Maurizio Sarri started his Premier League life with four wins on the bounce. It marks the first time since the 2014/15 season that Chelsea have won their opening four games of the season.
The Blues won four of opening matches of a Premier League for the seventh time. Chelsea won the title in all but one of those seasons, in 2010/11, when they finished second.
If Chelsea can hold off a title challenge from Liverpool and Manchester City and finish the season as champions, it will be the sixth time a manager has won a Premier League in their debut season at a club.
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Jose Mourinho (CHELSEA) 2004/05
The Special one joined Chelsea in the summer of 2004 after winning the Champions League with Porto and made an immediate impression on the Premier League. Mourinho had secured Chelsea's first top-flight domestic title in 50 years at the first time of asking with 95 points (a record beaten by Guardiola’s Manchester City last season), while conceding the fewest amount of goals (15).
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Carlo Ancelotti (CHELSEA) 2009/10
Carlo Ancelotti succeeded Guus Hiddink at Stamford Bridge and won the Premier League and FA Cup in his first season at the club - Chelsea's first ever domestic double - as well as the Community Shield.
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Manuel Pellegrini (MANCHESTER CITY) 2013/14
Pellegrini became only the fifth coach from outside Europe to manage in the Premier League when he was appointed Manchester City boss in 2013. City became the quickest team to surpass the 100 goals for the season mark in all competitions, which they did in January after just 34 games. They would go on to score 151 goals by the end of the season - an English football record.
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Claudio Ranieri (LEICESTER) 2015/16
The Foxes were 5000/1 to win the title before the season started, but a consistent line-up led by Jamie Vardy - who broke the Premier League record by scoring in 11 consecutive league matches before Christmas - led to their first top-flight title in their 132-year history.
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Antonio Conte (CHELSEA) 2016/17
Following Jose Mourinho's dismissal and a tenth-placed finish the season before, Antonio Conte was announced as Chelsea boss in April 2016. Conte won three consecutive Manager of the Month awards that season - the first manager to do so - while Chelsea set a new Premier League record for the most amount of victories in a season, winning 30 of their 38 games.
