Brentford vs. Chelsea: Head-to-head record and past meetings after Premier League clash

Brentford welcomed Chelsea to the Gtech Community Stadium in the Premier League on Saturday night, providing a superb match full of entertainment.

Even though this is a fixture that has been played just nine times in the Premier League, it has served up some shock results and thrilling encounters, including Saturday's 2-2 draw.

Brentford initially took the lead before Chelsea fought back and appeared to have won it when Moises Caicedo put them ahead with five minutes remaining, only for super-sub Fabio Carvalho to score an equaliser in the final seconds.

Here, Sports Mole looks back at the all-time head-to-head record and some of the notable meetings between the two.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 24

Chelsea wins: 11

Draws: 6

Brentford wins: 7

With Brentford now establishing themselves as Premier League regulars, it is hard to believe they spent almost a century outside of the top flight.

On their long-awaited return to the top table in 2021, Brentford were beaten at home by Chelsea in both the league and the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup.

Thomas Frank's men made up for that, though, by stunning the reigning European Champions 4-1 at Stamford Bridge, with Vitaly Janelt netting twice.

The Bees would go on to win their next two games at Stamford Bridge too, both by two goals to nil, becoming the first team to ever win on their first three trips to the venue in Premier League history.

At home, though, Brentford are still yet to win a Premier League game against the Blues, having drawn with them in all of the last four seasons.

The Bees secured a 0-0 draw in both 2022-23 and 2024-25, as well as 2-2 draws in 2023-24 and 2025-26, meaning the two sides have drawn all of their last four Gtech meetings.

A first defeat at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League era eventually came in December 2024 too, with Marc Cucurella and Nicolas Jackson goals sinking the Bees, despite a spirited late fightback in a 2-1 loss.

The history between the two clubs dates much further back than the recent seasons Brentford have spent in the Premier League, though.

As Second Division champions in 1935, Brentford won promotion to the top tier for the first time, and they would face Chelsea in the four seasons prior to World War Two.

Chelsea won their first three home games against Brentford all by a scoreline of 2-1, but then lost both league matches against the Bees in the 1938-39 season, with both narrowly avoiding relegation.

The outbreak of war meant that the two teams would not meet again for another seven-and-a-half years, and with Brentford one of the weakest clubs post-WW2, they suffered relegation in the first season back, with Chelsea doing the league double over them.

It is not just in the league where they two have faced off though, because shortly after Brentford's relegation, they were drawn against each other in the third round of the FA Cup in 1950, with the Blues winning narrowly 1-0.

Sixty-three years passed before they met again in any capacity, and it was in the FA Cup once more, with League One Brentford being handed a dream draw at home to the Premier League giants in round four.

Not only that, Uwe Rosler's men forced a replay, and could have won the tie on the day, leading twice, before Fernando Torres's 83rd-minute strike saw the game end 2-2.

The replay ended in a 4-0 drubbing in favour of Chelsea, and the same scoreline, at the same venue, in the same round of the same competition ensued when they were drawn together again in 2017.