The Blues have contested several different European tournaments, from the Fairs Cup, all the way back in 1958, to the present day, as we continue our maiden voyage in the UEFA Conference League.

Christopher Nkunku’s goals in that tournament have helped him onto this inventory, and the French forward is joined by some illustrious names…

Didier Drogba – 36 goals (74 appearances)

All Drogba’s European goals for us were scored in the Champions League, testament to his ability to rise to the biggest occasion. None was more significant than his late equaliser against Bayern Munich in the 2012 final, and though his successful penalty in the subsequent shootout doesn’t count toward his total goal tally, it remains one of the defining moments in the club’s history.

Frank Lampard – 25 goals (119 appearances)

Our all-time record goalscorer opened his Chelsea account with a goal against Levski Sofia in the UEFA Cup. Among the many iconic European strikes Lampard netted for us were the swivel-and-volley against Bayern in 2005, and his impudent lob in the Nou Camp 18 months later.

Olivier Giroud – 18 goals (27 appearances)

Giroud holds a fantastic goals-per-game ratio in European competition for us. He played a seminal role in our Europa League victory of 2019, memorably netting against his former club Arsenal in Baku, and then our Champions League triumph two years later. It was a campaign in which he netted all four goals in a 4-0 win away to Sevilla.

Fernando Torres – 17 goals (40 appearances)

Torres’ Chelsea career is best remembered for his injury-time equaliser in the Nou Camp in 2012, a run from his own half and finish past Victor Valdes that is, quite simply, etched in footballing folklore.

Peter Osgood – 16 goals (26 appearances)

The King of Stamford Bridge is the only player to bag five goals for us in a single European game, which he achieved in our record 13-0 victory against Jeunesse Hautcharage in September 1971. A few months prior, he had netted in both games against Real Madrid as we lifted European silverware for the first time in the form of the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup.

John Terry – 13 goals (124 appearances)

Our long-term skipper’s knack of finding the net extended to European competition, with famous headed goals at clutch moments in big Champions League ties against Barcelona (2005) and Napoli (2012) standing out.

Willian – 13 goals (56 appearances)

Almost half of Willian’s European goals for us came during the 2015/16 Champions League group stage, when a remarkable four of his five strikes were direct free-kicks!

Nicolas Anelka – 12 goals (37 appearances)

Anelka found the net with regularity in Europe between 2008 and 2011, scoring seven goals in our 2010/11 Champions League campaign.

Tore Andre Flo – 12 goals (32 appearances)

Flo was a key member of our victorious 1998 Cup Winners’ Cup side and the Chelsea team that contested Champions League football for the first time. Highlights included a brace away to Real Betis, and another two goals in our memorable victory over Barcelona at the Bridge in April 2000.

Eden Hazard – 12 goals (55 appearances)

Hazard’s last two Chelsea goals came against Arsenal in the 2019 Europa League final. That was a competition he also helped us win in 2013, the first of seven glorious seasons he spent in blue.

Oscar – 9 goals (41 appearances)

Oscar marked his full debut with one of the great Chelsea European goals. In front of the Shed, the Brazilian curled an effort beyond the reach of Juventus’s Gianluigi Buffon having spun around Andrea Pirlo.

Eidur Gudjohnsen – 8 goals (34 appearances)

Gudjohnsen scored Champions League knockout goals against Arsenal in 2004 and Barcelona a year later, but arguably his most memorable European contribution for us was an assist – the brilliant pass that set up Wayne Bridge’s iconic winner at Highbury.

Branislav Ivanovic – 8 goals (66 appearances)

Ivanovic announced himself in English football with an unexpected but amazing brace of headers in a Champions League quarter-final first leg tie at Anfield. He continued to make decisive European contributions, blasting us past Napoli in 2012, and then heading an injury-time winner in the Europa League final the following year.

Timo Werner – 8 goals (18 appearances)

The speedy German scored four goals during our victorious 2020/21 Champions League campaign, including a crucial strike in the second leg of our semi-final tie against Real Madrid at Stamford Bridge.

Tommy Baldwin – 7 goals (14 appearances)

A couple of Baldwin’s European goals for us came en route to glory in the 1971 Cup Winners’ Cup, and they were important strikes too against CSKA Sofia and Club Bruges.

Callum Hudson-Odoi – 7 goals (27 appearances)

Hudson-Odoi burst onto the scene in our 2018/19 Europa League campaign aged just 18, scoring goals against PAOK, Malmo and Dinamo Kiev. He then bagged two in the group stage of our 2020/21 Champions League win before adding another the following year.

Jorginho – 7 goals (46 appearances)

The ice-cool Italian penalty taker scored seven European spot-kicks for us, including two in the frenzied 4-4 draw with Ajax at the Bridge and one in extra-time of the 2019 Super Cup.

Salomon Kalou – 7 goals (49 appearances)

Kalou chipped in with the odd European goal during his six seasons as a Blue, notably the winner away to Benfica in the first leg of our quarter-final tie in 2012.

Christopher Nkunku – 7 goals (7 appearances)

Nkunku has been electric in the UEFA Conference League so far this season, scoring in six of his seven appearances in the competition to date. He will be looking to amplify his tally in our last-16 tie next month.

Ramires – 7 goals (55 appearances)

The Brazilian’s final European goal tally may stand at seven, but no doubt one was worth more than the rest combined! There have been few better Champions League goals by a Chelsea player than the lob Ramires plucked out of nowhere in the Nou Camp, a vital contribution in the context of our 2012 triumph.

Gianluca Vialli – 7 goals (13 appearances)

Vialli had serious European pedigree when he joined Chelsea in 1996, and he showcased that experience for us in the Cup Winners’ Cup, famously bagging a snowy brace in Tromso during a campaign which would end with him guiding us to glory in Stockholm as player-manager.