Chelsea

WSL

Chelsea Women is an English football club playing in the English Women's Super League. It was founded in 1992 and has won seven titles.

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What makes Chelsea what it is.

Less than two years before joining Chelsea, Veerle was still playing for SC Bemmel’s under-17 boys and selling toasted sandwiches in the club canteen at weekends.

She started playing football in Uppsala. Her father founded a football club there so that Nathalie and Filippa Angeldahl would have somewhere to play.

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Quirky facts from the Chelsea squad.

She was team captain at just 16 — led the England U17s during Euro qualifiers and netted two braces (vs Ukraine & Belgium).

Up to the age of eleven, Nüsken was considered the best German tennis player of her year, before she concentrated on football

She used to work in Domino's that changed her name of the store to Lucy's during the Euros.

Veerle’s butterfly goal celebration honours two people she has lost: her mother’s best friend, who died from breast cancer, and a former SC Bemmel teammate. The butterfly also represents her lucky number four, and shortly before the 2024 Under-20 World Cup, one landed on her leg.

In January 2025, Naomi made headlines by transferring from San Diego Wave to Chelsea FC for a world-record fee of $1.1 million, marking the first time a women's football transfer fee has exceeded one million US dollars.

At 17, she became the youngest Dutch player to debut at a FIFA Women's World Cup in 2023.

She became the first high school player ever to be selected #1 overall in the NWSL Draft (2023).

In May 2022, Alyssa and her sister Gisele became the first high school athletes to sign a Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deal with Nike.

She set records in the 2023 Challenge Cup as the youngest player to both start and score in the tournament.

When club rules threatened to separate Veerle from the boys’ team she had grown up with, one teammate declared that he would quit if she was not allowed to continue with them.

She was the youngest female player in England to sign a professional contract — at just 17 years old (September 2023)!

She is the first player in women's football history to win domestic treble in three different countries - England, France and Spain.

She became the youngest player to be named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the NWSL Challenge Cup final at just 19 years old.

In 2009, she won UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship with England. In five appereances, she kept five clean sheets. England had become the first team in history to win this tournament without conceding