Chelsea FC Official Size 5 Ball Football VR

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They also reached the final of the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time, losing to Barcelona 4–0.

Professional football continued despite war escalating globally on 4 August 1914, two weeks before the league campaign began. The desire to see glimmers of hope for better days in the worst of times was equally strong in 1914 to 1918 as horrors unfolded for the 2,675,149 British volunteers, and slightly higher number of conscripted folk, in the trenches of France and Belgium and other arenas of battle. Two years later, in 2020, they repeated their double success by winning the third league title and the FA Women's League Cup for the first time.The club had the highest average attendance in English football in ten separate seasons [14] including 1907–08, [15] 1909–10, [16] 1911–12, [17] 1912–13, [18] 1913–14 [19] and 1919–20. On 18 April 2021, Chelsea announced it would be joining a new European Super League, a league competition comprising the biggest European clubs.

They were the first Premier League team, and the first team in the English top flight since 1962–63, to score at least 100 goals in a single season, reaching the milestone during the 2009–10 season. In 1980, Stamford Bridge hosted the first international floodlit cricket match in the UK, between Essex and the West Indies.Our tipster Jones Knows takes aim at the midweek Premier League card, providing his insight and betting analysis on an intriguing set of fixtures. The following year, Chelsea took their first European honour, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup triumph, with another replayed win, this time over Real Madrid in Athens. Abramovich released an official statement on 2 March 2022 confirming that he was selling the club due to the ongoing situation in Ukraine.

Chelsea, one of the first clubs to help the National Health Service, lent the club-owned Millennium Hotel for the NHS staff. The high-quality Nike shirts featured in this range include home, away, and 3rd jerseys for all ages. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. In 1996, the north stand was renamed the Matthew Harding stand, after the club director and benefactor who was killed in a helicopter crash earlier that year. After a long-running legal battle, Bates reunited the stadium freehold with the club in 1992 by doing a deal with the banks of the property developers, who had been bankrupted by a market crash.In a 2008 poll conducted by the Football Fans Census, Chelsea fans named Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United as their most disliked clubs.