Chelsea F C. Wikipedia

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. The stadium was officially opened on 28 April 1877 and for the next 28 years it was used by the London Athletic Club as an arena for athletics meetings. Chelsea have only had one home ground, Stamford Bridge, where they have played since the team’s foundation. Lampard’s win percentage was the worst for any Chelsea manager who managed three games or more. Chelsea won six of the first 11 games of the 2022–23 season, but only five of the remaining 27.

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One-time Chelsea centre forward, Jack Cock, who by then was playing for Millwall, was the star of the film and several scenes were shot at Stamford Bridge, including on the pitch, the boardroom, and the dressing rooms. The deal with Infinite Athlete lasted only one season, and Chelsea started the 2024–25 season again without a primary shirt sponsor. Chelsea was subsequently sponsored by Coors beer (1994–97), Autoglass (1997–2001), Emirates (2001–05), Samsung Mobile (2005–08), Samsung (2008–15) and Yokohama Tyres (2015–20). As of May 2022, Chelsea was ranked the eighth-most valuable club in the world according to Forbes, and eighth according to Deloitte, with an annual commercial revenue of €493.1 million. On 30 May, it was confirmed that the Boehly consortium had completed the purchase of the club.

The club have consistently affirmed their desire to keep Chelsea at their current home, 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. In 1980, Stamford Bridge hosted the first international floodlit cricket match in the UK, between Essex and the West Indies. It was the venue for a boxing match between world flyweight champion Jimmy Wilde and Joe Conn in 1918. In October 1905 it hosted a rugby union match between the All Blacks and Middlesex, and in 1914 hosted a baseball match between the touring New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox.

Ownership and finances

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. The new crest was officially adopted for the start of the 2005–06 season and marked a return to the older design, used from 1953 to 1986, featuring a blue heraldic lion holding a staff. This lasted for the next 19 years, with some modifications such as the use of different colours, including red from 1987 to 1995, and yellow from 1995 until 1999, before the white returned. The new badge featured a more naturalistic non-heraldic lion, in white and not blue, standing over the C.F.C. initials. It was based on elements in the coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea with the “lion rampant regardant” taken from the arms of then club president Viscount Chelsea and the staff from the Abbots of Westminster, former Lords of the Manor of Chelsea.

The team reached the 1915 FA Cup final, where they lost to Sheffield United at Old Trafford, and finished third in the First Division in 1920, the club’s best league campaign to that point.
After winning the UEFA Conference League in 2025, Chelsea became the first club to win all four main UEFA competitions, as well as all UEFA Men’s competitions.
Arsenal managed just one shot before the red card and eight in total today, their fewest in a Premier League game since October 2024.
In 2007, the club launched the Back to the Shed campaign to improve the atmosphere at home matches, with notable success.
Chelsea released the song “No One Can Stop Us Now” in 1994 for reaching the 1994 FA Cup final.

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“It was really fast (the red card challenge), I saw the reaction that everyone was on the pitch. 💬 “They are a really good team, they have scored seven goals with corners and we have scored eight. Caicedo was out of control most of the match, his red card is going to hurt us in the next few matches. There is not much turnaround time for any team at the moment as we enter a busy festive period and the same is true for Arsenal. Trevoh Chalobah improbably headed the hosts into the lead after the half-time break, scoring from a corner against the team usually so adept at set pieces.

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If you look at the amount of yellows, I thought there would be one more red. We knew they would come and come, so we had to try and catch them on the counter which we did a few times and it really paid off.” When Chelsea were reduced to ten men, they had to adapt and the message from Enzo Maresca was clear — use counter-attacks to their advantage. They are a good side, the team did a good job today and we take a point.”

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As a condition for using the Chelsea FC name, the club has to play its first team matches at Stamford Bridge, which means that if the club moves to a new stadium, they may have to change their name.Chelsea’s training ground is located in Cobham, Surrey. Chelsea scored a record-low 38 goals across the entire season and finished in the bottom half of the table for the first time since 1995–96. On the pitch, the team had fared little better, coming close to relegation to the Third Division for the first time, but in 1983 manager John Neal put together an impressive new team for minimal outlay. An ambitious redevelopment of Stamford Bridge threatened the financial stability of the club, star players were sold and the team were relegated. They were on course for a treble of League, FA Cup and League Cup going into the final stages of the 1964–65 season, winning the League Cup but faltering late on in the other two.

The 2013 UEFA Women’s Champions League final was played at Stamford Bridge as well.
The performances have been fantastic.
Meanwhile they allowed 11 shots by Chelsea, the second most they’ve faced this season.
The new badge featured a more naturalistic non-heraldic lion, in white and not blue, standing over the C.F.C. initials.

Chelsea operate a women’s football team, Chelsea Football Club Women, formerly known as Chelsea Ladies. After winning the UEFA Conference League in 2025, Chelsea became the first club to win all four main UEFA competitions. The club has a variety of other sponsors and official partners, which include Cadbury, EA Sports, FICO, Hilton Worldwide, 3 (company), Levy Restaurants, MSC Cruises, Oman Air, Parimatch, Rexona, Singha, The St. James, Trivago and BingX. Ticketing platform Fever became the club’s sleeve sponsor for the 2024–25 season, before that deal was ended mid-season and replaced with rival ticketing platform Live Nation. In 2022–23 season, Amber Group became the new sleeve sponsor, with the flagship digital asset platform WhaleFin appearing on the sleeves of both men’s and women’s teams.

On 13 July 2025, he also guided Chelsea to victory in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, the first edition of the expanded competition, when Chelsea secured the trophy with a 3–0 win over Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain in the final. He led Chelsea to win the Conference League after a 4–1 win against Real Betis in the final in Wrocław, as they became the first team to win all of the European trophies. Under Lampard the club would only win one of their last 11 matches resulting in a 9% win percentage. In 2009–10, his successor Carlo Ancelotti led them to their first Premier League and FA Cup Double, becoming the first English top-flight club to score 100 league goals in a season since 1963.

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

However, the stadium is sometimes still referred to as part of “Chelsea Village” or “The Village”. The intention was that these facilities would provide extra revenue to support the football side of the business, but they were less successful than hoped and before the Abramovich takeover in 2003 the debt taken on to finance them was a major burden on the club. In 1904, the ground was acquired by businessman Gus Mears and his brother Joseph, who had purchased nearby land (formerly a large market garden) with the aim of staging football matches on the now 12.5 acre (51,000 m2) site.

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Look no further — our writers have you covered with The Briefing. Looking for deeper analysis from today’s match? Enzo Maresca’s side are in action again in a few days when they face Leeds United at Elland Road on Wednesday night. But the visitors responded 11 minutes later, Merino heading home Bukayo Saka’s cross to level the match. John Terry, former captain of the Chelsea men’s team, is the president of Chelsea Women. They play their home games at Kingsmeadow, formerly the home ground of the EFL League Two club AFC Wimbledon.

Following the introduction of sleeve sponsors in the Premier League, Chelsea had Alliance Tyres as its first sleeve sponsor in the 2017–18 season, followed Chelsea House Review by Hyundai Motor Company in 2018–19 season. Chelsea started the 2025–26 season without a primary shirt sponsor, the third consecutive season that had started without one for the club. The club’s 2023–24 shirt sponsor was American sports technology firm Infinite Athlete, after starting the season without a primary shirt sponsor.

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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. Docherty built a new team around the group of talented young players emerging from the club’s youth set-up, and Chelsea challenged for honours throughout the 1960s, enduring several near-misses. The club had the highest average attendance in English football in ten separate seasons including 1907–08, 1909–10, 1911–12, 1912–13, 1913–14 and 1919–20. As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club; names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC were considered. In 1904, Gus Mears acquired the Stamford Bridge athletics stadium in Fulham with the aim of turning it into a football ground. The players really threw everything at this performance to try and secure the win today.

Club personnel

Over £100 million was spent on new players, but Ranieri was unable to deliver any trophies, and was replaced by José Mourinho. The club’s new owner was Russian oligarch and billionaire Roman Abramovich, who took on responsibility for the club’s £80 million of debt, quickly paying some of it. In so doing, he reportedly recognised a personal profit of £17 million on the club he had bought for £1 in 1982 (his stake had been diluted to just below 30% over the years). Gullit was replaced by Gianluca Vialli, whose reign saw Chelsea win the League Cup, the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup and the UEFA Super Cup in 1998, and the FA Cup in 2000.

The club was then sponsored by Grange Farms, Bai Lin Tea and Simod before a long-term deal was signed with Commodore International in 1989; Amiga, an offshoot of Commodore, appeared on the shirts. Previously, the kit was manufactured by Umbro (1975–81), Le Coq Sportif (1981–86), The Chelsea Collection (1986–87), Umbro (1987–2006), and Adidas (2006–2017). As of 2025update, Chelsea is the tenth-most-valuable football club in the world, worth $3.25 billion, and earning $592M in revenue. On 7 May, the club finally confirmed that “terms have been agreed” for a new ownership group led by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital. Although the UK government froze Abramovich’s assets in United Kingdom on 10 March due to his “close ties with Kremlin”, it was made clear that the Chelsea club would be allowed to operate in terms of activities which are football-related.