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Company description
CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 26 November 1985; registered for 40 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 93120 · Activities of sport clubs.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 30 trade marks. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED
- Company number
- 01965149
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 8 total · 0 outstanding · 8 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
30 June 2025Next accounts due
31 March 2027Last statement made up to
29 December 2025Next statement due
12 January 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 25.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 97.6%
- Women receiving bonus
- 38.9%
- Men receiving bonus
- 36.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 10.5%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 14.6%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 18.3%
- Women in lower quartile
- 15.3%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 9998.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49997.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49999.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499916.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49991.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49999.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.0% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 6 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 61 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 July 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £66,806,085
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £11,213,604
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £817,438
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £7,678,787
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 15.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 61 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The Company's standard payment terms are that invoices are paid at the end of the month following the month in which the invoice is received.
- Dispute resolution process
Payment disputes are initially handled by the Company's Accounts Payable team.
If the dispute is unable to be resolved it is initially escalated within the Finance team and then, if required, to the Company's Legal team.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 34.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 12.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED
LEI 213800IAS5GZ6LSSWB87 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 26 November 1985
- Initial LEI registration
- 17 October 2023
- LEI last updated
- 22 August 2025
- Next renewal
- 18 October 2026
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- STAMFORD BRIDGE GROUND, FULHAM ROAD, LONDON, GB-LND, SW6 1HS, GB
- Headquarters address
- STAMFORD BRIDGE GROUND, FULHAM ROAD, LONDON, GB-LND, SW6 1HS, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- CHELSEA FC HOLDINGS LIMITED
- Statement period
- 24 December 2019 – 31 December 2020
- Approved
- 31 December 2020
- Sectors
- Other
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Not reported as covered
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 2 June 2021
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Chelsea Football Club Limited
Registration Z6503110
- Registered from
- 6 March 2002
- Current end date
- 5 March 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
THE FIFTH STAND
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 41
- Filed / designated
- 26 June 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 June 2027
THE 5TH STAND
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 41
- Filed / designated
- 26 June 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 June 2027
CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 12
- Filed / designated
- 28 October 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 October 2025
CHELSEA FC
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 12
- Filed / designated
- 28 October 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 October 2025
STAMFORD BRIDGE
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 15 September 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 September 2025
CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 36
- Filed / designated
- 21 August 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 August 2025
CHELSEA FC
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 36
- Filed / designated
- 21 August 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 August 2025
CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 36
- Filed / designated
- 21 August 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 August 2025
CHELSEA
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 21 May 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 May 2024
CHELSEA F.C.
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 6,14,16,18,25,26,28
- Filed / designated
- 12 February 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 February 2024
CHELSEA
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 9 January 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 January 2024
MOURINHO
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 3,9,14,18,21,25,28
- Filed / designated
- 27 June 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 June 2023
CHELSEA SUPPORTERS TRUST
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 9,14,16,18,21,24,25,28
- Filed / designated
- 5 March 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 March 2023
CHELSEA TRAVEL CLUB
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 39,43
- Filed / designated
- 22 June 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 June 2021
CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 39,43
- Filed / designated
- 22 June 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 June 2021
FERNANDO TORRES
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 9,14,16,18,21,24,25,28
- Filed / designated
- 16 March 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 March 2021
TORRES
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 9,14,18,24,28
- Filed / designated
- 16 March 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 March 2021
TORRES
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 16,21,25
- Filed / designated
- 8 March 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 March 2021
CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB BLUE PITCHES
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 27
- Filed / designated
- 15 October 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 October 2020
CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 41
- Filed / designated
- 23 March 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 March 2020
CHELSEA FC
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 9,21,24,28,41
- Filed / designated
- 23 March 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 March 2020
50 50 THE OFFICIAL CFC MATCHDAY LOTTERY
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 36,41
- Filed / designated
- 29 July 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 July 2019
CFC
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 26
- Filed / designated
- 30 January 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 January 2019
BLUE IS THE COLOUR
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 24,25,26,28,29,32
- Filed / designated
- 15 December 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 December 2018
UNDER THE BRIDGE
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 41,43
- Filed / designated
- 28 June 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 June 2018
Figurative mark
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 16,25,26
- Filed / designated
- 18 April 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 April 2018
Figurative mark
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 26
- Filed / designated
- 24 November 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 November 2027
CHELSEA
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 26
- Filed / designated
- 24 November 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 November 2027
Figurative mark
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 31 May 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 May 2027
Figurative mark
Owner Chelsea Football Club Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 13 January 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 January 2027
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Chelsea Fc Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Registrar Of Companies For England And Wales
- Registration number
- 02536231
- Notified
- 30 May 2022
Fordstam Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- United Kingdom
- Registration number
- 4784127
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 30 May 2022
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09 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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10 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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13 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
15 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
16 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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