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	Todd Boehly Clearlake Capital Hansjoerg Wyss Mark Walter
Chairman	Bruce Buck
Manager	Thomas Tuchel
Current League	Premier League
2021–22	Premier League, 3rd
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 twice, the FIFA Club World Cup 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 3 June 2022

No. Position Player 1 GK Kepa Arrizabalaga 3 DF Marcos Alonso 4 DF Andreas Christensen 5 MF Jorginho 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 16 GK Édouard Mendy 18 MF Ross Barkley 19 MF Mason Mount 20 MF Callum Hudson-Odoi 21 DF Ben Chilwell 22 MF Hakim Ziyech 23 MF Kenedy 24 DF Reece James 28 DF César Azpilicueta (captain) 29 MF Kai Havertz 31 DF Malang Sarr

Under-23s and Academy

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

No. Position Player 36 GK Lucas Bergström 38 DF Dylan Williams 43 DF Xavier Mbuyamba 54 MF Xavier Simons 60 GK Teddy Sharman-Lowe

No. Position Player 64 FW Jude Soonsup-Bell 68 MF Harvey Vale 71 MF Charlie Webster 75 MF Lewis Hall

Other players under contract

No. Position Player GK Nathan Baxter GK Jamie Cumming DF Henry Lawrence DF Levi Colwill DF Dujon Sterling

No. Position Player DF Baba Rahman DF Ian Maatsen MF Billy Gilmour MF Tino Anjorin FW Mason Burstow

Out on loan

No. Position Player DF Ethan Ampadu (to Venezia until 30 June 2022) DF Matt Miazga (to Alavés until 30 June 2022) DF Emerson (to Lyon until 30 June 2022) MF Tiémoué Bakayoko (to AC Milan until 30 June 2023)

No. Position Player MF Conor Gallagher (to Crystal Palace until 30 June 2022) FW Armando Broja (to Southampton until 30 June 2022) FW Michy Batshuayi (to Beşiktaş until 30 June 2022) FW Bryan Fiabema (to Rosenborg until 31 December 2022)

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