Chelsea F.C. Reserves and Youth Team

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Chelsea Reserves

Full name

Chelsea Football Club Reserves

Nickname(s)

The Blues

Founded

1905

Ground

Griffin Park
Brentford
(Capacity 12,763)

Chairman

Bruce Buck

Manager

Brendan Rogers

League

FA Premier Reserve League





Home colours





Away colours

Chelsea Reserves are the reserve team of Chelsea Football Club. They are members of the FA Premier Reserve League, Southern Division, although former manager Jose Mourinho once called for them to play in the football league.^[1] They have never won the competition. The team mainly consists of Under-21 players at the club, although senior players occasionally play in the reserve side, for instance when they are recovering from injury. The reserves' head coach is currently Brendan Rogers and the youth team is coached by Paul Clement. Frank Arnesen is the current chief scout and director of youth development and is largely responsible for recruiting young players to play in Chelsea's academy and youth/reserve teams.

On the 11th May 2007, it was announced that the Chelsea Reserves will play their home games at Brentford's Griffin Park Stadium.^[2] The Youth Team play their home games at the club's training ground near Cobham.

[edit] Reserve squad

According to official website; correct as of January 12, 2008.^[3]

No.	Position	Player
27	FW	Ben Sahar
30	GK	Rhys Taylor
32	DF	Carl Magnay
34	MF	Liam Bridcutt
37	MF	Jack Cork
41	DF	Sam Hutchinson
42	MF	Lee Sawyer
43	DF	Ryan Bertrand
44	DF	Michael Mancienne
46	MF	Jimmy Smith
48	MF	Michael Woods

No.	Position	Player
--	GK	Stuart Searle
--	DF	Shaun Cummings
--	DF	Nana Ofori-Twumasi
--	DF	Patrick van Aanholt
--	MF	Ricardo Fernandes
--	MF	Sergio Tejera
--	MF	Tom Taiwo
--	FW	Fabio Ferreira
--	FW	Franco di Santo
--	FW	Miroslav Stoch
--	FW	Morten Nielsen

[edit] Youth team

According to official website; includes all scholars and schoolboy academy members who have appeared for the Youth Academy Under 18 team.^[4]

	Player	DOB	Position	International Caps	Previous Club
1st Year Scholars (players born between September 1, 1990 and August 31, 1991)
	Nicky Ahmed	18 April 1991 (1991-04-18) (age 17)	MF	–	–
	Fabio Borini	29 March 1991 (1991-03-29) (age 17)	FW	Capped at Under-17 level	Bologna
	Ben Gordon	2 March 1991 (1991-03-02) (age 17)	DF	Capped at Under-17 level	Leeds
	Niclas Heimann	12 March 1991 (1991-03-12) (age 17)	GK	–	Bayer Leverkusen
	Jordan Hibbert	25 October 1990 (1990-10-25) (age 17)	MF	–	–
	Gael Kakuta	21 June 1991 (1991-06-21) (age 16)	MF	Capped at Under-17 level	Lens
	Billy-Joe King	23 September 1990 (1990-09-23) (age 17)	DF	–	–
	Jacob Mellis	8 January 1991 (1991-01-08) (age 17)	MF	Capped at Under-17 level	Sheffield United
	Adam Phillip	19 June 1991 (1991-06-19) (age 16)	FW	Capped at Under-17 level	Sutton United
	Danny Philliskirk	10 April 1991 (1991-04-10) (age 17)	FW	Capped at Under-17 level	Oldham
	Jack Saville	2 April 1991 (1991-04-02) (age 17)	DF	–	Reading
	Jordan Tabor	9 September 1990 (1990-09-09) (age 17)	DF	–	–
	Jan Šebek	31 March 1991 (1991-03-31) (age 17)	GK	Capped at Under-16 level	FK Tachov
Schoolboys (players born after 1 September 1991 )
	Jeffrey Bruma	13 November 1991 (1991-11-13) (age 16)	DF	Capped at Under-17 level	Feyenoord
	Conor Clifford	1 October 1991 (1991-10-01) (age 16)	MF	Capped at Under-17 level	Crumlin United
	Joshua McEachran	1 March 1993 (1993-03-01) (age 15)	MF	Capped at Under-16 level	–
	Aldi Haxia	–	GK	–	–
	Tom Hayden	–	DF	–	–
	Franck Nouble	24 September 1991 (1991-09-24) (age 16)	FW	Capped at Under-17 level	–
	Jacopo Sala	5 December 1991 (1991-12-05) (age 16)	FW	Capped at Under-17 level	Atalanta
	Sam Walker	–	GK	–	Millwall