Season: 2006–07
Premier League
- FA Cup
- League Cup
League
José Mourinho’s third season brought a domestic cup double — and a Premier League title that slipped away.
- Division
- Premier League (Tier 1)
- Manager
- José Mourinho
- Top scorer (league)
- Didier Drogba (20)
- Top scorer (all comps)
- Didier Drogba (33)
- Avg. league attendance
- 41,542
Cups & Europe
- FA Cup
- Winners
- League Cup
- Winners
- Europe
- European Cup / Champions League: Semi-finals
- Other
- Charity/Community Shield: Runners-up
Notes
José Mourinho’s third season brought a domestic cup double — and a Premier League title that slipped away. Chelsea finished 24–11–3, 64–24, on 83 points (24×3+11), six behind Manchester United on 89. Home form was 12–7–0 (37–11); away 12–4–3 (27–13). Goal difference +40. The three league defeats were all away: Middlesbrough, Tottenham and Liverpool. Sheffield United, Charlton Athletic and Watford went down. The title race effectively ended on 6 May with a 1–1 draw at Arsenal’s new Emirates, leaving Chelsea seven points adrift with two to play. Mourinho stayed throughout. Big summer arrivals — Shevchenko, Ballack, Kalou, Mikel and Ashley Cole (with Gallas going the other way) — reshaped the attack; Adidas replaced Umbro on the shirt. Didier Drogba led the scoring with 20 league goals and 33 in all competitions — ahead of Lampard (11/21) and Shevchenko (4/14). The Community Shield opened the year — Liverpool won 2–1 at the Millennium Stadium on 13 August (Riise, Crouch; Shevchenko). The Carling Cup path ran Blackburn 2–0, Aston Villa 4–0, Newcastle 1–0, Wycombe 1–1 and 4–0, then Arsenal 2–1 in the final at Cardiff on 25 February — Drogba’s double. The FA Cup cleared Macclesfield 6–1, Nottingham Forest 3–0, Norwich 4–0, Tottenham 3–3 and 2–1 in the replay, Blackburn 2–1 after extra time in the semi-final at Old Trafford, then Manchester United 1–0 after extra time in the first FA Cup final at the new Wembley on 19 May — Drogba’s 116th-minute winner. Champions League Group A (Werder Bremen, Levski Sofia, Barcelona) was topped; Porto and Valencia fell in the knockouts before Liverpool again in the semi-finals — 1–0 at the Bridge (Joe Cole), 0–1 after extra time at Anfield, then 1–4 on penalties. Crowds averaged 41,542 for home league games — high 41,953 against Manchester City, low 38,000 against Blackburn. Adidas’s royal blue with white socks, the black pinstripe away, white third and Samsung Mobile across the chest framed the cup double.
Kits
Adidas debuted with restrained kits.
- 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/2006%E2%80%9307_Chelsea_F.C._season
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_FA_Premier_League
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_FA_Cup
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_Football_League_Cup
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_FA_Community_Shield
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_UEFA_Champions_League
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mourinho
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chelsea_F.C._managers
- https://www.fchd.info/CHELSEA.HTM
- https://www.bounder.friardale.co.uk/Summaries/2006.htm
- https://bounder.friardale.co.uk/Results/2006.htm
- https://www.bounder.friardale.co.uk/Managers.htm
- https://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Chelsea/Chelsea.htm
- https://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Chelsea/Chelsea-change-kits.html