Champions
The opening game of the
season against Burnley, a
crowd of 30,239 saw Chelsea
run out 1-0 winners with thanks
to a Eric 'Rabbit' Parsons strike.
A 11 goal thriller saw Chelsea
beaten at home by Manchester
United 5-6 in front of a crowd of
55,966.
In total Chelsea lost 5 home games
and 5 away games that season,
would that kind of form win the
Premier League now?
The Championship winning match against Sheffield
Wednesday when Chelsea won 3-0 with goals from
Peter Sillett and Eric 'Rabbit' Parsons (2)  in front of
51,421 ecstatic fans, 50 years of waiting had finally
ended
Leicester City away was the
first game of the season, a 1-1
draw in front of 38,541 with our
goal coming from Roy Bentley
West Bromwich Albion
away on Wednesday
9th March saw Chelsea
run out 4-2 winners in
front of a very low
crowd of 7,400 which
makes this programme
one of the harder ones
to obtain from that
season
Manchester United away saw Chelsea
suffer another defeat on the road, this time
going down 2-1 with our goal scored by Roy
Bentley but it didn't matter as this was the
last game of the season and Chelsea had
already been crowned CHAMPIONS!!
Two more aways from that
first Championship winning
season, Burnley on the left
saw a 1-1 draw in front of
28,351 and Sheffield United
which was unusually played
on a Monday saw Chelsea run
out 2-1 winners in front of a
crowd of 18,000, like the
West Brom programme
shown above this is another
hard to come by item
The FA Cup campaign of the
1954/55 season saw us drawn
away to Bristol Rovers after the
3rd round win over Walsall
Chelsea ran out 3-1 winners with
goals from Parsons, McNichol
and Blunstone in front of a crowd
of 35,972. The 5th round saw
another away tie at Notts. County
which surprisingly Chelsea lost 1
nil in front of a crowd of 41,930
A SELECTION OF 5 FRIENDLIES PLAYED
DURING AND AT THE END OF THE 1954/55
SEASON