Defiant James reveals Chelsea’s final belief

Chelsea FC’s promising squad has continued to mature right before everyone’s eyes while reaching the FIFA Club World Cup 2025™ final, where the Blues will face mighty Paris Saint-Germain at MetLife Stadium in New York New Jersey on Sunday. Developing right along with the young Blues is their 25-year-old captain’s comfort as his team’s leader. […]

Stunning images from the magnificent MetLife

A skyline at showtime How about this for a view? This was the spectacular perspective afforded to fans in the upper tier, with New York’s world-famous skyline visible as Chelsea and Fluminense were welcomed on to the field. The agony… and the agony Football can be cruel but it’s not often that both teams end […]

PSG have proved their power against English opponents

The stage is set. Paris Saint-Germain will do battle with Chelsea FC at New York New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on Sunday in the final of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025™, with the winners to be crowned club world champions. Although you have to rewind back to March 2016 for the last time that PSG and Chelsea […]

Chelsea-PSG in stats

120 Chelsea FC celebrated their 120th birthday in March. Paris Saint-Germain, who will turn 55 in August, were the youngest European team at this tournament. 99 Marquinhos is the most-capped international from the two squads, having played 99 times for Brazil. He is followed by his Paris Saint-Germain team-mates Achraf Hakimi (85 for Morocco), Gianluigi […]

Fabian makes his move as top scorer Garcia bids farewell

Real Madrid C. F. forward Gonzalo Garcia remains in first place in the race to be named FIFA Club World Cup 2025™ Top Goal Scorer presented by Bank of America. The 21-year-old was thrust into the limelight in the group phase when Kylian Mbappe was sidelined by illness, and he has responded by providing either […]

Ruiz: PSG are playing beautiful football

One would be hard-pressed to find a player with a better span of 365 days than Fabian Ruiz. Just under a year ago the Spain international played a massive role in La Roja’s conquest of UEFA EURO 2024. He then followed that with another decorated season at club level with Paris Saint-Germain, winning four trophies […]

Dembele and Mbappe: a tale of two remarkable talents

It is 4 March 2017. Dortmund’s Signal Iduna Park is packed to the rafters for an epic clash between the hosts Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen, but all eyes are on one player: 19-year-old Ousmane Dembele. That day, Dortmund win 6-2, thanks in no small part to a brace from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, but it is […]

PSG and Real Madrid: three classic matches

Reigning European champions Paris Saint-Germain will be looking to get past Real Madrid C.F. on 9 July and book their place in the FIFA Club World Cup 2025™ final. The sides have never met this deep into an official competition, but they are certainly no strangers on the continental stage. In 12 previous competitive meetings, Los […]

Mbappe, a history-maker in Paris and Madrid

He is a relentless trailblazer who continues to see one trophy elude him. Kylian Mbappe’s first season after departing the Parc des Princes to join 15-time European champions Real Madrid C.F. in June 2024 cannot be described as anything other than a runaway success from a personal point of view. Yet, in a cruel twist of […]

Chelsea’s road to the final: highlights and key moments

Chelsea FC continue to thrill their fanbase at the FIFA Club World Cup 2025™ and now stand within one more victory of global glory. Here, FIFA details how Enzo Maresca’s men moved through the group stage and thee knockout matches to book their place in the final of the tournament. Group Stage Chelsea FC 2-0 […]