Chelsea Football Club today launches our support for the Tickets for Troops initiative, promising 50 tickets per home game to our Armed Forces.

The club has fully backed the campaign since it was first suggested by Conservative party leader David Cameron in July, and is the latest in a long line of projects undertaken by the club to support Our Boys, most recently hosting soldiers from the Headley Court rehabilitation centre for a second year.

Across the scheme, thousands of tickets will be made available to all serving military personnel and to veterans who have been discharged through injury since 2001, at the new Tickets for Troops website.

Tickets have been donated for top football and cricket matches, boxing contests, snooker, horse-racing events, theatre, and both classic and rock music concerts around the country.

From today these tickets will be made available exclusively to eligible personnel at www.ticketsfortroops.org.uk, which has teamed up with ticket distributor www.seetickets.com. A donation of £1 will be requested for every ticket, which will be distributed across service charities.

Patrons of Tickets for Troops include Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck, as well as celebrities Joss Stone, Sir Ian Botham, James Blunt, Joanna Lumley, Dame Vera Lynn, Gary Lineker, and ex-England rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio, also a Blues supporter.

Buck said: 'Chelsea Football Club, its staff, players and fans proudly supports Our Boys and the brave work they do.

'Tickets for Troops is a politically neutral and independent organisation, it is purely in the interests of supporting our Armed Forces, which we are always more than happy to do.'

Lineker, who will help launch Tickets for Troops today, added: 'As a country we seem to have suddenly gained a respect and a pride in our Armed Forces, which in many ways, is long overdue.

'Tickets for Troops recognises these very special people for the extraordinary things they do every day of their lives.'

The first 50 tickets at Stamford Bridge will be available for the Wolverhampton Wanderers game on November 21.

The club has already donated more than 150 tickets to troops for this Remembrance Sunday's game against Manchester United, a move organised through the British Legion.