Futbol Club Barcelona (also renowned as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça) is a Spanish expert football association, founded in Barcelona, Spain. They play in La Liga, and is one of the only three associations to have not ever been relegated, along with Athletic Bilbao and competitor Real Madrid. They are the present Spanish and European football champions.
Founded as Foot-Ball Club Barcelona in 1899 by a assembly of Swiss, English and Spanish footballers directed by Joan Gamper, the association has become a emblem of Catalan heritage and Catalanism, therefore the motto "Més que un club" (English: More than a club). The authorized Barça anthem is the "Cant del Barça" in writing by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs. Unlike numerous other football associations, the supporters own and function Barcelona. It is the world's second most rich football association in periods of income, with an yearly turn-over of €398 million. The association retains a long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid, and agrees between the two groups are mentioned to as "El Clásico".
FC Barcelona is the second most thriving association in Spanish football in periods of general trophies, having won 21 La Liga names, a record 25 Spanish Cups, nine Spanish Super Cups and two League Cups. It is furthermore one of most thriving associations in European football, having won 11 UEFA competitions. It is the only European association to have performed continental football every time of the year since 1955. In 2009, Barcelona became the first association in Spain to win the treble comprising of La Liga, Copa del Rey, and the Champions League. That identical year, it furthermore became the first football association ever to win six out of six affrays in a lone year, therefore accomplishing the sextuple, comprising the aforementioned treble and the Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.
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Birth of FC Barcelona (1899–1922)
On 22 October 1899, Hans Kamper put an promotion in Los Deportes affirming his desire to pattern a football club; a affirmative answer produced in a gathering at the Gimnasio Solé on 29 November. Eleven players attended—Walter Wild (the first controller of the club), Lluís d'Ossó, Bartomeu Terradas, Otto Kunzle, Otto Maier, Enric Ducal, Pere Cabot, Carles Pujol, Josep Llobet, John Parsons, and William Parsons—and Foot-Ball Club Barcelona was born.
FC Barcelona had a thriving start in local and nationwide cups, vying in the Campionat de Catalunya and the Copa del Rey. In 1902, the association won its first trophy, the Copa Macaya, and took part in the first Copa del Rey, mislaying 1–2 to Bizcaya in the final. Gamper became association leader in 1908, the association in economic adversity after not triumphant a affray since the Campionat de Catalunya in 1905. Club leader on five distinct events between 1908 and 1925, he expended 25 years in total at the helm. One of his major achievements was double-checking Barça come by its own stadium and therefore develop a steady income.
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Birth of FC Barcelona (1899–1922)
On 14 March 1909, the group shifted into the Camp de la Indústria, a bigger stadium with a seating capability of 8,000 people. From 1910 to 1914 Barcelona took part in the Pyrenees Cup, which comprised of the best groups of Languedoc, Midi, Aquitaine (Southern France), the Basque Country, and Catalonia. At that time it was advised the finest affray open for participation. During the identical time span, the association altered its authorized dialect from Castilian to Catalan and step-by-step developed into an significant emblem of Catalan identity. For numerous followers, carrying the association had less to manage with the game itself and more with being a part of the club's collective identity.
Gamper commenced a crusade to employ more association constituents, and by 1922 the association had over 20,000 constituents and was adept to investment a new stadium. The association to shifted to the new Les Corts, inaugurated the identical year. Les Corts had an primary capability of 22,000, which was subsequent amplified to 60,000. Jack Greenwell was employed as the first full-time supervisor, and the club's treasures started to advance on the field. During the Gamper era, FC Barcelona won eleven Campionat de Catalunya, six Copas del Rey, and four Pyrenees Cups, its first "golden age".
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Rivera, Republic and Civil War (1923–1957)
On 14 June 1925, the gathering in the stadium jeered the nationwide anthem in a spontaneous dispute contrary to Miguel Primo de Rivera's dictatorship. The ground was shut for six months as a retaliation, and Gamper was compelled to relinquish the association presidency. This coincided with the club's transition to professionalism; in 1926 the controllers of Barcelona publicly announced Barcelona a expert edge for the first time. The club's 1928 triumph in the Spanish Cup was commemorated with a verse titled "Oda a Platko", in writing by a constituent of the Generation of '27, bard Rafael Alberti, who was motivated by the "heroic performance" of the Barcelona keeper. On 30 July 1930, Gamper pledged suicide after a time span of despondency conveyed on by individual and economic problems.
Although they proceeded to have players of the standing of Josep Escolà, the association went into a time span of down turn in which political confrontation overshadowed games all through society. Although the group won the Campionat de Catalunya in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, and 1938, achievement at a nationwide grade (with the exclusion of a argued name in 1937) avoided them. A month after the Spanish Civil War started in 1936, some players from Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao recruited in the ranks of those who battled contrary to the infantry uprising. On 6 August, Josep Sunyol, the association leader and agent of a pro-independence political party, was killed by Falangist fighters beside Guadarrama. Dubbed the martyrdom of barcelonisme, the killing was a characterizing instant in the annals of FC Barcelona. In the summer of 1937, the squad went on trip in Mexico and the United States, where it was obtained as an ambassador of the Second Spanish Republic. That trip protected the association financially, but furthermore produced in half the group searching asylum in Mexico and France. On 16 March 1938, Barcelona came under aerial bombardment, producing in over 3,000 deaths; one of the blasting apparatus strike the club's offices. Catalonia came under occupation a couple of months later. As a emblem of 'undisciplined' Catalanism, the association, down to just 3,486 constituents, faced several restrictions. After the Civil War, the Catalan flag was ostracized and football associations were prohibited from utilizing non-Spanish names. These assesses compelled the association to change its title to Club de Fútbol Barcelona and to eliminate the Catalan flag from its association shield.
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Rivera, Republic and Civil War (1923–1957)
In 1943, Barcelona faced competitors Real Madrid in the semi-finals of Copa del Generalísimo. Their first agree at Les Corts was won by Barcelona 3–0. Before the second leg, Barcelona's players had a altering room visit from Franco's controller of state security. He "reminded" them that they were only playing due to the "generosity of the regime". Real Madrid overridden the agree, triumphant 11–1. Despite the tough political position, CF Barcelona relished substantial achievement throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In 1945, with Josep Samitier as managers and players like César, Ramallets, and Velasco, they won La Liga for the first time since 1929. They supplemented to this total in 1948 and afresh in 1949. They furthermore won the first Copa Latina that year. In June 1950, Barcelona marked Ladislao Kubala, who was to be an influential number at the club.
On a rainy Sunday in 1951, the gathering left Les Corts stadium after a 2–1 win contrary to Santander on base, denying to apprehend any trams and astonishing the Francoist authorities. A tram hit was taking location in Barcelona, which obtained the support of blaugrana fans. Events for example this made the association comprise much more than just Catalonia; numerous progressive Spaniards glimpsed the association as a staunch protector of privileges and freedoms.
Managers Ferdinand Daučík and László Kubala directed the group to five distinct trophies encompassing La Liga, the Copa del Generalísimo (now the Copa del Rey), the Copa Latina, the Copa Eva Duarte, and the Copa Martini Rossi in 1952. In 1953, the association won La Liga and the Copa del Generalísimo again.
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Club de Fútbol Barcelona (1957–1978)
With Helenio Herrera as supervisor, a juvenile Luis Suárez, the European Footballer of the Year in 1960, and two influential Hungarians suggested by Kubala, Sándor Kocsis and Zoltán Czibor, the group won another nationwide twice in 1959 and a La Liga and Inter-Cities Fairs Cup twice in 1960. In 1961 they became the first association to trounce Real Madrid in European Cup affray, but lost 3–2 to Benfica in the final.
The 1960s were less thriving for the association, with Real Madrid monopolising La Liga. The construction of the Camp Nou, accomplished in 1957, intended the association had little cash to spend on new players. On the affirmative edge, the ten years glimpsed the emergence of Josep Maria Fusté and Carles Rexach, and the association won the Copa del Generalísimo in 1963 and the Fairs Cup in 1966. Barça refurbished some of its previous dignity by drubbing Real Madrid 1–0 in the 1968 Copa del Generalísimo last at the Bernabéu, in front of Franco, with previous republican navigate Salvador Artigas as manager. The end of Franco's dictatorship in 1974 glimpsed the association altering its authorized title back to Futbol Club Barcelona and reverting the crest to its initial conceive, afresh encompassing the initial letters.
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Club de Fútbol Barcelona (1957–1978)
The 1973–74 time of the year glimpsed the appearance of Johan Cruyff, who was acquired for a world record £920,000 from Ajax. Already an established contestant in Holland, Cruyff rapidly won over the Barça followers when he notified the European press he chose Barça over Real Madrid because he could not play for a association affiliated with Franco. He farther endeared himself when he chose the Catalan title Jordi, after the localized saint, for his son. Next to players of value like Juan Manuel Asensi, Carles Rexach, and Hugo Sotil, he assisted the association win the La Liga name in 1973–74 for the first time since 1960, beating Real Madrid 5–0 at the Bernabéu along the way. He was crested European Footballer of the Year in 1973 throughout his first time of the year with Barcelona (his second Ballon d'Or win; he won his first while playing for Ajax in 1971). Cruyff obtained this prestigious accolade a third time (the first contestant ever to manage so) in 1974 while he was still with Barcelona.
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Núñez and the stabilisation years (1978–2000)
Beginning with Josep Lluís Núñez in 1978, the leader of FC Barcelona has been voted into agency by the association members. This conclusion was nearly joined to Spain's transition to democracy in 1974 and the end of Franco's dictatorship. Núñez's major target was to evolve Barça into a world-class association by giving it steadiness both on and off the pitch. On recommendation from Cruyff, Núñez inaugurated La Masia as Barcelona's youth academy on 20 October 1979. His presidency was to last for 22 years and it profoundly influenced the likeness of Barcelona, as Núñez held to a firm principle considering salaries and control and esteem, letting players for example Diego Maradona, Romário and Ronaldo proceed other than gathering their demands.
On 16 May 1979, the association won its first UEFA Cup Winners' Cup by drubbing Fortuna Düsseldorf 4–3 in Basel in a last that was observed by more than 30,000 journeying blaugrana fans. In June 1982 Maradona was marked for a then-world record charge of £5 million from Boca Juniors. In the next time of the year, under supervisor Menotti, Barcelona won the Copa del Rey, drubbing Real Madrid. Maradona's time with Barça was short-lived; he shortly left for Napoli. At the start of the 1984–85 time of the year Terry Venables was chartered as supervisor, and he won La Liga with prominent exhibitions by German midfielder Bernd Schuster. The next time of the year Venables took the group to their second European Cup last, only to misplace on punishments to Steaua Bucureşti throughout a spectacular night in Seville. After the 1986 FIFA World Cup, English peak scorer Gary Lineker was marked along with goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta, but the group could not accomplish achievement as Schuster was omitted from the team. Venables was discharged at the starting of the 1987–88 time of the year and restored with Luis Aragonés. The players rebelled contrary to leader Núñez in an happening that became renowned as the Hesperia mutiny, and a 1–0 triumph at the Copa del Rey last contrary to Real Sociedad completed out the season.
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Núñez and the stabilisation years (1978–2000)
In 1988, Johan Cruyff returned to the association as supervisor and he gathered the so-called Dream Team. He utilized a blend of Spanish players like Josep Guardiola, José Mari Bakero, and Txiki Begiristain while marking worldwide stars for example Ronald Koeman, Michael Laudrup, Romário, and Hristo Stoichkov. Under his guidance, Barcelona won four successive La Liga names from 1991 to 1994. They trounce Sampdoria in both the 1989 Cup Winners' Cup last and the 1992 European Cup last at Wembley. They furthermore won a Copa del Rey in 1990, the European Super Cup in 1992, and three Supercopa de España. With 11 trophies, Cruyff became the club's most thriving supervisor to date. He furthermore became the club's longest successive assisting supervisor, assisting 8 years. Cruyff's treasure altered in his last two times of the year, when he failed to win any trophies and dropped out with leader Núñez, producing in his departure.
Cruyff was succinctly restored by Bobby Robson, who took ascribe of the association for a lone time of the year in 1996–97. He employed Ronaldo from PSV and consigned a cup treble, triumphant the Copa del Rey, Cup Winners Cup, and the Supercopa de España. Despite his achievement Robson was only ever glimpsed as a short-term answer while the association remained for Louis van Gaal to become available. Like Maradona, Ronaldo only resided a short time as he left for Internazionale. However, new champions for example Luís Figo, Patrick Kluivert, Luis Enrique, and Rivaldo appeared and the group won a Copa del Rey and La Liga twice in 1998. In 1999 the association commemorated its 'centenari', triumphant the Primera División title. Rivaldo became the fourth Barça contestant to be bestowed European Footballer of the Year. Despite this household achievement, the malfunction to emulate Real Madrid in the Champions League directed to van Gaal and Núñez relinquishing in 2000.
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Exit Núñez, go in Laporta (2000–2010)
The departures of Núñez and van Gaal were not anything in evaluation to that of Luís Figo. As well as association vice-captain, Figo had become a cult champion and was advised by Catalans to be one of their own. Barça followers were distraught by Figo's conclusion to connect arch-rivals Real Madrid, and throughout later visits to the Camp Nou, he was granted an exceedingly hostile reception. Upon his first come back a piglet's head and a full container of whiskey were hurled at him from the crowd. President Núñez was restored by Joan Gaspart in 2000, and the three years he was in ascribe, glimpsed the association down turn and managers came and went; van Gaal assisted a second term. Gaspart did not motivate self-assurance off the area either and in 2003, he and van Gaal resigned.
After the frustration of the Gaspart era, the association rebound back with the blend of a new juvenile leader, Joan Laporta, and a juvenile new supervisor, previous Dutch contestant Frank Rijkaard. On the area, an influx of worldwide players blended with home-grown Spanish players directed to the club's come back to success. Barça won La Liga and the Supercopa de España in 2004–05, and the team's midfielder, Ronaldinho, won the FIFA World Player of the Year award.
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Exit Núñez, go in Laporta (2000–2010)
In the 2005–06 time of the year, Barcelona recurring their association and Supercup successes. In the Champions League, Barça trounce English association Arsenal 2–1 in the final. Trailing 1–0 to a 10-man Arsenal and with less than 15 minutes left, they came back to win 2–1 for the club's first European Cup triumph in 14 years. They took part in the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup, but were struck by a late aim in the last contrary to Brazilian edge Internacional. Despite being the favourites and beginning powerfully, Barcelona completed the 2006–07 time of the year without trophies. A pre-season U.S. trip and open feud between the contestant Samuel Eto'o and Rijkaard was subsequent accused for the need of trophies. In La Liga, Barça were in first location for much of the time of the year, but their inconsistency in the new year permitted Real Madrid to overtake them to become champions. The 2007–08 time of the year was failed, and as Barça failed to emulate the achievement of preceding years Barça B youth supervisor Josep Guardiola took over Rijkaard's obligations at the deduction of the season.
Josep Guardiola conveyed with him the now well renowned tiki-taka method of play which he had been educated throughout his time in the Barcelona youth teams. This is shown by the dominance of ownership and overtake correctness that his group reaches.
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Exit Núñez, go in Laporta (2000–2010)
Barça trounce Athletic Bilbao 4–1 in the 2009 Copa del Rey Final, triumphant the affray for a record-breaking 25th time. A beat for Real Madrid three days subsequent double-checked that Barcelona were La Liga champions for the 2008–09 season. Barça completed the time of the year by drubbing last year's Champions League victors Manchester United 2–0 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome to win their third Champions League name and entire the first ever treble won by a Spanish side. The group went on to win the 2009 Supercopa de España contrary to Athletic Bilbao and the 2009 UEFA Super Cup contrary to Shakhtar Donetsk, evolving the first European association to win both household and European Super Cups next a treble. In December 2009, Barcelona won the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup, and became the first group ever to complete the sextuple. Barcelona noted two new notes in Spanish football in 2010 as they kept the La Liga trophy with 99 points and triumphant the Spanish Super Cup trophy for a ninth time.
Exit Laporta, go in Rosell (2010–present)
After Laporta's exodus from the association in June 2010, Sandro Rosell was shortly voted into agency as the new president. The elections were held on June 13, where he got 61.35% (57,088 votes, a record) of total votes. Rosell marked David Villa from Valencia for €40M and Javier Mascherano from Liverpool for €19M along with two other secondary transfers. In November 2010, Barcelona beaten their major competitor, Real Madrid 5–0 in El Clásico. In the 2010–11 time of the year, Barcelona kept the La Liga trophy, their third name in succession, completing with 96 points. In April 2011, the association come to the Copa del Rey last, mislaying 1–0 to Real Madrid at the Mestalla in Valencia. In May, Barcelona beaten Manchester United in the 2011 Champions League Final 3–1 held at Wembley Stadium, a replicate of the 2009 last, triumphant their fourth European Cup.
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Chelsea Football Club are an English football association founded in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have expended most of their annals in the peak tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup victors six times and League Cup victors four times. They have furthermore been thriving in Europe, triumphant the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup twice.
The association had their first foremost achievement in 1955, when they won the association championship. Chelsea Soccer Club won some cup affrays throughout the 1960s and 1970s, but after that did not win another foremost name until 1997. The past ten years has been the most thriving time span in Chelsea’s annals, capped by triumphant Premier League names in 2005, 2006 and 2010, the last cited as part of their first association and FA Cup "Double".
Despite their title, the association are not founded in Chelsea, but in neighbouring Fulham. The club's dwelling is the 41,841 capability Stamford Bridge football stadium in Fulham, where they have performed since their establishment. Since 2003 they have been belongs to by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
Chelsea's normal kit hues are regal azure tops and briefs with white socks, the blend utilised since the 1960s. The association crest has been altered some times in endeavours to modernise or re-brand; the present crest, boasting a ritual lion retaining a employees, is a changed type of one first taken up in the 1950s. The association has maintained the fifth largest mean all-time attendance in English football. Their mean dwelling barrier for the 2010–11 season was 41,435, the sixth largest in the Premier League.
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History
Chelsea were based on 10 March 1905 at The Rising Sun tavern (now The Butcher's Hook), converse the present-day major entry to the ground on Fulham Road, and were voted into agency to the Football League soon afterwards. The club's early years glimpsed little success; the nearest they came to triumphant a foremost trophy was coming to the 1915 FA Cup Final, where they lost to Sheffield United. Chelsea profited a status for marking big-name players and for being entertainers, but made little influence on the English game in the inter-war years.
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| The first Chelsea team in September 1905 |
Former Arsenal and England centre-forward Ted Drake became supervisor in 1952 and advanced to modernise the club. He taken the club's Chelsea Soccer Club pensioner crest, advanced the youth set-up and teaching regime, rebuilt the edge, and directed Chelsea to their first foremost trophy achievement — the League championship — in 1954–55. The next time of the year glimpsed UEFA conceive the European Champions' Cup, but after objections from The Football League and the FA Chelsea were convinced to remove from the affray before it started.
They disputed for respects all through the 1960s, and endured some near-misses. They were on course for a treble of League, FA Cup and League Cup going into the last phases of the 1964–65 time of the year, triumphant the League Cup but stumbling late on in the other two. In three times of the year the edge were struck in three foremost semi-finals and were FA Cup runners-up. Chelsea won the FA Cup in 1970, drubbing Leeds United 2–1 in a last replay. Chelsea took their first European respect, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup triumph, the next year, with another replayed win, this time over Real Madrid in Athens.
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| Progress Chart of Chelsea |
The late 1970s through to the 1980s was a turbulent time span for Chelsea. An determined redevelopment of Stamford Bridge endangered the economic steadiness of the association, celebrity players were traded and the group were relegated. Further difficulties were initiated by a infamous hooligan component amidst the support, which was to plague the association all through the decade. In 1982 Chelsea were, at the nadir of their treasures, came by by Ken Bates for the nominal addition of £1, whereas by now the Stamford Bridge freehold had been traded to house developers, significance the association faced mislaying their home. On the throw, the group had fared little better, approaching close to relegation to the Third Division for the first time, but in 1983 supervisor John Neal put simultaneously an outstanding new group for negligible outlay. Chelsea Soccer Club won the Second Division name in 1983–84 and established themselves in the peak partition, before being relegated afresh in 1988. The association rebound back directly by triumphant the Second Division championship in 1988–89.
After a long-running lawful assault, Bates reunited the stadium freehold with the association in 1992 by managing a deal with the banks of the house developers, who had been bankrupted by a market crash. Chelsea's pattern in the new Premier League was unconvincing, whereas they did come to the 1994 FA Cup Final. It was not until the designation of previous European Footballer of the Year Ruud Gullit as player-manager in 1996 that their treasures changed. He supplemented some top-class worldwide players to the edge, as the association won the FA Cup in 1997 and established themselves as one of England's peak edges again. Gullit was restored by Gianluca Vialli, who directed the group to triumph in the League Cup Final and the Cup Winners' Cup Final in 1998, the FA Cup in 2000 and the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals in 2000. Vialli was dismissed supportive another Italian, Claudio Ranieri, who directed Chelsea to the 2002 FA Cup Final and Champions League requirement in 2002–03.
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History
In June 2003, Bates traded Chelsea to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich for £140 million, accomplishing what was then the biggest-ever sale of an English football club. Over £100 million was expended on new players, but Ranieri was incapable to consign any trophies, so he was restored by Portuguese adviser José Mourinho. Under Mourinho, Chelsea Soccer Club became the fifth English group to win back-to-back association championships since the Second World War (2004–05 and 2005–06), in supplement to triumphant an FA Cup (2007) and two League Cups (2005 and 2007). In September 2007 Mourinho was restored by Avram Grant, who directed the association to their first UEFA Champions League final, which they lost on penalties to Manchester United. Grant was discharged days subsequent and did well by Luiz Felipe Scolari in July 2008.
Scolari expended only seven months in the job before being brushed aside after a string of poor results. Russia adviser Guus Hiddink was nominated caretaker supervisor until the end of the 2008–09 time of the year, and directed Chelsea to a second FA Cup triumph in three years. Two days subsequent, previous Milan adviser Carlo Ancelotti was verified as Chelsea's new manager. In his first time of the year, Ancelotti directed Chelsea to their first league and FA Cup "Double"; in supplement, Chelsea became the first English top-flight edge to tally over 100 association goals in a time of the year since 1963. Ancelotti parted business with Chelsea on 22 May 2011 after a trophyless time of the year that glimpsed the Blues misplace in the quarter finals of Champions League, and complete runners-up in the Premier League, to Manchester United.
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Stamford Bridge
Chelsea have only ever had one dwelling ground, Stamford Bridge, where they have performed since foundation. It was formally opened on 28 April 1877. For the first 28 years of its reality it was utilised nearly solely by the London Athletics Club as an arena for athletics meetings and not at all for football. In 1904 the ground was came by by professional Gus Mears and his male sibling Joseph, who had before came by added land (formerly a large market garden) with the objective of arranging football agrees on the now 12.5 acre (51,000 m²) site.
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| Stamford Bridge during a Champions League |
Stamford Bridge was conceived for the Mears family by the documented football architect Archibald Leitch. They suggested to lease the stadium to Fulham, but were turned down. As a outcome, the proprietors determined to pattern their own football association to live at their new ground. Most football associations were based first, and then searched surrounds in which to play, but Chelsea Soccer Club were based for Stamford Bridge. Since there was currently a football association entitled Fulham in the borough, the founders determined to take up the title of the adjacent borough of Chelsea for the new association, having furthermore advised titles for example Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC.
Starting with an open bowl-like conceive and one enclosed terrace, Stamford Bridge had an initial capability of round 100,000. The early 1930s glimpsed the building of a terrace on the south part of the ground with a top covering that enclosed round one fifth of the stand. It finally became renowned as the "Shed End", the dwelling of Chelsea's most trusted and vocal supporters, especially throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s. The accurate sources of the title are unclear, but the detail that the top covering looked like a corrugated metal lost top covering performed a part.
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Stamford Bridge
During the late 1960s and early 70s, the club's proprietors embarked on a modernisation of Stamford Bridge with designs for a 50,000 all-seater stadium. Work started on the East Stand in the early 1970s but the task was beset with difficulties and the cost nearly conveyed the association to its knees, culminating in the freehold being traded to house developers. Following a long lawful assault, it was not until the mid-1990s that Chelsea's future at the stadium was protected and renovation work resumed. The north, west and south components of the ground were altered into all-seater stands and shifted nearer to the throw, a method accomplished by 2001.
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| The Stamford Bridge West Stand – Entrance. |
The Stamford Bridge freehold, the pitch, the turnstiles and Chelsea's naming rights are now belongs to by Chelsea Pitch Owners, a non-profit administration in which followers are the shareholders. The CPO was conceived to double-check the stadium could not ever afresh be traded to developers. As a status for utilising the Chelsea FC title, the association has to play its first group agrees at Stamford Bridge, which entails that if the association proceeds to a new stadium, they may have to change their name. Chelsea's training ground is established in Cobham, Surrey. Chelsea shifted to Cobham in 2004. Their preceding teaching ground in Harlington was taken over by QPR in 2005. The new teaching amenities in Cobham were accomplished in 2007.
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Stamford Bridge
The association designs to boost the capability of Stamford Bridge to over 50,000. Owing to its position in a built-up part of London on a major street and besides two trains lines, followers can only go in the stadium through the Fulham Road entries, which locations critical constraints on expansion due to health and safety regulations. As a outcome, Chelsea have been connected with a proceed away from Stamford Bridge to sites encompassing the Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Battersea Power Station and the Chelsea Barracks. However, the association have consistently affirmed their yearn to hold Chelsea at their present home.
Stamford Bridge has been utilised for a kind of other fair happenings since 1905. It hosted the FA Cup Final from 1920 to 1922, has held 10 FA Cup semi-finals (most lately in 1978), 10 FA Charity Shield agrees (the last in 1970), and three England international agrees, the last in 1932; it was furthermore the venue for an unofficial Victory International in 1946. In October 1905 it hosted a rugby union agree between the All Blacks and Middlesex, and in 1914 hosted a baseball agree between the exploring New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox. It was the venue for a boxing agree between world flyweight champion Jimmy Wilde and Joe Conn in 1918. The running pathway was utilised for dirt pathway racing between 1928 and 1932, greyhound racing from 1937 to 1968, and Midget vehicle racing in 1948. In 1980, Stamford Bridge hosted the first worldwide floodlit cricket agree in the UK, between Essex and the West Indies. It was furthermore the dwelling stadium of the London Monarchs American Soccer Clubs for the 1997 season.
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Manchester United Football Club is an English expert football association, founded in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that performances in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the association altered its title to Manchester United in 1902 and shifted to Old Trafford in 1910.
In 1968, under the administration of Matt Busby, Manchester United was the first English football association to win the European Cup, 10 years after the Munich air disaster that asserted the inhabits of eight players. The present supervisor, Sir Alex Ferguson, is the most thriving supervisor in English football annals, having won 27 major respects since he took over in November 1986.
Manchester United is the most thriving club in English football, having won a record 19 league titles, a record 11 FA Cups and four League Cups. The association has furthermore won three European Cups, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, a UEFA Super Cup and is the only English association to have been Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Cup champions: in 1999 and 2008.
Manchester United is one of the most rich and most broadly sustained football groups in the world. The association is said to be worth £1.13 billion, producing it the most precious football association in the world. After being ridden high on the London Stock Exchange in 1991, the association was bought by Malcolm Glazer in May 2005 in a deal valuing the association at nearly £800 million.
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Busby years (1945–1969)
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| The Busby Babes in Denmark in 1955 |
A pebble tablet, inscribed with the likeness of a football throw and some names. It is enclosed by a pebble boundary in the form of a football stadium. Above the tablet is a timber carving of two men retaining a large garland.
A plaque at Old Trafford in recollection of those who past away in the Munich air catastrophe, encompassing players names
A plaque at Old Trafford in recollection of those who past away in the Munich air catastrophe, encompassing players names
Busby years (1945–1969)
The next time of the year, on the way dwelling from a European Cup quarter-final triumph contrary to Red Star Belgrade, the airplane bearing the Manchester United players, agents and reporters smashed into while trying to take off after refueling in Munich, Germany. The Munich air catastrophe of 6 February 1958 asserted 23 inhabits, encompassing those of eight players – Geoff Bent, Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, David Pegg, Tommy Taylor and Billy Whelan – and hurt some more.
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| A plaque at Old Trafford |
Reserve group supervisor Jimmy Murphy took over as supervisor while Busby retrieved from his wounds and the Soccer Club's makeshift edge come to the FA Cup last, which they lost to Bolton Wanderers. In acknowledgement of the team's tragedy, UEFA asked the association to contend in the 1958–59 European Cup beside eventual League champions Wolverhampton Wanderers. Despite acceptance from the FA, the Football League very resolute that association should not go in the affray as it had not qualified. Busby rebuilt the group through the 1960s by marking players for example Denis Law and Pat Crerand, who blended with the next lifetime of youth players – encompassing George Best – to win the FA Cup in 1963. The next time of the year, they completed second in the association, then won the name in 1965 and 1967. In 1968, Manchester United became the first English association to win the European Cup, drubbing Benfica 4–1 in the last with a group that comprised three European Footballers of the Year: Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best. Matt Busby relinquished as supervisor in 1969 and was restored by the book group adviser, previous Manchester United contestant Wilf McGuinness
1969–1986
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| Bryan Robson |
Following an eighth-place finish in the 1969–70 time of the year and a poor start to the 1970–71 time of the year, Busby was assured to for the time being restart managerial obligations, and McGuinness returned to his location as publication assembly coach. In June 1971, Frank O'Farrell was nominated as supervisor, but preceded less than 18 months before being refurbished by Tommy Docherty in December 1972. Docherty kept Manchester United from relegation that time of the year, only to glimpse them relegated in 1974; by that time the trio of Best, Law, and Charlton had left the Soccer Club. The assembly won advancement at the first trial and arrive to the FA Cup last in 1976, but were hit by Southampton. They arrive to the last afresh in 1977, drubbing Liverpool 2–1. Docherty was scrubbed apart shortly after, next the revelation of his undertaking with the association physiotherapist's wife.
Dave Sexton refurbished Docherty as supervisor in the summer of 1977. Despite foremost signings, including Joe Jordan, Gordon McQueen, Gary Bailey, and Ray Wilkins, the assembly failed to complete any significant results; they accomplished in the top two in 1979–80 and lost to Arsenal in the 1979 FA Cup Final. Sexton was scrubbed apart in 1981, even though the assembly won the last seven games under his direction. He was refurbished by Ron Atkinson, who exactly shattered the British record proceed ascribe to pointer Bryan Robson from West Bromwich Albion. Under Atkinson, Manchester United won the FA Cup two times in three years – in 1983 and 1985. In 1985–86, after 13 wins and two sketches in its first 15 acquiesce, the association was very well admired to win the association, but accomplished in fourth place. The next time of the year, with the association in hazard of relegation by November, Atkinson was dismissed.
Ferguson years (1986–present)
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| Alex Ferguson |
Manchester United's 1998–99 season was the most thriving in English association football annals as they became the first group to win the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League – "The Treble" – in the identical season. Losing 1–0 going into injury time in the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final, Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjær tallied late goals to assertion a spectacular triumph over Bayern Munich, in what is advised one of the utmost comebacks of all time. The association furthermore won the Intercontinental Cup after drubbing Palmeiras 1–0 in Tokyo.
Read More: Manchester United Soccer Club History (Part 6)
Read More: Manchester United Soccer Club History (Part 6)
Ferguson years (1986–present)
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| Ryan Giggs |
Ferguson was subsequently knighted for his services to football. In 2000, Manchester United strove against in the inaugural FIFA Club World Championship in Brazil, and won the association afresh in the 1999–2000 and 2000–01 seasons. The group completed as runners-up in 2001–02, before retrieving the name in 2002–03. They won the 2003–04 FA Cup, drubbing Millwall 3–0 in the last at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. In the 2005–06 season, Manchester United failed to specify for the knockout stage of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in over a ten years, but retrieved to protect a second-place association complete and triumph over Wigan Athletic in the 2006 Football League Cup Final. The association retrieved the Premier League in the 2006–07 and 2007–08 times of the year, and accomplished the European double by drubbing Chelsea 6–5 on punishments in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final in Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium. Ryan Giggs made a record 759th look for the association in this game, overtaking preceding record holder Bobby Charlton. In December 2008, the association won the 2008 Soccer Club Championship; FIFA Club World Cup and pursued this with the 2008–09 Football League Cup, and its third successive Premier League title. That summer, Cristiano Ronaldo was traded to Real Madrid for a world record £80 million. In 2010, Manchester United beat Aston Villa 2–1 at Wembley to keep the League Cup, its first thriving protection of a knockout cup competition.
After completing as runner-up to Chelsea in the 2009–10 time of the year, United accomplished a record 19th association name in 2010–11, protecting the championship with a 1–1 away draw contrary to Blackburn Rovers on 14 May 2011.
Read more: Manchester United Soccer Club History (Part 1)
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