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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. In 2007, the club launched the Back to the Shed campaign to improve the atmosphere at home matches, with notable success. C. was founded on 10 March 1905 at The Rising Sun pub (now The Butcher's Hook), [1] [11] opposite the present-day main entrance to the ground on Fulham Road, and were elected to the Football League shortly afterwards. Upon winning the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League, Chelsea became the fourth club in history to have won the " European Treble" of European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, and European Cup Winners' Cup/UEFA Cup Winners' Cup after Juventus, Ajax and Bayern Munich. On 18 April 2021, Chelsea announced it would be joining a new European Super League, a league competition comprising the biggest European clubs.

In 1939, another small seated stand was added, the North Stand, which remained until its demolition in 1975.

Chelsea is the only Premier League side to have won its opening nine league games of the season, doing so in 2005–06.Scenes in a 1980 episode of Minder were filmed during a real match at Stamford Bridge between Chelsea and Preston North End with Terry McCann ( Dennis Waterman) standing on the terraces.