The Gunners are guaranteed to finish in first place after Man City draw at AFC BournemouthArsenal are the 2025/26 Premier League champions, winning the title for the first time in 22 years. Manchester City’s 1-1 draw at AFC Bournemouth on Tuesday night leaves them four points adrift of first place in the Premier League table, so they are unable to catch the Gunners on the final day of the season.
Arsenal’s success follows three consecutive seasons in which they finished as runners-up, including in 2023/24 when Man City pipped them to the title by an agonising margin of two points. Arsenal have now won four Premier League titles, putting them two clear of Liverpool and only one behind Chelsea. Manchester United have won 13 Premier League titles and Man City have won eight. The only other clubs to have been crowned Premier League champions are Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City, with one triumph each.Across the full history of the English top flight, Arsenal have now been crowned champions 14 times – behind only Liverpool and Man Utd, who have both won the title 20 times.
Arsenal’s success means the title has been won by three different clubs in the last three seasons, following Liverpool in 2024/25 and Man City in 2023/24. This is only the fifth time the Premier League has produced three or more different winners in successive seasons.
The last time such a sequence occurred, Leicester City’s fairytale triumph in 2015/16 was followed by Chelsea in 2016/17 and then Man City in 2017/18, Pep Guardiola’s first title-winning campaign.The only longer run was a four-year stretch from 2012/13 to 2015/16, when the trophy changed hands between Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea and Leicester Record-breaker Dowman Arsenal teenager Max Dowman has made history as the youngest player ever to win the Premier League. Two months after becoming the competition’s youngest goalscorer, at 16 years and 73 days, he surpasses Phil Foden’s record.
Foden won the title with Man City when aged 17 years and 350 days in 2017/18; Dowman will be 16 years and 144 days old on the final day of this campaign.Having made more than five appearances, one of the 40 commemorative silver medals sent to Arsenal to distribute will be given to him.
Team effort Arsenal’s success has been built on spreading goals around the team. Viktor Gyokeres, signed last summer, is their leading goalscorer, but Bukayo Saka, Eberechi Eze, Leandro Trossard, Martin Zubimendi, Declan Rice and Mikel Merino have all contributed regularly.Assists have been similarly shared, with Trossard, Martin Odegaard, Rice, Saka, Jurien Timber and Gabriel Magalhaes contributing at least four each.
At the back, goalkeeper David Raya has been outstanding, winning the Coca-Cola Premier League Golden Glove award – for keeping the most clean sheets – for a third successive season.
Arsenal’s previous title: 2003/04 Patrick Vieira was the last Arsenal captain to lift the Premier League trophy, in 2003/04, leading a side that featured stars such as Thierry Henry – the Golden Boot winner with 30 goals – Ashley Cole, Sol Campbell and Dennis Bergkamp.The team became known as “The Invincibles” after remaining unbeaten throughout their entire 38-match league campaign. They collected 90 points, from 26 victories and 12 draws.
Arsenal have won five FA Cups and six FA Community Shields since 2004, but the Premier League trophy had eluded them until now.
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