Isoccerclub

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.

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.

Read More:Chelsea Soccer Club (Part 3)