Chelsea F.C. season 1954-55

Infobox Football club season
club = Chelsea

season = 1954-55
manager = flagicon|ENG Ted Drake
chairman = flagicon|ENG Joe Mears
league = First Division
league result = 1st
cup1 = FA Cup
cup1 result = Fifth round
cup2 =
cup2 result =
cup3 =
cup3 result =
cup4 =
cup4 result =
league topscorer =
Roy Bentley (21)
season topscorer =
Roy Bentley (21)
highest attendance = 75,043 vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (09 April 1955)
lowest attendance = 30,239 vs Burnley (23 August 1954)

The 1954-55 season was Chelsea Football Club's 41st of competitive football, their Golden Jubilee and their 20th consecutive year in the English top flight. It was also the club's most successful year up to that point, as they won the Football League Championship for the first time.

The success was unexpected; Chelsea had never won a major trophy before and their league positions since the Second World War had ranged from 8th to 20th. Four consecutive defeats in October had left the club in 12th place this time.

But the team lost just three more meaningful league games that season and beat principal rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers twice to secure the Championship with a game to spare. Club captain Roy Bentley finished as top scorer, with 21 goals, and the club attracted an average home gate of 48,307, the highest in the division.

Results

First Division

References

* [http://www.soccerbase.com/results2.sd Soccerbase]
*Hockings, Ron. "100 Years of the Blues: A Statistical History of Chelsea Football Club". (2007)