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Chelsea won their fifth Premier League title with a 1–0 win away to West Bromwich Albion on 12 May. Chelsea lost the FA Cup Final to Arsenal after a 2–1 loss on 27 May. This season was the last for John Terry, who announced he will leave when his contract ends at the end of the season after Chelsea's final game. [5]
The first Chelsea team in September 1905 This is a list of all seasons played by Chelsea Football Club in English and European football, from their inaugural season in 1905–06 to their last completed season ( 2023–24 ).
Premier League; Season: 2016–17: Dates: 13 August 2016 – 21 May 2017: Champions: Chelsea 5th Premier League title 6th English title: Relegated: Hull City Middlesbrough Sunderland: Champions League: Chelsea Tottenham Hotspur Manchester City Liverpool Manchester United (as Europa League winners) Europa League: Arsenal Everton: Matches played ...
The result is Mourinho's heaviest Premier League defeat, United's worst away loss since October 1999 (when they also lost to the same club by over four goals after they were hit for five), and the first time they were beaten by four goals or more in a match since losing to West Ham in the League Cup in November 2010.
Chelsea's tenth-place finish marked the club's lowest finish in the Premier League since the 1995–96 season, in which they finished 11th. It also marked the worst defence of a title in the Premier League's 24-year history, and confirmed the club's absence from European competition in the 2016/17 season. [112]
The first team in Premier League history to have two different hat-trick scorers in a single campaign aged 21 or under [114] The first top-flight team in history to win 30 games in a 38-game season: 2016–17 Premier League season [115] The first team to win 15 away matches in a Premier League season: 2004–05 season [116]
The 2015–16 Premier League (known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the 24th season of the Premier League, the top English professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992, and the 117th season of top-flight English football overall.
The win also took Chelsea's league goal tally for the season to 103, [61] the highest since Tottenham Hotspur scored 111 in the 1962–63 season, and the first time in Premier League history that a club had scored 100 or more goals in a season. [62] Drogba, Lampard, Anelka and Florent Malouda all scored double figures.