So, this is it then, after 37 matches and 3,330 minutes played in the 2025/2026 Premier League season, Arsenal are Champions with a game to spare. Manchester City, our title rivals, failed to win against a well drilled Andoni Iraola Bournemouth side who qualified for European football next season for the first time in their history. A sweet curling effort by Kroupi Jnr on 39 minutes sent the Vitaity Stadium into raptures (and millions of Arsenal fans worldwide too) and although Erling Haaland grabbed a 95th minute equaliser, it was too little too late.
Of those 37 matches played this season, Arsenal have won twenty five, drawn seven and lost five, scoring 69 goals and conceding 26 along the way. Their latest win against relegated Burnley on Monday night which restored their 5 point gap over City proved to be the league winning match that had the fans daring to believe that this is the year, that finally after 22 years since the Arsenal last lifted the Premier League trophy that they get to do it again this year.
Bournemouth granted their wish with their fantastic result against City, and nobody can say it was undeserved and congratulations to them on securing European football for next season. Overall, to this point in the season Arsenal have played a mammoth sixty one games, that of course will increase to sixty three when the Premier League reaches its conclusion next Sunday and the Gunners play the final of the Champions League against Paris Saint Germain a week later.
Those games so far were made up from Premier League matches (37), F.A Cup matches (4), Carabao Cup matches (6) and Champions League (14), they scored 126 goals across those campaigns while conceding only 48 and set a new record for the group stages in the Champions League, winning all 8 games (previously all groups had 6 matches), a tremendous achievement in the modern game where teams are so closely matched.
The future for the club looks bright also with the first team winning the league and the average age of the team coming in at just over 26 years old and that’s before any additions would be made in the summer. All things considered, it has been the best season that Mikel Arteta has produced since taking over as Gunners boss In December 2019, a league winning season which had its ups and downs and a season full of incredible and memorable moments.
The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions. pic.twitter.com/gNnfzesrhP
— Arsenal (@Arsenal) May 19, 2026
Manchester City
Manchester City, as expected, gave Arsenal a terrific and terrifying chase to the finish line and to their credit maintained that pressure right to the end. Pep Guardiola who is rumoured to be leaving City this summer, had seen his team win both domestic cups this season and were pressing hard to make that a treble with a last day overhaul of the Gunners. However, their game against Bournemouth on Tuesday night was a game that they simply had to win to prolong the title chase until the weekend and it proved to be a step too far the Sky Blues.
Managing Minutes
With their Champions League final against PSG fast approaching, Mikel Arteta will be in a great position now to manage the minutes of some of his key players ahead of that historic game. Players like Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka, William Saliba, David Raya and Gabriel who have been pivotal to the league title success this year will possibly get some time to recover their fitness ahead of the May 30th clash. Arteta’s Gunners will travel across London to face Crystal Palace on Sunday as Champions and what a day that will be for the fans who have been waiting on this occasion since 2004. Palace to their credit this season have also got a European Conference League final to think about against Rayo Vallecano the following Wednesday (27th May).
Achievements
Monday’s win over Burnley saw David Raya register his 19th Premier League clean sheet of 2025/26 and the team now have kept 32 clean sheets this season in all competitions, that’s six more than any other side in Europe’s big five leagues and another remarkable achievement for the Arsenal.
To conclude, it has been a rollercoaster of emotions for Arsenal fans this season but their dream of finally seeing their team being crowned Premier League Champions has been realised and all the ups and downs has been worth it. The party has started in north London and it will continue right up to the Champions League final where, who knows, it starts again…
COYG
