Chelsea
Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, London, that competes in the Premier League, of which they are reigning champions. Founded
in 1905, the club's home ground since then has been Stamford Bridge. So walk with me I present to you top facts
about Chelsea f.c.
Chelsea had their first
major success in 1955, when they won the league championship.
Chelsea
have won six national league 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 only London club to win the UEFA Champions League, and one of four clubs, and the only British club, to have won all
three main UEFA club competitions
The club have the
sixth-highest average all-time attendance in English football
In 2016, they were ranked
by Forbes magazine as the seventh
most valuable football club in the world, at £1.15 billion ($1.66 billion).
Most football clubs were
founded first, and then sought grounds in which to play, but Chelsea were
founded for Stamford Bridge.
Stamford Bridge has been
used for a variety of other sporting events since 1905. It hosted the FA Cup
Final from 1920 to
1922, has held ten FA Cup Semi-finals (most recently in 1978), ten FA Charity Shield matches (the last in 1970), and three England international matches, the last in 1932; it was also the
venue for an unofficial Victory
International in 1946. The 2013 UEFA Women's Champions
League Final was played at Stamford Bridge
Chelsea's biggest winning
scoreline in a competitive match is 13–0, achieved against Jeunesse Hautcharage in the Cup Winners' Cup in 1971.
Chelsea hold the English
record for the highest ever points total for a league season (95), the fewest
goals conceded during a league season (15), the highest number of Premier
League victories in a season (29), the highest number of clean sheets overall
in a Premier League season (25) (all set during the 2004–05 season)
Chelsea, along with
Arsenal, were the first club to play with shirt numbers, on 25 August 1928 in
their match against Swansea Town
In May 2007, Chelsea were
the first team to win the FA Cup at the new Wembley
Stadium, having also been the
last to win it at the old Wembley.
Chelsea are the only
London club to win the UEFA Champions League, after beating Bayern Munich in the 2012 final.
Chelsea's kit has been
manufactured by Adidas since 2006, which was originally contracted to
supply the club's kit from 2006 to 2018. The partnership was extended in
October 2010 in a deal worth £160 million over eight years
Bryan Adams, a fan of Chelsea, dedicated the song "We're Gonna
Win" from the album 18 Til I Die to the club.
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