On this day in 1905, Chelsea Football Club was founded at the Rising Sun pub in Fulham, London.
Since there was already a club called Fulham, founder Gus Mears decided to name his new club after the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea. Mears had bought the Stamford Bridge Athletics Ground from the London Athletics Club in 1896. He along with his brother Joseph Mears had ambitions to turn it into a state-of-the-art football stadium and initially wanted to host Fulham at the ground. The Cottagers refused the generous offer and the two brothers went on to form their own football club.