Chelsea Women Thread

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Chelsea’s sale of women’s team to themselves still being assessed by Premier League

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6252232/2025/04/04/Chelsea-ffp-womens-team-sale/

Chelsea’s sale of their women’s team to themselves is still being assessed by the Premier League and will not count towards UEFA’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.

On Monday, Chelsea released a statement regarding their financial results for the year ending June 30, 2024, and reported a pre-tax profit of £128.4million.

They registered a profit of £198.7m through the sale of their women’s team and other subsidiaries to themselves.

Chelsea transferred ownership of their women’s team to the club’s parent company — BlueCo 22 Midco Ltd — just two days before the 2023-24 finances were due to be registered on June 30.

The club’s statement noted £198.7m had been registered as a “profit on disposal of subsidiaries”, meaning the women’s team was either sold for just shy of £200m or contributes to that overall figure.

Although the Premier League announced earlier this year that no clubs had been charged with a breach of its profitability and sustainability Rules (PSR) for 2023-24, it is still assessing the sale of Chelsea Women from a fair market value standpoint.

This is the same process that took place for the 2022-23 financial year when Chelsea sold two hotels — the Copthorne and Millennium — to a sister company in a transaction worth £76.5million. Chelsea noted at the time that they had appointed two independent valuers to assess their valuation of the hotels. Following the fair market value process carried out by the Premier League, the £76.5m was adjusted, although neither party confirmed the amount.

Catch Up On The Story

How did Chelsea stay compliant with PSR?

Despite no Champions League revenue and having a poor domestic season in 2023-24, Chelsea stayed on the right side of Premier League rules

UEFA’s rules, however, are more rigid and do not allow for the sale of tangible assets to sister companies to count towards their FFP calculations.

Clubs’ financial submissions are analysed and reviewed in accordance with Article 66 of UEFA’s Club Licensing and Financial Sustainability Regulations.

If applicable, profits from the sale of assets are neutralised and only the excess proceeds are taken into account. Any income that is neutralised or removed is not considered as relevant for UEFA’s regulations.

European football’s governing body permits teams competing in their club competitions to lose up to €90m — if UEFA deems their balance sheet to be in good order — over a three-year reporting cycle.

If Chelsea are found to have breached UEFA’s regulations, then the most likely outcome is a fine, given the governing body has dished out this punishment in the past. In September 2022, UEFA charged eight clubs with failing to comply with FFP, including French side Paris Saint-Germain who were hit with a €10m fine after failing to stay within the FFP limits. Manchester United were finned €300k in July 2023 for a “minor” breach of FFP rules.

Chelsea sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity to protect relationships, say the club is comfortable with their position and are not anticipating any issues.

At the same time PSG were fined, the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) First Chamber, an independent panel within UEFA tasked with policing FFP, announced that Chelsea, along with a host of other clubs competing in Europe in 2021-22, were going to be “monitored closely”.

 

PSG were fined €10m for a UEFA FFP breach in 2022 (Julien de Rosa/AFP via Getty Images)

“The profit for the year before taxation was £128.4m compared with a loss of £90.1m for the prior year as the club benefitted from increased profit on disposal of player registrations and repositioning of Chelsea Football Club Women Ltd,” the club’s statement on Monday read.

“Decreased operating expenses, including matchday and non-matchday costs, profits on disposal of player registrations of £152.5m and a profit on disposal of subsidiaries of £198.7m, led to the group recording an overall net profit of £129.6m after tax.”

The sale of the women’s team to the club’s parent company will almost certainly have helped Chelsea stay compliant with PSR in 2023-24.

PSR allows Premier League sides to lose no more than £105m over a three-year cycle, although deductions are allowed to be made for investing in youth development, women’s football, infrastructure and community work.

At the Premier League’s Annual General Meeting in June, not enough top-flight clubs voted in favour of stopping clubs from being able to sell fixed assets to themselves.
Even though it was voted against last summer, that is not to say there will not be another vote on it in the future.

For the proposal to be put to a vote again, another club, or even the Premier League, would have to table the motion. However, the general consensus is that it will not happen any time soon as not enough clubs are talking about it.

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FA Cup semi final

1-1 v Liverpool 65 minutes

they're wasting as much time as possible

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We are in the FA Cup Final 

their timewasting backfires 😉

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[OhForAGreavsie 6,055]

The club's allocation will be 20,000 tickets. Get them while you can lads and lasses.

These two clubs set the Women's FA Cup final attendance record when they met each other two years ago in front of 77,390. I'm not convinced that will be beaten this year, but it would be nice.

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down 1 nil to Barca atm

https://www.vipleague.pm/uefa-cl-women/barcelona-w-vs-Chelsea-w-1-live-streaming

https://www.vipleague.pm/uefa-cl-women/barcelona-w-vs-Chelsea-w-2-live-streaming

 

https://soccer-100.com/event/uefa-wchampions/Chelsea--vs-barcelona-live-soccer-stats/735081

 

 

Edited April 20 by Vesper

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Mullered by them 4-1 

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biggest defeat for year and a half

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well, that went poorly

we were even or down only 1 nil for the first 70 minutes, then pegged them back after their 2nd goal, so down 2 1, then BOOM

 

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we just have never come all that close to being on Lyon and Barca's levels

 

Lyon and Barca are now like the mens Real Madrid and Barca sides of womens football

and before Barca became a womens team monster

it was Eintracht Frankfurt and to a leeser degree (as they are only on 2 wins, 4 losses in CL Finals) VfL Wolfsburg

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The general consensus is that Barcelona are not as good this season as they were last yet we could, and did, consider ourselves unlucky to be eliminated by them last year. 12 months on and it will be amazing if we are not eliminated by them this time around. 

We have work to do to reach their level.

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7 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

The general consensus is that Barcelona are not as good this season as they were last yet we could, and did, consider ourselves unlucky to be eliminated by them last year. 12 months on and it will be amazing if we are not eliminated by them this time around. 

We have work to do to reach their level.

Luckily I couldn’t give two tosses about women’s football, the men’s team is hard enough to follow atm 

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47 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

The general consensus is that Barcelona are not as good this season as they were last yet we could, and did, consider ourselves unlucky to be eliminated by them last year. 12 months on and it will be amazing if we are not eliminated by them this time around. 

We have work to do to reach their level.

Do you feel that we are missing the Emma Hayes factor, or would it have happened regardless today ?

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47 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

The general consensus is that Barcelona are not as good this season as they were last yet we could, and did, consider ourselves unlucky to be eliminated by them last year. 12 months on and it will be amazing if we are not eliminated by them this time around. 

We have work to do to reach their level.

it is so hard to tell how good Barca are until they play CL games, as La Liga Femenino is shite now, except for them

Most appearances: 32 seasons, FC Barcelona
Most matches played: 775, FC Barcelona
Most wins overall: 531, FC Barcelona
Most goals scored: 3005, FC Barcelona
Most wins in a season overall: 33, FC Barcelona (2020–21)
Longest unbeaten league home run: 72, FC Barcelona (2019–)
Most consecutive wins: 62, FC Barcelona (2019–2023)
Most consecutive wins at home: 70, FC Barcelona (2019–24)
Longest run of games scored in: 116, FC Barcelona (2019–)
Best win percentage in a season overall: 100%  FC Barcelona (2021-22)
Most points in a season overall: 99 (3 points for a win), FC Barcelona (2020–21)

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6 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Do you feel that we are missing the Emma Hayes factor, or would it have happened regardless today ?

would have happened regardless, I think

Hayes was lit up by Barca in our only CL final

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On 20/04/2025 at 18:57, Fulham Broadway said:

biggest defeat for year and a half

We were really, really bad that day. Arsenal made us look like amateurs.

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On 20/04/2025 at 20:18, Fulham Broadway said:

Do you feel that we are missing the Emma Hayes factor, or would it have happened regardless today ?

Despite the way we lost on Sunday, and and the fact that I think the result might have been closer had Emma been in charge, I would not prefer our ex manager. Sonia set up to play against Barcelona, Emma would have been more conservative which might have narrowed the margin of defeat. While that obviously sounds like a tick for Emma, I'm nevertheless happy that Sonia is trying to move us on. If we're going to add European and world club honours to our collection, we have to get better.

I believe in Sonia. The squad all speak highly of her, with convincing examples of how she is improving their game. She's intense on the touchline; charming and diplomatic in the press room even though English is her third language. I genuinely believe that we will be a better side next season, and better still the season after that.