Competition summary

Men's Premier League – Sixth (Qualified for the UEFA Conference League)
Men's FA Cup – Semi-final
Men's Carabao Cup – Runners-up
Premier League 2 – Fourth - Play-off semi-final
Football League Trophy – Group stage
Premier League International Cup – Quarter-final
Premier League Cup – Semi-final
Under-18 Premier League South – Winners
Under-18 Premier League national final – Runners-up
FA Youth Cup – Quarter-final
Under-18 Premier League Cup – Quarter-final
Under-17 Premier League Cup – Winners

Key statistics

Appearances

Top ten
Gallagher 50
Caicedo 48
Palmer 45
Disasi 44, Jackson 44
Sterling 43
Mudryk 41
Enzo 40
Thiago Silva 38
Gusto 37

Rest
Madueke 34, Colwill 32, Petrovic 31, Cucurella 26, Badiashile 22, Chilwell 21, Sanchez 21, Broja 19, Chalobah 17, Gilchrist 17, Maatsen 15, Ugochukwu 15, Nkunku 14, Chukwuemeka 12, Casadei 11, James 11, Burstow 3, Deivid 3, Matos 2, Tauriainen 2, Acheampong 1, Castledine 1, Golding 1, Humphreys 1, Lavia 1, Moreira 1

Starts

Top ten
Gallagher 46
Caicedo 44
Disasi 41
Palmer 40
Jackson 39
Enzo 36
Thiago Silva 33
Sterling 31
Petrovic 30
Colwill 27

Rest
Gusto 26, Cucurella 25, Mudryk 23, Sanchez 21, Madueke 19, Badiashile 19, Chilwell 13, Chalobah 13, Broja 8, Ugochukwu 6, James 6, Gilchrist 5, Maatsen 3, Nkunku 2, Chukwuemeka 2, Burstow 1, Humphreys 1, Moreira 1

Minutes on pitch

Top ten
Gallagher 4,519
Caicedo 4,344
Disasi 4,151
Palmer 4,001
Jackson 3,903
Enzo 3,425
Thiago Silva 3,418
Sterling 3,078
Petrovic 3,075
Gusto 2,734

Rest
Colwill 2,723, Cucurella 2,485, Mudryk 2,152, Sanchez 2,127, Badiashile 1,884, Madueke 1,872, Chalobah 1,400, Chilwell 1,317, Broja 805, Ugochukwu 663, Nkunku 619, James 542, Gilchrist 511, Maatsen 484, Chukwuemeka 337, Casadei 135, Humphreys 102, Burstow 86, Moreira 50, Deivid 48, Lavia 40, Acheampong 11, Golding 9, Matos 9, Castledine 8, Tauriainen 5

Goals

Top ten
Palmer 25 (9 pens)
Jackson 17
Sterling 10
Madueke 8 (2 pens)
Enzo 7 (1 pen)
Gallagher 7, Mudryk 7
Thiago Silva 4
Disasi 3, Nkunku 3

Rest
Broja 2, Chukwuemeka 2, Badiashile 1, Caicedo 1, Chalobah 1, Colwill 1, Cucurella 1, Gilchrist 1, own goals 2

Assists*

Top ten
Palmer 19
Sterling 18
Gallagher 10
Jackson 9
Gusto 8
Mudryk 7
Caicedo 6
Madueke 5
Chilwell 3, Cucurella 3, Enzo 3, James 3

Rest
Badiashile 1, Broja 1, Chalobah 1, Chukwuemeka 1, Colwill 1, Disasi 1, Thiago Silva 1

*Our assists figures are not from a stats provider such as Opta, for example like the Premier League use. Our assists figures are judged not for the last touch but instead by the subjective view of the club statistician for a crucial part played in the goal. This means the figures above are likely to be different to what you see elsewhere.

Hat-tricks

Palmer 2 (Man Utd home, Everton (4) home), Jackson 1 (Tottenham away)

Penalties scored

Palmer 9, Madueke 2, Enzo 1

Clean sheets

Petrovic 7, Sanchez 5

Captain

Gallagher 30, Chilwell 12, James 6, Colwill 2, Enzo 1

Goals scored with

Right foot 48
Left foot 37
Header 16
Own-goals 2

Goals scored distance

Inside six-yard box 21
6-12 yards (including pens) 48
12-18 yards 22
Outside area 12

Goals scored type

Open play 63
Penalties 12
From a corner 11
From a free-kick 4
Direct free-kick 3
From an opposition throw 3
From a throw-in 2
From an opposition free-kick 2
From a restart 1
From a goal-kick 1
From an opposition goal-kick 1

Goals conceded with

Right foot 33
Left foot 22
Header 15
Own goals 4

Goals conceded distance

Inside six-yard box 14
6-12 yards (including pens) 37
12-18 yards 15
Outside area 8

Goals conceded type

Open play 43
From a corner 10
From a throw-in 6
Penalties 4
From a free-kick 3
From a goal-kick 2
From a Chelsea corner 2
From a Chelsea goal-kick 2
From a restart 1
From a Chelsea throw-in 1
Direct free-kick 0

Earliest goal scored

3 mins 38 secs - Gallagher (Chelsea 4-3 Manchester United)

Latest goal scored

100 mins 39 secs - Palmer (Chelsea 4-3 Manchester United)

Milestones and records

Thiago Silva became our oldest goalscorer when he found the net away to Sheffield United on April 7 2024, aged 39 years and 198 days.

Our previous oldest was Dickie Spence at 38 years and 282 days when he scored away at Wolverhampton Wanderers on April 26 1947.

Our previous oldest scorer in the Premier League era was Didier Drogba, who struck against Leicester City aged 37 years and 49 days in April 2015.

Another landmark achieved by Thiago Silva came when he played against Newcastle United on November 25 2023, becoming our oldest outfield player at 39 years and 64 days.

He passed our previous oldest, once again Spence, was 39 years and 57 days when he made his final appearance on September 13 1947.

Thiago played his last match against Bournemouth on May 18 2024, aged 39 years and 240 days. Goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer, at 41 years and 218 days, is our overall oldest player.

Meanwhile, Chelsea remain unbeaten in our last 29 Premier League home games against Everton (16 wins, 13 draws).

It’s our longest run without defeat against an opponent at Stamford Bridge in our top-flight history, exceeding our previous record of 27 against Tottenham Hotspur between 1990 and 2016.

We also maintained our remarkable record in March during the 2023/24 campaign. Our last defeat in the third month of the year, in any competition, was in 2019 when we lost – ironically – to Everton at Goodison Park. We have now won 18 and drawn four.

We’ve also not lost a home Premier League game in March since 2001, when Sunderland beat us 4-2 at Stamford Bridge 40 games ago, with 32 wins and seven draws since.

All the way back in August, our home draw on the opening day meant the last seven meetings between Chelsea and Liverpool in all competitions had finished level, the longest run of consecutive draws between two top-flight clubs in English football history.

The sequence ended at Anfield in January. For Chelsea, it’s our joint-longest run of draws in all competitions, along with West Bromwich Albion between March 1922 and September 1927, the last of which was in the Second Division.

Luton Town became the 49th side out of 50 that we have beaten in the Premier League. Oldham Athletic are the only team to have faced Chelsea in the competition without tasting defeat.

Landmark goals

In our FA Cup tie against Leeds United, Nicolas Jackson scored Chelsea’s 5,000th Stamford Bridge goal in our 2,640th match at the stadium we have called home since the club was founded in 1905.

The 2023/24 season also saw our 4,000th Premier League goal at the Bridge. Below is a table of some of the key league landmark goals in league fixtures:

1 - David Copeland - Chelsea 5-1 Hull City, September 11 1905
1,000 - Dickie Spence - Chelsea 2-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers, December 21 1935
2,000 - Peter Osgood - Chelsea 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday, November 11 1967
3,000 - Gianfranco Zola - Chelsea 4-0 Derby County, November 29 1997
4,000 - Cole Palmer - Chelsea 3-2 Newcastle United, March 11 2024

Our 100th home League Cup match was against AFC Wimbledon in the second round. It was our 64th win. Our 400th League Cup goal, meanwhile, was netted by Jackson in the home win over Brighton & Hove Albion.

Our 50th derby win in all competitions against closest neighbours Fulham came in October; goals from Mykhailo Mudryk and Armando Broja gave us a 2-0 victory at Craven Cottage. The gap between our two goals was 82 seconds, the quickest double strike since Eden Hazard and Marcos Alonso scored 70 seconds apart against Everton in November 2016.

Our 150th successful Premier League penalty was scored by Palmer against Burnley in March – his prowess from the spot has contributed to our 87.2 per cent success ratio from our 172 penalties taken in the competition.

Youthful squad

The starting line-up for our Carabao Cup second-round fixture against Wimbledon had an average age of 22 years and 14 days, with a total of 111 Chelsea appearances and five goals between them.

That was the youngest starting XI fielded by a Premier League team in all competitions at the time, and our youngest since a home fixture against Liverpool in December 1965. That side, which averaged 21 years and 297 days, was: Peter Bonetti, Ron Harris, Eddie McCreadie, John Hollins, Marvin Hinton, John Boyle, Joe Fascione, George Graham, Peter Osgood, Terry Venables, Tommy Robson.

The team against Crystal Palace at home was our youngest-ever Premier League starting XI (23 years and 21 days). It's the youngest XI named by a Premier League team since Manchester United against Crystal Palace in May 2017 (22 years and 284 days) and the eighth-youngest by any side in Premier League history.

The average age of Chelsea’s starting XI in the 2023/24 Premier League campaign was 24 years and 228 days, the third-youngest in the competition’s history after Leeds United in 1999/00 (24 years and 162 days) and Aston Villa in 2012/13 (24 years and 174 days).

In our FA Cup third-round win over Preston North End, 14 of the 16 players who took to the field for Chelsea, including all 11 starters, were making their competition debut for the club, which is the most in a single game. Thiago Silva and Conor Gallagher, who came on in the second half, were the only players who had previously played in the FA Cup for us.

Against Brentford at home, Deivid Washington became the ninth player aged 21 or younger to make their first Premier League appearance for Chelsea during the season (Lesley Ugochukwu, Malo Gusto, Levi Colwill, Ian Maatsen, Mason Burstow, Moises Caicedo, Cole Palmer and Alex Matos being the others).

It is the most debuts for a team by players 21 or younger in the opening 10 games of a Premier League season. Romeo Lavia, Alfie Gilchrist, Michael Golding, Leo Castledine, Cesare Casadei, Jimi Tauriainen and Josh Acheampong made it 16 in total over the whole of 2023/24.

Against Tottenham at Stamford Bridge, Acheampong took our debutants for the campaign to a club record 21, five more than last season’s 16. The only time the Blues have had more players making their first appearance for the club in the same season was when we embarked on our maiden campaign, with all 29 players who featured during 1905/06 obviously making their competitive debut for the fledgling Chelsea. Acheampong became the 802nd player to represent our men's team.

Goals

After our 5-0 win against West Ham United, and one day before his 22nd birthday, Palmer became the first Chelsea player to reach 30 Premier League goal involvements in a season while aged 21 or younger (21 goals, nine assists). Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, in 2000/01 (aged 29), is the only other player to reach that number in his first season in the competition for the Blues (23 goals, nine assists).

Our 5-0 win over West Ham at the start of May was our biggest-ever victory against the Hammers and came less than a month after our biggest win over Everton, beating the Toffees 6-0 at the Bridge in April.

Our Premier League games have yielded 140 goals (77 scored, 63 conceded) which is the most of any Chelsea Premier League campaign. Our 77 league goals is our third-highest total in the Premier League era, behind 2009/10 (103) and 2016/17 (85). On the other hand, our 63 league goals conceded during the season is the most in the top flight since 1990/91 (69).

The 2023/24 campaign was the first time we've had two players hit double figures for league goals in the same campaign (Jackson and Palmer) since Hazard and Alvaro Morata did so in 2017/18.

Palmer is the second Chelsea player to score a hat-trick in back-to-back home Premier League appearances (Man Utd and Everton), after Didier Drogba in 2010.

Against Everton, Palmer (21 years 345 days) became the fifth-youngest player to score four or more goals in a single Premier League game and the first Chelsea player to net four times in a single league match since Frank Lampard against Aston Villa in March 2010.

Cole's perfect hat-trick against the Toffees was the earliest ever in a Premier League match (29 minutes), beating the previous record set in 1995 by Aston Villa’s Tommy Johnson (38 mins).

Palmer has scored all nine penalties he has taken for the Blues. Only Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, with 12 from 12, has a better 100 per cent record for the club.