[203], In May 2018, the club appointed Barnardo's to oversee an independent investigation into the allegations of racism. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. [103][104] Chelsea's fellow West London sides Brentford, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers are generally not considered major rivals, as matches have only taken place intermittently due to the clubs often being in separate divisions. [10] Over £100 million was spent on new players, but Ranieri was unable to deliver any trophies,[29] and was replaced by José Mourinho.

Roberto Di Matteo, Eddie Newton and Dennis Wise celebrate winning the FA Cup with Chelsea in 1997. pic.twitter.com/GX8R5FnV6y. club earlier in the decade. 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. doubt about his intentions as over the next few years he poured huge amounts [36] The following year the club won the UEFA Europa League,[37] making them the first club to hold two major European titles simultaneously and one of five clubs to have won the three main UEFA trophies. There's a story in the Daily Mail about Turkish Airlines coming in to replace Samsung as our shirt sponsor starting next season. Bates bought a controlling stake in the club and floated Chelsea on the AIM stock exchange in March 1996.

Note the "brand" of the shirt as well, which were produced by Chelsea in-house that season. Some minor variations in the arrangment of the colours have appeared such as in 2012-13. In 1904 the ground was acquired by businessman Gus Mears and his brother Joseph, who had also 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. [186] In 2015, Chelsea Ladies won the FA Women's Cup for the first time, beating Notts County Ladies at Wembley Stadium,[187] and a month later clinched their first FA WSL title to complete a league and cup double. The club has always enjoyed the patronage of [22] They were FA Cup semi-finalists in 1920 and 1932 and remained in the First Division throughout the 1930s, but success eluded the club in the inter-war years.

[165] Chelsea's current sponsor is Three, starting from July 2020. Nowadays Emirates is more closely associated with Arsenal and their stadium, but the distinctive font should be familiar to all Chelsea fans, young and old, old and new. to collect cup trophies: the League Cup in 1965 was followed by the FA

[159], The club's recent accounting records highlight £26.6m they have lost in compensation to former head coach Antonio Conte for sacking and to pay off his backroom staff and the legal costs that followed.[160]. Founded in 1905, the club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. Technically the same company as the previous six years, we featured Commodore's Amiga brand for the last season of their sponsorship. [148] Chelsea are additionally funded by Abramovich via interest free soft loans channelled through his holding company Fordstam Limited.

[23] Chelsea failed to build on this success, and spent the remainder of the 1950s in mid-table. The US-based equivalent would be a sports team sponsored by Safelite (who are nowadays owned by the same multi-billion dollar parent company as Autoglass, incidentally).

After all the false starts, Chelsea finally secured a long-term, proper shirt sponsor, Bates once again working some financial magic to eke out a then-record for British football £1.25m (over three years) from the personal computing pioneers. In July 2003, Bates sold Chelsea to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich for £140 million. No, the name doesn't lie, it's a company that manufactures and sells automobile windscreens. to the West End. [55] The 2013 UEFA Women's Champions League Final was played at Stamford Bridge as well. [165][166] and Yokohama Tyres (2015–20). In August 2019, Chelsea's board apologised "unreservedly" after a report found that during the 1970s the club's chief scout, Eddie Heath, groomed and abused young boys aged between 10 and 17.