The 2010–11 season was Chelsea Football Club's 97th competitive season, 19th consecutive season in the Premier League, and 105th year in existence as a football club. They went into the Premier League as the defending champions, but failed to retain it. The club was managed by their Double-winning manager Carlo Ancelotti, but his association with the club would be broken off, being sacked at the end of the season. Chelsea started off the season with a strong five-consecutive-win run in the Premier League, which was eventually halted by Manchester City when City skipper Carlos Tevez scored to lead his side into a 1–0 triumph over the defending champions. Chelsea were leading the Premier League table for almost half a season, before Manchester United overtook them when Chelsea went through a bad period during the winter. Altogether in the Premier League, Chelsea won 21 games, drew 8 and lost 9. They conceded the fewest goals compared to all the other clubs in the league, sharing this with Manchester City. In January 2011, on the last day of the transfer window, Chelsea bought Fernando Torres for a club-record-breaking and British-record-breaking fee of £50 million from Liverpool. They also bought defender David Luiz from Benfica, for €25 million plus Nemanja Matić, on the same day.

Kits

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Key dates

Club

Coaching staff

Other information

Squads

First team squad

Premier League squad

U21 U21 U21 U21 U21 U21 Source: 2010–11 Premier League squad

UEFA Champions League squad

Source: 2010–11 UEFA Champions League squad

Reserve squad

Academy squad

Transfers

In

Summer

Winter

Out

Summer

Loan out

Overall transfer activity

Spending

Summer: £29.8 million Winter: £71.5 million Total: £101.3 million

Income

Summer: £13.7 million Winter: £0 Total: £13.7 million

Expenditure

Summer: £16.1 million Winter: £71.5 million Total: £87.6 million

Competitions

Pre-season

FA Community Shield

Premier League

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 26 August 2010 in Monaco. Chelsea was paired with 2009–10 French Ligue 1 champions Marseille, as well as Russian Premier League's, Spartak Moscow and Žilina of the Slovakian Corgoň Liga.

Knockout phase

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

League Cup

FA Cup

Statistics

Appearances

As of end of season

Goalscorers

As of end of season

Clean sheets

As of end of season

Disciplinary record

As of end of season

Overall

As of end of season

Awards