Chelsea

Chelsea Football Club (IPA: ˈtʃɛɫsiː), known simply as Chelsea, is a professional football club from England based in the Fulham district of London, which currently plays in the Premier League, the top football competition in that country. Founded on 10 March 1905. It plays its home matches at Stamford Bridge stadium, which has a capacity of 41,000 spectators, and where it has played its home matches since its creation.

As one of the most decorated clubs in English football, Chelsea had its first moment of success in 1955, when it won its first league championship, and later won other important cup competitions during 1965 and 1990. The club has had its greatest and most important period of success in the last two decades, winning a total of 22 official trophies since 1997. Domestically, it won six league championships, eight FA Cups, five Football League Cups and four Community Shields. In the European and world arena, it has won two UEFA Champions Leagues, two UEFA Europa Leagues, two Cup Winners' Cups, two UEFA Super Cups and one Club World Cup, for a total of 9 international titles, which makes it the second English team in the honors list, behind Liverpool F. C. (14).

Chelsea is the first and only London club to win the Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup, and one of the five clubs in Europe to win the major international competitions organized by UEFA and FIFA (Champions League, Europa League, Cup Winners' Cup and Club World Cup).

Together with Manchester United, Liverpool and Manchester City, they are the only teams in the United Kingdom that belong to the group of 31 clubs in the world that have won the top world club football championship. Chelsea achieved it on 12 February 2022 when it was crowned champion of the 2021 Club World Cup held in the United Arab Emirates, by defeating the Copa Libertadores de América representative, Palmeiras of Brazil, 2-1 at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium.

The team's traditional color is royal blue for the shirt and shorts, while white is used for the socks. The club's crest has changed on several occasions for reasons of style or to modernize its image. The current crest, made up of a lion rampant holding a staff, had its original version in the 1950s, and was last modified in 2005. The club enjoys a large fan base, with which it has the fifth best average attendance in British football. In 2018, Chelsea had 72.2 million followers on social media, the fourth highest among football clubs.

The greatest historic rivalry is with Fulham Football Club in what is known as the West London Derby, although it also maintains rivalries with Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.