A decade without an England player winning the Chelsea Player of the Year

Chelsea is a 6-time First Division/Premier League champion. Many English legends such as Peter Bonetti, David Webb, Gary Locke, Joe Cole, John Terry and Frank Lampard have been inducted into the Chelsea football team’s Hall of Fame. However, it is noteworthy that only one English footballer has won the Chelsea Player of the Year award in the last 12 years. English midfielder Mason Mount won the Chelsea Player of the Year award for 2021 and 2022. Before that, if you check the status from 2011 to 2020, you can see that not a single England player has been selected as Chelsea Player of the Year.

In 2011, Czech Republic goalkeeper Petr Cech was named Chelsea Player of the Year. Spanish attacking midfielder Juan Mata has been named Chelsea’s player of the year for two consecutive years. Juan Mata, who won the Chelsea Player of the Year award in 2012 and 2013, became the first Spanish player to win the Chelsea Player of the Year award. In 2014 and 2015, Belgian player Eden Hazard won the Chelsea Player of the Year award.

In 2016, Brazilian player Willian won the Chelsea Player of the Year award. Willian is the only Brazilian player in the history of Chelsea Football Club to win the Chelsea Player of the Year award. In 2017, Belgium winger Eden Hazard was awarded the Chelsea Player of the Year award. In 2018, French midfielder N’Golo Kante won the Player of the Year award.

In 2019, former Belgium captain Eden Hazard was again named Chelsea Player of the Year. Eden Hazard has been named Chelsea Player of the Year four times. Croatian midfielder Mateo Kovacic has been named Chelsea Player of the Year for 2020. Before Mason Mount, who was named Chelsea Player of the Year for 2021 and 2022, Frank Lampard was the England footballer who was named Chelsea Player of the Year in 2009.