Season: 2000–01
Premier League
- Charity/Community Shield
League
Sixth in the Premier League — and the last Charity Shield at the old Twin Towers.
- Division
- Premier League (Tier 1)
- Manager
- Gianluca Vialli (until 12 September 2000) Claudio Ranieri (from 18 September 2000)
- Top scorer (league)
- Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (23)
- Top scorer (all comps)
- Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (26)
- Avg. league attendance
- 34,700
Cups & Europe
- FA Cup
- Fifth round
- League Cup
- Third round
- Europe
- Fairs Cup / UEFA Cup / Europa League: First round
- Other
- Charity/Community Shield: Winners
Notes
Sixth in the Premier League — and the last Charity Shield at the old Twin Towers. Chelsea opened with a 2–0 win over Manchester United at Wembley on 13 August 2000 (Hasselbaink, Melchiot), then stumbled: one win in five league games cost Gianluca Vialli his job on 12 September. Claudio Ranieri arrived mid-month and steadied the ship to 17–10–11, 68–45, on 61 points (17×3+10), nineteen behind champions Manchester United (80). Home form was 13–3–3 (44–20); away 4–7–8 (24–25). Goal difference +23 left Ipswich fifth on 66 and Leeds fourth on 68. Manchester City, Coventry and Bradford went down. Summer signings remade the attack: club-record Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink from Atlético Madrid, Eiður Guðjohnsen from Bolton, Mario Stanić from Parma, plus Carlo Cudicini. Hasselbaink took the Golden Boot with 23 league goals — first Chelsea twenty-plus haul since Kerry Dixon — and finished on 26 across all competitions. Guðjohnsen added 10 in the league (13 all comps), Gus Poyet 11, Gianfranco Zola 9. Tore André Flo left for Rangers in November; Jesper Grønkjær arrived from Ajax in December. Domestic cups were short. The FA Cup ran Peterborough United 5–0, Gillingham 4–2, then a 1–3 exit at Arsenal in the fifth round. The Worthington Cup ended in the third round — Liverpool 2–1 after extra time at Anfield (Fowler). Europe was colder still: UEFA Cup first round against St Gallen, a 1–0 Bridge win (Panucci) undone by a 0–2 defeat in Switzerland (agg 1–2). Sixth place, with Liverpool and Arsenal already in the Champions League via cup routes, still meant another UEFA Cup ticket. Crowds averaged 34,700 for home league games — high 35,196 against Everton, low 33,159 against Aston Villa. Umbro’s royal blue with white socks, the amber away, and Autoglass across the chest framed the Shield triumph and Ranieri’s first season.
Kits
Amber reinterpretation of the yellow away kit.
- https://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Chelsea/Chelsea.htm
- https://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Chelsea/Chelsea-change-kits.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_F.C.
Illustration from hex colours (not official kit photography).
On this day (related years)
History
Eras, trophies, and great matches in the History section.
Explore history →Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chelsea_F.C._seasons
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_Chelsea_F.C._season
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_FA_Premier_League
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_FA_Cup
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_Football_League_Cup
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_UEFA_Cup
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_FA_Charity_Shield
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianluca_Vialli
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Ranieri
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Floyd_Hasselbaink
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chelsea_F.C._managers
- https://www.fchd.info/CHELSEA.HTM
- https://www.bounder.friardale.co.uk/Summaries/2000.htm
- https://bounder.friardale.co.uk/Results/2000.htm
- https://www.bounder.friardale.co.uk/Managers.htm
- https://www.bounder.friardale.co.uk/Chelsea%20Managers/Claudio%20Ranieri.htm
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/925944.stm
- https://www.theguardian.com/football/2000/sep/12/newsstory.sport6
- https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/786445/otd-18-september
- https://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Chelsea/Chelsea.htm
- https://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Chelsea/Chelsea-change-kits.html