Chelsea football club

Football club "Chelsea" professional English football club from West London. Founded in 1905, it appears in the English Premier League and spent most of their history in the top flight of English football.

"Chelsea" five times champion of England, seven times won the FA Cup five times and the Football league Cup. The club achieved success on the European stage, winning the UEFA Champions League, two UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Super Cup ."Chelsea" it is one of the four clubs, along with "Juventus", "Ajax" and "Bavaria" and the only British club, who won all three major UEFA club competitions, as well as the only club who owned two major European competition at the same time

The basic form - blue shirts and shorts with white socks, this combination used since the 1960s. Club emblem being modified several times in attempts to modernize the club's symbols; The current emblem, a ceremonial blue lion holding a staff, is a modified version of the logo, first adopted in 1953; This version of the logo was adopted in 2005

Stadium "Chelsea" football club is called the "Stamford Bridge"
The club is the fifth most visited home stadium for the time of participation in English football. Average attendance at home games of the season 2014/15 was 41 546 people, is in seventh place in the Premier League

The owner of the club from July 2, 2003 he is a Russian businessman Roman Abramovich

Legends of Chelsea
Frank Lampard. John Terry. Didier Drogba.
Gianfranco Zola
Petr Cech

The song «Blue Is the Colour» was released as a single as an advertisement to the final of the Football League Cup in 1972, which became the official anthem of the club.

The official mascot of "Chelsea" is Stamford the Lion, which was named in honor of the club stadium. He is dressed in a form in which acts as a team this season. Its tasks mainly include fans playing on the field at home and away matches, as well as participation in the celebration of the victories of the club