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Following this, Chelsea Pitch Owners was created, and in 1997 it purchased the Stamford Bridge freehold, the turnstiles, the pitch and the Chelsea FC name with the aid of a non-recourse loan of £10 million [1] from Chelsea Village plc, the parent company of the club.
On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group to acquire the club. The group which later known as BlueCo was led by Todd Boehly , chairman and CEO of Eldridge Industries , and Clearlake Capital , it also included Hansjörg Wyss , founder of the Wyss Foundation, and Mark Walter , co-founder and CEO of ...
Walter and several of his partners also bought the Los Angeles Sparks basketball team in 2014. [20] He later joined the bid led by his partner Boehly to buy the English football club Chelsea in April 2022. [21] The 2018-19 PSA World Squash Championships presented by the Walter Family doubled the previous highest purse of $500,000 to $1 million ...
Allen Fieldhouse is an indoor arena on the University of Kansas (KU) campus in Lawrence, Kansas. It is home of the Kansas Jayhawks men's and women's basketball teams. The arena is named after Phog Allen, a former player and head coach for the Jayhawks whose tenure lasted 39 years. The arena's nickname, The Phog also pays homage to Allen.
A further stumbling block is that the club's naming rights are owned by the Chelsea Pitch Owners, which also owns the Stamford Bridge freehold. As a condition for using the Chelsea FC name, the club has to play its first team matches at Stamford Bridge. A move to a new stadium could mean the club having to change their name. [22]
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In October 2011, a proposal from the club to buy back the freehold to the land on which Stamford Bridge sits was voted down by Chelsea Pitch Owners shareholders. [117] In May 2012, the club made a formal bid to purchase Battersea Power Station, with a view to developing the site into a new stadium, [118] but lost out to a Malaysian consortium ...
The History of Chelsea F.C. spans the period from 1905 to the present day: History of Chelsea F.C. (1905–1952) History of Chelsea F.C. (1952–1983) History of Chelsea F.C. (1983–2003) History of Chelsea F.C. (2003–2022) History of Chelsea F.C. (2022–present) For a season-by-season account of Chelsea's history, see List of Chelsea F.C ...