Chelsea are gearing up for their 2025 Club World Cup opener against LAFC and Enzo Maresca's side have one thing on their mind - to win the competition.

Chelsea face LAFC in Atlanta on Monday night in both clubs’ opening match of the 2025 Club World Cup, with the Blues looking to build on a successful end to 2024/25.

The last side to book their place at the Club World Cup face off against one of the first to have stamped their passage to the United States on Sunday as Chelsea and Los Angeles FC meet at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Arena.

Chelsea begin their 2025 Club World Cup campaign against LAFC on Monday in Atlanta. After arriving at their Philadelphia base in the United States on Friday, which saw Chelsea name an initial 28-man squad for the competition, Enzo Maresca's side are preparing to target more silverware following their Conference League triumph last month.

FC Porto will kick off its Club World Cup campaign on Sunday against Brazil's Palmeiras.

Chelsea play a Pep Guardiola-influenced style: a possession-focused, positional game. The nominal starting formation is a standard 4-3-3 but one of Maresca’s full-backs will usually ‘ invert’, often into the base of midfield and sometimes into one of the attacking half-spaces.

The FIFA Club World Cup opener was a scoreless draw, lacking a magical Lionel Messi moment in Miami Gardens, Florida.

Things are getting very real in terms of the Club World Cup.Chelsea have touched down in the USA, the opening game is tonight, and the Blues play on Monday. So it’s time to forget about transfers