In 1904 H.A. Mears (Founder stadium stamford Bridge) acquires athletic stadium Stamford Bridge with the aim of changing into a football stadium. He then planned establishment of a new soccer club after the bid is awarded to Fulham to use the stadium, which was rejected.
Given there has been a club named Fulham, Chelsea name which is a small town adjacent to the stadium chosen as the name of the new club, names such as Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC could be considered for selection. Chelsea was established on March 10, 1905 at a pub The Rising Sun (The restaurant is now called The Butcher's Hook) and the first playing (competing) at the Football League competition.
John Robertson a Scottish National Team players who at the time he was 28 years old have concurrent two (2) positions, as the first Chelsea player and manager. A number of players were recruited from several football clubs to strengthen the team (Chelsea Fc), as goalkeeper William Fatty Foulke from Sheffield United, Jimmy Windridge and Bob McRoberts from Small Heath, and Frank Pearson of Manchester City.
Their first match tangg occurred on 2 September 1905, an away game face Stockport County. But unfortunately at that time Chelsea Fc must be defeated by a score of 0-1 over host (Stockport Country). While their first home game, they finally receive a 4-0 victory in a friendly match against Liverpool and was then Robertson is also the first goalscorer in a competitive match when Chelsea 1-0 victory over Blackport.
Chelsea suffered a number of promotions to degragasi in Division One and Division Two League after a successful promotion to Division One in their second season. Their best achievement in the early years was successfully advanced to the final round of the FA Cup in 1915 but was defeated Sheffield United at Old Trafford and when ending the Division One in the top three in the 1920 final standings.
Chelsea has a reputation for bringing famous players and a large number of spectators considerable success Chelsea Fc but still not up to them in the times of World War I and II. Former Arsenal and England striker Ted Drake became manager in 1952.
Drake began to modernize the club both on and off the field. He changed the logo Chelsea, improve system training and coaching youth teams and strengthen the team's depth. And finally thanks to the ingenuity of the coach to bring a number of players from the lower divisions and amateur leagues Chelsea Fc managed to bring in and won the championship trophy at the first time (the title Premier League Division One 1954-55).
In the next season, UEFA held a championship between clubs that won the league championship in Europe, the Champions Cup. but disagreement authorities English Football League and the FA Chelsea withdrew from the tournament before it started, a result Chelsea failed to continue this success and the only way into the mid-table league in the 1950s. Then Drake was sacked in 1961 and replaced by Tommy Docherty who doubled as a player and manager.
Graphic showing the progress of Chelsea's league finish in the 1905-1906 season to 2007-2008. Chelsea back into the Premier League 50 years later, in 2005, the tenure of manager José Mourinho (2004-2007). In the same year (2005), Chelsea also won the Carling Cup by beating Liverpool. Subsequently in 2006, Chelsea won the Premiership. And in 2007, Chelsea also won the Carling Cup back after beating Arsenal 2-1 and became champion of the FA Cup after beating Manchester United 1-0 after extra time.
However due to some poor performances at the start of the season 2007/2008 and then coupled with the mismatching with the owner, José Mourinho finally resigned as manager and was replaced by Avram Grant former Israel national team manager.
Earlier Grant's coaching future, many people who looked at him eye. However, Avram Grant was able to bring Chelsea to the treble runner-up is in the Carling Cup before losing to Tottenham Hotspur 2-1. Followed by a runner-up in the Premier League behind Manchester United and was runner-up in the Champions League after losing 6-5 on penalties to Manchester United. But these achievements are considered not good enough so that Grant had to be sacked at the end of the season.
In late January 2009, Avram Grant was replaced by Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari. However, Scolari was also not able to provide satisfactory progress. So that at the end of April 2009 suffered the same fate with Grant.
Chelsea manager vacant position was filled by Russian asak coach Guus Hiddink named until the end of the 2008/2009 season. In late May, before leaving Chelsea, Guus Hiddink gives sweet memories by bringing Chelsea's FA Cup fifth.
At the beginning of season 2009/2010, Chelsea announced as the new manager Carlo Ancelotti, with the term of the contract for 3 seasons. The days of training, Ancelotti immediately gave the title with a Chelsea win Community Shield in 2009 after beating Manchester United on penalties. The victory in the penalty shootout, a first for Chelsea since 1998, when Chelsea face Ipswich Town in the League Cup.
At the end of the season, Chelsea won the Premier League and FA Cup, which is the first achievement in the history of Chelsea. Then Chelsea also became the seventh club who managed to get a record marry Double title winner. When the Chelsea striker, Didier Drogba secured the Golden Boot as Scorers with a notch 29 goals.
In the same year, Chelsea also scored an absolute 100% winning record against all four Premier League teams (Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal). In the second season, Ancelotti was sacked by Chelsea in May 2011 after a 1-0 defeat of Everton in the last game of the season 2010/2011 At the beginning of the 2011/2012 season, André Villas-Boas was appointed as Chelsea coach. But after a number of poor results experienced by Chelsea, Villas-Boas was sacked in March 2012 and replaced by the assistant Roberto Di Matteo.
Under the direction of Di Matteo, Chelsea showed impressive results by successfully won the FA Cup for the seventh time and the UEFA Champions League for the first time in club history-which also became the first club from london the title. Di Matteo then replaced by Rafael Benítez who is contracted until the end of the 2012/2013 season and won the 2012/2013 UEFA Europa League, Chelsea became the first English club to win all four European trophies.
In the 2013/2014 season, Jose Mourinho back to Chelsea and contracted during the four seasons. Then, in the 2014/2015 season Chelsea won the Premier League and League Cup. However, as the defending champion Chelsea undergo 2015/2016 season with the bad and make the sacking of manager José Mourinho. Chelsea appoint Guus Hiddink as manager until the end of the season.
Before the 2015/2016 season ends, Chelsea have announced that Antonio Conte as manager contracted for three seasons, starting from the 2016/2017 season. Antonio Conte becomes the fifth Chelsea manager coming from Italy after Gianluca Vialli, Claudio Ranieri, Carlo Ancelotti and Roberto Di Matteo.
