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

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 198

Man Utd wins: 84

Draws: 57

Chelsea wins: 57

Two behemoths of the English game, Manchester United and Chelsea's first-ever competitive meeting came over a century ago on Christmas Day 1905, and the long-time adversaries have now locked horns on 198 occasions across all tournaments.

Eighty-four of those contests have seen Man United emerge triumphant, while there have been 57 stalemates and 57 victories for Chelsea, including their astonishing 4-3 success in April 2024 in one of the Premier League games of the season.

Two late strikes from Cole Palmer with over 100 minutes on the board saw the Blues avenge some previous Old Trafford beatings in remarkable fashion, having gone down 2-1 in Manchester in December 2023 and 4-1 in May of that year, a result which sealed a place in the 2023-24 Champions League for the Red Devils.

Prior to that springtime success, Man United and Chelsea had shaken hands on a draw in five successive contests, playing out a trio of 1-1 stalemates between November 2021 and October 2022 after a pair of drab goalless affairs behind closed doors in the 2020-21 season, which some fans may have been grateful not to attend.

Thanks to that run of one-pointers, and a 1-1 in November 2024 with Ruud van Nistelrooy at the Old Trafford helm, this fixture holds the honour of being the most drawn Premier League match in history with 27 stalemates between the pair - 20 of which have been score draws with another seven ending without the net rippling once.

Chelsea's most recent beating of the Red Devils on neutral territory came just before a string of stalemates began, as the Blues came up trumps 3-1 in the semi-finals of the 2019-20 FA Cup thanks to a horror show from David de Gea, only to fall to Arsenal's superiority in the final.

Since a 1-0 triumph in 2017, where Alvaro Morata struck the only goal of the game, Chelsea had gone winless in 11 top-flight meetings with the Red Devils before snapping that sequence in that seven-goal spectacular late in the 2023-24 term.

The Blues also edged out their Mancunian rivals 1-0 towards the end of the 2024-25 season, but Man United made amends at home in September 2025, winning 2-1 in a chaotic contest that ended 10v10.

Formerly of both Chelsea and Manchester United, Mark Hughes has scored more goals than any other player in this fixture with 11 strikes to his name, while Wayne Rooney, Denis Law and the late Sir Bobby Charlton registered nine apiece for the Red Devils.