The English football club Chelsea FC which is founded in the year 1905 is one of the most feared football clubs by the opposition for the past decade. The current European Champions League winners and the four times English Premier League Champions has been playing top flight football since its inception during the start of the 1905.
The home ground of this London based football club is at Stamford Bridge which is a 45,000 seat stadium on which the club has been playing all of its home games in the English Premier League after it has been built. Chelsea football club however took fifty years since it is founded to claim their first English Premier League title in 1955.
Even though they do not boast the trophy cabinet along the likes of other English clubs such as that of Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool who were the traditional top flight English clubs, Chelsea football club have thrown these teams out from their throne to become the champions during the recent years. The golden period of the English football club have started since the Russian Oligarch Roman Abramovich took over the club in 2003 and had invested millions to take the club to the new heights.
Several high profile signings took place and high profile managers were brought who helped the club to reach the level it is now. It was the arrival of the young charismatic and the talismanic manager Jose Mourinho to the club hierarchy that had revolutionized the Chelsea football club as well as the English Football. Trophies started flowing in since the Portuguese manager took the helm of the club and Chelsea had conquered back to back English Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006 dethroning Manchester United and Arsenal.
Before leaving the club on mutual consent after falling out with the billionaire club owner, Jose Mourinho has turned Chelsea as the powerhouse of English as well as European Football. Chelsea has won a total of four premier league titles, four league cups, four community shields and seven FA cups on the English front.
However on the European front, overall the club has achieved one UEFA Super Cup, One UEFA Champions League and two of the UEFA Intercontinental Cup, otherwise called as UEFA Cup Winners Cup. Chelsea play its home games wearing the blue jersey with the white socks and away games with shirt colors varying from yellow, all white, black and other shades.