Chelsea Football Club is a professional football club
based in Fulham , London, who play in the Premier League ,
the highest level of English football. Founded in 1905, the club
has spent most of their history in the top tier of English
football. The club's home ground is the 41,837-seat Stamford
Bridge stadium, where they have played since their
establishment.
The owner of Chelsea is the Russian billionaire, Roman
Abramovich. The chairman of the club is Bruce Buck. The
Manager is José Mourinho.
In July 2003, Chelsea was bought from Bates by Russian
billionaire Roman Abramovich .
The club have enjoyed their greatest period of success in the
past two decades, winning 15 major trophies since 1997.
Domestically, Chelsea have won four league titles, seven FA
Cups , four League Cups and four FA Community Shields ,
while
in continental competitions they have won two UEFA Cup
Winners' Cups , one UEFA Super Cup, one UEFA Europa
League and one UEFA Champions League . Chelsea are 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.
Jose Mourinho is the most successful Chelsea coach. Frank
Lampard is the Chelsea player with the highest goals in the
club. Didier Drogba is the all time hero of the club, and the
most successful black player to play in Chelsea.
Chelsea hold the English record for the highest ever points
total for a league season (95), the fewest goals conceded
during a league season (15), the highest number of Premier
League victories in a season (29), the highest number of clean
sheets overall in a Premier League season (25) (all set during
the 2004–05 season ), and the most consecutive clean sheets
from the start of a league season (6, set during the 2005–06
season ). The club's 21–0 aggregate victory over Jeunesse
Hautcharage in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1971
remains a record in European competition. Chelsea hold the
record for the longest streak of unbeaten matches at home in
the English top-flight, which lasted 86 matches from 20 March
2004 to 26 October 2008.
Chelsea is one of the best teams in the world, supported by
more than twenty million people all over the world, especially
in Africa and Asia. It is the team making a mark now, and
have been chosen as the club of the month, November, 2014
by Better Times. We will talk about their success story and
their unbeatable run this month in the upcoming feature.
Reference: Wikipedia .

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