Chelsea Football Club

Chelsea Football Club (also known as The Blues or previously as The Pensioners), founded in 1905, are an English Premier League football team. The club's home ground is the 42,360 capacity Stamford Bridge football ground in Fulham, West London, where they have played since foundation. Despite their name, the club is based just outside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is on the Fulham Road, which runs between Fulham and Chelsea. In 2003, the club were bought by Russian oil tycoon, Roman Abramovich.

Chelsea have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football, and have had two broad periods of success: first during the 1960s and early 1970s, and then again from the late 1990s to the present day. In total, they have won three league titles, three FA Cups, three League Cups and two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups. During the 2005-06 season, they became Premier League champions for the second consecutive year.

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Current First-Team Squad
1 GK Petr Cech
3 DF Ashley Cole
4 MF Claude Makélélé
5 MF Michael Essien
6 DF Ricardo Carvalho
7 FW Andriy Shevchenko
8 MF Frank Lampard
9 DF Khalid Boulahrouz
10 MF Joe Cole
11 FW Didier Drogba
12 MF Mikel John Obi
13 MF Michael Ballack
14 DF Geremi Njitap
16 MF Arjen Robben
18 DF Wayne Bridge
19 MF Lassana Diarra
20 DF Paulo Ferreira
21 FW Salomon Kalou
23 GK Carlo Cudicini
24 MF Shaun Wright-Phillips
26 DF John Terry (captain)
40 GK Henrique Hilário
41 GK Yves Makabu-Makalambay
43 DF Ryan Bertrand