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The spending saw a good return, with Chelsea finishing the Premiership runners-up and reaching the [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]] semifinals after beating Arsenal in the quarterfinals. But Ranieri was sacked after ending the season trophyless, and Abramovich recruited [[José Mourinho]] (who had lifted two [[SuperLiga|Portuguese league]] titles, a [[Cup of Portugal|Portuguese Cup]], a [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] and a [[UEFA Cup]] with [[Futebol Clube do Porto|FC Porto]]) as the club's new manager.
The spending saw a good return, with Chelsea finishing the Premiership runners-up and reaching the [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]] semifinals after beating Arsenal in the quarterfinals. But Ranieri was sacked after ending the season trophyless, and Abramovich recruited [[José Mourinho]] (who had lifted two [[SuperLiga|Portuguese league]] titles, a [[Cup of Portugal|Portuguese Cup]], a [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] and a [[UEFA Cup]] with [[Futebol Clube do Porto|FC Porto]]) as the club's new manager.


2004-05 was the most successful season in the history of Chelsea Football Club. They secured the Premiership title in a record breaking season by gaining 95 points from 38 fixtures (ending a 50-year wait for the title with the highest Premiership points total for a 38 game season), along with setting records for: most wins (29), fewest goals against (15) and most clean sheets (25) in a 38 game season -- all this in the season that also saw "The Blues" lift the [[League Cup]]. Mourinho was acclaimed by many as one of the best managers in the world, and many of Chelsea's players were also lauded by journalists and supporters alike, figuring prominently in many national sides. In addition to the two major trophies won, Chelsea reached the semifinals of the Champions League, losing to the eventual winners [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]], to whom they had conceded only one goal.
2004-05 was the most successful season in the history of Chelsea Football Club. They secured the Premiership title in a record breaking season by gaining 95 points from 38 fixtures (ending a 50-year wait for the title with the highest Premiership points total for a 38 game season), along with setting records for: most wins (29), fewest goals against (15) and most clean sheets (25) in a 38 game season -- all this in the season that also saw "The Blues" lift the [[League Cup]]. Mourinho was acclaimed by many as one of the best managers in the world, and many of Chelsea's players were also lauded by journalists and supporters alike, figuring prominently in many national sides. Despite this, they were also criticised by many for playing negative, boring football. In addition to the two major trophies won, Chelsea reached the semifinals of the Champions League, losing to the eventual winners [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]], to whom they had conceded only one goal.


===Current season: 2005-2006===
===Current season: 2005-2006===

Revision as of 09:56, 4 February 2006

Chelsea
Chelsea logo
Full nameChelsea Football Club
Nickname(s)The Blues
Founded1905
GroundStamford Bridge, London
Capacity42,360
ChairmanUnited States Bruce Buck
(for Russian Roman Abramovich)
ManagerPortuguese José Mourinho
LeagueFA Premier League
2004-05Premier League, 1st

Chelsea Football Club (also known as the Blues, previously known as the Pensioners, a reference to the Chelsea pensioners), founded in 1905, is a Premier League football team that plays at the Stamford Bridge football ground in south-west London. Chelsea are currently at the top of the FA Premier League.

Despite its name, the club is based just outside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is on the Fulham Road, which runs between Fulham and Chelsea.

History

Stamford Bridge

For main article see Stamford Bridge.

Stamford Bridge officially opened on 28 April 1877. For the first 28 years of its existence it was used almost exclusively by the London Athletic Club as an arena for athletics meetings and not at all for football. In 1904 the ground was acquired by H A (Gus) Mears and his brother, J T Mears, who had previously acquired additional land (formerly a large market garden) with the aim of accommodating a football team there on the now 12.5 acre (51,000 m²) site. The Mears family remained the owners of the ground (and subsequently the Club) until the 1970s.

Stamford Bridge was designed for the Mears family by Archibald Leitch. They offered the stadium to Fulham Football Club, but the offer was turned down. As a consequence, the owners decided to form their own Football Club to occupy their new ground. Most football clubs were founded first, and then sought grounds in which to play, but Chelsea was founded for Stamford Bridge. Although technically in Fulham, the founders decided to adopt the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea for the new club as there was already a Fulham Football Club in existence.

The pitch is owned by Chelsea Pitch organisation that took out a loan to purchase the stadium and also the rights to the Chelsea FC name. This was done to ensure the stadium could never be sold to developers. It also means that if someone tries to move the football club to a new stadium they could not use the name.

Early years (1905-52)

Chelsea F.C. was founded on March 14 1905 at The Rising Sun pub (now The Butcher's Hook) opposite today's main entrance to the ground on the Fulham Road. After being denied entry to the Southern League, the club applied for admission to the Football League and were accepted at the Football League AGM on May 29, 1905. Blue shirts were adopted by Mears, after the racing colours of Lord Chelsea and the club's first match took place away at Stockport County on September 2, 1905. They lost the game 1-0. Their first home match was against Liverpool in a friendly. They won 4-0.

The club began with established players recruited from other teams, such as new player-manager John Tait Robertson, FA Cup-winning goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke and prolific goalscorer George "Gatling Gun" Hilsdon. Promotion to the top flight was swift, but the club's early years brought no trophies. Chelsea played in the "Khaki" FA Cup final of 1915 (so-called because of the large number of uniformed soldiers in attendance) but lost out to Sheffield United. They also finished 3rd in the First Division in 1920 and reached the FA Cup semi-finals in the same season (thus missing out on a chance to play in the final at Stamford Bridge), but spent much of the inter-war period in mid-table. However, they consistently attracted enormous crowds. 77,952 attended the fourth round FA Cup tie against Swindon on 13 April 1911, and 82,905 attended the league game against Arsenal on 12 October 1935. Safety considerations make such attendances impossible now: the current legal capacity of the stadium is 42,522.

Drake's Ducklings (1952-61)

In 1952, Ted Drake was appointed manager and he proceeded to modernise the club, both on and off the pitch. One of his first actions was to remove the image of a Chelsea pensioner from the match programme and the club's old nickname was no more. He also improved the club's training regime, its youth system and he recruited talented young players from the lower divisions. In 1954-5, Chelsea won the First Divsion title under Drake with a team that included captain and top-scorer (with 21 league goals) Roy Bentley, goalkeeper Charlie 'Chic' Thomson, left-half Derek Saunders, inside-right Johnny 'Jock' McNichol, right-half Ken Armstrong, outside-left Frank Blunstone, full-back Peter Sillett and future England manager Ron Greenwood at centre-half. The team were affectionately known as Drake's Duckling's, after the relative youth of the side.

Though Chelsea were only 12th in the table in November, they secured the title with a game to spare after a 3-0 win against Sheffield Wednesday. Key to the success were two league wins against eventual runners-up Wolverhampton Wanderers and a ten-game unbeaten streak in the title run-in. Chelsea's points total of 52 for that season remains the lowest to have secured the English League title since the First World War. That same season saw the club complete a unique quadruple, with the reserve, 'A' and junior sides also winning their respective leagues.

Winning the Championship should have ensured that Chelsea became the first English participants in the inaugural European Champions' Cup competition to be staged the following season. Indeed, they were drawn to face Swedish champions Djurgårdens in the first round. However, Chelsea were denied by the intervention of the Football League and the F.A., many of whose leading members were opposed to the idea and felt that primacy should be given to domestic competitions, so the club were persuaded to withdraw. [1]

Chelsea were unable to build on their title success, however, and there followed a succession of uninspiring mid-table finishes, the one major bright spot in this period being the emergence of the ultra-prolific goalscorer Jimmy Greaves. This run culminated in relegation from the First Division in 1962 and the departure of Drake, who was replaced by 33-year-old player-coach Tommy Docherty.

Blue is the Colour (1963-72)

The swinging 60s ushered in an era that saw football and inimitable style merge in the heart of London; with the fashionable King's Road at the heart of the swagger. In his first season as manager Docherty led Chelsea to promotion with a new, youthful team which included Ron 'Chopper' Harris, Peter Bonetti, Bobby Tambling, Eddie McCreadie and Terry Venables. A 60s Chelsea that oozed charisma and class ultimately failed to match its swagger with on-field triumphs. Despite a series of high league placings, and narrowly missing out on a domestic "treble" in 1965, no major titles were won, except for the League Cup in 1965 (Chelsea's first League Cup), followed by an FA Cup final loss to Tottenham in 1967.

The early 1970s saw a great Chelsea team - now managed by Dave Sexton - which is still fondly remembered (not least because it was a couple of decades before its achievements were matched at the club): it featured the likes of Peter Osgood, Alan Hudson, Ian Hutchinson and Charlie Cooke. In 1970 Chelsea ran out FA Cup winners (beating Leeds 2-1 in a pulsating final replay at Old Trafford). A UEFA Cup Winners' Cup triumph was added to the haul the following year with a replayed win over Real Madrid in Athens—Chelsea's first European honour. The club also reached a second League Cup final in 1972, though it lost out to Stoke City.

Troubled Times (1975-89)

But there was no further success in that decade, as the discipline of the team degenerated and an over-ambitious redevelopment of the stadium (which only got as far as the pioneering East Stand, which retains its place even in the modern stadium) threatened the financial stability of the club. Further problems were caused by a fearsome reputation for violence amongst a section of the supporters (the boundary between passion and hooliganism being dangerously narrow in those days) and the club started to fall apart both on and off the field.

The financial problems exacerbated the club's other difficulties (several key players had fallen out with Sexton and been transferred) and a spiral of decline began. Star players were sold off, the team was relegated, and the freehold of the stadium site was sold off to property developers, which was to create serious problems in the years to come.

As always, however, Chelsea retained its high profile; and its widespread base of supporters, many of them very hard core, saw it through what proved to be the very difficult years of the 1970s and 1980s. However, although relegated to the Second Division twice, it never fell further (although it came dangerously close). A succession of managers came and went (including several ex-players) but all were hamstrung by the club's financial troubles. The stability of the team appeared to have finally been secured by manager John Neal who, having seen Chelsea avoid relegation to the Third Division in the final home game of the 1982-83 season, put together an inexpensive yet impressive side.

Chelsea was, at the nadir of its fortunes, acquired from the Mears family interests by Ken Bates for the princely sum of £1, and Bates proved to be a real fighter as the new chairman, although his opponents included supporters (who did not take kindly to his suggestion of electrified fences to keep them off the pitch) as well as the property developers who now owned the freehold. In 1992, Bates finally outmanoeuvred the latter and reunited the freehold with the Club, by seeing the property developers go bust and doing a deal with their banks.

In the meantime, Chelsea, having spent the early part of the decade in the Second Division, were promoted as champions in 1984 under Neal (who retired a year later due to ill-health), achieved two consecutive top six finishes in the First Division (with an impressive team which included the likes of Kerry Dixon, Pat Nevin and David Speedie), were relegated in 1988 and finally won promotion to the First Division as Second Division champions again in 1989 with 99 points. This time, the club managed to stay in the top flight, where it has remained ever since.

The 1990s: back on track

Chelsea had an impressive return to the First Division in 1989-90. Manager Bobby Campbell guided a squad of mostly unremarkable players to a creditable fifth place in the final table. Although the ban on English clubs in European football was lifted that year, Chelsea missed out on a UEFA Cup place because the only English place in the competition that year went to runners-up Aston Villa. Campbell resigned a year later and he was replaced by Ian Porterfield, who helped Chelsea finish high enough in 1991-92 to qualify for the first-ever season of the Premier League. He quit halfway through the season and was replaced on a caretaker basis by former Chelsea hero David Webb, who guided Chelsea to an 11th place finish. Webb was replaced at the end of the season by 35-year-old former England midfielder Glenn Hoddle, who had just won promotion to the Premiership as player-manager of Swindon Town.

Hoddle's first season as manager saw Chelsea's league form dip slightly, but they reached the FA Cup final—and, although they lost 4-0 to Manchester United (who were awarded two penalties), this was sufficient to qualify Chelsea to compete in Europe for the 1994-95 Cup Winners Cup (since Manchester United had independently qualified for the Champions League). They reached the semifinals of the competition and went out by one goal to eventual winners Real Zaragoza.

Chelsea now had a decent squad with several top class players, the most significant of which was inspirational captain Dennis Wise. But chairman Ken Bates and director Matthew Harding were making millions of pounds available for the club to spend on players, and two world-famous players were signed in the summer of 1995 - Dutch legend Ruud Gullit (free transfer from Sampdoria) and Manchester United's high scoring striker Mark Hughes (£1.5million). Hoddle guided Chelsea to another 11th place finish in 1995-96 and then quit to become manager of the England team.

Gullit was appointed player-manager for the 1996-97 season, and had an impressive first season in management by winning the FA Cup and finishing sixth in the Premiership. The 2-0 victory over Middlesbrough at Wembley ended Chelsea's 26-year wait for a major trophy, and was a happy end to a season which had looked to be dominated by sadness after the death in October of director and financial benefactor Matthew Harding in a helicopter crash.

Gullit was suddenly sacked in February 1998 with Chelsea set for a top-five Premiership finish, and another player-manager was appointed—33-year-old Italian striker Gianluca Vialli. Vialli began his management career in style with victory in the Cup Winners Cup and the League Cup. He also guided Chelsea to a third-place finish in the 1998-99 Premiership campaign, high enough for a first-ever appearance in the Champions League. Vialli also guided Chelsea to another FA Cup victory and a trip to the Champions League quarterfinals in the Spring of 2000. By now, Chelsea had a top-notch multi-national squad which included the likes of Italian striker Gianfranco Zola, Dutch goalkeeper Ed de Goey, Uruguayan midfielder Gustavo Poyet, Italian midfielder Roberto di Matteo, French centre-halves Frank Leboeuf and Marcel Desailly.

The new millennium: glory days

File:Stamford Bridge stands.jpg
Chelsea's home ground is Stamford Bridge, in London

Vialli was dismissed in September 2000 and replaced by another Italian, Claudio Ranieri—who guided them to another FA Cup final in 2002 but was unable to prevent them from losing to double winners Arsenal.

Ken Bates unexpectedly sold Chelsea F.C. in June 2003 for £60 million. In so doing, Bates reportedly recognized a personal profit of £17 million on the club he had bought for £1 in 1982 (his stake had been diluted to just below 30% over the years). The club's new owner was Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who also took on responsibility for the club's £80 million of debt, quickly paying most of it. He then went on a £100 million spending spree before the start of the season and landed players like Claude Makélélé, Geremi, Glen Johnson, Joe Cole and Damien Duff.

The spending saw a good return, with Chelsea finishing the Premiership runners-up and reaching the Champions League semifinals after beating Arsenal in the quarterfinals. But Ranieri was sacked after ending the season trophyless, and Abramovich recruited José Mourinho (who had lifted two Portuguese league titles, a Portuguese Cup, a European Cup and a UEFA Cup with FC Porto) as the club's new manager.

2004-05 was the most successful season in the history of Chelsea Football Club. They secured the Premiership title in a record breaking season by gaining 95 points from 38 fixtures (ending a 50-year wait for the title with the highest Premiership points total for a 38 game season), along with setting records for: most wins (29), fewest goals against (15) and most clean sheets (25) in a 38 game season -- all this in the season that also saw "The Blues" lift the League Cup. Mourinho was acclaimed by many as one of the best managers in the world, and many of Chelsea's players were also lauded by journalists and supporters alike, figuring prominently in many national sides. Despite this, they were also criticised by many for playing negative, boring football. In addition to the two major trophies won, Chelsea reached the semifinals of the Champions League, losing to the eventual winners Liverpool, to whom they had conceded only one goal.

Current season: 2005-2006

2005-06 is Chelsea's centenary season, and is being marked by the introduction of a new badge based on an old time badge, and by various special events. Chelsea has signed a five-year £10 million a year shirt sponsorship deal with Korean electronics company Samsung, which runs from the 2005-06 season. This is the largest annual shirt sponsorship yet agreed by an English football club. Chelsea has also agreed a new kit deal with Adidas, worth approximately £12 million a year to the club, and effective from the 2006-07 season. [2]

Crest

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Chelsea's first crest
File:Chelsea's old badge.jpg
Club crest 1953-1986
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Club crest 1986-2005

Since the club's foundation, Chelsea have had four main crests, though all underwent minor variations. In 1905, Chelsea adopted as its first crest the image of a Chelsea pensioner, which obviously contributed to the pensioner nickname, and remained for the next half-century, though it never appeared on the shirts. As part of new manager Ted Drake's modernisation of the club from 1952, he insisted that the pensioner badge be removed from the match day programme in order to change the club's image and that a new crest be adopted. As a stop-gap, a temporary emblem comprising simply the initials C.F.C. was adopted for one year. In 1953, the club adopted what is arguably its most famous crest - that of an upright blue lion looking backwards and holding a staff - which was to endure for the next three decades. The crest was based on elements in the coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea (discussed and illustrated on this website) with the "lion rampant regardant" taken from the arms of then club president Viscount Chelsea and the staff from the Abbots of Westminster, former Lords of the Manor of Chelsea. This was also the first club badge to appear on shirts, since the policy of putting the crest on the shirts was only adopted in the early 1960's.

In 1986, with new owners now at the club, Chelsea's crest was changed again as part of another attempt to modernise and to capitalise on new marketing opportunities, because new Chairman Ken Bates was advised he had not acquired any copyright in the existing crest. The new badge featured a more naturalistic non-heraldic lion, yellow and not blue, standing over the C.F.C. initials. It lasted for the next 19 years, though with some modifications such as the use of different colours. With new ownership, and the club's centenary approaching, combined with demands from fans for the club's traditional badge to be restored, it was decided that the crest should be changed again in 2004. The new crest was officially adopted for the start of the 2005-6 season and marks a return to the older design of the blue heraldic lion holding a staff.



Players

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Czech Republic CZE Petr Cech
2 DF England ENG Glen Johnson
3 DF Spain ESP Asier del Horno
4 MF France FRA Claude Makélélé
5 MF Ghana GHA Michael Essien
6 DF Portugal POR Ricardo Carvalho
7 MF Portugal POR Maniche (on loan from Dynamo Moscow)
8 MF England ENG Frank Lampard
9 FW Argentina ARG Hernán Crespo
10 MF England ENG Joe Cole
11 MF Ireland EIR Damien Duff
12 FW England ENG Carlton Cole
No. Pos. Nation Player
13 DF France FRA William Gallas
14 MF Cameroon CMR Geremi
15 FW Ivory Coast CIV Didier Drogba
16 MF Netherlands NED Arjen Robben
19 MF France FRA Lassana Diarra
20 DF Portugal POR Paulo Ferreira
22 FW Iceland ISL Eidur Gudjohnsen
23 GK Italy ITA Carlo Cudicini
24 MF England ENG Shaun Wright-Phillips
26 DF England ENG John Terry (Captain)
29 DF Germany GER Robert Huth
31 GK England ENG Lenny Pidgeley
Players out on loan
18 DF England ENG Wayne Bridge (at Fulham until summer 2006)
20 MF Argentina ARG Juan Sebastián Verón (at Inter until summer 2007)
5 MF Russia RUS Alexei Smertin (at Charlton Athletic, season-long)
27 MF Czech Republic CZE Jirí Jarošík (at Birmingham City, season-long)

Other players with professional contracts:

Chelsea also employ a number of young players on trainee contracts.

Notable players

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s:

2000s

Chelsea player of the year (1967-2005)

Year Winner
1967 Peter Bonetti
1968 Charlie Cooke
1969 David Webb
1970 John Hollins
1971 John Hollins
1972 David Webb
1973 Peter Osgood
1974 Gary Locke
1975 Charlie Cooke
1976 Ray Wilkins
1977 Ray Wilkins
1978 Micky Droy
1979 Tommy Langley
1980 Clive Walker
1981 Peter Borota
1982 Mike Fillery
1983 Joey Jones
1984 Pat Nevin
1985 David Speedie
1986 Eddie Niedzwiecki
 
Year Winner
1987 Pat Nevin
1988 Tony Dorigo
1989 Graham Roberts
1990 Ken Monkou
1991 Andy Townsend
1992 Paul Elliott
1993 Frank Sinclair
1994 Steve Clarke
1995 Erland Johnsen
1996 Ruud Gullit
1997 Mark Hughes
1998 Dennis Wise
1999 Gianfranco Zola
2000 Dennis Wise
2001 John Terry
2002 Carlo Cudicini
2003 Gianfranco Zola
2004 Frank Lampard
2005 Frank Lampard

Managers

Name Period
John Tait Robertson 1905 - 1907
David Calderhead 1907 - 1933
Leslie Knighton 1933 - 1939
Billy Birrell 1939 - 1952
Ted Drake 1952 - 1961
Tommy Docherty 1962 - 1967
Dave Sexton 1967 - 1974
Ron Suart 1974 - 1975
Eddie McCreadie 1975 - 1977
Ken Shellito 1977 - 1978
Danny Blanchflower 1978 - 1979
Geoff Hurst 1979 - 1981
John Neal 1981 - 1985
John Hollins 1985 - 1988
Bobby Campbell 1988 - 1991
Ian Porterfield 1991 - 1993
David Webb 1993
Glenn Hoddle 1993 - 1996
Ruud Gullit 1996 - 1998
Gianluca Vialli 1998 - 2000
Claudio Ranieri 2000 - 2004
José Mourinho 2004 -

Records

Honours

Club Records

  • Most League Points (2 for a win): 57, Division 2, 1906-1907
  • Most League Points (3 for a win): 99, Division 2, 1988-1989


Chelsea have spent 69 seasons in the national top flight (they rank 9th equal with Tottenham Hotspur and West Bromwich Albion in this respect). In these 69 seasons, Chelsea have finished in the following positions: 

1st:  2    5th:  5    9th:  2    13th: 5    17th: 1    21st: 2
2nd:  1    6th:  7    10th: 1    14th: 4    18th: 6    22nd: 2
3rd:  4    7th:  1    11th: 6    15th: 1    19th: 6
4th:  2    8th:  3    12th: 5    16th: 2    20th: 2

Notes

  1. ^ There was at the time an ambivalent and somewhat arrogant attitude towards foreign competitions among the English football authorities, best demonstrated by England's non-participation in the world cup finals until 1950. The pressure put on club chairman Joe Mears to withdraw is referenced in this Telegraph article. See also . ISBN 0316725293. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |Author= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |Publisher= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |Title= ignored (|title= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |Year= ignored (|year= suggested) (help), ch2, for a brief account of the affair.

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See also

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