Premier League club Chelsea is also known by which nickname?

Chelsea Football Club is also known by the nickname "The Blues."

The nickname refers primarily to Chelsea's traditional royal-blue home colors, which have been central to the club's visual identity for much of its history. Chelsea plays at Stamford Bridge in Fulham, west London, and the club's supporters and media routinely use "the Blues" as a shortened reference to the team.

Chelsea was founded in 1905 and originally had another well-known nickname: "the Pensioners," a reference to the Chelsea Pensioners associated with the Royal Hospital Chelsea. In the early 1950s, manager Ted Drake helped modernize the club's identity. The Pensioners nickname faded, while The Blues became the standard label.

A common mix-up is to treat "The Blues" as Chelsea's formal name; it is a nickname, just as "the Reds" or "the Gunners" are nicknames for other English clubs. Chelsea's blue lion crest and blue kits reinforce the association, although other football teams around the world also use the word Blues in their nicknames.