Chelsea 2022-2023 Season Review – Results, Transfers, Squad, Sponsors & Kits

Stamford Bridge Seating 2022-2023 Season

It is fair to say that Chelsea’s 2022-2023 season was a fascinating one, being the first under the new ownership of Todd Boehly and therefore the first campaign since 2002-2003 that Roman Abramovich was not the club’s owner. That wasn’t the only first, with the 2022-2023 season also being the first time in the club’s existence that there were four different managers charged with guiding the club to success. Success was, sadly, a word that was hard to come by for Chelsea during the campaign, however. The club finished 12th in the Premier League, were knocked out of the FA Cup and the League Cup in the third round and made it to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

It was that Champions League performance that offered a glimmer of hope to supporters, who had grown used to the club being involved in the biggest matches since Abramovich had bought the club two decades before. In fact, the 12th place finish in the Premier League was their worst finish since the 1993-1994 campaign, when they finished 14th. Chelsea had only failed to finish in the top four three times since Abramovich bought the club, so it wasn’t a season that will be remembered with much fondness by the majority of Chelsea supporters. They saw the club score just 38 goals and win 44 points during the campaign.

Transfers

If there was one thing that Chelsea fans did have a chance to talk about during what was an otherwise miserable season then it was transfers. There were some big names that joined the club, with Raheem Sterling arriving from defending champions Manchester City for a fee of £47.5 million. It was the summer of Todd Boehly taking advantage of the way that the amortisation of contracts worked, signing players up for huge sums of money over stupidly long contract. That was perhaps best demonstrated by the club signing Wesley Fofana on a seven-year contract for an amount that could go up to £75 million.

Transfers In

Here is a look at all of the players that Chelsea signed in the summer of 2022 and winter of 2023, complete with the club that they were signed from and the amount that was paid, if known:

Player Signed From Cost
Eddie Beach Southampton Undisclosed
Raheem Sterling Manchester City £47.5 million
Kalidou Koulibaly Napoli £33 million
Omari Hutchinson Arsenal Free Transfer
Gabriel Slonina Chicago Fire £8.1 million
Carney Chukwuemeka Aston Villa £20 million
Zak Sturge Brighton & Hove Albion £60 million
Marc Cucurella Brighton & Hove Albion £60 million
Tyler Dibling Southampton £1.7 million
Cesare Casadei Inter Milan £16.8 million
Wesley Fofana Leicester City £75 million
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Barcelona £10.3 million
Benoît Badiashile Monaco £35 million
David Datro Fofana Molde £10 million
Andrey Santos Vasco da Gama £18 million
Mykhailo Mudryk Shakhtar Donetsk £62 million
Noni Madueke PSV Eindhoven £29 million
Malo Gusto Lyon £26.3 million
Enzo Fernández Benfica £106.7 million
Jimmy Jay Morgan Southampton £3 million

On top of those signings, Chelsea also brought in Denis Zakaria from Juventus on loan, paying a fee of £2.7 million to do so, as well as loaning João Felix from Atlético Madrid for a £9.7 million.

Transfers Out

It is fair to say that Chelsea spent an outrageous amount of money during Todd Boehly’s first full season in charge, seeing nearly £650 million going out of the club’s coffers for new players. The question therefore is, did they get much money in from player sales?

Player Sold To Cost
Antonio Rüdiger Real Madrid Free Transfer
Andreas Christensen Barcelona Free Transfer
George McEachran Swindon Town Released
Thierno Ballo Wolfsberger Released
Karlo Žiger Gorica Free Transfer
Jake Clarke-Salter Queens Park Rangers Free Transfer
Charly Musonda Levante Released
George Nunn Derby County Free Transfer
Josh Tobin Cray Wanderers Free Transfer
Matt Miazga FC Cincinnati Free Transfer
Timo Werner RB Leipzig £25.3 million
Edwin Andersson Stoke City Free Transfer
Emerson West Ham United £15 million
Luke Badley-Morgan Stoke City Free Transfer
Ross Barkley Nice Released
Marcos Alonso Barcelona Free Transfer
Billy Gilmour Brighton & Hove Albion £10 million
Tyler Dibbing Southampton Undisclosed
Xavier Mbuyamba Volendam Undisclosed
Kenedy Valladolid £500,000
Michy Batshuayi Fernerbahçe £3.5 million
Alex Kpakpé Rangers Released
Jude Soonsup-Bell Tottenham Hotspur Free Transfer
Jorginho Arsenal £12 million

The out-goings amounted to around £64 million, with as many as 30 players going out on loan between the summer and winter transfer windows. Of those, around £3.5 million was brought in in fees.

2022-2023 Chelsea Squad

Thanks to such a busy period in the transfer market, the Chelsea squad was quite bloated for the 2022-2023 campaign. Here is a look at the players that could reasonably be described as being in the club’s first-team squad:

Player Number Country Position
Edouard Mendy 16 Senegal Goalkeeper
Kepa Arrizabalaga 1 Spain Goalkeeper
Benoît Badiashile 4 France Centre-Back
Thiago Silva 6 Braazil Centre-Back
Trevor Chalobah 14 England Centre/Right-Back, Defensive Midfield
Ben Chilwell 21 England Left-Back
Reece James 24 England Right-Back
Kalidou Koulibaly 26 Senegal Centre-Back
César Azpilicueta 28 Spain Right-Back
Marc Cucurella 32 Spain Left-Back
Wesley Fofana 33 France Centre-Back
Enzo Fernández 5 Argentina Defensive Midfield
N’Golo Kante 7 France Defensive Midfield
Mateo Kovačić 8 Croatia Defensive Midfield
Ruben Loftus-Cheek 12 England Midfield
Mason Mount 19 England Midfield
Denis Zakaria 20 Switzerland Midfield
Conor Gallagher 23 England Midfield
Carney Chukwuemeka 30 England Midfield
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 9 Gabon Forward
Christian Pulisic 10 United States of America Forward
João Félix 11 Portugal Forward
Mykhailo Mudryk 15 Ukraine Forward
Raheem Sterling 17 England Forward
Armando Broja 18 Albania Striker
Hakim Ziyech 22 Morocco Forward
David Datro Fofana 27 Ivory Coast Striker
Kai Havertz 29 Germany Forward

Kit & Sponsor

Nike and Three UK Logos

Chelsea played the 2022-2023 season in their usual colour of blue for the home strip, which was manufactured by Nike and sponsored by the mobile phone company 3.

The away kit for the campaign was white, with thin blue strips running across the middle of it. The third kit, meanwhile, was officially referred to as being ‘sesame’ in colour; though most people would probably say it was a caucasian skin tone.

The goalkeeper kit for the 2022-2023 season was bright orange. The away kit, third kit and goalkeeper’s kit were, as with the first-time kit, manufactured by Nike and sponsored by 3.