Football Club
Nick Names: The Pensioners/The Blues/The Blue Lions/ The Royals
Founded:10 March 1905 (by Gus Mears)
Home Ground: Stamford Bridge, London
Owner: Mears Family (until 1982), Ken Bates(1982-2003), Roman Abramovich (2003-present)
Chairman: Bruce Buck
Only London club to win the UEFA Champions League, one of four clubs, and the only British club, to have won the three main
UEFA club competitions. Also the first club to hold two major European titles simultaneously.
BRIDGE
*Owner: Gus Mears/Chelsea Pitch Owners
*Built: 1876
*Opened: 1877
*Common Name: The Bridge
*Pitch: (103*67) metres
*Capacity: 41,663
*Highest Attendance: 82,905 in 1935 against Arsenal in league match
*8th largest in EPL
Chelsea had their first major success in 1955, when they won the league championship. The club's greatest period of success has come during the last two decades; winning 17 major trophies, and 21 in total, since 1997. The club's regular kit colours are royal blue shirts and shorts with white socks. It'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 the 6th highest average all-time attendance in English football. Their average home gate for the 2015-16 season was 41,500, the 7th highest in the Premier League. In 2016, CFC was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 7th most valuable football club in the world, at 1.15 billion pound($1.66 billion).
