Chelsea Football Club is a professional football club in London, England, that competes in the Premier League. Founded in 1905, the club’s home ground since then has been Stamford Bridge.
The first Chelsea team in September 1905 In 1904, Gus Mears acquired the Stamford Bridge athletics stadium with the aim of turning it into a football ground. An offer to lease it to nearby Fulham was turned down, so Mears opted to found his own club to use the stadium. As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club; names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC were also considered. Chelsea were founded on 10 March 1905 at The Rising Sun pub (now The Butcher’s Hook), opposite the present-day main entrance to the ground on Fulham Road, and were elected to the Football League shortly afterwards.
With Chelsea having won the 2016/2016 Premier League title, we take a look at all the titles the English club have won in their entire history.
The Pensioners have won twenty-three major trophies excluding the community shields, other minor titles and youth titles. Chelsea after winning the 2012 Champions League title Historically, the London club have been a competitive with the odd trophies here and there, but their era of dominance arrived with the take-over of Roman Abramovich in 2003.
The arrival of the Russian billionaire ushered-in the influx of trophies with the Blues winning twelve trophies so far asides the community shield and youth cups. Chelsea had their first major success in 1955, when they won the league championship, but their greatest period of success has come during the last two decades; winning 21 trophies since 1997.
Chelsea have won five top flight English League titles, seven FA Cups, five League Cups and four FA Community Shields. In Europe, the club has won one UEFA Champions League, two UEFA Cup Winners’ Cups, one UEFA Europa League and one UEFA Super Cup.
Chelsea are the only London club to have won the UEFA Champions League, and one of four clubs, and the only British club to have won all three main UEFA club competitions.
Full list of trophies won by Chelsea
1. League titles: 1955, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016
2. European trophies: 1971 and 1998 Cup Winners Cup, 1998 UEFA Super Cup, 2012 UEFA Champions League, 2013 UEFA Europa League
3. FA Cup: 1970, 1997, 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012
4. League Cup: 1965, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2015 Chelsea celebrate the 2005 League Cup
5. Community Shield: 1955, 2000, 2005, 2009
6. Others: 1984, 1989 Second Division Championship, 1985 and 1990 Full Members Cup
7. FA Youth Cup: 1960, 1961, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 8. UEFA Youth League: 2015, 2016