22 August 2026. All times below are given in Central European Time (CET/CEST) unless stated otherwise.

Chelsea’s Next Match

A quick note on the time zone, since it matters for the rest of this page: the UK doesn’t observe Central European Time — it runs an hour behind (BST in summer, GMT in winter, versus CEST/CET in Central Europe). Because both regions shift their clocks on the same date each year, that one-hour gap holds steady all season. Every kick-off time below has been converted from the official UK time by adding an hour.

That “latest result” line is doing some work, so it’s worth being honest about it: Chelsea haven’t played a competitive match yet this season. Their last game with anything on the line was the final day of 2025/26. Everything since has been pre-season. You can track how the rest of the league is shaping up ahead of the kickoff in our complete Premier League 2026/27 season guide. This page will update once ball actually gets kicked.

When Is Chelsea’s Next Game?

Monday 24 August, away to Fulham. It’s a west London derby to open the season, and it’s a strange one on paper: both clubs finished last season under new management after mid-season sackings, and both are managed by first-time-at-this-level bosses — Xabi Alonso at Chelsea, Álvaro Arbeloa at Fulham. Chelsea finished 10th last season, one place and a better goal difference above Fulham’s 11th, which is a genuinely tight margin for two clubs entering the year with very different ambitions.

After Fulham, Chelsea’s home opener follows at the end of August against Brighton, then the calendar turns properly hostile: a trip to reigning champions Arsenal arrives inside the first month.

Chelsea Premier League Fixtures 2026/27

A Chelsea Fixtures 2026/27 season-opening run for context, not the full 38 games — for the complete list, your official fixtures page (or the Premier League’s own release) is the source of record, since kickoff times shift constantly with broadcast selections.You can also explore upcoming games, TV schedules, and match coverage details through our complete guide to football on Yacine TV.

I’ve marked most kick-off times TBC rather than convert a guess. I only had a confirmed UK time for two of these — Fulham (8pm) and Newcastle (8pm GMT, so 9pm CET, since that fixture falls after the UK has moved to winter GMT) — everything else in the Premier League’s June release didn’t come with a locked time, only a date, and the actual hour gets confirmed within five to six weeks of kickoff once broadcasters pick their game. Don’t publish a CET time for those until the UK time itself is confirmed; converting a guess just compounds it. Bournemouth, Sunderland, and Crystal Palace fixtures aren’t in this table at all — pull exact dates and times from the club’s official list before adding them.

Chelsea’s Biggest Premier League Fixtures

Chelsea vs Arsenal

This is the fixture that tells you most about where Chelsea actually stand. Arsenal go in as defending champions; Chelsea go in trying to prove last season’s 10th-place finish was the aberration, not the new level. Alonso’s first competitive meeting with Mikel Arteta comes early — gameweek three — before either manager has had time to bed in a settled system, which makes this a harder one to predict than the form book will suggest closer to the day.

Chelsea vs Tottenham

North versus west London rarely needs extra context, but this one’s sharpened by both clubs going into the year wanting to close a gap on the top four rather than defend a place in it. Home advantage at Stamford Bridge in late October.

Chelsea vs Manchester United

Back-to-back with the Tottenham fixture in a genuinely brutal October for Chelsea — two home games against sides they need points off, seven days apart, with no easy fixture between them to recover.

Chelsea vs Liverpool

The early-season marker for Alonso specifically. Liverpool were the club that shaped a huge part of his playing and coaching CV before Real Madrid and now Chelsea — this is the first time he faces them from the opposite technical area in a competitive fixture at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea vs Manchester City

Maresca’s return to Stamford Bridge, effectively, just from the away dugout of a different club. He left Chelsea mid-way through last season; by the time this fixture comes around he’s had the better part of a year to reshape City in his image. The reverse fixture at the Etihad comes first, in December — this one’s the return leg at the end of April.

Chelsea Champions League Fixtures

There aren’t any. Worth stating plainly because a lot of search traffic around Chelsea and PSG, Barcelona, Real Betis, Benfica, and Palmeiras is chasing fixtures that don’t exist this season — Chelsea finished 10th in the Premier League last season, which cost them a route into Europe entirely. No Champions League, no Europa, no Conference League for 2026/27.

If you’re seeing those team names attached to Chelsea in search results, it’s residual interest from two real, recent things: Chelsea winning the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup (beating Benfica, Palmeiras, and eventually PSG 3-0 in the final), and their 2025/26 Champions League campaign, which included a 3-0 win over Barcelona at Stamford Bridge. Genuinely good content if that’s what you’re after — just don’t expect it to be this season’s schedule.

Chelsea’s 2025 Club World Cup run]

Chelsea Squad & Key Players

This section will age faster than almost anything else on the page — the transfer window doesn’t close until 1 September 2026, more than a week after the season starts, so treat the below as a snapshot rather than a final roster.

In this summer: Morgan Rogers arrived from Aston Villa for a reported £117m, a British transfer record, to play alongside Cole Palmer in attack. Alongside him: Marco Palestra (Atalanta), Maxence Lacroix (Crystal Palace) to reinforce central defence, Geovany Quenda (Sporting CP), Valentín Barco and Emmanuel Emegha (both from Strasbourg), plus experience added in Jordan Henderson and Danny Welbeck.

Out this summer: Marc Cucurella left for Real Madrid after four seasons that included the Club World Cup and Conference League wins. Andrey Santos moved to Manchester United, Trevoh Chalobah to Como, and Tyrique George made his Everton loan permanent.

Held over from last season: João Pedro, who was Chelsea’s most productive forward last season, and Enzo Fernández, who added a team-high chance-creation number in midfield — both look like the spine Alonso is building the rest of the squad around, alongside Palmer.

I don’t have a clean, fully confirmed matchday squad list to give you here — that’s genuinely one to build out separately once the window closes and rotation patterns under Alonso start to settle. Trying to lock a “key players” list in during the first week of a new manager’s first season is a good way to be wrong by October.

Chelsea Matchday Guide

Lineups

Confirmed starting XIs land roughly 60 minutes before kickoff, not before. Anything published earlier — “predicted lineup,” “expected XI” — is an estimate built from training footage and injury news, nothing more. Under a first-year manager with no settled pecking order yet, treat those predictions as even less reliable than usual. The reliable source is the club’s own match centre, checked in the hour before kickoff, cross-referenced against one broadcaster’s team-news page.

Live Score

Not something a static page can responsibly claim to provide — link out to a live scores service or embed one, don’t hand-type a number that’s wrong within ninety seconds of publishing.

Stats

Same caution applies to season-long stats (goals, chances created, clean sheets) as to the squad list above: anything captured before Matchweek 1 has been played is last season’s numbers wearing this season’s shirt. Worth labelling clearly if you use any of it here.

Results

Once the season’s underway, this is the section that should carry a running list — most recent result at the top, updated after every match rather than batched. For now, pre-season, the only result on the board is the 3-1 win over Real Sociedad.

Where Can I Watch Chelsea Today?

Depends entirely on the day and the fixture — there’s no single Chelsea channel. In the UK, Sky Sports and TNT Sports split Premier League broadcast rights, and which one has a given match is confirmed on a rolling basis rather than fixed for the season. In the US, every match streams on Peacock, with a selection also airing on NBC or USA Network. Outside those two territories, check whichever broadcaster holds Premier League rights in your country — that varies market to market and season to season.

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Chelsea Standings & Season Progress

Nothing to show yet — the 2026/27 season hasn’t kicked a ball at Chelsea’s end as of this update (their opener is two days away). Once Matchweek 1 is played, this section should carry Chelsea’s actual league position, points, and goal difference, refreshed after every round. Publishing a placeholder table pre-season and forgetting to update it is a fast way to look out of date to anyone landing here in October.

Chelsea Transfer News & Squad Updates

The summer window runs to 1 September 2026, so there’s realistically another week or two of activity left as this page goes up. Headline moves so far: the record £117m Morgan Rogers signing, defensive reinforcements in Lacroix and Palestra, and the departures of Cucurella, Santos, and Chalobah. There’s been reported interest in moving Nicolas Jackson out on loan, unconfirmed as of this writing.

Treat this section as a living tracker rather than a finished list — it’s the one part of this page most likely to need same-week edits right up until deadline day.

Chelsea 2026/27 Key Dates

Dates only here, not times — kick-off times aren’t locked for most of these yet, and a half-guessed CET time is worse than none. Once a broadcaster slot is confirmed, add the UK time first and convert by adding one hour for CET/CEST.

• 24 August 2026 — Season opener away at Fulham (9:00pm CEST confirmed)
• 1 September 2026 — Summer transfer window closes
• 24 October 2026 — Tottenham (H)
• 31 October 2026 — Manchester United (H)
• Early December 2026 — Liverpool (H), followed immediately by Manchester City (A)
• 10 February 2027 — Newcastle (A) (9:00pm CET confirmed)
• 24 April 2027 — Manchester City (H)
• 1 May 2027 — Liverpool (A)
• Late May 2027 — Season closes at home to Brentford

Conclusion

Bookmark this page for the fixture list and the broadcast basics, but don’t rely on any single site — including this one — for a same-day lineup or live score; those need checking at source, an hour out, every single time. The story worth actually following this season is a simpler one than any keyword list suggests: a new manager, no European football to juggle, and a club that has one job in front of it — prove 10th place was the exception.

More 2026/27 Premier League Fixtures

• Track the reigning champions with the Arsenal Fixtures 2026/27 schedule.
• Follow the title race using the Manchester City Fixtures 2026/27 schedule.
• Plan ahead for every clash with the Liverpool Fixtures 2026/27.
• Keep up with every key game via the Manchester United Fixtures 2026/27 guide.
• Stay updated on North London derbies with the Tottenham Hotspur Fixtures 2026/27.

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