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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.

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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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 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.

The Stamford Bridge West Stand – Entrance.

When Stamford Bridge was revised in the Ken Bates era numerous added characteristics were supplemented to the convoluted encompassing two inns, luxury suites, bars, bistros, the Chelsea Megastore, and an interactive tourist affinity called Chelsea World of Sport. The aim was that these amenities would supply additional income to support the football edge of the enterprise, but they were less thriving than wanted and before the Abramovich takeover in 2003 the liability taken on to investment them was a foremost problem on the club. Soon after the takeover a conclusion was taken to fall the "Chelsea Village" emblem and refocus on Chelsea as a Soccer Club. However, the stadium is occasionally still mentioned to as part of "Chelsea Village" or "The Village".

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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