Chelsea Disclose 36-man Squad for 2021-22 Season

With the transfer window now closed, Chelsea has verified their 2021/22 squad.

The club made this known in a statement on its website on Thursday.

The statement said, “Chelsea’s squad for the 2021/22 Premier League campaign has been submitted.

“Each club may register 25 first-team players over the age of 21, of whom a minimum of eight should be homegrown.

“A ‘homegrown’ player is defined by the Premier League as someone of any nationality who is 21 or older on 1 January 2022 and spent three years between the ages of 16 and 21 attached to an English league team.

“Coaches can supplement the squad with any number of under-21 players, whatever their country of birth. For this season, these are players who were born on or after 1 January 2000.”

In this squad list, we see a new number for Croatian midfielder Kovacic, England midfielder Ross Barkley gets a number and keeps his place for now in the squad.

Chelsea’s Premier League squad is as follows:

1: Kepa Arrizabalaga

2: Antonio Rudiger

3: Marcos Alonso

4: Andreas Christensen – homegrown

5: Jorginho

6: Thiago Silva

7: N’Golo Kante

8: Mateo Kovacic

9: Romelu Lukaku – homegrown

10: Christian Pulisic

11: Timo Werner

12: Ruben Loftus-Cheek – homegrown

13: Marcus Bettinelli – homegrown

14: Trevoh Chalobah – homegrown

16: Edouard Mendy

17: Saul Niguez

18: Ross Barkley – homegrown

19: Mason Mount – homegrown

20: Callum Hudson-Odoi – under-21

21: Ben Chilwell – homegrown

22: Hakim Ziyech

24: Reece James – homegrown

28: Cesar Azpilicueta

29: Kai Havertz

31: Malang Sarr

32: Lewis Baker – homegrown

36: Lucas Bergstrom – under-21