Chelsea F.C.

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Chelsea
Full name	Chelsea Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Blues, The Pensioners
Founded	10 March 1905
Ground	Stamford Bridge (Capacity: 41,663)
Owner	Roman Abramovich
Chairman	Bruce Buck
Manager	Thomas Tuchel
Current League	Premier League
2020–21	Premier League, 4th
Website	Club home page
Current season

Chelsea Football Club (also known as The Blues or previously The Pensioners) are a English football club based in West London. The team, founded in 1905, plays in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, and have won the FA Cup seven times, the League Cup four times, the UEFA Champions League once and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup twice.

Chelsea had their first major success in 1955, when they won the league championship, and won various cup competitions during the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s and 2000s. The club has enjoyed its greatest period of success in the past two decades, winning 15 major trophies since 1997.Domestically, Chelsea have won four league titles, seven FA Cups, four League Cups and four FA Community Shields, while in continental competition they have won two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, one UEFA Super Cup, one UEFA Europa League and one UEFA Champions League. Chelsea are the only London club to win the UEFA Champions League, one of four clubs, and the only British club, to have won the three main UEFA club competitions, and also the first club to hold two major European titles simultaneously.

Chelsea's regular kit colours are royal blue shirts and shorts with white socks. The club's crest has been changed several times in attempts to re-brand the club and modernise its image. The current crest, featuring a ceremonial lion rampant regardant holding a staff, is a modification of the one introduced in the early 1950s.The club has sustained the fifth highest average all-time attendance in English football. Their average home gate for the 2012–13 season was 41,462, the sixth highest in the Premier League. In April 2013 it was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the seventh most valuable football club in the world, at £588 million ($901 million), an increase of 18% from the previous year. Since 2003, Chelsea have been owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.

Players

Current squad

As of 19 August 2021

No. Position Player 1 GK Kepa Arrizabalaga 2 DF Antonio Rüdiger 3 DF Marcos Alonso 4 DF Andreas Christensen 5 MF Jorginho (vice-captain) 6 DF Thiago Silva 7 MF N'Golo Kanté 8 MF Mateo Kovačić 9 FW Romelu Lukaku 10 MF Christian Pulisic 11 FW Timo Werner 12 MF Ruben Loftus-Cheek 13 GK Marcus Bettinelli

No. Position Player 14 DF Trevoh Chalobah 15 DF Kurt Zouma 16 GK Édouard Mendy 19 MF Mason Mount 20 FW Callum Hudson-Odoi 21 DF Ben Chilwell 22 MF Hakim Ziyech 24 DF Reece James 27 MF Tino Anjorin 28 DF César Azpilicueta (captain) 29 MF Kai Havertz 44 DF Ethan Ampadu

Other players under contract

No. Position Player DF Jake Clarke-Salter DF Baba Rahman DF Davide Zappacosta DF Ethan Ampadu DF Matt Miazga DF Malang Sarr DF Dujon Sterling MF Tino Anjorin MF Danny Drinkwater

No. Position Player MF Kenedy MF Lewis Baker MF Ross Barkley MF Tiémoué Bakayoko MF Tariq Uwakwe FW Ike Ugbo FW Michy Batshuayi FW Charly Musonda

Out on loan

No. Position Player GK Jamie Cumming (to Gillingham until 31 May 2022) GK Nathan Baxter (to Hull City until 31 May 2022) GK Karlo Žiger (to Rudar Velenje until 22 May 2022) DF Levi Colwill (to Huddersfield Town until 31 May 2022) DF Ian Maatsen (to Coventry City until 30 June 2022) DF Juan Castillo (to Birmingham City until 30 June 2022) DF Jake Clarke-Salter (to Coventry City until 30 June 2022)

No. Position Player 33 DF Emerson (to Lyon until 30 June 2022) MF Henry Lawrence (to Wimbledon until 31 May 2022) MF Billy Gilmour (to Norwich City until 30 June 2022) MF Conor Gallagher (to Crystal Palace until 30 June 2022) MF Kenedy (to Flamengo until 30 June 2022) FW Armando Broja (to Southampton until 30 June 2022) FW Michy Batshuayi (to Beşiktaş until 30 June 2022)

Under-23s and Academy

Main article: Chelsea F.C. Under-23s and Academy

Club alumni

Former players

Main article: Chelsea F.C. players

Managers

Main article: Chelsea F.C. managers

Honours

Upon winning the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League, Chelsea became the fourth club in history to have won the "European Treble" of European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, and European Cup Winners' Cup/UEFA Cup Winners' Cup after Juventus, Ajax and Bayern Munich. Chelsea are the first English club to have won all three major UEFA trophies.

National competitions

League titles

• First Division / Premier League (Level 1)

Winners (6): 1954–55, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2009–10, 2014–15, 2016–17

• Second Division / Championship (Level 2)

Winners (2): 1983–84, 1988–89

Cups

• FA Cup

Winners (8): 1969–70, 1996–97, 1999–2000, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2017–18

• Football League Cup / EFL Cup

Winners (5): 1964–65, 1997–98, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2014–15

• FA Charity Shield / FA Community Shield

Winners (4): 1955, 2000, 2005, 2009

• Full Members' Cup

Winners (2): 1985–86, 1989–90

European competitions

• UEFA Champions League

Winners (2): 2011–12, 2020–21

• UEFA Europa League

Winners (2): 2012–13, 2018–19

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Winners (2): 1970–71, 1997–98

• UEFA Super Cup

Winners (2): 1998, 2021

Doubles

• League and FA Cup: 2009–10
• League and League Cup: 2004–05, 2014–15
• League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup: 1997–98
• FA Cup and League Cup: 2006–07
• FA Cup and UEFA Champions League: 2011–12

See also

• Logo history of Chelsea F.C.

External links

• Official website
• Chelsea F.C. at Premier League