Chelsea F.C.
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Chelsea Football Club is an English football club that plays in England, starting in 1905. The club plays in the FA Barclaycard Premiership, and they play at the Stamford Bridge Stadium in London. Their current manager is José Mourinho, a Portugese.
Chelsea is known to be the richest club in the world, funded by billionaire Roman Abramovich. They are also the newly-rising champion of the English Premier League.
[edit] History
Chelsea started in 1905 and played the second division of the league. They had basically no any awards until 1954, when they won their first league champion of first division. Later Chelsea failed to maintain their position of the first division, due to the financial difficulties.
In 1990s Chelsea returned the first division when the FA Premier League was set up. They have won the FA Cup for several times, but they failed to challenge the title of Premier League. This is because the title was won by Manchester United F.C. nearly every year.
In 2003 the Russian billionaire, Roman Abramovich, purchased Chelsea and invested lots of capital to employ new football players. He also employed a Portuguese, José Mourinho, as the manager of the club. Abramovich also employed Peter Kenyon as the chief executive to be responsible for the commercial strategies of the club. This made Chelsea more and more powerful, and they won the FA Premier League in consecutive years.
[edit] Notable players
- Frank Lampard
- John Terry
- Didier Drogba
- Petr Cech
