Chelsea FC Official Size 5 Ball Football VR

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In 2012, Roberto Di Matteo led Chelsea to their seventh FA Cup, [44] and their first UEFA Champions League title, beating Bayern Munich 4–3 on penalties, the first London club to win the trophy. 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. The club also wholeheartedly backed enlistment drives, including for the 17th Middlesex or ‘Footballers’ Battalion.

Owing to its location next to a main road and two railway lines, fans can only enter Stamford Bridge via the Fulham Road, which places constraints on expansion due to health and safety regulations.

Chelsea have always worn blue shirts, although they originally used the paler eton blue, which was taken from the racing colours of then club president, Earl Cadogan, and was worn with white shorts and dark blue or black socks. In the 1960s Chelsea manager Tommy Docherty changed the kit again, switching to blue shorts (which have remained ever since) and white socks, believing it made the club's colours more modern and distinctive, since no other major side used that combination; this kit was first worn during the 1964–65 season. Consortium led by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital completes acquisition of Chelsea Football Club | Official Site | Chelsea Football Club". Scenes in a 1980 episode of Minder were filmed during a real match at Stamford Bridge between Chelsea and Preston North End with Terry McCann ( Dennis Waterman) standing on the terraces.

The club had the highest average attendance in English football in ten separate seasons [14] including 1907–08, [15] 1909–10, [16] 1911–12, [17] 1912–13, [18] 1913–14 [19] and 1919–20.In his latest Sky Sports column, Paul Merson questions why Mikel Arteta would leave Arsenal for Barca, before dissecting a pivotal midweek round of top-flight games. The club were promoted to the Premier Division for the first time in 2005 as Southern Division champions and won the Surrey County Cup nine times between 2003 and 2013. Chelsea is the only Premier League side to have won its opening nine league games of the season, doing so in 2005–06. Chelsea is one of five clubs and the first English club to have won all three pre-1999 main European club competitions, the "European Treble" of European Cup/UEFA Champions League, European/UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League. Following a long legal battle, it was not until the mid-1990s that Chelsea's future at Stamford Bridge was secured and renovation work resumed.

Internationally, they have won the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Super Cup twice each, and the FIFA Club World Cup once since their inception. 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. An American government official revealed that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy had requested that the US government not levy sanctions against Abramovich given his importance to war relief efforts. However, an estimated crowd of over 100,000 attended a friendly match against Soviet team Dynamo Moscow on 13 November 1945. 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.

Cesar Azpilicueta: Chelsea club captain departs after 11 years to join Atletico Madrid on free transfer". The desire to see glimmers of hope for better days in the worst of times was equally strong in 1914 to 1918 as horrors unfolded for the 2,675,149 British volunteers, and slightly higher number of conscripted folk, in the trenches of France and Belgium and other arenas of battle. Ernest Wenden took the hand of Julia Parker but mysteriously disappeared from a hotel room in 1915, never to be seen again. The following year, Chelsea took their first European honour, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup triumph, with another replayed win, this time over Real Madrid in Athens. It was a scheme to support the troops in the most natural and practical way possible: sending footballs to the frontline.