Chelsea’s 2025/2026 fixtures announced as Blues get softer start | OneFootball

Last season only just ended, and in fact because of the Club World Cup it feels like it’s still going on.

But the fixtures have just been announced for next season in the Premier League, which is always a nice signifier that things are moving on.

If you’re looking to buy Chelsea tickets for any of these fixtures, you finally know when to mark your calendar.

Chelsea hope for more balanced 2025/2026 fixtures

Tosin celebrates in a Chelsea group huddle after a goal in the FA Cup.

Chelsea had a funny setup last season – they had easy games at the start and middle, and a correspondingly tough finish. That meant that when they started to wobble around Christmastime, they were dropping points and sliding down the league when they needed to be building a lead.

It put them in a really tough position at the end of the season, and we all remember how grim things looked when we had to close out the campaign against in-form Everton, Liverpool, Newcastle, Man U and Nottingham Forest away on the final day.

In the end we managed to earn enough points to make it into the Champions League, but we will hope the 2025/2026 Chelsea fixtures are a little more evenly spread. Of course you can never really say until things get underway how hard or soft a game is – that Forest game on the final day would have seemed easy until you got the final context of it being a direct playoff for the Champions League.

Soft start essential for Chelsea after long summer

Featuring in the Club World Cup will mean we take our holidays a little later than usual and go into the season after just a couple of friendlies. That means we’ll likely be very undercooked compared to some other sides. Getting Liverpool and Man City in the last two years wasn’t ideal – this time we get Crystal Palace. Not an easy game, but certainly a step down in difficulty.