After Blues supporters voted in their thousands, we can now reveal which players have been selected in the Chelsea Women's Team of 120!
Continuing the club's 120th anniversary celebrations, fans across the world were given the chance to select their ultimate women's side via the Official Chelsea App and website.
That was far from easy given the raft of elite talent to have called Chelsea home down the years, and the voting was tight throughout.
However, only eleven players could make the final side – and what a side it is! Deployed in a 4-3-3 system, this is your Chelsea Women's Team of 120...
Goalkeeper
With ten pieces of silverware lifted during five years with the Blues, it is no surprise Ann-Katrin Berger has been voted into this side.
The German international joined the Blues in January 2019 and quickly established herself as a regular under Emma Hayes. Berger kept 60 clean sheets in 114 appearances for Chelsea and won the Women's Super League four times, the FA Cup on three occasions, the League Cup twice, and the Community Shield.
Yet more impressive was Ann's resolve to play for the Blues during the 2022/23 campaign while undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer, which she announced in August 2022 had reoccurred after four years.
Ann produced penalty shootout heroics against Lyon in the Champions League that season, which ended with Chelsea lifting the WSL and FA Cup. She remains an inspiration.
Defence
Four outstanding defenders – and dressing room leaders – are included in the backline. Maren Mjelde slots in at right-back, which is in recognition of her seven excellent years with the Blues. She arrived ahead of the Spring Series in 2017, and showcased her quality and versatility across 141 appearances.
Named in the PFA Team of the Year as a defender and midfielder during her time with Chelsea, the Norway captain won five WSL titles, four FA Cups, two League Cups, the Spring Series, and a Community Shield.
Maren also proved a reliable penalty taker, most memorably scoring a last-minute, equalising spot-kick against Lyon in the Champions League, after which Hayes hailed her as a 'Chelsea legend'.
Our central defensive pairing is – as Chelsea supporters know full well – one of the best around: Magda Eriksson and Mille Bright.
Eriksson joined the Blues from Linkopings FC in July 2017 and was named captain a little over two years later. We were crowned WSL champions in each of her four seasons as skipper, and three of those also saw us win the FA Cup.
During her time at Chelsea, Eriksson established herself as one of the best defenders in Europe. She made 185 appearances for the Blues during her six years in west London, many of which came alongside Bright, who inherited the armband ahead of the 2023/24 season.
There is little left to say about our current captain, who arrived from Doncaster Belles in December 2014. Bright has come to embody the winning mentality ingrained into Chelsea Women over the past decade. She never settles for second-best.
The England international has won seven WSL titles, the Spring Series, four FA Cups, three League Cups, and the Community Shield. She has also reached a World Cup final on the international stage and won the European Championship with the Lionesses.
Bright has made over 250 appearances for the Blues, and recently extended her contract until 2026. Her Chelsea story is far from over.
At left-back is Niamh Charles. Signed from Liverpool in the summer of 2020, Charles arrived as a winger but was remoulded by Hayes as an attack-minded full-back. Her first campaign with the Blues ended with silverware and a start in the Champions League final. She has gone from strength to strength in the seasons since.
Now an established England international and serial winner with the Blues, Charles was also handed the captain's armband for matches last season in the absence of Bright.
Still only 25 years old, Charles has made over 150 appearances for Chelsea and has won nine major honours thus far.
Midfield
Our midfield trio links the past, present, and future. We begin with Ji So-Yun, who played a pivotal role in helping the Blues cement ourselves atop the English women's game.
Ji joined in 2014 and was named the league’s Player of the Year and the PFA Players’ Player of the Year at the end of her first campaign. In her second, we were Women's Super League and FA Cup champions – and the South Korean struck our winner in the final of the latter at Wembley.
By the time she departed after eight seasons, Ji had been a champion of England six times, including the one-off Spring Series, and had celebrated with the FA Cup four times. She is a Chelsea legend.
Sophie Ingle takes a place alongside Ji, with the Wales international another key figure in our rise. Her first spell with Chelsea lasted two seasons (2012 and 2013), and she returned five years later and remains with the Blues to this day, although she hasn't featured this term due to an ACL injury.
Equally adept at breaking up opposition attacks as she is instigating them for the Blues, Ingle's composure and consistency have been key to many a Chelsea display over the past seven years. She has played a role in our five successive WSL triumphs, three FA Cup wins, a League Cup victory, and a Community Shield.
She also held the record – surpassed this season by Jordan Nobbs due to Ingle's injury – for the most WSL appearances by any player (192). She will undoubtedly add to that on her return to action.
And completing our midfield trio is Erin Cuthbert, who recently extended her Blues contract until 2027.
The Scottish midfielder has enjoyed a trophy-laden spell since joining the club from Glasgow City as a teenager in 2016, winning six Women’s Super League titles, four FA Cups, two League Cups, the WSL Spring Series and the Community Shield.
She is our second-longest currently serving player behind Bright, and earlier this season, she surpassed 250 appearances with the Blues. Still only 26 years old, there is plenty more to come from our wee Scot.
Forwards
Few defences, if any, in world football would be able to handle this attacking trio – and Chelsea supporters have ample evidence from recent seasons to prove it!
Of course, our all-time leading goalscorer, Fran Kirby, has been voted into this side. A Chelsea and England legend, Fran became one of the most renowned players on the planet during her nine years as a Blue, in which she won seven WSL titles and a Spring Series, the FA Cup four times, the League Cup twice, and the Community Shield.
Super Fran made 208 appearances for Chelsea and scored 116 goals. For her enduring quality on the pitch and overcoming health challenges off it, she remains a role model for young footballers and is an undoubted Blues legend.
Alongside Fran behind the central striker is the game-changing Guro Reiten. Signed from LSK Kvinner in May 2019, Guro's influence grew season upon season as she established herself as one of the finest attacking players in the women's game.
An inventive creator and effective goalscorer, the Norway international is closing in on 200 appearances for the Blues. She has won the WSL title in each of her five seasons with Chelsea and lifted the FA Cup and League Cup on three occasions.
An ebullient presence off the pitch, the 30-year-old possesses steely determination and a relentless drive to win once she crosses the white line, epitomised by her now trademark Reiten roar when finding the back of the net.
And completing our front three – and the Women's Team of 120 – is Sam Kerr. One of the most famous players in the women's game, Sam arrived at Chelsea in January 2020 and helped continue our dominance in the English game.
After a short period of adaptation, the goals began to flow. Thirty-one were struck in her first full season as a Blue; 29 followed in the following two campaigns. Many of these were decisive, such as her brace in the 2021 Women's FA Cup final.
One short of reaching 100 goals for Chelsea, Sam has been sidelined since January 2024 due to an ACL injury. Yet on her return, expect that century to be quickly achieved and surpassed. The instincts of a goalscorer never dwindle.
Chelsea Women's Team of 120: Berger; Mjelde, Eriksson, Bright, Charles; Ji, Ingle, Cuthbert; Kirby, Kerr, Reiten