Matches by competition
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Domestic
Premier League
The English top flight league competition since 1992.
First Division
The English top flight league competition until 1992. Replaced by the Premier League.
Second Division
The English second tier league competition until 1992. The current equivalent is the Football League Championship.
FA Cup
Knockout tournament open to the top ten tiers in English football. The world's oldest association football competition.
League Cup
Knockout tournament open to Football League and Premier League clubs.
FA Charity Shield/FA Community Shield
Annual season opener between the winners of the Premier League and FA Cup.
Full Members Cup
Short-lived cup competition held from 1985 to 1992. It was open to teams from the top two tiers in English football.
European
UEFA Champions League
Europe's premier club competition.
UEFA Europa League
Europe's secondary club competition, known as the UEFA Cup until it was re-branded in 2009.
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Now defunct secondary European club competition, ostensibly between winners of domestic cup competitions.
UEFA Super Cup
Annual competition between the winners of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup (formerly winners of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup).
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
European club competition that was initially only open to teams from cities that hosted trade fairs. Preceded the UEFA Cup but was not a UEFA competition.
International
FIFA Club World Cup
Annual competition between the champions of each continental confederation.
Friendly
Friendly matches
First team friendly matches.
Friendly tournaments
Pre-season exhibition tournaments.
International tours
International post and pre-season tours. Excludes one-off longhaul and European friendlies.
Wartime
First World War
London Combination
National War Fund Cup
London Victory Cup
Second World War
Wartime League
A football league competition held during the Second World War, which replaced the suspended Football League.
Football League War Cup South
Reserve
Second team
Professional Development League
The English football league for Under-21/reserve sides.
Premier Reserve League
Ran from 1999-00 – 2011-12.
London Combination
The main competition involving the reserves from the First World War until the mid-1990s. The name and form of the competition varied over this period.
Middlesex Charity Cup
1988-89 – 1994-95.
Under-21 League
Only edition was 1993-94.
LFA Challenge Cup
1909-10 to 1914-15, 1919-20 to 1938-39 and 1946-47 to 1973-74.
Football Combination Cup
1945-46 – 1954-55, 1966-67 – 1969-70.
South Eastern League
The main competition in which the Chelsea second team played prior to the First World War.
London League
A competition in which the Chelsea second team played on four occasions prior to the First World War.
Middlesex Professional Reserve Cup
Chelsea played in this competition between 1911-12 – 1913-14, winning on all 3 occasions.
Western Football League
1906-07.
Football League Trophy
Development/Under-23 teams were permitted to join League One and League Two teams for the 2016-17 season.
Reserve friendly matches
From 1905-06 onwards.
Third team
Metropolitan League
The Chelsea Third team competed in this competition between 1953 and 1960.
Eastern Counties
The Chelsea Third team competed in this competition between 1948 and 1953.
Eastern Counties League Cup
1948-49 – 1952-53.
East Anglian Cup
1948-49 – 1952-53.
Metropolitan Professional Cup
1953-54 – 1959-60.
Metropolitan Challenge Cup
1953-54 – 1959-60.
Mid-Week League
1933-34 to 1938-39 and 1953-54 – 1959-60.
Third team friendlies
Occurred when both First and Second teams played on the same day.
Youth
Domestic
FA Youth Cup
The annual Football Association knock-out cup competition for under-18 sides.
Premier Academy League
The English football league for under-18 sides.
South East Counties League
The football league for youth teams in southern England from 1954 until 1998.
South East Counties League Cup
A cup competition for youth teams in southern England related to the South East Counties League.
Southern Junior Floodlight Cup
A competition for youth teams in which games were played on mid-week evenings, which ran between 1955 and 1999.
South East Counties League Division Two
A junior football league for teams in southern England, ostensibly for Under-16s, in which Chelsea competed between 1964 and 1998.
South East Counties League Division Two Cup
A cup competition for junior teams related to the South East Counties League Division Two, that ran between 1964 and 1986, with the exception of 1973-74.
London Minor Cup (Junior Section)
1966-67 – 1972-73.
London Minor Cup or London Youth Cup
1947-48 – 1971-72.
Hornchurch & District League
1956-57.
North Surrey League
1953-54, 1954-55.
Harrow, Wembley & District Youth League
1947-48 – 1952-53.
Harrow, Wembley & District League Cup
1947-48 – 1952-53.
Harrow Youth League
1947-48 to 1951-52.
Harrow Youth League Cup
1947-48 to 1951-52.
Middlesex Minor Cup
1947-48 – 1950-51.
Youth friendlies
Under-18 friendly matches.
European
UEFA Youth League
A UEFA Under-19 competition for the youth sides of clubs that are playing in the UEFA Champions League.
NextGen Series
A European club cup competition for Under-19s that existed for two seasons prior to the inauguration of the UEFA Youth League.
Premier League International Cup
The competition was created by the Premier League as part of the organisation's Elite Player Performance Plan and is not sanctioned by UEFA.