Chelsea vs Djurgården facts

Chelsea welcome Djurgården to Stamford Bridge for the second leg of their UEFA Conference League semi-final holding a dominant 4-1 lead from the first leg in Stockholm.

The two-time UEFA Champions League winners scored twice in each half in Sweden as they recorded a convincing victory against their hosts, who are appearing in their maiden European semi-final.

Jadon Sancho opened the scoring in the 12th minute before Noni Madueke made it two two minutes before half-time. Nicolas Jackson came off the bench at half-time and scored twice (59, 65) to give the away side a four-goal lead, although 18-year-old Djurgården substitute Isak Alemayehu Mulugeta had the last word with a header three minutes later.

That was a first meeting between the sides in UEFA competition and Djurgården's first game against an English club.

Form guide

Chelsea

Record vs Swedish clubs: W6 D3 L0 F16 A3
Home record vs Swedish clubs: W3 D1 L0

Prior to the first leg, Chelsea's last four meetings with teams from Sweden had all been against Malmö; they won all four, scoring ten goals and conceding just one, most recently triumphing 4-0 at home and 1-0 away in the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League group stage.

The London club have won each of their last three home games against Swedish opposition, scoring eight goals and conceding none.

This season the Blues won six out of six of their league phase matches to finish top, four points clear of any other team and with a record of 26 goals scored and just five conceded.

In the round of 16 they took on Danish side Copenhagen. Reece James and Enzo Fernández struck to give them a 2-1 victory in the away first leg, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall getting the only goal at Stamford Bridge.

Their quarter-final victory against Legia Warszawa (3-0 a, 1-2 h) has led Chelsea to a 15th UEFA competition semi-final. They have progressed from seven of their previous 14 including four of their last five.

The west London side have won 12 of their last 14 two-legged European ties and have lost just one of their last 15 matches in European semi-finals (W6 D8).

Chelsea have progressed from all 16 previous ties when they have won the first leg away from home, including last two in this season's competition, against Copenhagen and Legia.

Enzo Maresca's team have scored 37 goals in this season's Conference League campaign, nine more than any other team. They have now scored four goals in five matches in this season's competition.

Chelsea's record in seven UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W3 L4:
1-4 v Liverpool, 2006/07 Champions League semi-final
5-6 v Manchester United, 2007/08 Champions League final
4-3 v Bayern München, 2011/12 Champions League final
4-5 v Bayern München, 2013 Super Cup
4-3 v Eintracht Frankfurt, 2018/19 Europa League semi-final
4-5 v Liverpool, 2019 Super Cup
6-5 v Villarreal, 2021 Super Cup

Djurgården 

Record vs English clubs: W0 D0 L1 F1 A4

The first leg was Djurgården's first meeting with a team from England.

Victories in their final four league phase matches helped Djurgården to a fifth-place finish and automatic qualification to the round of 16. That led them to a tie against Pafos; a 1-0 defeat in the away first leg was successfully overturned in the return fixture in Stockholm thanks to goals from Oskar Fallenius, Daniel Stensson and Tokmac Nguen that secured a 3-1 aggregate victory.

Djurgården's quarter-final victory against SK Rapid (0-1 h, 4-1 a aet) was their first appearance in the last eight of a European competition in 69 years; they are now into a UEFA semi-final for the first time in their history, becoming the first Swedish men's side to reach the last four of a major European competition since IFK Göteborg won the 1986/87 UEFA Cup.

Djurgården have won eight of their last ten two-legged European ties and six of their previous eight in the Conference League (L2). In total they have won ten European matches this season – equalling their own Swedish record in a single campaign set in 2022/23.

Djurgården progressed from a tie where they lost their home first leg for the first time in five previous occasions in the quarter-finals of this season's competition. However, they have never previously lost by a margin of three goals or more.

The Swedish side finished fourth in the 2024 Allsvenskan.

Finland's Jani Honkavaara replaced Kim Bergstrand and Thomas Lagerlöf, who had been in charge since 2018, as Djurgården head coach at the end of December.

Djurgården have yet to feature in a UEFA penalty shoot-out.

Links and trivia

Chelsea's Denmark Under-21 international goalkeeper Filip Jörgensen was born in Sweden and was in the youth academy at Malmö between 2008 and 2014 before moving to Spain.

Finnish goalkeeper Lucas Bergström spent part of the 2024 season on loan at Swedish side Brommapojkarna, making four appearances.

Djurgården's Theo Bergvall is the older brother of Lucas, who plays for Tottenham and who has featured in defeats both home (3-4) and away (0-1) against Chelsea this season.

Chelsea's 17-year old defender Genesis Antwi was born in Stockholm, Sweden and was part of Hammarby's youth academy.