There will undoubtedly be more magical moments produced by our No.20 during his time with the Blues – which has now been extended until 2033 – yet in his first campaign after joining, he starred and was named our Player of the Year and Players’ Player of the Year, as well as taking the Premier League Young Player of the Year award.

To mark the signing of his new contract, and before his second season with Chelsea begins against his former club on Sunday, we look at some of the standout facts and figures from our top scorer’s debut 2023/24 campaign…

Despite missing the start of the season due to his arrival at the end of the transfer window, only two players made more than Palmer’s 47 appearances in all competitions.

And nobody could match his impact in the final third, with his 25 goals and 19 assists in all competitions both our best in 2023/24.

The summer signing became only the third Blues player to score 20-plus goals and provide 10-plus assists in a Premier League season (22 goals, 11 assists), after Frank Lampard (22 goals, 14 assists) and Didier Drogba (29 goals, 10 assists). Both achieved their feats in the 2009/10 double-winning campaign.

The forward also matched Drogba and Lampard's Chelsea record of 16 home Premier League goals in a season.

After our 5-0 win against West Ham United in May – 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).

And at the end of that month, Palmer became the first Chelsea player to be voted Premier League Player of the Month since Eden Hazard in September 2018.

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).

His 25 strikes included Chelsea’s 4,000th league goal, against Newcastle United on 11 March.

Nine of his goals came from the spot, with the one he netted against Burnley in March being Chelsea’s 150th in the Premier League. Palmer has scored every penalty he has taken for the Blues. Only Hasselbaink, with 12 from 12, has a better 100 per cent record for the club.

Two of the three hat-tricks scored by Chelsea last season were netted by Palmer. Impressively, they came in back-to-back Premier League appearances (both at home, against Manchester United and Everton), the first time a Blues player had managed that feat since Drogba in 2010.

Even better, he got four goals in total against Everton. At 21 years and 345 days old, he became the fifth-youngest player to score four or more in a Premier League game for any club, and the first for Chelsea since Lampard in 2010.

Cole's perfect hat-trick against Everton was the earliest ever in a Premier League match (29 minutes). His goals also helped extend our club record run to 29 top-flight games unbeaten against the Toffees.

Palmer netted 22 league goals and set up 11 more, registering more goal involvements than any other Premier League player in the process.

Cole also scored seven match-winning goals in the league, a figure only bettered for Chelsea by Diego Costa (10 in 2016/17) and Drogba (nine in 2009/10).

It wasn’t just at Stamford Bridge where Palmer has made an impact since joining Chelsea, either. On the international scene, Cole made his senior England debut in November, got his first goal for his country in March, and then scored in the Euro 2024 final this summer.

That means the Blues have had three of our players score in Euro finals over the years – more than any other club.

The first two strikes at the showpiece event from Chelsea players came from Fernando Torres and Juan Mata, when Spain beat Italy at Euro 2012.