After years of near misses, Arsenal finally got over the line to win the Premier League title in 2025-26. We break down the key numbers behind a campaign built on defensive excellence, relentless consistency and very, very fine margins.
Arsenal have done it. Finally. After 22 years, they are champions of England once again.
Manchester City’s 1-1 draw at Bournemouth on Tuesday night means Arsenal now hold an unassailable lead at the top of the Premier League with one game remaining. It’s their 14th top-flight crown overall, their fourth Premier League title, and their first since the famous Invincibles campaign of 2003-04.
Back then, the defining number was zero. Zero defeats across an entire league season. But what numbers best define this Arsenal side?
Here are 10 that tell the story of their title-winning campaign.
18 – Goals from Corners
A defining characteristic of Arsenal under Mikel Arteta has been their dominance from set-pieces. It’s always been a focus of their play, but it has been particularly pronounced this campaign. They have scored 28 of their 68 league goals from dead-ball situations this season, three more than any other side.
But it’s at corners specifically where they’ve been the most dangerous, scoring 18 of them in 2025-26, which is a new Premier League seasonal record.
Perhaps it says a lot about the direction of the style of the Premier League that the record – overtaking the 16 scored by Oldham Athletic in 1992-93 – has been broken twice this season. First by Arsenal, who now have the outright record, and then by Tottenham, who have scored 17 goals from corners this season.
Arsenal’s effectiveness from corners has, at times, been used as a stick with which to beat them. Critics have argued their reliance on set-pieces makes their football predictable or overly functional.
There may be some truth in that perception, but elite sides have long understood the value of marginal gains. Set-pieces are not only the preserve of so-called pragmatic or defensive sides. Arsenal have simply become better than everyone else at exploiting them.
19 – David Raya’s Clean Sheets
With his clean sheet against Burnley on Monday night, Gabriel Magalhães.
The pair have started together in 26 Premier League games this season, with Arsenal winning 17 of those. That total is joint-highest in the division alongside Liverpool duo Ibrahima Konaté and Virgil van Dijk, despite the latter pair starting together a lot more frequently (35 matches).
Among centre-back pairings to start together more than five times this season, Saliba and Gabriel have comfortably the best clean sheet rate. The Gunners have kept 15 clean sheets in their 26 starts together, averaging one every 1.7 games.
53 – Points Against Bottom-Half Teams
For much of Arteta’s tenure, Arsenal did not really have a problem competing with the teams at the top of the table.
Since the start of the 2022-23 season, the first of Arsenal’s three consecutive second-placed finishes, they’ve taken more points (76) against fellow ‘big-six’ rivals than anyone else. They’ve lost just six of 40 such games.
But it’s been the teams they should have beaten that have been the real problem.
In 2023-24, when they last went toe-to-toe with Manchester City in a title race, there were back-to-back defeats against West Ham and Fulham over Christmas that derailed their chances. The season prior, there was a limp defeat away to Everton in February, and then two crazy draws in consecutive games against West Ham (2-2) and Southampton (3-3) in April.
This season, however, Arsenal have been ruthless against weaker opposition (at least in league table terms).
They’ve won 17 of their 19 matches against teams currently in the bottom half of the table, taking 53 points and conceding just six goals in those games. They’ve taken an average of 2.8 points per game against bottom-half sides this season, which is by far the best rate of any team, and comfortably exceeds Manchester City’s 2.3, who come next.
It was quite fitting that a tense but resolute 1-0 win over relegated Burnley ultimately sealed the title.
238 – Days Spent Top of the Table
Arsenal have been no strangers to leading across the last four seasons. The problem has been remaining there when the music stops.
Come the end of the season on Sunday, they will have led the league for 238 days this season, 204 more days than Liverpool and a huge 229 more days than City. Unlike in prior campaigns, this time they’ve made it count.
That hasn’t always been the case. In 2022-23, Arsenal spent 232 days top of the league, 206 more than eventual winners Manchester City (42), but could not get over the line. That is still the record for the most days spent top by a side who’ve failed to go on to win the title.
In fact, since the start of 2022-23, Arsenal will have spent 562 days top of the Premier League at the end of this season after winning the 2025-26 title on Tuesday night, 207 more than any other club. Until now, they had little reward to show for it.
14 – Viktor Gyökeres’ League Goals
As these numbers lay bare, Arsenal’s title has been built on defensive dominance rather than free-flowing expansive attacking football.
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