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The badge took the form of the familiar lion and staff encircled by a blue ring but without lettering and without the red roses and red footballs ( blazoned as " A lion rampant reguardant azure supporting with the forepaws a crozier or all within an annulet azure"). Under Docherty's successor, Dave Sexton, Chelsea won the FA Cup in 1970, beating Leeds United 2–1 in a final replay.

Find both adult and junior Chelsea kits here, plus various tracksuits, hoodies, joggers, t-shirts and other Chelsea leisure wear and fan merchandise to truly show off your love of the Blues. For the centenary season this was accompanied by the words '100 Years' and 'Centenary 2005–2006' on the top and bottom of the crest respectively. Since then Chelsea have always worn white socks with their home kit apart from a short spell from 1985 to 1992, when blue socks were reintroduced. Following the introduction of sleeve sponsors in the Premier League, Chelsea had Alliance Tyres as its first sleeve sponsor in the 2017–18 season, [226] followed by Hyundai Motor Company in 2018-19 season.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. On 18 April 2021, Chelsea announced it would be joining a new European Super League, a league competition comprising the biggest European clubs. There also some situation specific or team specific chants meant to rile up opposition teams, managers or players. Chelsea hold the English record for the fewest goals conceded during a league season (15), the highest number of clean sheets overall in a Premier League season (25) (both set during the 2004–05 season), [173] and the most consecutive clean sheets from the start of a league season (6, set during the 2005–06 season).

Putin was handed a note from Zelenskyy seeking peace by Roman Abramovich, but replied 'tell him I will thrash them,' report says".billion the club owed him, and put the club up for sale, pledging to donate net proceeds from it to the victims of the war in Ukraine. Starting with an open bowl-like design and one grandstand with seating, Stamford Bridge had an original capacity of around 100,000, making it the second biggest stadium in England after Crystal Palace.

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. In October 1905 it hosted a rugby union match between the All Blacks and Middlesex, [95] and in 1914 hosted a baseball match between the touring New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox. As the roof resembled that of a corrugated iron shed, the stand eventually became known as the "Shed End", although it is unknown who first coined this name.If they only knew the joy it gives our chaps out at sea, watching and waiting to protect them,’ wrote one Chelsea supporter from his bunk on HMS Wolf, ‘I am sure they would have published their “Football Stars” and “News” as usual. At Docherty's behest, in the 1966 FA Cup semi-final they wore blue and black stripes, based on Inter Milan's kit. They play their home games at Kingsmeadow, formerly the home ground of the EFL League Two club AFC Wimbledon. The new badge featured a more naturalistic non-heraldic lion, in white and not blue, standing over the C.

The first, adopted when the club was founded, was the image of a Chelsea Pensioner, the army veterans who reside at the nearby Royal Hospital Chelsea. The transaction had received all necessary approvals from the governments of the United Kingdom and, the Premier League, and other authorities. Goalkeepers Djordje Petrovic and Emi Martinez made sharp stops as Chelsea and Aston Villa drew 0-0 in the FA Cup fourth round tie at Stamford Bridge. In Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film The 39 Steps, Mr Memory claims that Chelsea last won the Cup in 63 BC, "in the presence of the Emperor Nero.These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. Chelsea is the only Premier League side to have won its opening nine league games of the season, doing so in 2005–06. The club have consistently affirmed their desire to keep Chelsea at their current home, [104] [105] but have nonetheless been linked with a move to various nearby sites, including the Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Battersea Power Station and the Chelsea Barracks.