The midfielder drilled in a low left-footed effort to open the scoring on the night and open his account for Chelsea. Later in the same game his compatriot Estevao Willian bagged his third goal in blue, while Joao Pedro is another new Brazilian to find the net for Chelsea in 2025.

There have been no fewer than six Goal of the Season awards handed out to Brazilian Blues, and it is unsurprising that even some of the defensive-minded players on this list were capable of the spectacular.

Note that while Diego Costa and Jorginho were born and grew up in Brazil, they represented Spain and Italy respectively at international level, so we are not including them in this list. Other Brazilians, like Emerson Thome and Lucas Piazon, never found the net for us, but plenty have. In our list, we start with the most recent…

Andrey Santos

Having been prolific for Strasbourg in France last season, with 11 goals in 34 games in all competitions, Santos showed what he can do with his first in English football. It was the type of accurate, edge-of-the-box finish that adds an extra dimension to a midfielder's game.

Estevao Willian

Following his summer arrival from Palmeiras – for whom he had scored against us in the Club World Cup - Estevao Willian got up and running in blue with a dramatic injury-time winner at home to Liverpool.

Joao Pedro

Joao Pedro announced himself to the Chelsea support with a bang, smashing in two goals on his first start against his former club Fluminense to send us through to the Club World Cup final, having made his debut from the bench in the previous round.

There, he netted in the 3-0 victory over Paris Saint-Germain, while he opened his Premier League account in the big win over West Ham in our second fixture of the 2025/26 campaign.

Thiago Silva

The pandemic meant Thiago Silva’s first two Chelsea goals – at home to Sheffield United and West Ham United – were scored in front of an empty Stamford Bridge.

The Brazilian picked a perfect moment to find the net when full crowds had returned, heading in the opening goal in a 3-0 victory away to Tottenham. He repeated the trick in the reverse fixture for good measure.

His most profitable campaign in front of goal was his last in blue, 2023/24, with four scored in all competitions, including our first in the epic 4-4 draw with Manchester City at the Bridge.

Alexandre Pato

Pato spend the second half of the 2015/16 season on loan at Chelsea from Corinthians in his homeland.

The striker was restricted to just two appearances but he did at least find the net in one of those, scoring a penalty in a 4-0 win at Aston Villa.

Kenedy

Kenedy made 30 appearances for us across four different campaigns, and scored three goals. The first was in a League Cup win at Walsall in September 2015, and a few months later his only Premier League strike came just 39 seconds into our 2-1 win against Norwich. He departed for Real Valladolid, following several loan spells at clubs, in 2022.

Filipe Luis

Regarded as one of the best left-backs in the world when he arrived from Atletico Madrid, Filipe Luis could not displace Cesar Azpilicueta in our title-winning team and returned to Spain after just a year.

He did however provided one moment of goalscoring quality, curling in a fine free-kick in a League Cup quarter-final victory at Derby County. We would go on to lift the trophy.

Willian

Willian is our top Brazilian goalscorer by some distance. His 63 goals, scored between 2013 and 2020, have him 25 clear of his good friend Oscar.

Willian’s first was a brilliant bending effort at Norwich and he was a regular contributor to the scoresheet throughout a fine Blues career that contained several trophy triumphs.

Among his many memorable efforts, the 90th-minute winner against Everton in February 2015 at the Bridge felt like a decisive moment in the title race that season.

Willian’s pinpoint finish at the end of a wonderful team move at Brighton won the Chelsea Goal of the Season award for 2018, while he bagged braces against Spurs in the 2017 FA Cup semi-final and then on our first visit to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium shortly before Christmas in 2019.

Oscar

Two minutes after finding the net for the first time as a Blue, in a Champions League group game at home to Juventus, Oscar doubled his tally with one of our finest goals this century. He swivelled around Andrea Pirlo before bending an unstoppable effort into the top corner past Gianluigi Buffon. It won the Chelsea Goal of the Season award in 2013.

That was a prize he reclaimed in 2015 courtesy of an outside-the-boot strike against QPR in a title-winning campaign, while three of his 38 goals for Chelsea came in an FA Cup win at MK Dons the following season.

David Luiz

David Luiz scored on his third appearance for us, a brilliant, controlled volley to draw us level in an eventual 2-1 win over title rivals Manchester United in March 2011. It epitomised the technical quality of the loveable defender, who bagged 18 goals in 248 Chelsea appearances.

That trend of scoring against top opposition continued through his Blues career, with Liverpool and Manchester City among his other victims. David Luiz’s best strike was perhaps a thunderous long-range effort at Craven Cottage, while he also scored the first goal of our victorious Champions League campaign of 2011/12, in a 2-0 win against Bayer Leverkusen.

Ramires

Midfielder Ramires may not have been a great goalscorer – finding the net 34 times in 248 games - but he was certainly a scorer of great goals. He picked up the Chelsea Goal of the Season awards in each of his first two campaigns at the Bridge.

The first was a dancing slalom through the Man City defence followed by a fine finish, while the second was that unbelievable chip in the Nou Camp that deserves its place on any list of iconic Chelsea goals.

Juliano Belletti

Belletti was another player with an eye for the spectacular, although Blues fans may not have known the right-back was so capable until a long-ranger flew into the top corner at Wigan a few months after he signed from Barcelona.

Belletti then scored in two games at home to Tottenham, including our 2008 Goal of the Season. Another special strike up north, this time at Middlesbrough, followed, and his last goal for us was also memorable - a late equaliser against Stoke that preceded an even later winner from Frank Lampard in January 2009.

Alex

A couple of weeks before Belletti struck, the other Brazilian that arrived at the Bridge in the summer of 2007 opened his Chelsea account in style with a thumping free-kick at the Riverside.

Those spectacular set-piece goals became a trademark of the man known as ‘The Tank’, who scored ten goals for us. Rockets against Liverpool and Arsenal in front of the Matthew Harding Stand spring to mind, while the Brazilian flair he could display was on show at the end of a counter-attack against Coventry in the FA Cup.