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The History of Chelsea FC......................................................................................................................2

Stadium-Stamford bridge......................................................................................................................3

The best of all times..............................................................................................................................4

Headcoaches.........................................................................................................................................5

Achievements........................................................................................................................................5

The History of Chelsea FC

On the evening of 10 March 1905 in an upstairs room at the Rising Sun pub, Chelsea FC was
formed. Among the founding directors were millionaire owner Henry Augustus “Gus”
Mears, his brother Joseph, their brother-in-law Henry Boyer, publican Alfred Janes and his
nephew Edwin, who ran the Rising Sun.
The Club, the brainchild of another founder, Frederick Parker, would be started from scratch
to fill Gus Mears’s ambitious stadium, being built across the road at Stamford Bridge by the
famous architect Archibald Leitch. Scotland international Jacky Robertson was engaged as
the fledgling club’s player-manager. In collaboration with Parker, who also engineered
Chelsea’s admission to Football League Division Two, Robertson constructed a squad
including larger-than-life Willie Foulke: the club hired football’s first ball-boys to emphasize
the 23-stone goalkeeper’s presence.
The huge new arena debuted with a 4-0 friendly win against Liverpool in September 1905,
supported by London’s first 4-page match day football program, which cleverly fed the
metropolis’s growing hunger for the professional game. Success came spectacularly fast: the
table-top clash with Manchester United on Good Friday 1906 attracted a staggering
attendance of 67,000. Promotion to the First Division was achieved in 1907 and over the
ensuing campaign the newly nicknamed “Pensioners” attracted the biggest crowds ever
known to Britain. The most popular entertainer of the day, George Robey, even signed up as
a player.

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For the first few seasons the players wore Eton Blue, the horse racing colors of club
President Lord Cadogan, a much lighter hue than the shirts of today. Other aspects are more
enduring: the first top flight London derby, a 2-1 Chelsea win against Arsenal, was contested
on 9 November 1907. A similar outcome settled the first ever encounter with Tote ham
Hotspur on 18 December 1909.
And, of course, Chelsea have never moved away from the famous stadium on Fulham Road.
New star names started to establish themselves at the Bridge, including center-forward
George Hilsdon, the first Pensioner to hit a century of goals (immortalized in a weathervane
likeness on top of the current East Stand).
In just a few short years the personality of Chelsea FC was being established: wealthy,
ambitious, and fashionable and with immense drawing power.

Stadium-Stamford bridge
Stamford Bridge is a football stadium located in Fulham, London. It is the home ground of
Chelsea FC. The stadium is located within the Moore Park Estate also known as Walham
Green and is often referred to as simply The Bridge. The capacity is 41,798 making it the
eighth largest ground in the Premier League.
Opened in 1877, the stadium was used by the London Athletic Club until 1905, when new
owner Gus Mears founded Chelsea Football Club to occupy the ground. Chelsea has played
their home games there ever since. It has underground numerous major changes over the
years, most recently in the 1990s when it was renovated into a modern, all-seated stadium.
Stamford Bridge has been used as a venue for England international matches, FA Cup Finals,
FA Cup semi-finals and Charity Shield games. It has also hosted numerous other sports, such
as cricket, rugby union, speedway greyhound racing, baseball and American football. The
stadium’s highest official attendance is 82,905 for a league match between Chelsea and
Arsenal on 12 October 1935.
Stamford Bridge’ is considered to be a derivative of “Samfordesbrigge” meaning ‘the bridge
at the sandy ford’. Eighteenth century maps show a ‘Stanford Creek’ running along the route
of what is now a railway line at the back of the East Stand as a tributary of the Thames. The
upper reaches of this tributary have been known as Billingwell Dyche, derived from ‘Billing’s
spring or stream’. It formed the boundary between the parishes of Kensington and Fulham.
By the eighteenth century the creek had become known as Counter’s Creek which is the
name it has retained since.

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The stream had two local bridges: Stamford Bridge on the Fulham Road (also recorded as
Little Chelsea Bridge) and Stanbridge on the Kings Road , now known as Stanley Bridge. The
existing Stamford Bridge was built of brick in 1860-62 and has been partly reconstructed
since then.
Stamford Bridge opened in 1877 as a home for the London Athletic Club and was used
almost exclusively for that purpose until 1904, when the lease was acquired by brothers Gus
and Joseph Mears, who wanted to stage high-profile professional footbal matches there.
However, previous to this, in 1898, Stamford Bridge played host to the World Championship
of Shinty between Beauly Shinty Club and London Camanachd. Stamford Bridge was built
close to Lillie Bridge, an older sports ground which had hosted the 1873 FA Cup Final and
the first ever amateur boxing matches (among other things).

The best of all times

Petr Cech
There are signs that Thibaut Courtois not only has the potential to become Chelsea’s best
ever goalkeeper but also one of the finest in the history of the game. For now, though, the
man he usurped as the Blues’ undisputed N1 deserves his place above another outstanding
Stamford Bridge servant’ Peter Bonetti. An imperious presence until his head injury in 2007,
Cech fought his way back to match those exalted standards of consistency after few years.
His nerve, planning and excellence in execution during the Champions League final shootout
in 2012, when he save from Ivica Olic and Bastian Schweinsteiger, having also kept out Arjen
Robbnes’ Penalty in extra-time, secured the club’s greates achievement.
John Terry
However difficult it is for some to forgive him his indiscretions and abuses or resist from
mocking his chutzpah at placing himself center-stage with the trophy after the 2012
Champions Leagues final for which he was suspended, they do not invalidate his merits as a
player. He has been a reliable, brave defensive player for 14 years, aerially dominant,
appositionally astute, sending precision passes both long and short with either foot. John
Terry also remains and effective attacking threat from set-pieces and can rattle a rhino in
the tackle. When their captain eventually retires, this cosmopolitan, multinational operation
will lose its strongest enduring bond with its home city and the character of the club as it
was for the 98 years before Roman Abramovich bought it.
Frank Lampard

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Perhaps only Bryan Robson was the equal of Chelsea’s great midfield goal machine at timing
a run into the box or for sniffing out the most fertile space in which to lurk. At his peak he
was the master of the simple but effective pass, working the angles and setting the tempo
for an attack with his changes of pace and the speed of his distribution. His all-round
qualities have left the churlish unconvinced or underwhelmed. It is a foolish posture. His
shooting power and precision alone were a wonder of the modern English game.
Gianfranco Zola
Gianfranco Zola was an effervescent but graceful attacking midfielder with deft control,
visionary passing, refined ball skills, lethal quick wit and finishing. If anything his
temperament and character were classier still, his evident warmth, sportsmanship and
dignity making an unforgettable impression on the English game.
Didier Drogba
Elected the greatest Chelsea player of all time in 2012 by respondents to a poll in the club’s
official magazine, Scorer of the equalizer and the winning penalty in the 2012 Champions
Leagues final, Drogba at his athletic pinnacle, bullied defenders, used his sharp anticipation
to get ahead of his marker and developed into the perfect unrelenting lone wolf forward
and magnificently efficient all-round finisher.

Headcoaches
The first manager of Chelsea Football Club was John Tair Robertson, appointed in 1905. The
club’s current manager is Jose Mourinho. Chelsea have had 27 permanent managers (of
whom four also served as player-manager), and eight caretaker managers.
Jose Mourinho 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 Divison. 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
Catalionian club working with Robson’s successor Louis van Gaal.
Mourinho impressed with brief but successful managerial periods at Benfica and Uniao de
Leiriam taking the latter to their highest ever league finish. He returned to Porto in early
2002 as head coach, winning the Premiera Liga, Taca de Portugal, and UEFA Cup in 2003. In
the next season, Mourinho guided the team to victory in the Supertaca Candido de Oliveira,
to the top of the league for a second time, and won the highest honor in European club
football, the UEFA Champions League. Mourinho moved to Chelsea the following year and
won the Premier League title with a record 95 year, Chelsea retained the Premier League
and in 2006-07 he took the club to an FA Cup and League Cup double.

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Also Chelsea won champions League cup in 2012 with head coaches Di Matteo.

Achievements

One of the most successful clubs in English football, Chelsea had their first major’s success in
1955, when they won the league championship and subsequently won various cup
competitions between 1965 and 1990. The club has enjoyed their greatest period of success
in the past two decades, winning 17 major trophies since 1997. Domestically, Chelsea has
won five league titles, seven FA Cups, five Leagues Cups and four FA Community Shields,
while in continental competitions they have won UEFA Champions League, two UEFA Cup
Winner’s Cups, one UEFA Europa League and one UEFA Super Cup. Chelsea is 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 colors are royal blue shirts and shorts with white socks. The clubs crest
has been changed several times in attempts to re-brand the club and modernize its image.
The current crest, featuring a ceremonial lion rampant retardant holding a staff, is a
modification of the one introduced in the early 1950s. The clubs has sustained the fifth-
highest average all-time attendance in English football. Their average home gate for the
2014-15 season was 41,546, the seventh highest in the Premier League. Since July 2003,
Chelsea has been owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. In May 2015, they were
ranked by Forbes magazine as the sixth most valuable football clubs in the world, at £898
million.