Chelsea F.C.

Chelsea Football Club (also known as the Blues, previously known as the Pensioners, a reference to the Chelsea pensioners), founded in 1905, is a Premier League football team that plays at Stamford Bridge football ground in South west London.

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Chelsea pensioners - Premier League - Football - Stamford Bridge - London

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Notwithstanding the club's name, it is not actually based in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, but just outside its boundaries, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is on the Fulham Road, which runs between Fulham and Chelsea.

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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea - London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham - Chelsea

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Chelsea currently have the seventh longest unbroken tenure in the top division, having been there since the 1989-90 season. Chelsea is sometimes called (pejoratively) Chelski, due to their ownership by Russian oil tycoon Roman Abramovich.

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