A first timers’ guide to The Chelsea Flower Show May 22, 2025 A mainstay on locals’ social calendars for over a hundred years, The Chelsea Flower Show has built its reputation around exclusivity, and can feel untouchably posh, especially for those born outside the kilometre of real estate surrounding it. Regulars say that, in broad terms, the event hasn’t really changed for years, a narrative bolstered this [...]
Sofas and season tickets: Inside the world of retail finance May 16, 2025 Retailing financing is on the up and as big banks steer away from the market, specialist lenders are cashing in. Fresh research from the finance and leasing association (FLA) showed consumer finance grew by 13 per cent in March 2025, compared to the year prior. The first quarter of 2025 saw a six per cent [...]
Chelsea Women sign Skoda as first back of shirt sponsor May 8, 2025 Chelsea Women will get their first ever back of shirt partner after signing an extension to its partnership with Skoda. The Czech brand’s UK arm will don the back of the Chelsea shirts, effective immediately, having first partnered with the Kingsmeadow club in 2024. Chelsea won their sixth consecutive Women’s Super League title this month [...]
Boehly: Chelsea fans may need to wait until 2042 for new stadium May 6, 2025 Chelsea fans may need to wait until 2042 before they can move from Stamford Bridge to a new home, co-owner Todd Boehly warned on Tuesday. The club have fallen behind London rivals including Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham in swapping old stadia for new arenas, or vastly upgrading existing infrastructure. But with a move to [...]
Dubai real estate firm to sponsor Chelsea for rest of season April 30, 2025 Chelsea have announced major Dubai-based firm Damac Properties as its front-of-shirt sponsor for the remainder of the season. The deal will see the UAE brand on the Stamford Bridge team’s shirts from tomorrow evening, when the Blues take on Djurgarden in the Europa Conference League in Sweden. But the deal will conclude at the end [...]
Lidl eyes Mayfair and Chelsea stores amid £500m expansion April 28, 2025 You could soon shop at a Lidl store in the swanky London districts of Mayfair and Chelsea as the low-cost supermarket plans dozens more store openings as part of a £500m expansion plan. The German-owned business, which controls 7.8 per cent of the UK grocery market according to latest Kantar figures, has published a list [...]
Chelsea spend £60m on agents’ fees in year, Premier League hits £400m April 14, 2025 Chelsea has spent £60m on agents’ fees since February last year, the Football Association has revealed. The Blues are nearly £10m clear of Manchester City (£52m) and £27m clear of Manchester United in third. The 20 Premier League clubs, in total, spent a whopping £409m on agents between 2 February 2024 and 3 February 2025 [...]
Manchester City and Chelsea can pick up £97m Club World Cup prize March 26, 2025 Manchester City or Chelsea will pick up £97m if they win the expanded Club World Cup this summer in the United States. Fifa confirmed that it would hand the winners $125m of the $1bn prize pot on Wednesday as part of a move to make the competition attractive to clubs. Around $500m of the prize [...]
Iconic cinema in Chelsea put on the market March 13, 2025 An iconic Grade II ex-cinema in Chelsea has been put on the market, with potential to turn it into a hotel, housing or a member’s club. The closure of the cinema, which Hugh Grant called “strangely unbearable”, sparked headlines last year. The site, which originally opened in 1930 as the Forum Theatre, became the 26th [...]
Government could take Abramovich to court over £2bn from Chelsea sale March 7, 2025 The government is reportedly preparing to take former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich to court to get their hands on £2bn from the sale of the club. The oligarch previously said that the money from the sale, currently frozen in a bank account, would go to those hit by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But ministers have [...]