Chelsea Football Club is an English professional soccer club based in
West London.
The team, founded in 1905, play in the Premier League and have spent
most of their history in the
top tier of English soccer.
Chelsea's home is the 41,841 capacity
Stamford
Bridge soccer stadium in Fulham, West London,
where they have played since their establishment. The club are based
just outside
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in the London Borough of
Hammersmith and Fulham.
Chelsea's traditional kit colours are royal blue shirts and shorts with
white socks.
The club has sustained the fifth highest average all-time attendance in
English soccer.
Their average home gate for the 2008–09 season was 41,464, the fifth
highest in the