1955–56 Chelsea F.C. season

English football club season January 2022 February 2015 Chelsea 1955–56 Ted Drake Joe Mears Stamford Bridge First Division 16th FA Cup Fifth round FA Charity Shield Winners European Cup DNP Roy Bentley (14) Roy Bentley (16) 6–1 v Everton(14 April 1956) 0–5 v Burnley(10 March 1956) 48,273 vs Portsmouth(3 September 1955) 12,802 vs Newcastle United(14 September 1955) 34,127 _whitecollarplain _whitetop 0000ff 0000ff 0000ff 000000 _whitecollarplain _whitetop ff0000 ff0000 ff0000 000000 1954–55 1956–57 The 1955–56 season was Chelsea Football Club's forty-second competitive season. Chelsea began the season as defending league champions and won the FA Charity Shield, but thereafter performed poorly and ultimately finished 16th in the First Division. The club were also due to participate in the inaugural edition of the European Champions' Cup, but withdrew from the competition after pressure from the Football LeagueGlanville Brian Brian Glanville 27 April 2005 The great Chelsea surrender The Times UK http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/europe/article2327902.ece dead 29 December 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20131212125949/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/europe/article2327902.ece 12 December 2013https://archive.org/details/chelseafcofficia0000glan/page/254/mode/2up 254 Chelsea FC: The Official Biography Rick Glanvill 2005 Headline London 0755314654 to which they had been elected in 1905–06, their first competitive season. Table First Division y CHE 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 1955–56 season at stamford-bridge.com 1955-56 Category:English football clubs 1955–56 season