🎥 OTD 1998: Chelsea put themselves back on the European map

Yahoo

13-05-2025

Chelsea are now bona fide European royalty but it wasn't always this way.
Long before Roman Abramovich's Stamford Bridge revolution, continental success proved harder to come by with a solitary Cup Winners' Cup in their past 27 years.
But one soon became two for the Blues as they won the competition for a second time on this day in 1998 courtesy of a 1-0 win over Stuttgart in Stockholm.
Gianfranco Zola swept home the game's only goal to clinch victory for Gianluca Vialli's side and with it, put the club officially back on the European map.
On this day in 1998, Gianfranco Zola scored the only goal as Chelsea won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 🏆 pic.twitter.com/0oBVAsPEHH
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It proved to be a sign of things to come in west London.
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