As each season rolls on, thoughts begin to turn to who is available on free transfers next summer for Chelsea to sign as well as which Chelsea players contracts will expire and when. Fear not as here at Chelsea FC Blog we keep an up to date record of all senior Chelsea squad players contract expiry dates.
Some interesting squad stats are included, with the full Chelsea players contract expiry dates split by season below.
- The average age of the Chelsea squad is now at 26 – with a good balance of young talent and the more experienced Chelsea legends. The average for the Premier League is 26.8, with Manchester City the highest across all 20 teams at 29.1.
- Chelsea have the third highest amount of foreign players in the Premier League with 22, only behind Swansea (24) and Arsenal (23).
- 64.7% of Premier League players are foreign with Chelsea’s percentage up at 78.6%.
- Chelsea have 20 senior International players in their squad, more than any other Premier League team.
(Players current age in brackets)
Summer 2016 Contract Expiry
Branislav Ivanovic (31)
John Terry (34)
Josh McEachran (22)
Ulises Davila (23)
Marco Amelia (33)
Summer 2017 Contract Expiry
Gary Cahill (29)
John Obi Mikel (28)
Ruben Loftus-Cheek (19)
Patrick Bamford (21)
Tomas Kalas (21)
Marko Marin (26)
Victor Moses (24)
Lukas Piazon (21)
Oriol Romeu (23)
Summer 2018 Contract Expiry
Willian (27)
Loic Remy (28)
Nathan Ake (20)
Marko van Ginkel (22)
Christian Atsu (23)
Nathaniel Chalobah (20)
Kenneth Omeruo (21)
Mario Pasalic (20)
Bertrand Traore (20)
Summer 2019 Contract Expiry
Cesc Fabregas (28)
Diego Costa (27)
Oscar (24)
Nemanja Matic (27)
Juan Cuadrado (26)
Thibaut Courtois (23)
Cesar Azpilicueta (26)
Kurt Zouma (21)
Jamal Blackman (22)
Mohamed Salah (22)
Ramires (28)
Papa Djilobodji (26)
Asmir Begovic (28)
Pedro (28)
Summer 2020 Contract Expiry
Eden Hazard (24)
Baba Abdul Rahman (21)
Kenedy (19)