Chelsea FC Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London.
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44 Facts About Chelsea FC
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Chelsea FC are one of five clubs to have won all three pre-1999 main European club competitions, and the only club to have won all three major European competitions twice.
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In terms of club value, Chelsea FC are the seventh most valuable football club in the world, worth £2.
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Chelsea FC won promotion to the First Division in their second season, and yo-yoed between the First and Second Divisions in their early years.
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Chelsea FC had a reputation for signing star players and attracted large crowds.
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The following season saw UEFA create the European Champions' Cup, but after objections from The Football League, Chelsea FC were persuaded to withdraw from the competition before it started.
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Chelsea FC failed to build on this success, and spent the remainder of the 1950s in mid-table.
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Docherty built a new team around the group of talented young players emerging from the club's youth set-up, and Chelsea FC challenged for honours throughout the 1960s, enduring several near-misses.
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The following year, Chelsea FC took their first European honour, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup triumph, with another replayed win, this time over Real Madrid in Athens.
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In 1982, Chelsea FC were, at the nadir of their fortunes, acquired by Ken Bates for the nominal sum of £1, from Mears' great-nephew Brian Mears for £1.
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Chelsea FC added several top international players to the side and led the club to their first major honour since 1971, the FA Cup.
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Under Mourinho, Chelsea FC became the fifth English team to win back-to-back league championships since the Second World War, in addition to winning an FA Cup and two League Cups .
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In 2017, under new coach Antonio Conte, Chelsea FC won their sixth English title and the following season won their eighth FA Cup.
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On 18 April 2021, Chelsea FC announced they would be joining a new European Super League, a league competition comprising the biggest European clubs.
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On 10 March 2022, the British government announced sanctions on Abramovich with Chelsea FC allowed to operate under a special license until 31 May In the following weeks, reports emerged of Abramovich's involvement in brokering a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia and securing safe evacuation corridors in besieged Ukrainian cities.
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On 7 May 2022, Chelsea FC confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjorg Wyss, to acquire the club.
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Chelsea FC have only had one home ground, Stamford Bridge, where they have played since the team's foundation.
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Stamford Bridge freehold, the pitch, the turnstiles and Chelsea FC's naming rights are now owned by Chelsea FC Pitch Owners, a non-profit organisation in which fans are the shareholders.
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Previous owner Mr Abramovich and the clubs then executive board determined that a larger stadium is necessary in order for Chelsea FC to stay competitive with rival clubs who have significantly larger stadia, such as Arsenal and Manchester United.
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Chelsea FC have had four main crests, which all underwent minor variations.
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In 1986, with Ken Bates now owner of the club, Chelsea FC's crest was changed again as part of another attempt to modernise and because the old rampant lion badge could not be trademarked.
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Chelsea FC have always worn blue shirts, although they originally used the paler eton blue, which was taken from the racing colours of then club president, Earl Cadogan, and was worn with white shorts and dark blue or black socks.
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Since then Chelsea FC have always worn white socks with their home kit apart from a short spell from 1985 to 1992, when blue socks were reintroduced.
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Chelsea FC released the song "No One Can Stop Us Now" in 1994 for reaching the 1994 FA Cup Final.
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Chelsea FC are among the most widely supported football clubs in the world.
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The club's "football firm", originally known as the Chelsea FC Shed Boys, and subsequently as the Chelsea FC Headhunters, were nationally notorious for football violence, alongside hooligan firms from other clubs such as West Ham United's Inter City Firm and Millwall's Bushwackers, before, during and after matches.
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From 20 March 2004 to 26 October 2008, Chelsea FC went a record 86 consecutive league matches at home without defeat, beating the previous record of 63 matches unbeaten set by Liverpool between 1978 and 1980.
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Chelsea FC hold the English record for the fewest goals conceded during a league season, the highest number of clean sheets overall in a Premier League season, and the most consecutive clean sheets from the start of a league season .
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Chelsea FC's streak of eleven consecutive away league wins, set between 5 April 2008 and 6 December 2008, is a record for the English top flight.
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From 2009 to 2013, Chelsea FC were unbeaten in a record 29 consecutive FA Cup matches .
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On 26 December 1999, Chelsea FC became the first British side to field an entirely foreign starting line-up in a Premier League match against Southampton.
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In May 2007, Chelsea FC were the first team to win the FA Cup at the new Wembley Stadium, having been the last to win it at the old Wembley.
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Chelsea FC have twice broken the record for the highest transfer fee paid by a British club.
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Chelsea FC were additionally funded by Abramovich via interest free soft loans channelled through his holding company Fordstam Limited.
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Chelsea FC did not turn a profit in the first nine years of Abramovich's ownership, and made record losses of £140m in June 2005.
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On 19 March 2022, there were five confirmed bids to acquire Chelsea FC: submitted to Raine Capital who were handling the sale of the club.
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From July 2020, Chelsea FC's sponsor was Three, however they temporarily suspended their sponsorship in March 2022 in response to sanctions leveled by the UK Government against Abramovich.
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In 1930, Chelsea FC featured in one of the earliest football films, The Great Game.
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Chelsea FC are the first English club to have won all three major UEFA trophies.
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In 2010 Chelsea FC Ladies were one of the eight founder members of the FA Women's Super League.
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In 2015, Chelsea FC Ladies won the FA Women's Cup for the first time, beating Notts County Ladies at Wembley Stadium, and a month later clinched their first FA WSL title to complete a league and cup double.
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