Our all-time Chelsea FA Cup final team is almost complete, with just a pair of strikers left for you to vote for!
As we build up to Saturday’s Wembley final against Leicester, with the Blues hoping to lift the famous old trophy for the ninth time in our history, we’ve been asking Chelsea fans around the world to vote for our all-time FA Cup final side.
Today, it’s time to pick the two players you want to lead the line and you can vote by scrolling further down this page after reading the list of nominees.
Didier Drogba
Let’s be honest here – in any FA Cup final team, whether it’s a Chelsea XI or overall, the conversation when it comes to strikers is ‘Drogba plus one’.
Four FA Cup final goals, three of which were winners, and his brilliant effort in 2007 beat Man United in the first to be held at the new Wembley Stadium. The bigger the stage, the better Drogba performed.
Eden Hazard
The brilliant Belgian was instrumental in our most recent FA Cup final triumph, which came against Manchester United in 2018.
Ian Hutchinson
The next entry on this list after Hutch might not have been written, had it not been for the late intervention of his strike partner in the 1970 final against Leeds. Hutchinson put his head where it most definitely would hurt, getting on the end of a cross under pressure from Jack Charlton to score our late equaliser at Wembley, which forced the replay. There were few braver footballers than Hutch in a brutal era of the game.
Peter Osgood
Like Drogba, Osgood can be placed firmly into the same category – when the stakes were at their highest, Ossie was at his best.
His diving header in the 1970 replay, laid on by a beautiful ball by Cooke, was a moment that helped spawn a generation of Chelsea fans. He wasn't known as the King of Stamford Bridge for nothing – and let’s not forget he scored in every round of that triumph, the last player to achieve this.
Bobby Tambling
Among Tambling’s tally of 202 Chelsea goals were 25 FA Cup strikes. Both club records, both subsequently surpassed by Frank Lampard. One milestone Frank can never take from Bobby, however, is that of scoring the first Chelsea goal in an FA Cup final – although it’s not remembered too fondly by Tambling as it came in a losing cause against Spurs in 1967.
Gianfranco Zola
An FA Cup final goal may have been missing from Zola’s CV, but he more than made his presence felt in 1997 and 2000.
In the former, it was his impish backheeled flick that teed up Eddie Newton to finish Middlesbrough off, while Roberto Di Matteo’s winner in the latter came after David James failed to handle a Zola free-kick.