Chelsea Football Club is a specialist football club arranged in Fulham, London, England that battles in the Premier League, of which they are administering champions. Built up in 1905, the club's home ground starting now and into the foreseeable future has been Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea had their first genuine achievement in 1955, when they won the English organization together title. They by then won distinctive holder competitions in the region of 1965 and 1971. The club's most critical time of advance has come in the midst of the latest two decades; winning 21 trophies since 1997. Chelsea have won six national gathering titles, seven FA Cups, five League Cups and four FA Community Shields, one UEFA Champions League, two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, one UEFA Europa League and one UEFA Super Cup. Chelsea are the fundamental London club to win the UEFA Champions League, and one of five clubs and the essential British club, to have won each one of the three of UEFA's noteworthy club ions.
Chelsea's standard unit shades are superb blue shirts and shorts with white socks. The club's pinnacle has been changed a couple of times in attempts to re-check the club and modernize its photo. The present pinnacle, including a stately lion boundless regardant holding a staff, is a change of the one introduced in the mid 1950s. The club have the sixth most astonishing typical top notch investment in English football. Their ordinary home gateway for the 2016– 17 season was 41,507, the sixth most imperative in the Premier League. Since 2003, Chelsea have been asserted by Russian exceptionally rich individual Roman Abramovich. In 2016, they were situated by Forbes magazine as the seventh most huge football club on the planet, at £1.15 billion ($1.66 billion).
In 1904, Gus Mears picked up the Stamford Bridge diversions stadium with the purpose of changing it into a football ground. An offer to lease it to shut by Fulham was turned down, so Mears chose to build up his own specific club to use the stadium. As there was by then a gathering named Fulham in the region, the name of the connecting ward of Chelsea was chosen for the new club; names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC were in like manner considered. Chelsea were built up on 10 March 1905 at The Rising Sun bar (now The Butcher's Hook), converse the present-day essential access to the ground on Fulham Road, and were decided to the Football League immediately from that point.
The club won headway to the First Division in their second season, and yo-yoed between the First and Second Divisions in their underlying years. They accomplished the 1915 FA Cup Final, where they lost to Sheffield United at Old Trafford, and finished third in the First Division in 1920, the club's best class fight to that point. Chelsea pulled in broad gathering and had a reputation for stamping tremendous name players, however accomplishment continued sidestepping the club in the between war years.
Past Arsenal and England center forward Ted Drake advanced toward getting to be plainly boss in 1952 and kept on modernizing the club. He ousted the club's Chelsea resigned individual pinnacle, improved the immature set-up and getting ready organization, changed the concur with sharp signings from the lower divisions and amateur collusions, and drove Chelsea to their first genuine trophy accomplishment – the League title – in 1954– 55. The going with season saw UEFA influence the European Champions' To glass, yet after dissensions from The Football League and the FA Chelsea were affected to pull once again from the restriction before it started. Chelsea fail to develop this accomplishment, and spent whatever is left of the 1950s in mid-table. Drake was removed in 1961 and supplanted by player-guide Tommy Docherty.
Diagram showing the progress of Chelsea's gathering finishes from 1906 to the present
Docherty collected another gathering around the get-together of talented young players ascending out of the club's youth set-up and Chelsea tried for qualifications all through the 1960s, driving forward through a couple of close misses. They were on course for a treble of League, FA Cup and League Cup going into the last periods of the 1964– 65 season, winning the League Cup however wavering late on in the other two. In three seasons the side were beaten in three imperative semi-finals and were FA Cup sprinters up. Under Docherty's successor, Dave Sexton, Chelsea won the FA Cup in 1970, beating Leeds United 2– 1 out of a last replay. Chelsea took their first European regard, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup triumph, the following year, with another replayed win, this time over Real Madrid in Athens.
The late 1970s through to the '80s was a turbulent period for Chelsea. An objective situated redevelopment of Stamford Bridge incapacitated the cash related strength of the club, star players were sold and the gathering were transferred. Propel issues were caused by a scandalous criminal segment among the assistance, which was to torment the club reliably. In 1982, Chelsea were, at the nadir of their fortunes, acquired by Ken Bates for the apparent total of £1, regardless of the way that now the Stamford Bridge freehold had been sold to property planners, which implies the club faced losing their home. On the pitch, the gathering had fared negligible better, moving toward exchange to the Third Division curiously, yet in 1983 director John Neal set up together an astounding new gathering for inconsequential cost. Chelsea won the Second Division title in 1983– 84 and developed themselves in the best division, before being transferred again in 1988. The club weaved back in a split second by winning the Second Division title in 1988– 89.
Chelsea players laud their first UEFA Champions League title against Bayern Munich.
After a long-running battle in court, Bates rejoined the stadium freehold with the club in 1992 by doing a course of action with the banks of the property planners, who had been bankrupted by a market crash. Chelsea's shape in the new Premier League was unconvincing, despite the way that they achieved the 1994 FA Cup Final with Glenn Hoddle. It was not until the course of action of Ruud Gullit as player-director in 1996 that their fortunes changed. He included a couple of best widespread players to the side, as the club won the FA Cup in 1997 and set up themselves as one of England's best sides afresh. Gullit was supplanted by Gianluca Vialli, who drove the gathering to triumph in the League Cup Final, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final and the UEFA Super Cup in 1998, the FA Cup in 2000 and their first appearance in the UEFA Champions League. Vialli was sacked for Claudio Ranieri, who guided Chelsea to the 2002 FA Cup Final and Champions League capacity in 2002– 03.
In June 2003, Bates sold Chelsea to Russian to a great degree rich individual Roman Abramovich for £140 million. Over £100 million was spent on new players, yet Ranieri was not capable pass on any trophies, and was supplanted by José Mourinho. Under Mourinho, Chelsea transformed into the fifth English gathering to win back to back partnership titles since the Second World War (2004– 05 and 2005– 06), despite winning a FA Cup (2007) and two League Cups (2005 and 2007). Mourinho was supplanted by Avram Grant, who drove the club to their first UEFA Champions League keep going, which they lost on disciplines to Manchester United.
In 2009, Guus Hiddink guided Chelsea to another FA Cup accomplishment. In 2009– 10, his successor Carlo Ancelotti drove them to their first Premier League and FA Cup "Twofold", and transforming into the main English best flight club to score 100 class targets in a season since 1963. In 2012, manager head Roberto Di Matteo drove Chelsea to their seventh FA Cup, and their first UEFA Champions League title, beating Bayern Munich 4– 3 on disciplines, the essential London club to win the trophy. In 2013, interim chairman Rafael Benítez guided Chelsea to win the UEFA Europa League against Benfica, transforming into the fundamental club to hold two imperative European titles at the same time and one of four clubs, and the principle British club, to have won each one of the three of UEFA's genuine club competitions. In the pre-summer of 2013, Mourinho returned as manager, driving Chelsea to League Cup achievement in March 2015, and their fifth organization together title two months afterward. In 2015– 16, Chelsea recorded their most insignificant Premier League finish in twenty years, placing tenth in the table. The following year, under new tutor Antonio Conte, Chelsea won its sixth English title.
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