Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London.
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40 Facts About Chelsea Football Club
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Chelsea Football Club has rivalries with neighbouring teams Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, and a historic rivalry with Leeds United.
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In terms of club value, Chelsea are the seventh most valuable football club in the world, worth £2.
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Chelsea Football Club 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 Football Club 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 were persuaded to withdraw from the competition before it started.
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Chelsea Football Club 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 challenged for honours throughout the 1960s, enduring several near-misses.
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The following year, Chelsea Football Club 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 Football Club 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 Football Club 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 Football Club 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 Football Club won their sixth English title and the following season won their eighth FA Cup.
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On 18 April 2021, Chelsea 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 Football Club 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 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 Football Club then announced on 20 June that Bruce Buck, who served as Chairman since 2003, will be stepping down from his role effective 30 June although he would continue to support the Chelsea Football Club as a Senior Advisor.
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Chelsea Football Club 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 Football Club's naming rights are now owned by Chelsea Football Club 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 to stay competitive with rival clubs who have significantly larger stadia, such as Arsenal and Manchester United.
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Chelsea Football Club have had four main crests, which all underwent minor variations.
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Since then Chelsea Football Club 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 Football Club released the song "No One Can Stop Us Now" in 1994 for reaching the 1994 FA Cup Final.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Chelsea Football Club were ranked fourth worldwide in annual replica kit sales, with an average of 910,000.
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The club's "football firm", originally known as the Chelsea Shed Boys, and subsequently as the Chelsea 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 Football Club 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 Football Club 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 Football Club'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 Football Club were unbeaten in a record 29 consecutive FA Cup matches.
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On 26 December 1999, Chelsea Football Club 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 Football Club 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 Football Club were additionally funded by Abramovich via interest free soft loans channelled through his holding company Fordstam Limited.
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Chelsea Football Club 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 Football Club'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 featured in one of the earliest football films, The Great Game.
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In 2010 Chelsea Football Club Ladies were one of the eight founder members of the FA Women's Super League.
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In 2015, Chelsea Football Club 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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