Career record
Didier Drogba is a forward, born 11 March 1978, listed at 189 cm, and holds Ivory Coast, France citizenship. The club record here runs 1998–2018 across 9 clubs, 511 appearances and 219 goals.
The longest stay was Chelsea F.C., 8 years from 2004 to 2012 and 226 appearances. Chelsea F.C. accounts for the most football: 226 appearances of the 511 on record. The best scoring rate came at CF Montréal — 24 in 39, a goal every 1.6 games. Across 20 years there were 8 moves, roughly one every 2.5 seasons. At senior international level the record is 104 caps and 65 goals.
| Club | Years | Appearances | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Mans F.C. | 1998–2002 | 64 | 12 |
| En Avant de Guingamp | 2002–2003 | 45 | 20 |
| Olympique de Marseille | 2003–2004 | 35 | 19 |
| Chelsea F.C. | 2004–2012 | 226 | 100 |
| Shanghai Shenhua F.C. | 2012–2013 | 11 | 8 |
| Galatasaray S.K. | 2013–2014 | 37 | 15 |
| Chelsea F.C. | 2014–2015 | 28 | 4 |
| CF Montréal | 2015–2016 | 39 | 24 |
| Phoenix Rising FC | 2017–2018 | 26 | 17 |
International record
| Team | Years | Caps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast men's national football team | 2002–2014 | 104 | 65 |
His clubs, in this archive
The archive covers 8 of the seasons Didier Drogba spent at Chelsea F.C., 2004/05 to 2011/12. Chelsea F.C. won the Premier League three times in that span and finished in the top four seven times, averaging 82 points a season. The single covered season at Olympique de Marseille is 2003/04, when they finished 7th of 20 on 57 points. The single covered season at Chelsea F.C. is 2014/15, when they finished 1st of 20 on 87 points. Those placings are recalculated from the individual results rather than copied from a table, so they can be read against any other club on this site.
| Season | Competition | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olympique de Marseille, 2003/04 | |||
| 2003/04 | Ligue 1 | 7th of 20 | 57 |
| Chelsea F.C., 2004/05–2011/12 | |||
| 2004/05 | Premier League | 1st of 20 | 95 |
| 2005/06 | Premier League | 1st of 20 | 91 |
| 2006/07 | Premier League | 2nd of 20 | 83 |
| 2007/08 | Premier League | 2nd of 20 | 85 |
| 2008/09 | Premier League | 3rd of 20 | 83 |
| 2009/10 | Premier League | 1st of 20 | 86 |
| 2010/11 | Premier League | 2nd of 20 | 71 |
| 2011/12 | Premier League | 6th of 20 | 64 |
| Chelsea F.C., 2014/15 | |||
| 2014/15 | Premier League | 1st of 20 | 87 |
Only the seasons this archive holds are listed — it begins in 2000/01 and covers league matches in the five competitions named above, so a career that started earlier or ran through other leagues shows a gap here rather than a blank.
How this page is put together
The career table above is the structured record held on Wikidata under a public-domain licence, read once and cached, not queried while you are reading. The player is bound to that record by date of birth rather than by name: a name search returns the wrong Klose and three different Robinhos, and a page carrying somebody else’s links cannot afford that.
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Frequently asked
When and where was Didier Drogba born?
11 March 1978, and holds Ivory Coast, France citizenship.
Which clubs did Didier Drogba play for?
9 on record: Le Mans F.C., En Avant de Guingamp, Olympique de Marseille, Chelsea F.C., Shanghai Shenhua F.C., Galatasaray S.K., Chelsea F.C., CF Montréal….
How many of those seasons are in this archive?
10 of them, at 3 clubs. The archive runs from 2000/01 and covers the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, so seasons outside that window or in other leagues are not counted.
How long did the career last?
From 1998 to 2018 on the club record here, 20 years across 9 clubs in 2 of the five leagues this archive covers.
Which competitions can this site say anything about?
Ligue 1, Premier League. Those are the ones his clubs played in during the seasons the archive holds; the rest of the career is listed above but has no placings beside it.
Where do these figures come from?
The career record is the structured data held for this player on Wikidata, which is public-domain. The league placings and points beside it are not: those are recalculated here from every individual result in the archive, which is why they can be compared with any other club or season on this site.