PLAYED FOR BOTH ARSENAL AND CHELSEA

First UEFA Cup/Europa League was held back in 1971/72 season. Tottenham was better then Wolverhampton. It was only English final until 2019. Arsenal and Chelsea will face in 2019 Europa League final in Baku.

Arsenal and Chelsea are both from London. But they never considered each others as rivals. At least not as primary rivals. Since 2000s, after Chelsea's rise to the top of English football, this rivaly had became more important for their fans. Today, both of them are considered as one of the biggest clubs in England same as a match between them. The first league meeting between them was played back in 1907. Their match would always attract large attendances.

They already played against each other in European competitions. In was in quarter-final of Champions League in 2003/04. Chelsea was better then their rivals with 3-2 on aggregate. Both of them had already won European competitions but Chelsea is much successful. Chelsea already won Europa League title. In addition they also won Champions League, Cup Winner's Cup twice and UEFA Supercup. Arsenal have only UEFA Cup winners Cup. We can also mention Inter-Cities Fairs Cup won by Arsenal but it wasn't under UEFA.

Here you can see players and managers who had connections with both of them, whatever they played or coached any of them. Ashley Cole, Cesc Fabregas and Petr Čech spent most of their career with those two clubs. You can see full list below.

*Sandy MacFarlane

*Bob Turnbull

*Leslie Knighton

*Ted Drake

*Tommy Lawton

*Allan Young