The 1935–36 season was Chelsea Football Club's twenty-seventh competitive season. In October 1935, Claude Kirby died. He had been Chelsea chairman since the club's foundation in 1905 and was succeeded by Charles Pratt, Sr. Also in October, a crowd of 82,905 attended Chelsea's First Division match against Arsenal at Stamford Bridge, setting a club record which still stands.[1]
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