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History of Chelsea Football Club
Chelsea History
History of Chelsea Football club - Introduction

Chelsea FC history can start on March 10th, 1905 as this is the date when this great club was founded at The Rising Sun pub, now known as The Butchers Hook.

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Chelsea history shows that they were first introduced as Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea and after being rejected to join the Southern League because of objections from Fulham and Tottenham (neighbor teams), Chelsea was accepted into the Football League (second division in England at the time).

Chelsea FC history shows that the club played their first league match on September 2nd, 1905 against Stockport County which they lost 1-0.

Their first home match was a friendly against Liverpool which ended in a 4-0 result in favor of Chelsea.

Chelsea FC finished their first season 3th in the Second Division under John Robertson who was hired as player-manager and would also leave the club in 1907 because of board of directors not letting him lead the team the way he envisioned.

After Robertson left, club secretary William Lewis took temporary charge of Chelsea FC and surprisingly led them to promotion at the end of the season.

The promotion was largely due to the goals of Windridge and George "Gatling Gun" Hilsdon who would also become the first of many prolific goal scorers for the club scoring 5 goals in his first match debut and 27 goals in the promotion season according to history of Chelsea football club.

George Hilsdon was also the first player to score 100 goals for the club.

Club secretary turned club manager William Lewis was suceeded by David Calderhead after the promotion. Calderhead stayed the Chelsea FC manager for the next 26 years according to Chelsea football club history.

Chelsea history shows that the club saw little to no success in the early seasons being relegated to Second Division in 1909-10 than promoted again in 1911-12 season and finished 19th in the 1914-15 season pending relegation.

History of Chelsea football club shows that 1914-15 season was also the final competitive season before the league was suspended due to World War I.

Important to mention in this Chelsea history is the fact that Chelsea FC reached their first FA Cup final in 1915 which they lost 3-0 to the strong side of Sheffield United.

Once the season was resumed in 1919 and the league expended to 22 teams Chelsea FC escaped relegation and were re-elected to the First Division.

Despite struggling to win any titles, history of Chelsea FC shows that the club became one of the best supported teams in the Country with the highest average attendance in English soccer league from 1907 to 1914 mostly because Chelsea played entertaining attacking football and signing star players such are half back Ben Warren and striker Bob Whittingham.

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After the war had ended and the first full season was resumed following the war in 1919-20 Chelsea saw the most success since their establishment in 1905 finishing 3th in the league and reaching FA Cup semi finals and losing to Aston Villa who went on to win the FA Cup according to history of Chelsea football club.

Table of Chelsea football club history since the club began and their trophy fc

Table of contents

Volume 1