Current Chelsea crest (WIKIPEDIA).
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This Saturday in the section that I dedicate to the logos and shields of world sport I am going to focus on the current European champion, the Chelsea FC, so this article is worth a tribute.
The first Chelsea crest (1905-1952) depicted a Chelsea Pensioner, the name given to the war veterans housed in the Royal Chelsea Hospital.
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Chelsea’s first crest.
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The acronyms used in 1952
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Shield adopted in 1953.
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Shield adopted in the 80s.
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In 1952, a coach named Ted Drake insisted on removing the image from the Pensioner and for a year, the club emblem consisted of the club’s initials. In 1953 the image of a rampant lion was adopted, a heraldic animal that appears on the Chelsea district coat of arms (which in turn takes it from the coat of arms of the Marquis of Cadogan, precisely the president of the club at the time).
In the 80s a modern representation of the lion was chosen, not conforming to heraldic canons, but in 2005 the shield of the lion born in the 50s was re-adopted, with a few slight touches to modernize it, up to the present day.
Until tomorrow.
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