Chelsea squad numbers confirmed

We can today announce this season's Chelsea squad numbers, with Franco Di Santo taking the number 9 shirt.

The Argentine forward is one of three new faces in the first team squad, and replaces Steve Sidwell as number 9, following the midfielder's move to Aston Villa last month.

Elsewhere, José Bosingwa takes the number 17 jersey, and Scott Sinclair moves to number 16.

As previously reported Deco has taken the number 20 from Paulo Ferreira due to his academy using the number, and the defender changes to 19.

Those are the only changes from last season.

The full squad list is below.

1 Petr Cech
2 Branislav Ivanovic
3 Ashley Cole
5 Michael Essien
6 Ricardo Carvalho
7 Andriy Shevchenko
8 Frank Lampard
9 Franco Di Santo
10 Joe Cole
11 Didier Drogba
12 John Mikel Obi
13 Michael Ballack
14 Claudio Pizarro
15 Florent Malouda
16 Scott Sinclair
17 José Bosingwa
18 Wayne Bridge
19 Paulo Ferreira
20 Deco
21 Salomon Kalou
23 Carlo Cudicini
24 Shaun Wright-Phillips
26 John Terry
30 Rhys Taylor
33 Alex
35 Juliano Belletti
39 Nicolas Anelka
40 Hilario