Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea
Full name
Chelsea Football Club
Nickname(s)
The Pensioners, The Blues
Founded
14 March 1905
Ground
Stamford Bridge, London
(Capacity: 42,500[1])
Owner
Roman Abramovich
Chairman
Bruce Buck
Manager
Guus Hiddink
League
Premier League
2007–08
Premier League, 2nd
Home colours
Away colours
Third colou
Current season
Chelsea Football Club (pronounced [ˈtʃɛɫsi],
also known as The Blues or previously The
Pensioners) are a professional English foot-
ball club based in West London. The team,
founded in 1905, plays in the Premier League
and have spent most of their history in the
top tier of English football. Chelsea have
been English champions three times, and
have won the FA Cup four times, the League
Cup four times and the UEFA Cup Winners’
Cup twice.[2]
The club had their first major success in
1955, winning the league championship.
Chelsea won several cup competitions during
the 1960s and 1970s, but after that did not
win another major title until 1997. The past
decade has been the most successful period
in Chelsea’s history, capped by winning con-
secutive Premier League titles in 2005 and
2006, and reaching their first UEFA Champi-
ons League final in 2008, losing to fellow
English side Manchester United after extra
time and penalties.
Chelsea’s home is the 42,500 capacity[1]
Stamford Bridge football stadium in Fulham,
West London, where they have played since
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their establishment. Despite their name, the
club are based just outside the Royal Bor-
ough of Kensington and Chelsea, in the Lon-
don Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
In 2003, they were bought by Russian oil
magnate Roman Abramovich.[3]
Chelsea’s traditional kit colours are royal
blue shirts and shorts with white socks. The
club crest has been changed several times in
attempts to modernise or re-brand; the cur-
rent crest, featuring a ceremonial lion hold-
ing a staff, is a modified version of the one
first adopted in the 1950s.[4] The club has
sustained the fifth highest average all-t