Reaching the FA Youth Cup Final has so far borne little fruit for Chelsea over the last 10 seasons.
This season's installment will be the Chelsea youth team's sixth appearance in the last decade.
Despite this, their 68 players to feature in an FA Youth Cup Final have made just 84 senior Blues appearances between them, an average of just 1.2 each.
Their main appearance holders are Josh McEachran (22) and Gael Kakuta (16).
This year's other finalists, Manchester City, have seen their previous FA Youth Cup Finalists make 414 appearances for the first team.
Chief amongst those is Micah Richards with 245 appearances.
They also include Michael Johnson (45), Dedryck Boyata (35) and Daniel Sturridge (32).
In all Manchester City's youth cup finalists made an average of 12.2 appearances for the first team each, the third best ratio.
The best ratio was achieved by the side whose finalists have made the second highest number of overall appearances, Sheffield United.
The Blades' players in the 2011 FA Youth Cup Final have so far made a total of 333 appearances for the first team at an average of 20.8 each.
Arsenal's finalists of 2009 have managed 261 first team appearances at an average of 15.4 each, with Jack Wilshere (147) and Francis Coquelin (65) their main players.
Manchester United's FA Youth Cup Finalists have so far managed 185 first team appearances at an average rate of 5.3 each.
By far their biggest appearance maker was Danny Welbeck with 142.
Liverpool's FA Youth Cup final players have gone on to make 113 first team appearances (2.9 each) with Jay Spearing grabbing the most (55).
Fulham's finalists of last season's cup have so far made 70 first team appearances at a rate of 4.4 each.
Read more: How Chelsea could line up five years from now in 2020.
