History of Chelsea FC - The best club in Premier League : Chelsea F.C. (Chelsea Football Club), also known as The Blues or previously as The Pensioners (London FC), is an English football club playing in the Premiership and is headquartered in London. The club was founded by H.A. Mears in 1905, and has its own field which can accommodate about 42,360 spectators, held at Fulham, West London. This is about History of Chelsea FC - The best club in Premier League.
Chelsea have spent a lot of history in the world of English football, and experience success as much as two periods, throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, then in the late 1990s to the present. Chelsea have won four Premier League titles (1954-55, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2009-2010), six Trophy FA (1970, 1997, 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010), four League Cups (1965, 1998, 2005, 2007), and two Cup Winners Cup (1971, 1998).
The first manager was John Roberson (1905-1906). Chelsea won the English Premier League (Premiership) in 1955 at Ted Drake's tenure as manager.
Chelsea back into the Premiership champions 50 years later, in 2005, on manager Jose Mourinho's tenure (2004-2007), who then have the full support of the national oil billionaire Russian owner, Roman Abramovich.
In the same year (2005), Chelsea also won the Carling Cup by beating Liverpool. Subsequently in 2006, Chelsea managed to win back the Premiership. And in 2007, Chelsea won the Carling Cup again after beating Arsenal 2-1 and became champion of the FA Cup after beating Manchester United 1-0 through extra time round.But because of some poor performances early in 2007/2008 plus a competition incompatibilities with the owner, Jose Mourinho has finally resigned as manager, and then was replaced by Avram Grant's former Israel national team manager.
At the beginning of Grant's coaching period, many people are looking at one eye. However, Chelsea's Avram Grant could bring a treble that is runner-up in the Carling Cup with Tottenham Hotspur before being beaten by a score of 2-1. Followed by a runner-up following the English Premier League Manchester United and a runner-up in the Champions League after losing 6-5 on penalties to Manchester United. But the achievements are deemed not good enough so that Grant had been fired at the end of the season.
In late January 2009, replaces Chelsea coach Avram Grant with Brazil, Luiz Felipe Scolari. However, Scolari is also not able to provide satisfactory performance for Roman Abrahamovich. So in late April 2009 suffered the same fate with Grant. And then, the position vacant Chelsea manager in the content while the Russian national team coach Guus Hiddink, with a contract until the end of the 2008-2009 season. At the end of May, Guus Hiddink provide sweet memories in the form of Chelsea's FA Cup before leaving Chelsea.
Then early in the competition 2009-2010, Chelsea signed coach a big club that is Italy AC Milan manager Carlo Ancelotti to fill positions for which the contract will expire at the end of the 2011-2012 season.
In the season 2009 - 2010, Chelsea won the English Premier League (EPL) and the FA Cup (FA Cup), so that Chelsea became the seventh club who managed to get a record wed EPL and FA Cup (a double winner.) In the final game of the Premier League (EPL) against Wigan Athletics May 9, 2010, Chelsea embarrass Wigan to score a landslide 8-0. In addition, during the season 2009 - 2010, Chelsea also scored a record 100% absolute win against all the big four EPL teams (Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal).
In the season 2009 - 2010, Chelsea striker Didier Drogba managed to get the Golden Boot with 29 goals won, 3 goals more than Manchester United striker, Wayne Rooney (26 goals). Scramble competition is so fierce Golden Boot last until the game was held EPL.
Chelsea has a few English players who are considered the best at this time, among them the John Terry (captain) as the strongest defender, Frank Lampard as the midfielder (midfielder), machine goals, and Ashley Cole as the best wingback.