A win or draw against Liverpool on Sunday will see Chelsea set a new unbeaten record in the WSL, with their current 33-game undefeated streak showing how dominant the Blues have become in the competition.
Chelsea find themselves on the brink of history in the Women’s Super League this weekend as they look to go a record 34 games unbeaten.
The Blues are within touching distance of achieving a remarkable feat, as the defending champions prepare to face a Liverpool side who have been struggling this season and are yet to win a game.
Chelsea travel to St Helens Stadium on Sunday having redefined consistency, with this potential 34-game unbeaten run incredibly stretching back to the final weeks of the 2023–24 season, when Emma Hayes’ storied tenure was drawing to a close.
And what makes this run extraordinary isn’t just the number of matches, it’s also that Chelsea will be breaking their own record.
The current WSL record of 33 games unbeaten also belongs to the Blues, set between February 2019 and January 2021.
Chelsea's WSL Unbeaten Run
Now, under new head coach Sonia Bompastor, the club have raised the bar once more, proving that dominance can evolve without disruption.
From Hayes to Bompastor: Continuity and Control
A record WSL run did not look likely as the 2023-24 campaign neared its end. The streak began just as Hayes’ team were suffering a nightmare month.
They had lost to fierce rivals Arsenal in the Women’s League Cup final and soon after fell to Manchester United in the semi-finals of the Women’s FA Cup. Hardly fertile ground for the start of a remarkable run.
With only the WSL left to fight for, Hayes was desperate to ensure she ended her final campaign with at least some silverware.
A 4-3 loss to Liverpool on the first day of May appeared to put the Blues’ hopes of winning a historic fifth consecutive league title in jeopardy, but her “mentality monsters”, as they were coined, soon turned things around.
The final three games of her Chelsea tenure were all emphatic wins, capped by a stunning 6-0 away victory over United on the final day, with the Blues gaining revenge for their cup exit.
It meant Chelsea somehow secured the title over Manchester City on goal difference and provided the foundation for the start of this incredible run. In that closing stretch, Chelsea scored 15 goals and conceded none.
Few managers would have wanted to follow in Hayes’ footsteps, but Bompastor has not only embraced the challenge; she’s extended the dynasty. Appointed from Lyon, where she had already claimed three league titles and a Champions League crown, Bompastor inherited a side used to winning and has made them even more efficient.
Since taking over, she’s guided Chelsea to 25 wins and five draws in league competition, maintaining a 2.67 points-per-game average and conceding only 17 goals in that time. She has an 83.3% win rate, which is the best of any manager in WSL history with more than eight games in charge.
Under her guidance, Chelsea’s style has subtly shifted. Hayes’ team were built on intensity and adaptability; Bompastor’s side rely on structured pressing, spatial control and positional fluidity. Yet the outcome remains the same: points, goals, and trophies.
Bompastor’s Winning Blueprint
Bompastor’s track record explains Chelsea’s seamless continuation of success. Across her managerial career, she has overseen 103 league matches at Lyon and Chelsea combined and lost just twice.
Her teams kept 61 clean sheets during that time and maintained performance levels that rival any coach in modern women’s football.
In the WSL, she made history last term as only the second manager to win the title in their first season after Laura Harvey with Arsenal in the league’s inaugural campaign in 2011.
Yet Bompastor’s Chelsea are achieving it in a far more competitive era with the quality and resources of rivals like Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United all at record highs.
Her hallmarks? Ruthless precision and defensive lockouts.
Chelsea have scored 86 WSL goals since the start of their run, second only to Arsenal (87), while their 78.2 xG is unmatched in the division. They also boast the fewest expected goals against (30.4) and goals conceded (17) of any ever-present WSL team over the course of their unbeaten run, winning seven more games than any other team in that time (28/33).
Chelsea’s potential new 34-game streak surpasses not only their previous best but every run in WSL history. And it’s not just the length of the run that’s impressive, it’s the efficiency.
With 89 points in the WSL since the start of their unbeaten run, Chelsea have collected 20 more than any other team in the competition.
But most impressive is the fact that since this run began, they’ve collected 26 out of a possible 30 points from games against their main WSL rivals, Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United (P10 W8 D2). In a top-four mini league between those sides during that time, Chelsea have won 10 more points than their rivals, with Arsenal’s 13 points the next highest.
Depth and Distribution: Goals From Everywhere
Chelsea’s attacking success during this streak has been marked by distribution around the team rather than dependence on one player. With star striker Sam Kerr missing large parts of the past year through injury, the scoring load has been shared more widely than ever.
Aggie Beever-Jones has emerged as a breakout star, leading the club’s scoring charts during the unbeaten run with 15 goals, followed closely by Guro Reiten on 12. Both have registered 16 goal involvements, making them the most productive pair in the squad.
Aggie Beever-Jones WSL for Chelsea
Behind them, Catarina Macario (13), Johanna Rytting Kaneryd (12) and Mayra Ramírez (11) have all contributed at least 10 direct goal involvements. Macario also tops the assist rankings with seven, ahead of Kaneryd (six) and Ramírez (five).
The trio of Kaneryd (47), Reiten (44) and Macario (41) are Chelsea’s leading chance creators in this time. Macario has been proving why Hayes was so keen to bring her to the club and returning the faith the club showed her while battling back from injury.
This attacking spread speaks to Chelsea’s evolving identity. Whereas Hayes’ Chelsea could lean on Kerr’s elite finishing or Fran Kirby’s creativity, Bompastor’s system is less reliant on individual brilliance and more on collective movement and tactical interchange. The result is a side who can threaten from anywhere; wide overloads, central rotations and set-pieces alike.
Millie Bright: The Constant in Blue
At the heart of this era of dominance stands Millie Bright. A captain, a constant, and now a record-breaker, Bright has played more minutes than any Chelsea player during the unbeaten run (2,813).
Her consistency has been rewarded with history: Bright is now tied with Jordan Nobbs for the most WSL appearances (210) and already owns the record for most starts (198). Perhaps most impressively, she has been involved in 91 clean sheets across her league career, which is 24 more than any other player in WSL history.
If Chelsea’s success has often been framed around attacking excellence, Bright’s numbers are a reminder that sustained dominance starts from the back.
Bright has made 32 starts during Chelsea’s unbeaten run, with goalkeeper Hannah Hampton close behind on 30. No other Chelsea player has started more than 24 of the matches during this time (Erin Cuthbert has started 24).
It’s also notable that Chelsea will look to break the record against the team who last defeated them in the WSL, with the Reds prevailing in that dramatic 4-3 contest at Prenton Park – after which Hayes had incorrectly predicted that the “title was done”.
The Opta supercomputer is giving Chelsea a 91.1% chance of breaking the WSL record this weekend against Liverpool, with the Reds’ winning only 8.9% of the supercomputer’s 10,000 pre-match simulations.
Liverpool vs Chelsea Prediction WSL 2025-26
Considering that Liverpool are winless in each of their last 10 WSL games (D2 L8) and could equal their joint-longest run without victory in the competition (11 in August 2011 and January 2020), everything point to a record being broken on Sunday.
WSL Stats Opta 2025-26
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