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	Blues Partners Ltd.
Chairman	Todd Boehly
Manager	Enzo Maresca
Current League	Premier League
2023–24	Premier League, 6th
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 2022, Chelsea have been owned by American businessman Todd Boehly.

Players

First-team squad

As of 20 June 2024

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK Robert Sánchez 2 DF Axel Disasi 3 DF Marc Cucurella 5 DF Benoît Badiashile 7 MF Raheem Sterling 8 MF Enzo Fernández 10 FW Mykhailo Mudryk 11 FW Noni Madueke 13 GK Marcus Bettinelli 14 DF Trevoh Chalobah 15 FW Nicolas Jackson 16 MF Lesley Ugochukwu 17 MF Carney Chukwuemeka 18 MF Christopher Nkunku 20 MF Cole Palmer

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 DF Ben Chilwell (vice-captain) 23 MF Conor Gallagher (3rd captain) 24 DF Reece James (captain) 25 MF Moisés Caicedo 26 DF Levi Colwill 27 DF Malo Gusto 28 GK Đorđe Petrović 31 MF Cesare Casadei 33 DF Wesley Fofana 36 FW Deivid Washington 42 DF Alfie Gilchrist 43 FW Diego Moreira 45 MF Roméo Lavia 47 GK Lucas Bergström DF Malang Sarr

Out on loan

As of 18 June 2024

No. Pos. Nation Player GK Teddy Sharman-Lowe (at Doncaster Rovers until 30 June 2025)

Other players under contract

No. Pos. Nation Player GK Kepa Arrizabalaga GK Jamie Cumming GK Gabriel Slonina DF Bashir Humphreys DF Ian Maatsen MF Tino Anjorin MF Andrey Santos

No. Pos. Nation Player MF Harvey Vale FW Armando Broja FW Mason Burstow FW David Datro Fofana FW Ângelo Gabriel FW Romelu Lukaku FW Alex Matos

Development Squad and Academy

Main article: Chelsea F.C. Development Squad and Academy

• Players to have at least one first-team appearance for Chelsea.

No. Pos. Nation Player 49 MF Jimi Tauriainen 54 MF Leo Castledine 63 DF Josh Acheampong

No. Pos. Nation Player 68 MF Michael Golding MF Omari Hutchinson

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