On 18 April 2021, Chelsea announced it would be joining a new European Super League, a league competition comprising the biggest European clubs. Under Tuchel, Chelsea reached the FA Cup final, losing 1–0 to Leicester City, and won their second UEFA Champions League title with a 1–0 win over Manchester City in Porto. In Lampard’s first season, he guided Chelsea to fourth place in the Premier League and reached the FA Cup final, losing 2–1 to Arsenal. In 2018 Conte was sacked after a fifth-place finish and replaced with Maurizio Sarri, under whom Chelsea reached the League Cup final, which they lost on penalties to Manchester City and won the Europa League for a second time, beating Arsenal 4–1 in the final. In 2017, under new coach Antonio Conte, Chelsea won their sixth English title and the following season won their eighth FA Cup. In November 2012, Chelsea announced a profit of £1.4 million for the year ending 30 June 2012, the first time the club had made a profit under Abramovich’s ownership.
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Chelsea released the song “No One Can Stop Us Now” in 1994 for reaching the 1994 FA Cup final. The song has since been adopted by a number of other sports teams around the world, including the Vancouver Whitecaps (as “White is the Colour”) and the Saskatchewan Roughriders (as “Green is the Colour”). Other away kits include an all jade strip worn from 1986 to 1989, red and white diamonds from 1990 to 1992, graphite and tangerine from 1994 to 1996, and luminous yellow from 2007 to 2008. In the mid-1970s, the away strip was a red, white and green kit inspired by the Hungarian national side of the 1950s.
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Chelsea is also the only London club to have won the Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup. Chelsea has also won the UEFA Super Cup twice, in 1998 and 2021, as well as the UEFA Youth League (in 2014–15 and 2015–16, the first and as of 2025 only club to have retained the title). In 2025, Chelsea became the first club to have won all four UEFA main club competitions; the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, the European/UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, and the UEFA Europa Conference League/UEFA Conference League.
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From 2009 to 2013, Chelsea were unbeaten in a record 29 consecutive FA Cup matches (excluding penalty shoot-outs). Chelsea is the only Premier League side to have won its opening nine league games of the season, doing so in 2005–06. However, an estimated crowd of over 100,000 attended a friendly match against Soviet team Dynamo Moscow on 13 November 1945. The club’s 21–0 aggregate victory over Jeunesse Hautcharage in the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup in 1971 is a record in European competition. Chelsea’s biggest winning scoreline in a competitive match is 13–0, achieved against Jeunesse Hautcharage in the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1971. More recently a rivalry with Liverpool has grown following repeated clashes in cup competitions.
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They were the first Premier League team, and the first team in the English top flight since 1962–63, to score at least 100 goals in a single season, reaching the milestone during the 2009–10 season. In May 2007, Chelsea 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. On 26 December 1999, Chelsea became the first British side to field an entirely foreign starting line-up (no British or Irish players) in a Premier League match against Southampton. They were the first English side to travel by aeroplane to a domestic away match, when they visited Newcastle United on 19 April 1957, and the first First Division side to play a match on a Sunday, when they faced Stoke City on 27 January 1974. On 25 August 1928, Chelsea, along with Arsenal, became the first club to play with shirt numbers, in their match against Swansea Town.
In 2016, Forbes magazine ranked Chelsea the seventh most valuable football club in the world, at £1.15 billion ($1.66 billion). In 2023, Chelsea broke the spending record in the winter transfer window with a £289 million spending spree on eight new signings, with the £106.8 million signing of Enzo Fernandez breaking the British transfer record. The club’s £71 million purchase of Kepa Arrizabalaga in August 2018 remains a world record fee paid for a goalkeeper. The club’s £50 million purchase of Fernando Torres from Liverpool in January 2011 held the record until Ángel Di María signed for Manchester United in August 2014 for £59.7 million. Chelsea is the only London club to have won the UEFA Champions League, triumphing in the 2011–12 season.
A week later, Abramovich wrote-off the £1.5 billion the club owed him, and put the club up for sale, pledging to donate net proceeds from it to the victims of the war in Ukraine. Chelsea, one of the first clubs to help the National Health Service, lent the club-owned Millennium Hotel for the NHS staff. After a backlash from supporters, the club announced their withdrawal days later. Sarri then left the club to become manager of Juventus and was replaced by former Chelsea player Frank Lampard.
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Meanwhile they allowed 11 shots by Chelsea, the second most they’ve faced this season. The only club who have scored more? Trevoh Chalobah’s goal was the seventh Chelsea have scored via a corner in the Premier League this season. After the red card, we needed to settle and make an assessment at half-time.
They were the first English club to be ranked No. 1 under UEFA’s five-year coefficient system in the 21st century. Officially, Chelsea’s highest home attendance is 82,905 for a First Division match against Arsenal on 12 October 1935. With 103 caps (101 while at the club) for England, Lampard is Chelsea’s most capped international player. Chelsea’s highest appearance-maker is ex-captain Ron Harris, who played in 795 competitive games for the club between 1961 and 1980. Additionally, fans of Arsenal, Brentford, Fulham, Liverpool, Manchester United, QPR, Tottenham and West Ham identified Chelsea as one of their top three rivals. In the same survey, fans of Arsenal, Fulham, Leeds United, QPR, Tottenham, and West Ham United named Chelsea as one of their three main rivals.
- Bates bought a controlling stake in the club and floated Chelsea on the AIM stock exchange in March 1996.
- The club has a variety of other sponsors and official partners, which include Cadbury, EA Sports, FICO, Hilton Worldwide, 3 (company), Levy Restaurants, MSC Cruises, Oman Air, Parimatch, Rexona, Singha, The St. James, Trivago and BingX.
- Chelsea’s biggest winning scoreline in a competitive match is 13–0, achieved against Jeunesse Hautcharage in the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1971.
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The 2013 UEFA Women’s Champions League final was played at Stamford Bridge as well. The CPO was created to ensure the stadium could never again be sold to developers. The Stamford Bridge freehold, the pitch, the turnstiles and Chelsea’s naming rights are now owned by Chelsea Pitch Owners, a non-profit organisation in which fans are the shareholders. Work began in 1972 but the project was beset with problems and ultimately only the East Stand was completed; the cost brought the club close to bankruptcy. The early 1930s saw the construction of a terrace on the southern part of the ground with a roof that covered around 20% of the stand.
- Stamford Bridge was designed for the Mears family by the noted football architect Archibald Leitch, who had designed Ibrox, Craven Cottage and Hampden Park.
- In the mid-1990s Chelsea fan and businessman Matthew Harding became a director and loaned the club £26 million to build the new North Stand and invest in new players.
- In 2017, under new coach Antonio Conte, Chelsea won their sixth English title and the following season won their eighth FA Cup.
- It included guest appearances by then-Chelsea players Andrew Wilson, George Mills, and Sam Millington.
- Up until the 1950s, the club had a long-running association with the music halls; their underachievement often provided material for comedians such as George Robey.
The latter is often accompanied by fans throwing celery at each other, although the vegetable was banned inside Stamford Bridge after an incident involving midfielder Cesc Fàbregas at the 2007 League Cup final. With the new ownership of Roman Abramovich, and the club’s centenary approaching, combined with demands from fans for the popular 1950s badge to be restored, it was decided that the crest should be changed again in 2005. The badge took the form of the familiar lion and staff encircled by a blue ring but without lettering and without the red roses and red footballs (blazoned as “A lion rampant reguardant azure supporting with the forepaws a crozier or all within an annulet azure”). However, on 31 May 2018, Chelsea House Review the club released a statement saying that the new stadium project had been put on hold indefinitely, citing “the current unfavourable investment climate”. The club subsequently announced plans to redevelop Stamford Bridge into a 60,000-seater stadium,and in January 2017 these plans were approved by Hammersmith and Fulham council.
Most football clubs were founded first, and then sought grounds in which to play, but Chelsea were founded for Stamford Bridge. Stamford Bridge was designed for the Mears family by the noted football architect Archibald Leitch, who had designed Ibrox, Craven Cottage and Hampden Park. After clashing with the sporting directors Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley over strategy and management of the young squad, Pochettino agreed to leave the club at the end of the season. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor. The club opted against furloughing their non-matchday staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the decision reportedly coming from Abramovich himself.
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Fellow West London clubs Brentford, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers (QPR) are considered rivals, but less so in recent times as matches have only taken place intermittently due to the teams often being in separate divisions. At the time of the Abramovich takeover, the club had debts of around £100 million, which included a 10-year £75 million Eurobond taken out in 1997 by the Bates regime to buy the freehold of Stamford Bridge and finance the redevelopment of the stadium. Greaves holds the club record for the most goals scored in one season (43 in 1960–61). It has the sixth-highest average attendance in the history of English football, and regularly attract over 40,000 fans to Stamford Bridge; they were the ninth best-supported Premier League team in the 2023–24 season, with an average gate of 39,700. It was the home stadium of the London Monarchs American football team for the 1997 season.
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The club signed an agreement with Emirati property development company DAMAC Properties in April 2025 to become the team’s shirt sponsor for the balance of the 2024–25 season. Previously, the kit was manufactured by Adidas, which was originally contracted to supply the club’s kit from 2006 to 2018. In the mid-1990s Chelsea fan and businessman Matthew Harding became a director, and loaned the club £26 million to build the new North Stand and invest in new players. Chelsea have broken the record for the highest transfer fee paid by a British club three times. Upon winning the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League, Chelsea became the first English club to win then-all three UEFA club trophies and the only club to hold the Champions League and the Europa League at the same time.
When you wear this shirt you want to win every game.
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