Das Gründungsemblem von 1905 zeigt einen Chelsea Pensioner und ist umrandet von den Worten „The Chelsea Football Club“. Random. New manager John Neal redeemed himself after almost dropping to the third tier for the first time in the club’s history in 1983, by securing promotion back to the top flight in electrifying fashion the following season.Shrewdly-bought players such as Eddie Niedzwiecki, Kerry Dixon, Pat Nevin, David Speedie (signed a year earlier than the others) and Nigel Spackman joined superior homegrowns including Colin Pates and John Bumstead to form the heart of a side that would twice finish in the top six of Division One with dynamic, attacking football.A new commercial era entered football: Chelsea’s first shirt sponsor in 1983 was Gulf Air. At first these were without a sponsor before Bai Lin Tea, a slimming aid created by Peter Foster briefly appeared in early 1987.
An ambitious redevelopment of Stamford Bridge threatened the financial stability of the club,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 July 2003, Bates sold Chelsea to Russian billionaire Chelsea have only had one home ground, Stamford Bridge, where they have played since the team's foundation. They are also associated with the greatest-worst/greatest-greatest shirt of all time, the graphite-tangerine dream:Showing my buddy old Chelsea kits with Coors sponsor, I ran across this beauty. We Ain't Got No History It was officially opened on 28 April 1877 and for the first 28 years of its existence, it was used almost exclusively by the Starting with an open bowl-like design and one grandstand with seating, Stamford Bridge had an original capacity of around 100,000, making it the second biggest stadium in England after In the early 1970s, the club's owners announced a modernisation of Stamford Bridge with plans for a state-of-the-art 50,000 all-seater stadium.The current club ownership have stated that a larger stadium is necessary in order for Chelsea to stay competitive with rival clubs who have significantly larger stadia, such as Arsenal and Manchester United.Chelsea have always worn blue shirts, although they originally used the paler Chelsea's away colours are usually all yellow or all white with blue trim. At the same time, the Second Division was renamed the First Division, and the Third Division was renamed the Second Division. The ultimate parent company of Chelsea FC plc is Fordstam Limited and the ultimate controlling party of Fordstam Limited is In August 2019, Chelsea's board apologised "unreservedly" after a report found that during the 1970s the club's chief scout, In light of the report, Chelsea announced that it was committed to assessing compensation claims for victims.In August 2019, Barnardo's published the findings of its review. The history of the Chelsea club is very rich and long. That in the 1983-84 season, Gulf Air became While the sponsorship would last only the one season -- to the tune of £150,000 -- it proved a successful one as Chelsea won the second division.If you thought modern football's oligarchs and sultans and other assorted rich men were the first to sponsor themselves, here's Ken Bates to prove you wrong by putting You can see a picture of the shirt emblazoned with the red, horror movie-esque font of Grange Farm The second sponsor of the season was something called Bai Lin Tea, a slimming tea, i.e.
Liverpool's longest-standing shirt sponsor was Carlsberg, who sponsored the club for 18 years between 1992 and 2010 before being taken over by Standard Chartered.