Chelsea

Every Chelsea match this season, home and away — each one links to hotels near the ground it’s played at, so away weekends are as easy to book as home ones.

Home ground: Stamford Bridge, London

Good to know: Premier League kick-off dates and times move for TV broadcast picks all season — often on a few weeks’ notice. If your stay is built around the match, choose a free-cancellation rate so your booking can move with it.

History

Chelsea were founded on 10 March 1905, the deal reportedly struck at The Rising Sun pub on the Fulham Road, opposite the gates of the new Stamford Bridge ground the club was built to fill. The Blues nickname comes simply from the shirt colour. Chelsea's honours list is heavily weighted toward the twenty-first century: six league titles, eight FA Cups and two Champions League wins, in 2012 and 2021, the first arriving on penalties against Bayern Munich in Munich itself. The club's transformation from a mid-table west London side into a fixture of European football's top table happened almost entirely within the current stadium's lifetime.

Records & quirks

Chelsea's biggest-ever win was a 21-0 aggregate demolition of Jeunesse Hautcharage in the 1971-72 Cup Winners' Cup.
Stamford Bridge's record attendance is 82,905, set for a First Division match against Arsenal in October 1935.
Chelsea went 86 league matches unbeaten at home between 2004 and 2008, an English top-flight record, ended by Liverpool.
On Boxing Day 1999, Chelsea fielded English football's first entirely foreign-born starting eleven, winning 2-1 at Southampton.

Fixtures

Matches with a hotel page are linked. Dates can move — see above.