Liverpool vs. Chelsea: Head-to-head record and past meetings

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 201

Chelsea wins: 67

Draws: 47

Chelsea and Liverpool have locked horns on 201 occasions over the decades, and it is the Reds that lead the way with 87 wins compared to the Blues' 67, while a further 47 clashes have ended honours even.

There was a time for fans when meetings between these sides were arguably the most bitter and hotly-anticipated fixtures of the calendar, above even those against their more traditional rivals.

Beginning in the Rafael Benitez and Jose Mourinho eras, the two faced off no fewer than 22 times in all competitions from February 2005 and April 2009, including some unforgettable Champions League showdowns.

Between August 2021 and October 2024, Liverpool went on a ten-game unbeaten run against Chelsea in all competitions, a spell which included seven Premier League matches and three cup final victories at Wembley - beating the Blues to lift the FA Cup once and EFL Cup twice during that run.

However, seven of those games ended all square after 90 minutes, including a drab run of four goalless draws in a row from 2022 to 2023.

The second match of 2024 between these two sides was the EFL Cup final in February, when Virgil van Dijk's 118th-minute header saw Liverpool win the trophy, leading to proclamations that Klopp's kids had beaten Boehly's "billion-pound blue bottlejobs".

The first meeting of the Arne Slot era took place in October 2024, with Liverpool running out 2-1 winners courtesy of goals from Mohamed Salah and Curtis Jones, with the efforts coming either side of a leveller from Nicolas Jackson.

Chelsea finally ended the rut with a 3-1 win over the newly-crowned Premier League champions in May 2025, but the Blues have only beaten the Reds four times in their last 21 matches across all competitions.

The Londoners followed up that success with a 2-1 triumph at Stamford Bridge in October 2025, thanks to goals from Moises Caicedo and a first Premier League strike for Estevao Willian, who made Enzo Maresca the first Blues manager to win consecutive games against Liverpool since Jose Mourinho accomplished the same feat in 2014.

Most recently, Chelsea secured a point in a 1-1 draw at Anfield, a stalemate that saw Slot booed on multiple occasions as the home crowd vented their long-standing frustrations with the manager after he failed to beat interim boss Calum McFarlane's Blues, who had come into the game on a six-game losing streak.

Overall, Liverpool boast the two leading goalscorers in this fixture, with Ian Rush netting 10 times against Chelsea, and Roger Hunt bagging nine against the capital club.

Chelsea's highest goalscorer in matches against Liverpool is Didier Drogba, who struck nine times while turning out for the Blues against the Reds.