Chelsea F.C, after the Champions League & Super Cup trophies, what next?

With over 30 competitive trophies won as of August 2021, Chelsea F.C now ranks 4th on the chart of Premier League teams with the most trophies; the first 3 being Liverpool F.C (43 trophies), Manchester United (42 trophies) and Arsenal F.C (31 trophies). And just in case you want to have a feel of what it’s like to be a winner, hurry-up and get the highest odds and limits on your bets by registering on the best betting software for professionals.

Before the Success

Most of the success achieved so far by the club occurred over the past decade, but things haven’t always been bright for the blues. In fact the club experienced what can be considered as a great decline between the 1970s to 1980s eras. Also, their recent successes simply comes as great consolation for the numerous finals lost over the past decade:

Year	Competition	Status
2015	Community Shield Final	Lost
2017	FA Cup Final	Lost
2017	Community Shield Final	Lost
2018	Community Shield Final	Lost
2019	League Cup	Lost
2019	UEFA Super Cup	Lost
2020	FA Cup Final	Lost
2021	FA Cup Final	Lost

The Rise to European Glory

Things changed for good for Chelsea F.C once Roman Abramovich (Russian Billionaire) purchased the club for £150M in 2003. He doted the club with the necessary funds to buy world class players and managers that led to the start of a great ascension both domestically, continentally and internationally.

The Russian muggle’s first years at the helm of the club wasn’t a bed of roses. Going by official sources, he reportedly made no profit during his first 9 years (recording a huge £140M loss in 2005 – wiki). Thankfully for him, things turned around over the years and as of 2016, Chelsea F.C was ranked 8th on Deloitte Football Money League’s list with an annual commercial revenue of a little over £322M – wiki

If asked to list some of the club’s legends, most young sports and football pundits will call names such as John Terry, Fernando Torres, Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard or Eden Hazard (who collectively brought a vast majority of the trophies to the club in recent years)! But, there are some legends that helped set the building stones that paved the way to success for this great English team, some of them being: Gianfranco Zola, Dennis Wise, Graeme Le Saux, Roy Bentley, Peter Bonetti, Ron Harris and Bobby Tambling.

The Trophies

Chelsea FC is one of the few teams in the closed-circle of English Premier League clubs to have won the prestigious UEFA Champions League, however, both wins came just in this last decade, which goes a long way to show what a tough experience the club had been experiencing at the European football scene.

The above takes nothing away from the quite impressive trophy-room of the West-London team as evidenced below.

Year	Trophy
1955	League Title, Community Shield
1965	League Cup
1971	UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup
1986	Full Members’ Cup
1990	Full Members’ Cup
1997	FA Cup
1998	League Cup, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup
2000	FA Cup, Community Shield
2005	League Title, League Cup, Community Shield
2006	League Title
2007	FA Cup, League Cup
2009	FA Cup, Community Shield
2010	League Title, FA Cup
2012	UEFA Champions League, FA Cup
2013	UEFA Europa League
2015	League Title, League Cup
2017	League Title
2018	FA Cup
2019	UEFA Europa League
2021	UEFA Champions League, EUFA Super Cup

What to Expect from the Blues Moving Forward

One would have thought that the club would lose pace after winning their second Champions League glory, then their UEFA Super Cup success early on in this new campaign, but not so! The blues seem to have only gotten better, plus the arrival of Lukaku from Inter Milan was a strong signal to the doubting pundits.

The blues debuted the 2021/2022 Premier League season in dominant style; cruising-pass Crystal Palace with a 3-0 thrashing at home, then confidently outplaying the gunners of Arsenal on their own tur 0-2 and recording a 1-1 draw against another title contender (Liverpool FC), making it 7 out of 9 possible points, which took them joint-head of the EPL table at the end of match-day 3.

Speaking about the management, Thomas Tuchel (signed on January 2021) brought quick impact on the team; as he could find the right players to fill in the gaps noticed in the playing-style of the team and this paid off.

Conclusion

With Mendy at the goal post, Jorginho & Kanté at mid-field and the deadly Lukaku upfront, one can come to the conclusion that there’s no one and nothing stopping Chealsea F.C from claiming more domestic and international trophies this season and in the coming seasons. That said, the hardest task for the German tactician – Tuchel will be to keep these players and the whole squad fit week-in-week-out.