Player stats

Cole Palmer is the fastest Chelsea player to reach 50 Premier League goal involvements (33 goals, 17 assists in 48 games).

Palmer became the first player in Premier League history to score four goals before half-time in a single match in our 4-2 victory against Brighton. He joined Jimmy Greaves (December 1960 vs West Brom) as the only Chelsea player to manage four goals before the break in the top flight.

Palmer’s first three goals against Brighton (nine minutes, 48 seconds) broke the record Noni Madueke had set a month earlier at Wolves (13 minutes, 59 seconds) for our quickest Premier League treble.

Each of Madueke’s three goals was assisted by Palmer, who became the fifth player in the Premier League to register that feat, and the first for Chelsea.

Madueke became the 23rd different player to score a Premier League hat-trick for Chelsea. We have more unique hat-trick scorers than any other side in the competition.

Palmer has now scored three Premier League hat-tricks, the joint-most of any Chelsea player in the competition’s history (level with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard).

Against Shamrock Rovers, Marc Guiu (aged 18 years, 350 days) became the second youngest player to score a hat-trick for Chelsea behind Jimmy Greaves, who scored his first treble on Christmas Day 1957 against Portsmouth (17 years 308 days).

After his first Blues goal at St Mary’s, Jadon Sancho became the 500th different player in our history to score for Chelsea (excluding own goals). The first Chelsea player to do so was player-manager Jacky Robertson, who notched the only goal in our second ever match at Blackpool on 9 September 1905.

Joao Felix became the fourteenth player to return and play for Chelsea for a second spell and the fourth to score on his ‘second debut’.

Christopher Nkunku scored in six consecutive European matches. He is the only Chelsea player to have achieved this feat.

Josh Acheampong, Sam Rak-Sakyi, Tyrique George and Marc Guiu were all named in the line-up for our win over Astana, which meant we started four teenagers in a competitive European fixture for the first time.

Cobham graduate Reggie Walsh became the Blues’ third-youngest ever debutant and youngest in Europe when he came on as a substitute in our 4-1 win at Djurgarden.

A week later, at 16 years and 200 days, Walsh replaced Shimmy Mheuka (17 years and 137 days) as Chelsea's youngest ever European starter.

Walsh wore the highest ever shirt number (81) for Chelsea, beating Mheuka’s 76, Lewis Hall’s 75 and Callum Hudson-Odoi’s 70.

Against Southampton at home, Mheuka became our fourth youngest player (aged 17 years 128 days) to appear in the Premier League after Jody Morris (17 years 44 days), Callum Hudson-Odoi (17 years 85 days) and Ethan Ampadu (17 years 89 days).

Head coach stats

Enzo Maresca is the first manager in Premier League history to see his team score six goals in his first away game in the competition.

Maresca is the first manager to win each of his first three away Premier League games since Pep Guardiola in September 2016.

Maresca played a club-record 39 different players this season, beating last season’s previous record of 36.

Maresca gave a debut to eight Academy graduates, a joint Chelsea club record. They were: George, Rak-Sakyi, Ato Ampah, Mheuka, Kiano Dyer, Harrison Murray-Campbell, Genesis Antwi and Walsh.

We will be bringing you more Chelsea stats and facts from 2024/25, courtesy of our club statistician Paul Dutton, in the coming days...