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.

Current squad

This is the current Chelsea playing staff. The players are allocated in the same way as they are on the official site http://www.chelseafc.com/article.asparticle=249900&Title=Squad&lid=Navigation+-+Players&sub=Squad&nav=&sublid=. Some players can play in more than one position and players who are not in the first team squad are not barred from making first team appearances, as English football does not employ a closed squad system.

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First team squad

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Senior players out on loan

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• Ji?í Jaro?ík (on loan to Birmingham City)
• Alexei Smertin (on loan to Charlton)
• Juan Sebastian Veron (on loan to Inter Milan)

Other players with professional contracts:

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• 31 Scott Sinclair
• 32 Steven Watt
• 41 Yves Ma-Kalambay
• 42 Anthony Grant
• 43 Jonas Elmer

Chelsea also employ a number of young players on trainee contracts.

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