The 12 Europeans (non-UK) who won Chelsea FC’s Player of the Year Award are Petar Borota (Yugoslavia 1981), Ken Monkou (Netherlands 1990), Andy Townsend (Ireland 1991), Erland Johnsen (Norway 1995), Ruud Gullit (Netherlands 1996), Gianfranco Zola (Italy 1999 & 2003), Carlo Cudicini (Italy 2002), Petr Čech (Czech Republic 2011), Juan Mata (Spain 2012 & 2013), Eden Hazard (Belgium 2014, 2015, 2017 & 2019), N’Golo Kanté (France 2018) and Mateo Kovačić (Croatia 2020). updated 04.12.20