Chelsea top scorers 2024/25: Strong starts for Madueke and Jackson

Carlo Garganese

• Updated: 3 Sept 2024 10:04 BST
• 6 min read

Chelsea entered the 2024/25 season starting another new era, with Enzo Maresca now in charge of the team.

Last season ended up being the sole year under the stewardship of former boss Mauricio Pochettino, who was sacked after an up-and-down campaign.

He was axed despite a late rally which saw Chelsea finish sixth in the Premier League to claim a European spot, while they also fell just short in the EFL Cup final, losing in extra time to Liverpool, and later made the FA Cup semi-finals.

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Cole Palmer was the Chelsea top scorer last season and Maresca will hope the attacking midfielder can repeat the stunning form he showed in his debut season after signing from Manchester City.

England international Palmer, who also went on to score against Spain in the Euro 2024 final, finished the club campaign with a superb 25 goals in all competitions and was rewarded with a new contract.

Palmer scored 22 of those goals in the Premier League, which saw him finish second only to former Man City team-mate Erling Haaland in England’s top-flight Golden Boot race.

Nicolas Jackson scored 17 goals to finish second to Palmer in the Chelsea goal rankings. Raheem Sterling (10) was the only other Blues player to reach double figures but he was allowed to leave by Maresca, with the forward joining rivals Arsenal.

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Having a player in prolific goalscoring form like Palmer was a welcome change for Chelsea. His winning tally was a vast improvement from the 2022/23 campaign, when none of their players were able to reach 10 goals.

Jackson, Enzo Fernandez, Noni Madueke and Mykhailo Mudryk are other candidates to be the leading Chelsea goalscorer this season.

Christopher Nkunku is also likely to be a huge threat if he can stay injury free after enduring a heavily disrupted debut season having signed from RB Leipzig.

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Joao Felix, Jadon Sancho, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Pedro Neto, Marc Guiu and Omari Kellyman are among the attacking signings made by Maresca for the new season who will also compete to top the club’s scoring standings.

This page will be updated with Chelsea's top scorers in the Premier League and all competitions after every matchday this season.

Chelsea: Premier League top scorers 2024/25

Chelsea have scored seven goals in their three Premier League matches so far in the 2024/25 season.

Chelsea did not score in their first match of the season. Erling Haaland and Mateo Kovacic netted for Man City in a 2-0 win for the Premier League champions at Stamford Bridge.

But Chelsea emphatically responded in their second Premier League game, thrashing Wolves 6-2 at Molineux. Noni Madueke scored a hat-trick, with every one of those strikes set up by Cole Palmer. England international Palmer scored a stunning strike himself and also on target were Nicolas Jackson and, on his second debut for the club, Joao Felix.

MD3 saw Chelsea draw 1-1 at home to Crystal Palace. Jackson scored for the second straight game after being set up by Palmer, but Eberechi Eze equalised for the visitors in the second half.

Chelsea top scorers in all competitions 2024/25

As well as the Premier League, a busy season for Chelsea will include them playing in the UEFA Conference League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.

Chelsea have played two matches outside of the EPL so far, scoring three times in total during those fixtures. It means they netted a total of 10 goals from five matches in all competitions.

Christopher Nkunku scored the first Chelsea goal of the season on August 22. He netted a penalty and Noni Madueke also struck as the Blues defeated Servette 2-0 at home in the first leg of their Uefa Conference League play-off round tie.

Nkunku scored again with a penalty in the second leg, as Chelsea progressed to the Conference League group stage with a 3-2 aggregate win despite losing 2-1 on the night.

Chelsea next fixtures

Chelsea fixtures for 2024/25 include their next match away to Bournemouth in the Premier League on Saturday September 14.

The Blues are also due to play Barrow in the EFL Cup and have EPL matches against West Ham and Brighton coming up this month.

The 25 goals scored by Cole Palmer in 2023/24 meant a Chelsea player had netted 20 or more times for the first time in five seasons.

In 2022/23, a dreadful campaign in front of goal for the Blues meant Kai Havertz and Raheem Sterling finished joint-top of the club's goal rankings despite only netting nine times each.

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Palmer's tally was in fact the highest Chelsea goal total since Didier Drogba scored a magnificent 37 times back in the 2009/10 season.

Drogba, Palmer, Nicolas Anelka and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink are the only players to have registered a 25-goal season for Chelsea in the Premier League era.

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The only Chelsea player to have reached 40 in a single season is club great Jimmy Greaves, who netted a record 43 goals in the 1960–61 campaign.

Palmer will now aim to follow the likes of Diego Costa, Eden Hazard and Tammy Abraham in securing the Chelsea scoring crown in back-to-back seasons.

Which Chelsea players have won the Premier League Golden Boot?

Chelsea players have won the Premier League Golden Boot on four separate occasions, though the feat has only been achieved by three separate stars.

That is because Didier Drogba was a two-time EPL Golden Boot winner for Chelsea.

As a Leeds United player, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink shared the award with Michael Owen and Dwight Yorke after netting 18 top-flight goals in the 1998/99 season and then won it outright for Chelsea in 2000/01 with an impressive 23-goal campaign.

Chelsea then had to wait a little while for their next winner before having three in the space of four seasons.

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Drogba came out on top in 2006/07 with 20 Premier league goals. Cristiano Ronaldo won it for Manchester Unite the following season, but Nicolas Anelka then hit back for Cheslea, taking the 2008/09 Golden Boot with 19 league goals.

It was then Drogba who came out on top in 2009/10, scoring a magnificent 29 goals to secure his second Premier League scoring crown.

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There have been 14 Premier League seasons since then without a Chelsea winner, so the Blues now trail Liverpool (7), Arsenal (6), Man Utd (5) and Tottenham (5) with their total of four Golden Boot wins.

Frank Lampard enjoyed a prolific career for Chelsea, but was never able to win the EPL Golden Boot.

Frank Lampard is the all-time Chelsea top scorer with 211 goals, a total he reached across 648 matches.

The attacking midfielder scored 147 of those goals in the Premier League and 64 across other competitions.

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Another player from the modern era, Lampard's former team-mate Didier Drogba, features prominently in the list at fourth overall with 164 Chelsea goals.

Bobby Tambling (202) was the player Lampard overhauled to get the record in 2013, while Kerry Dixon (193) rounds out the podium places.