1914–15 Chelsea F.C. season

English football club season January 2022 February 2015 Chelsea 1914–15 David Calderhead Claude Kirby Stamford Bridge First Division 19th FA Cup Runners-up Bob Thomson (12) Bob Thomson (18) 5–2 v Swindon Town(16 January 1915) 1–4 v Burnley(28 December 1914) 58,760 vs Newcastle United(6 March 1915) 14,000 vs Newcastle United(12 September 1914) 20,237 _chelsea1907h _2bluestripes 0000FF FFFFFF 0000FF ffffFF 000000 _chelsea1905a _2_stripes_white FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF 0000ff 1913–14 1915–16 The 1914–15 season was Chelsea Football Club's tenth competitive season. It was also the final full season before competitive football was suspended until the end of World War I. The season was one of mixed fortunes for the club: they finished 19th in the First Division, but also reached the FA Cup final for the first time, where they lost to Sheffield United. Having finished 19th, Chelsea would ordinarily have been relegated, but the First Division expanded to 22 teams when competitive football resumed in 1919, and the club were re-elected into the division. A factor in the decision was the exposure of a match-fixing scandal involving Manchester United and Liverpool players, who had colluded to ensure a 2–0 win for a United in an April 1915 fixture, a result which meant United avoided relegation at Chelsea's expense.https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/how-man-united-and-liverpool-fixed-match-helping-arsenal-and-chelsea-not-spurs Four Four Two How Man United and Liverpool fixed a match, helping Arsenal and Chelsea – but not Spurs 20 March 2015 17 January 2022 Spurling, Jon Table First Division y CHL 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 1914–15 season at stamford-bridge.com 1914-15 Category:English football clubs 1914–15 season