Bournemouth vs. Chelsea: Head-to-head record and past meetings

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Ahead of Saturday's Premier League clash between Bournemouth and Chelsea, Sports Mole looks at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between the two clubs.

Fresh from pulling off a record-breaking Premier League comeback, Bournemouth return from the international break with a home clash against Chelsea at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday night.

The Cherries were 2-0 down after 85 minutes of their clash with Everton two weekends ago, only to pull off a sensational turnaround to prevail 3-2, the latest a team has ever come back from two goals behind to win in the Premier League.

Meanwhile, Chelsea's London derby with Crystal Palace was much more low-key as the two sides played out a 1-1 stalemate, leaving the Blues winless in two matches across all competitions heading into gameweek four.

Here, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between the two sides.

Chelsea's Christopher Nkunku and Bournemouth's Alex Scott battle for the ball on May 19, 2024 © Imago

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 21
Bournemouth wins: 5
Draws: 2
Chelsea wins: 14

As Bournemouth only became a member of the Premier League party in 2015, meetings between the Cherries and Chelsea have been few and far between down the years, as Saturday's game will be just their 22nd in all competitions.

From their 21 previous battles, Chelsea unsurprisingly have the bragging rights with 14 victories compared to five for their South Coast counterparts, and only two games have ended level, although one of those was a goalless draw at the Vitality in September 2023.

That scoreless contest preceded a 2-1 victory for Chelsea on the final weekend of the 2023-24 Premier League season, where Moises Caicedo memorably scored a 50-yard stunner before an emotional farewell ceremony for departing defender Thiago Silva.

May's narrow beating of Bournemouth means that Chelsea have three wins under their belts from their last four top-flight battles against the Cherries, who are also winless in five against the West London giants since a shock 1-0 Stamford Bridge victory in December 2019.

Eleven months before their most recent Premier League away win at Chelsea, Bournemouth pulled off an almighty shock in a 4-0 thrashing of the Blues on January 30, 2019; on January 31, 2018, they also stormed to an equally unbelievable 3-0 victory at Stamford Bridge.

The first-ever Premier League meeting between Bournemouth and Chelsea in December 2015 also went the way of the Cherries, who evidently enjoy winter-time fixtures against the Blues, and the two sides met just five times before Bournemouth's Premier League inauguration.

One of those clashes came in the Zenith Data Systems Cup - also known as the Full Members' Cup - a competition that ran for seven years from 1985 to 1992 after English teams were banned from Europe in the wake of the Heysel Stadium Disaster.

With seven goals in this fixture alone, former Chelsea attacker Eden Hazard is comfortably the highest individual scorer in this matchup; ex-Cherries man Joshua King is the Belgian's closest challenger with four efforts.

Last 20 meetings

May 19, 2024: Chelsea 2-1 Bournemouth (Premier League)
Sep 17, 2023: Bournemouth 0-0 Chelsea (Premier League)
May 06, 2023: Bournemouth 1-3 Chelsea (Premier League)
Dec 27, 2022: Chelsea 2-0 Bournemouth (Premier League)
Feb 29, 2020: Bournemouth 2-2 Chelsea (Premier League)
Dec 14, 2019: Chelsea 0-1 Bournemouth (Premier League)
Jan 30, 2019: Bournemouth 4-0 Chelsea (Premier League)
Dec 19, 2018: Chelsea 1-0 Bournemouth (EFL Cup Quarter-Finals)
Sep 01, 2018: Chelsea 2-0 Bournemouth (Premier League)
Jan 31, 2018: Chelsea 0-3 Bournemouth (Premier League)
Dec 20, 2017: Chelsea 2-1 Bournemouth (EFL Cup Quarter-Finals)
Oct 28, 2017: Bournemouth 0-1 Chelsea (Premier League)
Apr 08, 2017: Bournemouth 1-3 Chelsea (Premier League)
Dec 26, 2016: Chelsea 3-0 Bournemouth (Premier League)
Apr 23, 2016: Bournemouth 1-4 Chelsea (Premier League)
Dec 05, 2015: Chelsea 0-1 Bournemouth (Premier League)
Oct 4, 1994: Bournemouth 0-1 Chelsea (League Cup Second Round Second Leg)
Sep 21, 1994: Chelsea 1-0 Bournemouth (League Cup Second Round First Leg)
Nov 28, 1989: Bournemouth 2-3 Chelsea (Zenith Data Systems Cup)
Mar 25, 1989: Chelsea 2-0 Bournemouth (Second Division)