Chelsea Football Club Chelsea Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, London, currently playing in the English Pr...
Chelsea Football Club
Chelsea Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, London, currently playing in the English Premier League. Founded in 1905, the club's home ground since then has been Stamford Bridge.Chelsea won their first major title in 1955, when they won the national championship. They won several more titles between 1965 and 1996. The last two decades have been Chelsea's most successful period; won 17 major titles in total 21 since 1997. Chelsea won five national championships, seven FA Cups, five League Cups, four FA Community Shields, a UEFA Champions League, two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, a UEFA Europa League and UEFA Super Cup. Chelsea are the only London club to win the UEFA Champions League, and are one of only five clubs in the league to win the UEFA Champions League.
The traditional Chelsea shirt is dark green and white socks. The club's logo has been changed a few times to bring in new brands and images. The current logo has a lion holding a stick, which is a variant of the logo introduced in the 1950s. The club has an average audience of six in the UK. An average of 41,500 spectators arrived at the stadium for the 2015-16 season, the seventh in the Premier League. Since 2003, Chelsea has been owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. In 2016, they were ranked by Forbes magazine as the seventh most valued football club in the world, valued at 1.15 billion pounds (1.66 billion US dollars).
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