Tickets: Chelsea vs. Shakhtar - November 1, 2012

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Seating Chart

Stamford Bridge Seating Chart

The Teams

Chelsea

Head Coach: Rafa Benitez

Chelsea Football Club (also known as The Blues) are a professional English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions three times, and have won the FA Cup five times, the League Cup four times and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup twice.

The club had their first major success in 1955, winning the league championship. Chelsea won several cup competitions during the 1960s and 1970s, but did not win another major title until 1997. The past decade has been the most successful period in Chelsea’s history, capped by winning consecutive Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006, and reaching their first UEFA Champions League final in 2008, losing to fellow English side Manchester United after extra time and penalties.

Despite their name, the club are based just outside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. In 2003, they were bought by Russian oil magnate Roman Abramovich.


Shakhtar Donetsk

Head Coach: Mircea Lucescu

FC Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukrainian: Шахтар Донецьк) is a Ukrainian professional association football club, playing in the city of Donetsk, the capital of the Donetsk region. The club has won numerous domestic honours and appeared in several European competitions, but they are best known for having won the final UEFA Cup in 2009. In the Soviet times the Donetsk football team was the leader within the Soviet Volunteer Society of Shakhtyor having connections with teams from Karaganda (Kazakhstan), Soligorsk (Belarus), and others. It is the main representative and became culturally entwined with the heavily industrialized Donets Basin, better known as the Donbass hence the name of its stadium. The team has played under the following names: Stakhanovets (1936–1946), Shakhtyor (Shakhtar) (1946–1992) and FC Shakhtar (since 1992)


The Stadium

Stamford Bridge

Capacity: 42,055

Stamford Bridge is a football stadium on the border of Fulham and Chelsea, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham that is home to Chelsea Football Club. The stadium is located within the Moore Park Estate also known as Walham Green. It is nicknamed "The Bridge" by the club's supporters. The capacity is 42,055, making it the eighth largest ground in the Premier League.