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Chelsea Women owner Alexis Ohanian has actually hinted that the club are working towards another substantial advancement, recommending it might set a brand-new requirement for females’s football.
Ohanian, who invested a reported ₤ 20 million in Chelsea Women in May 2025, was discussing the club’s aspirations after seeing the group start playing their home matches at Stamford Bridge this season.
He desires Chelsea to continue to be a worldwide leader in females’s football, with amazing intend on the horizon.Ohanian teases significant Chelsea advancement
“There’s one that I’m not allowed to talk about yet,” he stated, speaking at sports market conference Leaders Week London at Stamford Bridge
The American entrepreneur, who likewise co-founded Reddit and purchased NWSL side Angel City FC, recommended the strategies would be driven by the requirements of the gamers.
“The part that makes me so inspired to work with folks here is they are so embedded in making sure and so committed to making sure that this club is phenomenal,” he included. “And the way you do that is by listening to the players. We’ve got a board meeting coming up, so hopefully there’ll be some news coming out of it.”
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Asked whether he might use an additional tip, Ohanian recommended the advancement might have significance beyond Chelsea.
“Chelsea has always wanted to set a standard. That’s what I love about coming into a club like this,” he stated.
“And this will be yet another one that I think, not just for English women’s football, but for women’s football, will be an important one that needs to happen. That I know the players will be happy about.”
Stamford Bridge the ‘top thing’ gamers desired
“When I spoke to the players early into coming over, the number one thing they were asking for was to play at the Bridge,” he stated.
“So the team got that done here this season, which has been awesome to see, and we’ve just got to keep building.”
Growing matchday audiences[
The NWSL club played in a 22,000-capacity arena throughout their very first season, balancing around 21,000 viewers, according to Ohanian.
“People expected women’s sports fans to be the same people as men’s sports fans, and they’re just not,” he stated.
“It’s a totally different audience. The overlap we had with the MLS team that we shared the stadium with was insignificant. It was five to 10 per cent. It’s a totally different canvas.
“It’s not simply stating, ‘Hey, existing fans of the guys’s group, come watch these females play’, which is excellent if you wish to do that too, however likewise who are the brand-new fans that are now prepared to be engaged?”
Chelsea have already introduced fan activations, including bottomless brunches, as they look to grow their audience at Stamford Bridge.
Ohanian also believes the wider Women’s Super League can continue to develop as more clubs prioritise their women’s teams.
“The increasingly more we see more groups purchasing the ladies’s side, the more they’ll begin to alter the sort of movement around it,” he said.
For Ohanian, Chelsea’s location in London, their history of success and their global brand were all major attractions when he became involved with the club. He hopes Chelsea can also become a leading WSL team for supporters back home in the United States.
“I pictured a females’s football fan in America to have their NWSL club, ideally Angel City, however have their WSL club and have it be Chelsea.”
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