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Hasselbaink scored 23 goals in 35 league appearances in the 2000-01 season, including a volley from outside the penalty area against Manchester United and a four-goal haul against Coventry City ; he finished the season as the Premier League's top goal scorer.

At the start of the next season he earned the distinction of scoring the first competitive goal at Southampton's new St Mary's Stadium.

He formed a productive partnership with Iceland striker Eiður Guðjohnsen in his second year with Chelsea, scoring 29 goals in all competitions and helping Guðjohnsen to 23 in a season which also saw Chelsea reach the FA Cup final.

Hasselbaink was injured in the game prior to the final and, clearly unfit, he was substituted early on at Millennium Stadium as Chelsea lost 2 – 0.

In his last two seasons with Chelsea the goals dried up.

He scored only 11 goals in 27 games in 2002-03, though in the next season he scored 17 goals in all competitions which, despite the arrival of new strikers Adrian Mutu and Hernán Crespo, made him top scorer at the club for the third time in four years.

He ended his Chelsea career with 87 goals in 177 games in all competitions.