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Chelsea On Course for Their Highest Scoring Season of All Time?

It’s very early on in the 2026/27 season to be making any grand statements or predictions of success for Chelsea.

But after seven rounds of Premier League games, Xabi Alonso’s side have already set a remarkable pace when it comes to scoring goals.

Chelsea have notched 17 goals in those seven outings, which equates to a handsome 2.42 per game. If the Blues can maintain that ratio, they’ll end the EPL campaign with 92 goals.

And to offer some context as to why that is significant, they’ve only surpassed the 75-goal mark in five seasons since 1992… and only bettered that 92 goal milestone once before during the Premier League era.

Here’s a quick look back at Chelsea’s most prolific EPL seasons to date:

2023/24 – 77 Goals

Pos W D L GF GA GD Pts
6th 18 9 11 77 63 +14 63

In the annals of Chelsea FC history, Mauricio Pochettino will barely warrant a footnote.

But he did oversee one of the best goalscoring seasons in Chelsea’s history; certainly of the Premier League era, anyway.

The Blues blasted 77 goals, with Cole Palmer (22) enjoying the best campaign of his career to date and Nicolas Jackson (14) showcasing why he’s so highly regarded – despite his time at Stamford Bridge failing to reach the heights.

There were some remarkable results and performances – backing up the 4-1 win at Tottenham with a 4-4 draw with Man City springs immediately to mind, but sadly the Blues were too vulnerable defensively to take full advantage of their attacking spark.

Pochettino’s side conceded 63 goals, so despite good runs in the domestic cups, they had to settle for a below-par sixth in the Premier League table.

2016/17 – 85 Goals

Pos W D L GF GA GD Pts
1st 30 3 5 85 33 +52 93

If you want to challenge for a league title, you need a series of consistent routes to goal.

And that’s exactly what Antonio Conte found with his 2016/17 vintage, who romped to the EPL championship after notching 85 goals in their 38 games.

The Blues benefitted from not playing in European competition – it will be fascinating to see if the Class of 2026/27 can similarly take advantage, but they still had the class to score at a rate of 2.23 goals per outing.

Diego Costa and Eden Hazard did much of the heavy lifting, although they were joined by Willian and Pedro in firing Chelsea to their fifth Premier League title.

2009/10 – 103 Goals

Pos W D L GF GA GD Pts
1st 27 5 6 103 32 +71 86

There have been only five instances during a 38-game Premier League season in which a team has scored 100+ goals.

And only Manchester City, in 2017/18, have scored more in a single campaign than Chelsea’s 103-goal haul of 2009/10.

The swaggering Blues side forged by Carlo Ancelotti won the Premier League by a single point, despite an outrageous goal difference of +71.

They broke all sorts of records along the way, including most goals in an EPL season (at the time), best goal difference and more besides – they also became the first top-flight team in nearly 50 years to breach the 100-goal milestone.

Didier Drogba (29), Frank Lampard (22) and Florent Malouda (12) were the key contributors to one of Chelsea’s best-ever seasons.

Pedro Joins Palmer in Trademarking Celebration

Hopefully, there will plenty more goals for Chelsea fans to enjoy this term.

A chief architect may well be Joao Pedro, who is so confident in his own ability right now that he’s trademarked his ‘face covered, thumbs down’ goal celebration.

He joins teammate Cole Palmer, who has also trademarked his ‘ice cold’ shivering celebration… much to the chagrin of Morgan Rogers, who performed something similar while at Aston Villa.

When quizzed about his new colleague copying his motif, Palmer – in his own inimitable style – threatened Rogers with legal action. “I’ve trademarked it, so if he tries to do anything, he’ll have the bailiffs at his door! Nah, we’ll do it together.”

Chelsea goal celebrations don’t come much more iconic than the backflip – performed first by Celestine Babayaro and then his Nigerian compatriot Victor Moses.

We’ve also seen Andriy Shevchenko channelling the spirit of Brazil ’94 with his ‘rocking the baby’, which Frank Lampard also temporarily adopted, as well as Didier Drogba’s knee slide and Ramires’ two-step.

Perhaps the best of the bunch came back in 2014, when Jose Mourinho erroneously – or perhaps knowingly, given his sense of humour – questioned the age of Samuel Eto’o. “We have Eto’o but he is 32 years old, maybe 35, who knows?” the Portuguese quipped.

When the Cameroon marksman found the net against Spurs next time out, he celebrated by hobbling to the corner flag and holding his back… pretending to be a pensioner.