History

Petr Cech – His Chelsea statistical record

15 Jan 2019

With our former and all-time great goalkeeper Petr Cech having today announced his retirement at the end of this season, we review the honours, records and statistics achieved by our most successful ever goalie.

Cech was a Blue for 11 years from 2004 to 2015 before signing for his current club Arsenal, having departed Stamford Bridge as a freshly crowned league champion once again...

Trophies won with Chelsea

UEFA Champions League 2012
Premier League 2005, 2006, 2010 and 2015
UEFA Europa League 2013, FA Cup 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012
League Cup 2005, 2007 and 2015
FA Community Shield 2005 and 2009

Other Chelsea honours

Chelsea Player of the Year 2011
Chelsea Outstanding Achievement Award 2007
Premier League Golden Gloves award 2005 (21 clean sheets), 2010 (17 clean sheets) and 2014 (16 clean sheets, shared with Wojciech Szczesny)
UEFA’s most valuable goalkeeper 2005, 2007 and 2008
Golden Ball Trophy for the best Czech Footballer 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, Czech Republic Footballer of the Year 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013
International Sports Press Association Best Goalkeeper of the Year 2007
Runners-up medals - UEFA Champions League 2008, FIFA Club World Cup 2012, UEFA Super Cup 2012 and 2013, League Cup 2008, FA Community Shield 2007 and 2012

Chelsea milestones

Chelsea debut: Man Utd (h) 15.8.04. Won 1-0
Played 1024 minutes in the Premier League without conceding a goal in 2004/05, an English top-flight record at the time.
100th appearance v Wycombe (h) League Cup 23.1.07. Won 4-0.
100th clean sheet v Sunderland (h) 1.11.08. Won 5-0.
200th appearance v Juventus (h) Champions League 25.2.09. Won 1-0.
150th clean sheet v Bolton (h) 29.12.11. Won 1-0.
300th appearance v Blackpool (a) 7.3.11. Won 3-1.
400th appearance v Everton (a) 30.12.12. Won 2-1.
200th clean sheet v Man Utd (a) 26.8.13. Drew 0-0.
209th and club record clean sheet v Hull (a) 11.1.14. Won 2-0.
100th European appearance v Paris Saint-Germain (a) 2.4.14. Lost 1-3.

International honours

2002 UEFA Under-21s Championship winner, named in UEFA’s Euro 2004 All Star squad

Major international tournaments: Euro 2004 (4 games), 2006 World Cup (3 games), Euro 2008 (3 games), Euro 2012 (4 games), Euro 2016 (3 games)

International recognition: Czech Republic 124 caps (national record), 53 clean sheets. Under-21s 15 caps, Czech Republic Youth

International caps won with Chelsea: Czech Republic 91 caps, 42 clean sheets

Chelsea statistics

Height 6ft 5in (1.96m)
Weight (in 2015) 14st 2lb (90kg)

Chelsea appearances 492 starts + 2 substitute appearances
League appearance 332+1
European appearances 105
FA Cup appearances 33
League Cup appearances 16+1
Others 6

Captain 33 games

Penalties faced 41 (8 saved, 5 off target, 28 scored). Penalty shoot-out penalties faced: 32 (6 saved, 26 scored)

Penalty saves 2004/05 Paul Dickov (Blackburn a) W 1-0, 2008/09 Mark Noble (West Ham a) W 1-0, 2009/10 Louis Saha (Everton a) L 1-2, 2009/10 Kevin Prince-Boateng (Portsmouth Wembley) W 1-0, 2010/11 Clint Dempsey (Fulham a) D 0-0, 2011/12 Leighton Baines (Everton a) W 2-1, 2011/12 Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich a - shown below) D 1-1 won pens, 2012/13 Nicolai Stokholm (Nordsjælland h) W 6-1.

Most clean sheets in a Chelsea season by an individual 28 in 48 games by Petr Cech in 2004/05

Cech holds the club record for clean sheets (227+1 in 492+2 games - 46 per cent)

He is Chelsea’s highest overseas appearance maker

- Chelsea FC awards a clean sheet to the starting goalkeeper when the team does not concede in the complete match. In the event of an outfield player or (since 1992) a substitute keeper replacing an injured or sent off keeper then they share the clean sheet. For example, Carlo Cudicini shared five clean sheets when he came on for the starting keeper.