Chelsea will play all of their Ladies’s Tremendous League matches at Stamford Bridge from the beginning of subsequent season.
It ends a nine-year keep at Kingsmeadow – a Kingston upon Thames floor that has a capability of 4,850, together with 2,265 seats, and is normally bought out.
Sonia Bompastor’s aspect have been taking part in chosen WSL fixtures at Chelsea’s most important stadium, and, due to Uefa rules, all of their Ladies’s Champions League video games.
Making the 41,000-seat Stamford Bridge stadium their everlasting residence has been a goal of chief govt officer Aki Mandhar since she joined the ladies’s membership in September 2024.
“Our dedication reaffirms our ambition and intent to make Chelsea the main ladies’s sports activities membership on this planet,” stated Mandhar.
“Enjoying WSL matches at such an iconic floor ensures our gamers and supporters have the world they deserve as we glance to propel the sport into its subsequent part of development.
“At Chelsea we’re by no means performed rising and pushing progress to take the sport and ladies’s sports activities to new heights.”
The Blues performed their remaining sport at Kingsmeadow this season on 6 April once they beat Tottenham 2-1 to achieve the Ladies’s FA Cup semi-finals.
Their remaining two residence video games of the season are already scheduled to happen at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea Fan Advisory Board representatives described the transfer as “a pure step” within the membership’s development.
It follows strikes by Arsenal, Aston Villa and Leicester Metropolis, who all play their WSL matches on the membership’s most important stadiums.
Supervisor Bompastor added: “We’ll all the time really feel a particular connection to Kingsmeadow and every thing our followers, workers and area people have helped create for us to face right here now, committing our future to Stamford Bridge.
“The squad, and each participant to have pulled on a Chelsea shirt earlier than them, has labored so laborious for this, as has each member of workers to face on the sidelines.
“We won’t wait to welcome you in September, and to offer a stadium that helps us as we write the subsequent chapter for this wonderful membership.
“It is an thrilling alternative for us to continue to grow, to carry out on the highest degree and to create a particular ambiance in a stadium all of us love.”
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