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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 ...
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]
In total, Chelsea have won six League Championships (the First Division and its successor, the Premier League), eight FA Cups, five League Cups, one FIFA Club World Cup, two UEFA Champions Leagues, two UEFA Europa Leagues, and two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups.
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 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 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]
Chelsea is the only Premier League side to have won its opening nine league games of the season, doing so in 2005–06. [ 183 ] [ 184 ] From 2009 to 2013, Chelsea were unbeaten in a record 29 consecutive FA Cup matches (excluding penalty shoot-outs).
Teams competing in the Premier League may qualify for the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League on virtue of league positions. The competition adopts a promotion and relegation system with the Football League which comes into place at the end of each season. Since the inaugural season in 1992–93, 50 teams have competed in the Premier ...