Chelsea Football Club (pronounced /ˈtʃɛlsiː/) are an English professional football club based

in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of
their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions three
times, and have won the FA Cup five times, the League Cup four times and the UEFA Cup
Winners' Cup twice.[2]

The club had their first major success in 1955, winning the league championship. Chelsea
won several cup competitions during the 1960s and 1970s, but after that did not win another
major title until 1997. The past decade has been the most successful period in Chelsea’s
history, capped by winning consecutive Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006, and reaching
their first UEFA Champions League final in 2008.

Chelsea's home is the 41,841 capacity[1] Stamford Bridge football stadium in Fulham, where
they have played since their establishment. The club are based in the London Borough of
Hammersmith and Fulham. In 2003, they were bought by Russian oil magnate Roman
Abramovich.[3]

Chelsea's traditional kit colours are royal blue shirts and shorts with white socks. The club
crest has been changed several times in attempts to modernise or re-brand; the current crest,
featuring a ceremonial lion holding a staff, is a modified version of one first adopted in the
1950s.[4] The club has sustained the fifth highest average all-time attendance in English
football.[5] Their average home gate for the 2008–09 season was 41,464, the fifth highest in
the Premier League.[6]