What would make a successful 2025?

Chelsea need to achieve two big goals in 2025 to feel like it is a successful year.

Firstly, qualify for the Champions League for the first time under the Boehly-Clearlake ownership.

Qualification through a top-four or top-five Premier League finish would allow the club to reduce their losses, ease their profit and sustainability position and build prestige within the football world.

Of course, for a short while, it looked as if Chelsea might mount a title challenge but that was not expected before the start of this season, either at ownership level or by manager Enzo Maresca.

The second goal is to secure silverware, with their biggest chance to win in the Conference League, Uefa's's third-tier European competition, which the Blues have so far dominated due to their vastly superior resources.

If those two goals can be achieved, everyone at Stamford Bridge would be broadly happy with how the season has gone.

And it would show that the club are building under their Italian manager, after a chaotic spell of hiring and firing coaches in the last two seasons.

Furthermore, those who decide the manager's fate will want to see the young players they have signed continuing to improve, develop and realise their potential.

Chelsea feel on course to achieve those goals and, off the field, the club will want a new flagship front-of-shirt sponsor, with optimism one will be signed in the near future, amid talks with multiple potential partners.

There may also be an update on the club's plans to either redevelop or build a new stadium, as they outgrow their current 41,000 capacity stadium near Fulham Broadway underground station.