Chelsea Women close their season against Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, May 24, with kick-off scheduled for 13.00 BST, 8am EDT. It is the final Chelsea game today in a campaign that ended with one major trophy already secured and one last league fixture to settle before the summer.
Sonia Bompastor said her team would give everything they had to finish on a high, and Chelsea named a strong side for the occasion: Hannah Hampton, Lucy Bronze, Nathalie Björn, Agnes Buurman, Ashley Lawrence, Erin Cuthbert, Sjoeke Nüsken, Lauren James and Sam Kerr all start, with Cuthbert wearing the captain’s armband. The substitutes bench includes nine players, among them Niamh Charles and Catarina Macario’s fellow attackers Sandy Baltimore, Johanna Rytting Kaneryd and Agnes Beever-Jones, giving Chelsea options if the match turns tight.
The game matters because it is Chelsea Women’s last of the season, and the club arrives at it having won the Women’s League Cup while seeing other targets slip away. That mix gives the finale a sharper edge than a routine closing fixture. For Manchester United, the trip to SW6 is also a familiar challenge. The source describing the fixture says Chelsea remained their bogeywoman, a reminder that United have often found this meeting uncomfortable even when the table has suggested a tighter contest.
Manchester United named Phallon Tullis-Joyce in goal, with Aoife Mannion, Maya Le Tissier and Hayley Ladd among the starters, alongside Ella Toone and Leah Galton. Their bench is loaded with nine substitutes, including Rachel Williams, Malin Björn and Elisabeth Terland, as United look to manage a season-ending afternoon at a ground where Chelsea have usually expected control. Mel Burgin was set to referee the match, which was listed with no TV coverage in the UK or the USA.
Supporters who wanted to follow it were pointed to Sky Go in the UK and + and fuboTV in the USA, but the bigger story is the one Chelsea are trying to write on the pitch. This is the kind of final day that reveals where a season has truly landed: not in the silverware already in the cabinet, but in the way a team finishes when there is nothing left to save for next week.
