{"id":180777,"date":"2025-05-16T20:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/fa-cup-finalist-chelsea-fc-heads-to-wembley-with-historic-treble-in-sight\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T20:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:12:45","slug":"fa-cup-finalist-chelsea-fc-heads-to-wembley-with-historic-treble-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/fa-cup-finalist-chelsea-fc-heads-to-wembley-with-historic-treble-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup Finalist Chelsea FC Heads to Wembley with Historic Treble in Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Following a <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/unbeaten-chelsea-fc-wins-2024-25-wsl-season-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dominant 2024\/25 campaign<\/a>, Chelsea FC will look to cap their historic run by completing a domestic treble on Sunday, when they&#8217;ll battle Manchester United for a third season trophy in the 2025 FA Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>After securing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/soccer\/chelsea-win-womens-league-cup-bompastors-first-silverware-with-team-2025-03-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024\/25 League Cup<\/a> in March amidst an unbeaten run to a <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/chelsea-continues-wsl-dominance-with-6th-straight-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sixth-straight WSL title<\/a>, the Blues will close out their season against the league&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/womensleagues.thefa.com\/barclays-womens-super-league-table\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">third-place finishers<\/a>, the Red Devils, in London&#8217;s iconic Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Should Chelsea secure the 2025 FA Cup, they will add a second domestic treble to their resume after clinching their first trio of trophies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/soccer-sports-fa-cup-premier-league-fran-kirby-e9605675fe6b3fdaf1e40ef58d0cc3db\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2020\/21 season<\/a>. This time, however, they could do so in undefeated fashion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in a really good place, just the fact that we won the league being unbeaten,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/bompastor-plans-the-perfect-end-to-a-historic-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> first-year Blues manager <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/chelsea-reaches-deal-with-lyon-for-sonia-bompastor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sonia Bompastor<\/a>.&nbsp;&#8220;To end the season with an FA Cup final at Wembley against Man United is maybe the perfect way to end the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Manchester United seeks to defend their 2024 FA Cup title. (Visionhaus\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Manchester United hunts second straight FA Cup trophy<\/h2>\n<p>Standing between Chelsea and the treble are 2024 FA Cup champions Manchester United, who will take aim at their only trophy of the season partly behind the play of <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/unbeaten-chelsea-fc-wins-2024-25-wsl-season-results\/#:~:text=WSL%20standouts%20secure%20individual%202024\/25%20awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024\/25 WSL Golden Glove winner<\/a> and USWNT goalkeeper prospect&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/phallon-tullis-joyce-nwsl-manchester-united-uswnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Phallon Tullis-Joyce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Man United enter as the game&#8217;s undisputed underdogs, having dropped both their WSL regular-season matches against Chelsea in narrow 1-0 defeats.<\/p>\n<p>Even more, the Red Devils must overcome a particular tough stretch of play, facing more than a month without a victory on their schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Man United&#8217;s last win was their 2-0 FA Cup semifinal victory over Manchester City on April 13th, with the Red Devils suffering a pair of losses and recording two draws to close out WSL play.<\/p>\n<p>That said, United has experience downing the Blues on the FA Cup stage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2024\/apr\/14\/manchester-united-chelsea-womens-fa-cup-match-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ousting Chelsea<\/a> from last year&#8217;s semifinals en route to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/soccer\/man-utd-clinch-first-ever-womens-fa-cup-with-4-0-thrashing-spurs-2024-05-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">club-first FA title<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remarking that Manchester United &#8220;are a really strong team,&#8221; Bompastor pointed out that the Red Devils &#8220;don&#8217;t concede a lot of goals, and we need to remember that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You only get the trophy if you win, so we need to make sure going into the game we have the best preparation and we perform on the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to watch Chelsea play Manchester United at the FA Cup final<\/h2>\n<p>The 2025 FA Cup final between Chelsea FC and Manchester United will kick off at 8:30 AM ET on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Live coverage of the match will begin at 8:20 AM ET on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/watch\/player\/_\/id\/186628e5-913c-4cc2-a210-cc6a802d066d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ESPN+<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/fa-cup-finalist-chelsea-fc-heads-to-wembley-with-historic-treble-in-sight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FA Cup Finalist Chelsea FC Heads to Wembley with Historic Treble in Sight<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Women&#039;s Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/fa-cup-finalist-chelsea-fc-heads-to-wembley-with-historic-treble-in-sight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a dominant 2024\/25 campaign, Chelsea FC will look to cap their historic run by completing a domestic treble on Sunday, when they&#8217;ll battle Manchester United for a third season trophy in the 2025 FA Cup final. After securing the 2024\/25 League Cup in March amidst an unbeaten run to a sixth-straight WSL title, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6805],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-180777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-womens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}