Chelsea FC Official Size 5 Ball Football VR

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They play their home games at Kingsmeadow, formerly the home ground of the EFL League Two club AFC Wimbledon.

The running track was used for dirt track racing between 1928 and 1932, [98] greyhound racing from 1933 to 1968, and Midget car racing in 1948.In July 2022, it was reported that the club's new owner Todd Boehly had appointed American architect Janet Marie Smith to oversee the renovation of the stadium. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Selected lines only, determined by size, weight or whether delivered direct from one of our suppliers. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

We only deal with official distrbutors here in the UK that are approved by the football clubs themselves. Eight other players have also scored over 100 goals for Chelsea: George Hilsdon (1906–1912), George Mills (1929–1939), Roy Bentley (1948–1956), Jimmy Greaves (1957–1961), Peter Osgood (1964–1974 and 1978–1979), Kerry Dixon (1983–1992), Didier Drogba (2004–2012 and 2014–2015), and Eden Hazard (2012–2019).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. However, his marriage to Maie, which produced one daughter, ended in 1921 and he remarried to actress and client Elsa MacFarlane.

In 2018 Conte was sacked after a fifth-place finish and replaced with Maurizio Sarri, [55] [56] under whom Chelsea reached the League Cup final, which they lost on penalties to Manchester City [57] and won the Europa League for a second time, beating Arsenal 4–1 in the final. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In the 1960s Chelsea manager Tommy Docherty changed the kit again, switching to blue shorts (which have remained ever since) and white socks, believing it made the club's colours more modern and distinctive, since no other major side used that combination; this kit was first worn during the 1964–65 season. Read more about the condition New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging is applicable). Stamford Bridge was designed for the Mears family by the noted football architect Archibald Leitch, who had also designed Ibrox, Craven Cottage and Hampden Park.As a condition for using the Chelsea FC name, the club has to play its first team matches at Stamford Bridge, which means that if the club moves to a new stadium, they may have to change their name. Between 2007 and 2012, Chelsea were ranked fourth worldwide in annual replica kit sales, with an average of 910,000. Not only does it include a size 5 football with the signatures of 9 Chelsea players printed on the ball, it also comes with an inflating pump to keep the ball full of air at all times and a 500ml water bottle to keep you hydrated so you can practise for longer.

There also some situation specific or team specific chants meant to rile up opposition teams, managers or players. The club's biggest top-flight win was an 8–0 victory against Wigan Athletic in 2010, which was matched in 2012 against Aston Villa. Clearly confident that its ‘Tommies’ scheme was a winner, the club was scathing of similar projects that skimped on quality. Popular fan chants include, "Super Chelsea", "Super Frank" (dedicated to all-time leading goal scorer Frank Lampard), "We love you Chelsea" and "Come on Chelsea". Regular matches were widely reported behind the lines and Chelsea’s footballs were among those used – possibly even in some of the famous ‘Christmas Truce’ games, when German and English troops would briefly lay down their arms and, as the poet Carol Ann Duffy later put it, ‘make of a battleground a football pitch.

Even when you’re not eagerly watching your favorite club dominate on TV, you can be found training on the pitch. Chelsea is one of five clubs and the first English club to have won all three pre-1999 main European club competitions, the "European Treble" of European Cup/UEFA Champions League, European/UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League. Two – 20-year-old Irish Guard Cecil Dean and Fulham postman Alf Dorsett, 34 – are buried in the same cemetery at Le Touret, France, in 1915.