Visit Stamford Bridge
Season 2020/21 starts on the second weekend of September. There have been suggestions of 40% of the capacity being allowed into the ground. Chelsea have around 25K Season Ticket holders, so we imagine that they will be occupying the allocation.
At the time of writing (end of July), the box office have not communicated any details for us. Our advice would be not to travel for the 2020/21 season.
The local membership is running for 2020/21 and details on that can be found on our Membership Page.
Information below on this page is how the system works under normal circumstances.
In case you’re not a follower on social media etc., the Melbourne Chelsea Supporters Club does have the ability to help with tickets for matches at Stamford Bridge. You can be in Country Victoria, also Tasmania, to gain our help. There are other clubs in Australia with the same ability and you must choose your closest.
There have been plenty of stories of people paying excessive amounts for a match ticket via ticket agencies in London and also via ‘touts’ (scalpers) near the ground, but the benefit via a Supporters Club these extortionate prices are avoided. You pay the members price that is listed on the Chelsea website, and we save you the trouble of going online, when there is a very good chance that the match will sell out, especially the bigger fixtures.
If you’re planning a trip, then anyone who wants to go to a match MUST buy a Chelsea (True Blue) Membership. One ticket per membership.
To gain our assistance, you must also be a member of our local club (see the Membership tab).
It is critical for some of the bigger fixtures that you buy the membership before July 26th 2019. This will give you a bonus of 5 loyalty points, we’ll mention why lower down.
Once you have your Chelsea membership you will need to forward the confirmation to our email address, admin@melbournechelsea.com.au. Order periods for matches are usually around 50 days ahead of a fixture, exceptions for the very start of the season and for cup matches.
Once you do, you will be given all the information you need to get the tickets you are chasing.Each match has an order period where you will email us with the information we need, and also payment for the match tickets. You pay us, we pay Chelsea FC.
If you’re only thinking about a trip for season 2019/20, it’s worth buying the Chelsea membership at least. This assistance from us is not available after December 21st 2019, as that is the cut-off date dictated by Chelsea for adding members to our Melbourne list.
Loyalty Points
As previously mentioned, loyalty points are an issue for some matches, Specificaly when playing Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Tottenham. If they are in 2019, then you need FIVE points and if the match is in 2020 (which 4 of them are) then you need TEN points. We can advise on ways to accumulate extra points, but it is likely to be buying a ticket for a match you will not be attending. Make sure you ask us though. All the other home Premier League matches are ZERO points needed, via a supporters club. The only exception is the last home match of the season, against Wolverhampton Wolves. Also TEN points. Of course it is nice to try and get to one of these bigger fixtures, but we’d recommend that you target one of the other matches.
Cup matches and group stages of the Champions League will not need points either, but latter stages of cup competitions will likely attract loyalty points.
As well as loyalty points with Chelsea for each season, we’d love you to remain loyal to this ability for getting home match tickets. The only reason we can help Chelsea fans from our part of the world is if there are another 29 other people willing to buy the membership. If they don’t, then we can’t help. It’s as simple as that. So, on the rare occasions that the Chelsea Box office ask us to have an order of preference (when we have a number of members going to one match, usually a category AA match) then we will determine who goes where on the list by the following criteria.
- Length of Chelsea FC (True Blue) membership
- Length of Chelsea FC and Melbourne Chelsea Membership
- Length of Melbourne Chelsea membership
- Date of when Chelsea FC membership was bought for the season that the match is in.
Ultimately we want people to keep helping other supporters. It doesn’t work without that.
#getinvolvedandstayinvolved
