Saturday, January 28, 2017
About Chelsea FC
About Chelsea FC
CHELSEA F.C.
Chelsea Football Club is an English football club based in Fulham, London. Chelsea was founded in 1905 and is now competing in the Premier League. Throughout the history of appearances in the world of football in the UK and Europe, the club has won four Premier League titles, seven FA Cups, four League Cups, one UEFA Champions League trophy, two UEFA Cup Winners Cup and the UEFA Super Cup. Their home stadium Stamford Bridge, with a capacity of 41 837 spectator seats, has been used as a home stadium since Chelsea was founded. Since 2003, Chelsea is owned by Roman Abramovich a Russian billionaire.
The first successes when Chelsea won the league title in 1955. Some titles from various competitions also were achieved in the decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, and 2000s. In the last fifteen years period is the best period of success Chelsea; were closed for the first time won the Double winners, Premier League and FA Cup in 2010 and the UEFA Champions League title in 2012.
The main costumes are Chelsea jerseys and royal blue pants with white socks. This combination has been used since the 1960s. Club crest has been changed several times in attempts to modernize and transform imaging. The symbol is now used, which display a ceremonial lion holding a staff, is a modification of the symbol that was used in the 1950s. The average league attendance in 2011-12 season home games as much as 41,478 spectators, the sixth highest number in the Premier League.
History
In 1904 H.A. Mears acquires athletics stadium Stamford Bridge with the aim of transforming into a football stadium. He then planned the establishment of a new football club after the bid given to Fulham to use the stadium was rejected. Considering there has been a club named Fulham, Chelsea name which is a small town adjacent to the stadium selected as the name for the new club. Other names such as Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC could be considered for selection. Chelsea was founded by on March 10, 1905 at a pub The Rising Sun (now The Butchers Hook restaurant) and was first played in the Football League competition.
John Robertson the Scottish national team player was 28 years old when it was selected concurrently first Chelsea player-manager. A number of players were recruited from a variety of clubs to strengthen the team, as goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke from Sheffield United, Jimmy Windridge and Bob McRoberts from Small Heath, and Frank Pearson from Manchester City. Their first match occurred on 2 September 1905, an away game to face Stockport County. Chelsea lost by a score of 0-1. While their first home game was a 4-0 victory in a friendly match against Liverpool. Robertson is also the scorer of the first competitive match as Chelsea in a 1-0 win over Blackpool.
Chelsea suffered a number of promotion-degragasi in Division One and Division Two League after won promotion to Division One in their second season. Their best achievement in the early years was successfully advanced to the 1915 FA Cup final but lost to Sheffield United at Old Trafford and when ending the Division One final standings in the top three in 1920. Chelsea has a reputation for bringing the famous players and a large number of spectators, but success is still not up to them in times of World War I and II.
Former Arsenal and England striker Ted Drake became manager in 1952. Drake began to modernize the club both on and off the field. He changed the logo Chelsea pensioner, improve training and coaching a team of young people, and strengthen the depth of the team with the shrewdness to bring a number of players from the lower divisions and amateur leagues to successfully bring Chelsea won their first championship trophy, championship Division One League 1954-55. In the following season, holding UEFA champions league championships between clubs in European Champions Cup, but the disapproval authority the Football League and FA make Chelsea pulled out of the championship before it starts. Chelsea failed to build on the success and only a mid-table dwellers league in the 1950s. Drake was fired in 1961 and replaced by Tommy Docherty who concurrently player-manager.
Chelsea back into the Premier League champions 50 years later, in 2005, the term of office of manager Jose Mourinho (2004-2007), who was the full support of the national oil billionaire Russian owner, Roman Abramovich.
In the same year (2005), Chelsea also won the Carling Cup by beating Liverpool. Later in 2006, Chelsea won the Premier League. And in 2007, Chelsea also won the Carling Cup again after beating Arsenal 2-1 and won the FA Cup after beating Manchester United 1-0 through extra time.
But due to some poor performances early in the competition 2007/2008 coupled with incompatibility with the owner, Jose Mourinho has finally resigned as manager and was replaced by Avram Grants former Israel national team manager.
Beginning of period coaching Grant, many people are looking at her eye. However, Chelseas Avram Grant was able to bring to treble the runner-up in the Carling Cup before losing to Tottenham Hotspur 2-1. Followed by a runner-up Premier League under Manchester United and a runner-up in the Champions League after losing 6-5 on penalties to Manchester United. But these achievements are considered not good enough so that Grant had been fired at the end of the season.
In late January 2009, Avram Grant was replaced by Brazilian coach, Luiz Felipe Scolari. However, Scolari was also not able to give a satisfactory performance. So at the end of April 2009 suffered the same fate with Grant. Position vacant Chelsea manager was filled by the time the Russian coach, Guus Hiddink, until the end of the 2008-09 season. At the end of May, before leaving Chelsea, Guus Hiddink provide sweet memories by bringing the FA Cup fifth Chelsea.
Beginning of the 2009-10 season, Chelsea announced as the new manager Carlo Ancelotti, with the contract for 3 seasons. Directly Ancelotti guided Chelsea to win the title with the 2009 Community Shield after beating Manchester United on penalties. Victory in penalty shootout was a first for Chelsea since 1998, when Chelsea face Ipswich Town in the League Cup. At the end of the season, Chelsea won the Premier League and FA Cup, which is the first achievement in the history of Chelsea. Chelsea is also a club that managed to get a record seventh title Double marry the winner. Chelsea striker Didier Drogba managed to get the Golden Boot as the scorers with a notch 29 goals. In the final league match on May 9, 2010, Chelsea embarrass Wigan to score a landslide 8-0 with Drogba scoring 3 goals. Chelsea also scored an absolute 100% winning record against the big four EPL teams (Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal). In the second season, Ancelotti was sacked Chelsea in May 2011 after a 1-0 defeat of Everton in the last game of the 2010-11 season.
The Chelsea players celebrated the UEFA Champions League title for the first time in club history
At the start of the 2011-12 season, Andre Villas-Boas was appointed as coach of Chelsea. After some poor results experienced Chelsea, Villas-Boas was fired in March 2012. His assistant, Roberto Di Matteo, a former Chelsea player was appointed as the main coach ad interim. Under the direction of Di Matteo Chelsea showed impressive results successfully won the FA Cup for the seventh time and the UEFA Champions League for the first time in club history-which also became the first London club to win the title.
The Main Squad
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Records
Chelseas highest appearance-maker is ex-captain Ron Harris, who played in 795 first-class games for the club between 1961 and 1980. This record is unlikely to be broken in the near future; Chelseas current highest appearance-maker is Frank Lampard with 561. The record for a Chelsea goalkeeper is held by Harriss contemporary, Peter Bonetti, who made 729 appearances (1959–79). With 91 caps (89 while at the club), Frank Lampard of England is Chelseas most capped international player. Bobby Tambling is Chelseas all-time top goalscorer, with 202 goals in 370 games (1959–70). Eight other players have also scored over 100 goals for Chelsea: George Hilsdon (1906–12), George Mills (1929–39), Roy Bentley (1948–56), Jimmy Greaves (1957–61), Peter Osgood (1964–74 and 1978–79), Kerry Dixon (1983–92), Frank Lampard (2001–) and Didier Drogba (2004–12). Greaves holds the record for the most goals scored in one season (43 in 1960–61). Lampard is the top scorer currently at the club with 188.
Chelseas biggest winning scoreline in a competitive match is 13–0, achieved against Jeunesse Hautcharage in the Cup Winners Cup in 1971. The clubs biggest top-flight win was an 8–0 victory against Wigan Athletic in 2010. Chelseas biggest loss was an 8–1 reverse against Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1953. Officially, Chelseas highest home attendance is 82,905 for a First Division match against Arsenal on 12 October 1935. However, an estimated crowd of over 100,000 attended afriendly match against Soviet team Dynamo Moscow on 13 November 1945. The modernisation of Stamford Bridge during the 1990s and the introduction of all-seater stands mean that neither record will be broken for the foreseeable future. The current legal capacity of Stamford Bridge is 41,837.
Chelsea hold the English record for the highest ever points total for a league season (95), the fewest goals conceded during a league season (15), the highest number of Premier League victories in a season (29), the highest number of clean sheets overall in a Premier League season (25) (all set during the 2004–05 season), and the most consecutive clean sheets from the start of a league season (6, set during the 2005–06 season). The clubs 21–0 aggregate victory over Jeunesse Hautcharage in the UEFA Cup Winners Cup in 1971 remains a record in European competition. Chelsea hold the record for the longest streak of unbeaten matches at home in the English top-flight, which lasted 86 matches from 20 March 2004 to 26 October 2008. They secured the record on 12 August 2007, beating the previous record of 63 matches unbeaten set by Liverpool between 1978 and 1980. Chelseas streak of eleven consecutive away league wins, set between 5 April 2008 and 6 December 2008, is also a record for the English top flight. Their £50m purchase of Fernando Torres in January 2011 is a British record transfe
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