1917–18 Chelsea F.C. season

Chelsea
1917–18 season
ChairmanClaude Kirby
ManagerDavid Calderhead
StadiumStamford Bridge
London Combination1st
War Fund CupWinners
Top goalscorerLeague:
All: Bob Thomson (25)
Biggest win7–0 v Fulham
(30 March 1918)
Biggest defeat1–4 v Arsenal
(19 January 1918)

The 1917–18 season was Chelsea Football Club's twelfth year in existence. Due to the ongoing First World War, the Football League and the FA Cup were suspended so the club instead participated in the London Combination, an unofficial regional league mainly comprising teams from London. Results and statistics from these matches are not considered official. Chelsea won the London Combination for the second time in three years as well as the War Fund Cup.[1]

Former Chelsea player George Kennedy, who was awarded both the Military Medal and Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry during the conflict, was wounded during the Third Battle of Ypres and subsequently died from his injuries on 16 November 1917.[2][3] On 28 April 1918, Arthur Wileman, member of the Football Battalion, was killed along with two others during a reconnaissance patrol in the vicinity of the Elzenwalle Chateau, Ypres, West Flanders on 28 April 1918.[4] His name is inscribed on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ "England 1917/18". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Former player George William Kennedy added to Brentford list of honour as Remembrance Sunday marked". www.brentfordfc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Chelsea in the First World War". chelseafc.com. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  4. ^ Churchill, Alexandra; Holmes, Andrew (15 July 2015). Over Land and Sea: Chelsea FC in the Great War. The History Press. ISBN 9780750965422.
  5. ^ "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 15 December 2015.

References

  • Glanvill, Rick (2006). Chelsea FC: The Official Biography – The Definitive Story of the First 100 Years. Headline Book Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7553-1466-2.
  • Hockings, Ron. 100 Years of The Blues – A Statistical History of Chelsea FC 1905–2006.
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