{"id":15859,"date":"2026-07-09T19:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15859"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:37:15","slug":"chelsea-jakarta-general-sale-opens-for-ac-milan-pre-season-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15859","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Jakarta General Sale Opens For AC Milan Pre-Season Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chelsea have opened general sale for their pre-season friendly against AC Milan in Jakarta, adding another fixed date to Xabi Alonso\u2019s first summer programme.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The club confirmed tickets are now on general sale for the match at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium on Saturday, 8 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kick-off is scheduled for 7pm local time. Chelsea\u2019s update says the fixture forms part of the men\u2019s Asia tour, which follows two scheduled games in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The squad will then move through Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia during a busy pre-season block. Chelsea\u2019s official tour page also lists the Jakarta fixture as part of the wider summer schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The club promoted the ticket sale on X, with its official post pointing supporters towards the AC Milan game.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tickets are now on sale for our pre-season match in Jakarta against AC Milan. \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\udde9<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) July 8, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alonso\u2019s Tour Clock Keeps Tightening<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Jakarta details are now clear. Chelsea face AC Milan on Saturday, 8 August, at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ReadChelsea previously covered how Alonso\u2019s first pre-season schedule gives Chelsea an early tactical test. The Jakarta sale now gives supporters another fixed point in that plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The match also carries historical pull. Chelsea noted that their previous visit to Indonesia came in 2013, when the squad received a huge supporter response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This meeting has a different sporting edge. AC Milan should offer Alonso a serious late-tour test before Chelsea return to domestic business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Premier League opener against Fulham follows on 24 August. That leaves limited room for loose minutes or vague selection calls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Chelsea, Jakarta is more than a commercial stop. It is another pressure point in a pre-season built around global reach, squad rhythm and a demanding start under Alonso.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have opened general sale for their pre-season friendly against AC Milan in Jakarta, adding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}