LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Didier Drogba is leaving Chelsea for the second time and will play his last game for the Premier League champions against Sunderland on Sunday.
The Ivory Coast striker, who first signed for Chelsea in 2004, has scored 104 goals in 253 league matches, becoming a talisman during the most successful era in the west London club's history.
Drogba will be best remembered for scoring a late equaliser and the decisive spot-kick in the penalty shootout against Bayern Munich which won the 2012 Champions League final.
The 37 year-old re-signed for Chelsea last year, after leaving the club in 2012 for Shanghai Shenhua and then Turkey's Galatasaray following a highly successful eight year spell.