Returning to the determination wherever helium hung up his boots arsenic a player, Chelsea brag Liam Rosenior takes his Blues broadside to the Amex Stadium for Tuesday's Premier League showdown with Brighton & Hove Albion, successful some teams' 34th fixture of the 2025-26 season.
The contention was moved to a midweek day owed to Chelsea's FA Cup semi-final commitments adjacent weekend, and if their caller signifier is thing to spell by, winning that tourney whitethorn beryllium their champion changeable astatine getting backmost into Europe for the 2026-27 season.
Indeed, the Blues person present mislaid each of their past 4 Premier League matches aft Saturday's 1-0 reverse to Manchester United, meaning that Rosenior's men could beryllium 7 points beneath Liverpool successful the Premier League table should the Reds triumph the Merseyside derby connected Sunday.
Meanwhile, Fabian Hurzeler's Brighton are present trailing the Club World Cup holders by conscionable 1 constituent pursuing their 2-2 gully against Tottenham Hotspur, and the Seagulls person made a wont of besting the Blues successful caller times.
Looking up to Tuesday's fixture, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look astatine the head-to-head grounds and erstwhile meetings betwixt Brighton and Chelsea.
Head-to-head record
Previous meetings: 27
Chelsea wins: 16
Draws: 5
Brighton wins: 6
Meetings betwixt Chelsea and Brighton & Hove Albion person been commonplace since the Seagulls' meteoric emergence respective years back, but with the visitors plying their commercialized successful the little divisions for decades, determination person lone ever been 27 competitory showdowns betwixt the 2 clubs.
From those 27 contests, 16 person seen Chelsea travel retired connected the close extremity of the scoreline, including successful September 2024, wherever Cole Palmer astonishingly became the archetypal subordinate to ever people 4 goals successful 1 fractional of Premier League shot successful a 4-2 thriller.
All 3 of their meetings successful the 2023-24 play besides saw Chelsea triumph, the archetypal of which saw the Blues prevail successful the EFL Cup archetypal circular acknowledgment to a Nicolas Jackson effort.
That 1-0 occurrence preceded a 3-2 Premier League triumph astatine Stamford Bridge, earlier Palmer and Christopher Nkunku ensured that Danny Welbeck's precocious onslaught would beryllium inconsequential successful a 2-1 Amex Stadium success.
In contrast, Brighton person a specified six competitory wins to outcry astir versus the Blues, though 2 of those uncommon victories arrived successful speedy succession successful 2024-25, arsenic Fabian Hurzeler's men prevailed 2-1 connected location soil to dump Chelsea retired of the FA Cup a fewer days earlier a 3-0 Premier League pummelling.
The Seagulls also triumphed 3-1 implicit the 10-man Blues in September 2025, and 2 more successes came successful the 2022-23 Premier League season, wherever the broadside led by Roberto De Zerbi did the treble implicit the squad to poach Graham Potter from their dugout.
Potter's instrumentality to the Amex successful October 2022 was a chastening matter for the Englishman, whose broadside were subjected to an embarrassing 4-1 defeat, earlier Julio Enciso's cracking onslaught gave Brighton a 2-1 Stamford Bridge triumph successful April 2023, spoiling Frank Lampard's West London homecoming.
Another 5 meetings betwixt Chelsea and Brighton person ended level, including 3 successive Premier League matches betwixt April 2021 and January 2022, anterior to which the Seagulls suffered a behind-closed-doors decision to the Blues successful September 2020.
Four Division Two meetings betwixt 1983 and 1989 each went the mode of Chelsea, who besides overcame Brighton successful the 3rd circular of the 1972-73 FA Cup and 4th circular of the 1966-97 tournament, though they required a replay to get implicit the enactment successful the latter.
It has been implicit 90 years since the club's inaugural gathering successful the 3rd circular of the 1932-33 FA Cup, wherever Brighton - past a Third Division South squad - stunned Chelsea successful a 2-1 triumph earlier losing to West Ham United successful circular five.
Last 20 meetings
Sep 27, 2025: Chelsea 1-3 Brighton (Premier League)
Feb 14, 2025: Brighton 3-0 Chelsea (Premier League)
Feb 08, 2025: Brighton 2-1 Chelsea (FA Cup Fourth Round)
Sep 28, 2024: Chelsea 4-2 Brighton (Premier League)
May 15, 2024: Brighton 1-2 Chelsea (Premier League)
Dec 3, 2023: Chelsea 3-2 Brighton (Premier League)
Sep 27, 2023: Chelsea 1-0 Brighton (EFL Cup Third Round)
Apr 15, 2023: Chelsea 1-2 Brighton (Premier League)
Oct 29, 2022: Brighton 4-1 Chelsea (Premier League)
Jan 18, 2022: Brighton 1-1 Chelsea (Premier League)
Dec 29, 2021: Chelsea 1-1 Brighton (Premier League)
Apr 20, 2021: Chelsea 0-0 Brighton (Premier League)
Sep 14, 2020: Brighton 1-3 Chelsea (Premier League)
Jan 01, 2020: Brighton 1-1 Chelsea (Premier League)
Sep 28, 2019: Chelsea 2-0 Brighton (Premier League)
Apr 03, 2019: Chelsea 3-0 Brighton (Premier League)
Dec 16, 2018: Brighton 1-2 Chelsea (Premier League)
Jan 20, 2018: Brighton 0-4 Chelsea (Premier League)
Dec 26, 2017: Chelsea 2-0 Brighton (Premier League)
Mar 15, 1989: Brighton 0-1 Chelsea (Division Two)
Last 10 Premier League meetings
Sep 27, 2025: Chelsea 1-3 Brighton (Premier League)
Feb 14, 2025: Brighton 3-0 Chelsea (Premier League)
Sep 28, 2024: Chelsea 4-2 Brighton (Premier League)
May 15, 2024: Brighton 1-2 Chelsea (Premier League)
Dec 3, 2023: Chelsea 3-2 Brighton (Premier League)
Apr 15, 2023: Chelsea 1-2 Brighton (Premier League)
Oct 29, 2022: Brighton 4-1 Chelsea (Premier League)
Jan 18, 2022: Brighton 1-1 Chelsea (Premier League)
Dec 29, 2021: Chelsea 1-1 Brighton (Premier League)
Apr 20, 2021: Chelsea 0-0 Brighton (Premier League)
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