1957–58 Chelsea F.C. season

Chelsea
1957–58 season
Chairman	Joe Mears
Manager	Ted Drake
Stadium	Stamford Bridge
First Division	11th
FA Cup	Fourth round
Top goalscorer	League: Jimmy Greaves (22); All: Jimmy Greaves (22)
Highest home attendance	66,007 vs Arsenal; (26 October 1957)
Lowest home attendance	17,038 vs Leeds United; (7 December 1957)
Average home league attendance	38,430
Biggest win	6–1 v Burnley; (21 September 1957)
Biggest defeat	1–4 (two matches)
Home colours	Away colours
	← 1956–57 1958–59 →

The 1957–58 season was Chelsea Football Club's forty-fourth competitive season. The season saw the debut of teenage prodigy Jimmy Greaves, who would go on to score 132 goals in 157 matches for Chelsea and become the youngest-ever player to score 100 goals in the English top-flight.^[1]

Table[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts	Qualification or relegation
9	Manchester United^[a]	42	16	11	15	85	75	1.133	43	Invited to 1958–59 European Cup: Preliminary round^[b]
10	Nottingham Forest	42	16	10	16	69	63	1.095	42
11	Chelsea	42	15	12	15	83	79	1.051	42
12	Arsenal	42	16	7	19	73	85	0.859	39
13	Birmingham City	42	14	11	17	76	89	0.854	39	Participated in 1955–58 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

^ Most of the Manchester United squad was lost in the Munich air disaster, on 6 February 1958.
^ Manchester United were invited to play at the 1958-59 European cup season as tribute after the Munich air disaster but were forced by the FA to withdraw. Manchester United FC, part 2 (1940 to 1959).

Notes[]

^ "Jimmy Greaves". www.chelseafc.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

References[]

Glanvill, Rick (2006). Chelsea FC: The Official Biography – The Definitive Story of the First 100 Years. Headline Book Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7553-1466-2.
Hockings, Ron. 100 Years of The Blues – A Statistical History of Chelsea FC 1905–2006.

External links[]

1957–58 season at stamford-bridge.com

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[table_note_MUN0.056957562480568-2] Most of the Manchester United squad was lost in the Munich air disaster, on 6 February 1958.

[table_note_res_EC0.056957562480568-3] Manchester United were invited to play at the 1958-59 European cup season as tribute after the Munich air disaster but were forced by the FA to withdraw. Manchester United FC, part 2 (1940 to 1959).

[cfc-1] "Jimmy Greaves". www.chelseafc.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

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