Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Chelsea F.C.


Chelsea Football Club  are a professional football club based in Fulham, London, who play in the Premier League, the highest level of English football. Founded in 1905, the club have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. The club's home ground is the 41,837-seat Stamford Bridge stadium, where they have played since their establishment.



Official logo of Chelsea Football club 
Full nameChelsea Football Club
Nickname(s)The Blues, The Pensioners
Founded10 March 1905; 110 years ago
GroundStamford Bridge
Fulham, London 
Capacity41,837
OwnerRoman Abramovich
ChairmanBruce Buck
ManagerJosé Mourinho
LeaguePremier League
2014–15Premier League, 1st


Chelsea had their first major success in 1955, when they won the league championship, and subsequently won various cup competitions between 1965 and 1990. The club have enjoyed their greatest period of success in the past two decades, winning 17 major trophies since 1997. Domestically, Chelsea have won five league titles, seven FA Cups, five League Cups and four FA Community Shields, while in continental competitions they have won one UEFA Champions League, two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, one UEFA Europa League and one UEFA Super Cup. Chelsea are the only London club to win the UEFA Champions League, and one of four clubs, and the only British club, to have won all three main UEFA club competitions.
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 have sustained the fifth-highest average all-time attendance in English football. Their average home gate for the 2013–14 season was 41,572, the seventh highest in the Premier League. Since July 2003, Chelsea have been owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. In May 2015 they were ranked by Forbes Magazine as the sixth most valuable football club in the world, at £898 million ($1.37 billion).
Chelsea Kit 


Current manager of Chelsea F.C.
José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix, OIH, (born 26 January 1963), known as José Mourinho is a Portuguese football manager and former football player who is the current manager of English club Chelsea.
He is regarded by a number of players, coaches, and commentators as one of the greatest and most successful managers in the world. Mourinho began his involvement in professional football as a player in the Portuguese Second Division. He studied sports science in Technical University of Lisbon and attended coaching courses in Britain. In Lisbon, he worked as a physical education teacher and had spells working as a youth team coach, a scout, and an assistant manager. In the early 1990s, he became an interpreter for Sir Bobby Robson at Sporting CP and Porto in Portugal, and Barcelona in Spain. He remained at the Catalonian club working with Robson's successor Louis van Gaal.


     Notable managers of Chelsea Football club   : 

                                        
A Glimpse of Chelsea on winning the UEFA Champions League. 

 


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