After Sunday's trip to Barcelona, Chelsea make an immediate return to action in the league with a clash against Crystal Palace at Kingsmeadow.

Head coach Sonia Bompastor will want to return to winning ways ahead of the crucial Champions League second leg this Sunday and is expected to rotate her side from the team that started in Europe.

Where and when

We will face Crystal Palace at Kingsmeadow on Wednesday 23 April. Kick off is scheduled for 7.15pm UK time.

How to follow

As always, you can follow minute-by-minute updates in our Chelsea vs Crystal Palace Match Centre on the official Chelsea website and app. You can also follow through Chelsea Women’s social media channels on X, Facebook and Instagram.

The match will be shown live on BBC Three in the UK and will be available on BBC iPlayer as well as the BBC Sport website.

The form

Chelsea sit three points clear of Arsenal at the top of the WSL table, and we have played one game fewer than the Gunners.

Our points tally of 48 comes from 15 wins and three draws from Bompastor's opening 18 league games since joining the club in the summer, with our only two defeats this season coming in the Champions League against Manchester City and Barcelona.

Palace sit at the opposite end of the table. The Eagles have won just twice in 18 attempts following their promotion from the Women's Championship in the summer and currently have nine points on the board, seven points behind 11th-placed Aston Villa.

Recent head-to-head

We have faced Crystal Palace twice already this season, once in the WSL and once in the FA Cup.

In September we secured a 7-0 win courtesy of goals from Aggie Beever-Jones, Lucy Bronze, Lauren James, Nathalie Bjorn, Catarina Macario and a brace from Guro Reiten.

Following that 7-0 rout in the league, we also faced Palace in the FA Cup quarter-final in March. That day, a 1-0 win was enough to see us through to face Liverpool in the semi-final, with a 64th-minute goal from Lauren James handing us the victory.

Tickets are still available for our second leg against Barcelona at Stamford Bridge on Sunday and you can secure your seat now. We need your support more than ever as we look to mount another Champions League comeback!