Chelsea FC is a major soccer club in the United Kingdom . FC stands for football club. Soccer is called football in the United Kingdom and many other countries. Chelsea competes in the Premier League , England ‘s top soccer league. The club plays its home games at Stamford Bridge Stadium in London .
Chelsea won league titles in 1955, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2015, and 2017. The club won England’s FA Cup in 1970, 1997, 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2018. The FA Cup is awarded by the FA (Football Association), the body that governs English soccer. Chelsea won the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) Champions League in 2012 and 2021. Chelsea also won the UEFA Cup Winners Cup in 1971 and 1998, the UEFA Super Cup in 1998 and 2021, and the European League Cup in 2013 and 2019.
Stars of the club have included defenders Ashley Cole, Ron Harris, and John Terry of England; midfielders Roberto Di Matteo of Italy and Frank Lampard of England; goalkeeper Petr Cech of the Czech Republic ; and forwards Didier Drogba of Côte d’Ivoire and Peter Osgood of England. The Chelsea Football Club was established in 1905.
