After a long-running legal battle, Bates reunited the stadium freehold with the club in 1992 by doing a deal with the banks of the property developers, who had been bankrupted by a market crash. 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.

Selected lines only, determined by size, weight or whether delivered direct from one of our suppliers. That doesn't just come with money, we've seen at Manchester United and Arsenal where they've put billions into the team and not had the success that Chelsea have had. Officially, Chelsea's highest home attendance is 82,905 for a First Division match against Arsenal on 12 October 1935.Internationally, they have won the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Super Cup twice each, and the FIFA Club World Cup once since their inception. Chelsea is one of five clubs and the first English club to have won all three pre-1999 main European club competitions, the "European Treble" of European Cup/UEFA Champions League, European/UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League. Our tipster Jones Knows' best bets are back from a winter break and ready to punish the bookmakers once more. Scenes in a 1980 episode of Minder were filmed during a real match at Stamford Bridge between Chelsea and Preston North End with Terry McCann ( Dennis Waterman) standing on the terraces.

Consortium led by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital completes acquisition of Chelsea Football Club | Official Site | Chelsea Football Club". However, on 31 May 2018, the club released a statement saying that the new stadium project had been put on hold indefinitely, citing "the current unfavourable investment climate. Home Retail Group Card Services Limited is registered in England (04007072) at 33 Holborn, London, United Kingdom, EC1N 2HT.In 1975, a heraldic badge was granted by the College of Arms to the English Football League for use by Chelsea. In World War Two the government recognised sport acted as a safety valve for people whose previously rich lives had been severely restricted.

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. Allowing you to continue showing your support when the weather turns, this range also include jackets and sweatshirts with the Chelsea badge, so you can represent The Blues through the whole season. Badly injured Charles Dewar survived the sinking of his hospital ship by a German U-boat in 1917 only to be killed by Luftwaffe bombs in September 1940 aged 50.Happily, at least 15 recipients lived to watch their heroes from the Stamford Bridge terraces again in peacetime. Hundreds of footballs have been sent to our brave lads at the front, but many appear to have been of poor quality, for the “casualties" amongst footballs have been exceedingly heavy,’ lamented the Chelsea Chronicle of 9 January 1915. An ambitious redevelopment of Stamford Bridge threatened the financial stability of the club, [25] star players were sold and the team were relegated. 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. Under Mourinho, Chelsea became the fifth English team to win back-to-back league championships since the Second World War ( 2004–05 and 2005–06), [38] in addition to winning an FA Cup ( 2007) and two League Cups ( 2005 and 2007).

In 1939, another small seated stand was added, the North Stand, which remained until its demolition in 1975. In 2007, the club launched the Back to the Shed campaign to improve the atmosphere at home matches, with notable success. Clearly confident that its ‘Tommies’ scheme was a winner, the club was scathing of similar projects that skimped on quality. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work.From 20 March 2004 to 26 October 2008, Chelsea went a record 86 consecutive league matches at home without defeat, beating the previous record of 63 matches unbeaten set by Liverpool between 1978 and 1980. It included guest appearances by then-Chelsea players Andrew Wilson, George Mills, and Sam Millington. Putin was handed a note from Zelenskyy seeking peace by Roman Abramovich, but replied 'tell him I will thrash them,' report says". Amidst financial sanctions leveled at Russian oligarchs by Western governments in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Abramovich stated on 26 February that he would hand over the stewardship of Chelsea to the trustees of the Chelsea Foundation. From July 2020, Chelsea's sponsor was Three; [223] however, it temporarily suspended its sponsorship in March 2022 in response to sanctions leveled by the UK government against Abramovich.