1958–59 Chelsea F.C. season

English football club season January 2022 February 2015 Chelsea 1958–59 Ted Drake Joe Mears Stamford Bridge First Division 14th FA Cup Fourth round Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-finals Jimmy Greaves (32) Jimmy Greaves (37) 6–2 v Wolves(30 August 1958) 0–6 v Bolton Wanderers(4 March 1959) 62,118 vs Wolves(30 August 1958) 13,104 vs Copenhagen XI(4 November 1958) 40,794 _whitecollarplain _whitetop 0000ff 0000ff 0000ff 000000 _whitecollarplain _whitetop ff0000 ff0000 ff0000 000000 1957–58 1959–60 The 1958–59 season was Chelsea Football Club's 45th competitive season. The club played in the European competition for the first time, and reached the quarter-finals of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, where they lost on aggregate to a Belgrade XI. With 32 league goals, Jimmy Greaves was the First Division's top goalscorer, becoming the first Chelsea played to achieve this. Table First Division y CHE Inter-Cities Fairs Cup #CCFFCC Win 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFFFCC Draw 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFCCCC Loss 1px solid #AAAAAA First round 1958 9 30 y First leg Copenhagen XI DEN 1–3 https://www.rsssf.org/ec/ec195960det.html#fc ENG Chelsea Gronemann 25 Harrison 13 Greaves 54 Nicholas 90 Idrætsparken Copenhagen, Denmark 19,200 W 1958 11 4 y Second leg Chelsea ENG 4–1 https://www.rsssf.org/ec/ec195960det.html#fc DEN Copenhagen XI Lees 6 o.g. Greaves 44 70 Sillett 72 Schøne 7 Stamford Bridge London, England 13,104 W Quarter-finals 1959 4 29 y First leg Chelsea ENG 1–0 https://www.rsssf.org/ec/ec195960det.html#fc YUG Belgrade XI Brabrook 30 Stamford Bridge London, England 25,771 W 1959 5 13 y First leg Belgrade XI YUG 4–1 https://www.rsssf.org/ec/ec195960det.html#fc ENG Chelsea Petaković 3 Mihajlović 42 86 Kostić 65 Brabrook 51 Omladinski Stadium Belgrade, Yugoslavia 10,000 L Notes References Glanvill, Rick Chelsea FC: The Official Biography – The Definitive Story of the First 100 Years Headline Book Publishing Ltd 2006 0-7553-1466-2 Hockings, Ron 100 Years of The Blues – A Statistical History of Chelsea FC 1905–2006 External links 1958–59 season at stamford-bridge.com 1958–60 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup season at rsssf.org 1958-59 Category:English football clubs 1958–59 season