UEFA Nations event
Chelsea and Cardiff City meet in League Cup — one fixture among the hundreds English football gets through, week in and week out, across a pyramid that runs from the Premier League all the way down to the regional divisions. Promotion and relegation tie every rung of that ladder together, which is why a result here matters whatever the level. Below: form, the head-to-head, and the goals, before any odds enter the picture.
League Cup · England · 16.12.2025 · kick-off 20:00 UTC
How Chelsea and Cardiff City have been playing
Form first — it's the freshest read on the page, and in a calendar as crowded as England's it turns over quickly. Recent results for each side, newest at the top:
Chelsea:
Date Event Score 24.05.2026 Sunderland vs Chelsea 2 - 1 19.05.2026 Chelsea vs Tottenham Hotspur 2 - 1 16.05.2026 Chelsea vs Manchester City 0 - 1
Cardiff City:
Date Event Score 02.05.2026 Mansfield Town vs Cardiff City 5 - 4 25.04.2026 Cardiff City vs Northampton Town 5 - 1 22.04.2026 Cardiff City vs Port Vale 1 - 0
When Chelsea and Cardiff City have met
Few places keep football records as long as England does — the game has been organised here since the nineteenth century, and a head-to-head often reads truer than the league table. The earlier meetings we hold are below; a blank table just means there's nothing logged between these two yet, which happens often enough in cup ties that throw together clubs from different divisions.
Date Event Score 16.12.2025 Cardiff City vs Chelsea 1 - 3 31.03.2019 Cardiff City vs Chelsea 1 - 2 15.09.2018 Chelsea vs Cardiff City 4 - 1
Goals: the two sides by the numbers
Goals scored so far:
Chelsea — 17
Cardiff City — 32
Goals conceded so far:
Chelsea — 29
Cardiff City — 20
Worth reading alongside the form rather than on their own — English sides can carry very different records home and away, and a goals column only tells half that story.
Odds on Chelsea vs Cardiff City
With dozens of firms licensed in the British market, the price on each result rarely matches from one to the next. Odds-Fan sets the licensed bookmakers' numbers side by side, so the best one on any outcome is easy to pick out — whether you're here for the football or for the value.
