Chelsea Ladies Legends Charity Match

The Chelsea Supporters Belief had been as soon as extra delighted to be match sponsor for the Chelsea Women Legends Charity match recreation that was performed this yr at Horsham City FC on Sunday 22 June 2025.

A wonderful sunny day noticed the Chelsea Women Legends play the Chelsea Women Academy and over 3k was raised from the sport for the Capturing Star Youngsters Hospice Hampton who’re there to helps mother and father and siblings within the very worst moments of their lives. The Academy aspect ran out 4-1 winners with a hat trick from Ella Bale, an personal aim and Naomi Cole a comfort aim for the Legends.

An enormous shout out to Dr Julie Haddock-Millar fortunate winner of a signed Millie Shiny shirt and equally huge shout out to Millie for donating her shirt which raised £1120 for Capturing Star.

A particular pre match tribute on the stadium scoreboard was additionally made to the late Paul Lagan journalist and lengthy standing Chelsea fan who handed away a number of weeks earlier. Paul was a champion of the Chelsea Womens group from its early newbie days and could possibly be discovered at Kingsmeadow on match days as typically as you’d see him at Stamford Bridge.

RIP Paul Lagan 24.4.1959 to 1.5.2025.

The second legends recreation for the Brian Mills Memorial Trophy noticed as soon as extra practically 40 former gamers and academy gamers from the unique Chelsea Women aspect that had been the trailblazers for the trendy day profitable trophy successful aspect that’s Chelsea WFC. Properly completed to former supervisor Tony Farmer for organising the occasion.

Simply over thirty years in the past firstly of 1993/94 season Tony Farmer arrange a Chelsea girls’s group that he wished in the future to in a position to compete and win trophies on the highest degree. Over the many years the Chelsea Ladies’s group moved by the ladies’s soccer pyramid with rising assist from Chelsea FC. Then in the summertime of 2013 Emma Hayes arrived and the remainder was historical past. Final yr’s charity recreation befell simply after Chelsea had gained their fifth successive WSL title as Chelsea stated farewell to Emma Hayes and shortly stated bonjour to Sonia Bompastor. A yr later Chelsea WFC had a really profitable treble successful season. Unrivalled.

Mark Meehan who’s Chair of the CST has lengthy hyperlinks to the ladies’s group, when over 30 years in the past as a part of the Chelsea Unbiased Supporters Associations they sponsored an advert which means the newly fashioned Chelsea Women group might produce a matchday programme that was forward of something womens groups had been producing within the 90’s. That in flip helped discover different sponsorship serving to maintain the membership alive and develop and develop to what it’s as we speak

Over 30 years later the Chelsea Supporters Belief had been proud to be as soon as once more sponsoring Chelsea Women legends and sit up for subsequent years Legends Sport.