Buy Arsenal tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying into a title defence that took twenty-two years to arrange. Mikel Arteta's side finished the last campaign as champions of England on 85 points, reached a Champions League final in Budapest and opened this one by beating Manchester City 3-0 in the Community Shield. The Emirates Stadium has not been this difficult to get into since it opened.
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The calendar is the fullest Arsenal have carried in years. Nineteen Premier League matches in N5, four Champions League league phase nights against Lille, Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid and Sabah, plus FA Cup and Carabao Cup ties from the third round. Every one of those fixtures is sold through a membership system that has no public general sale at all, which is the single fact most first-time buyers find out too late.
What follows covers what a seat at the Emirates actually costs across each competition, how the ballot and membership tiers really work, where to sit in a four-tier ground that has just converted the Clock End lower tier to rail seating, and what a matchday in Islington involves from the tube station to the turnstile. Everything is scoped to Arsenal and to the 2026/27 season.
Arsenal do not hold a public sale for home matches. That is not a scarcity tactic, it is simply what happens when a 60,704-seat ground carries a season ticket base that absorbs the vast majority of it and a membership scheme that mops up what is left. Everything that reaches supporters goes through Gold season tickets, Platinum Club Level, then Silver and Red ballots, in that order. If you are outside that structure, the club's own route offers you nothing.
The waiting list makes the point sharply. Joining costs fifty pounds for an adult, the club declines to publish any estimate of how long progression takes and its own guidance notes that summer 2025 was the first occasion since 2022 that anyone from the list was offered a season ticket at all. Estimates of the list's length circulate at north of a hundred thousand names, though Arsenal have never confirmed a figure and the widely repeated twenty-year wait is extrapolation rather than club data.
A resale marketplace works on entirely different mechanics. Listings come from season ticket holders and members who cannot make a particular date, so inventory keeps appearing through the week of a fixture rather than disappearing at one ballot deadline. You can buy for a specific match without a membership, compare what the upper tier costs against the lower tier before committing and secure a Real Madrid night in December while you are still working out the rest of the trip.
1BoxOffice has run as a verified secondary marketplace since 2006, which covers the whole of the Emirates era at Arsenal and most of the Highbury run before it. Every listing comes from a seller whose inventory has been checked before it goes live, and every order carries a guarantee that returns 150% of what you paid if the tickets do not work.
For a club with no public sale that protection matters more than it does elsewhere. Buying through a marketplace with tracked delivery and support available around the clock takes the guesswork out of the part of the process where supporters without a membership usually come unstuck.
Arsenal sold out every home league match last season on the way to the title, drew 60,345 for the north London derby in November 2025 and opened this campaign with 60,098 against Coventry City. Winning the league after twenty-two years does not create demand at a club this size so much as concentrate it, and the Champions League final in Budapest three weeks later added a layer of interest from supporters who had never seen Arsenal go that far.
Several pressures act at once and they do not weigh equally across the fixture list. Working out which apply to the match you want is the difference between paying a hundred pounds and paying several times that.
The upshot is that Arsenal's season splits into distinct tiers rather than sitting on one price line. A midweek cup tie and a Saturday derby are different products sold under the same badge, and choosing between them saves considerably more than hunting for a better seat within a single fixture.
Arsenal price by category, and for 2026/27 the club expanded the system from three bands to five. Category A sits at the top for the derby and the visits of Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United, with a new B+ band applied to two Premier League fixtures and a new A+ band reserved for Champions League quarter-finals and semi-finals at fifteen per cent above Category A. Member prices in the A, B and C bands were held flat.
Face values give you the floor for Arsenal tickets in every band. A Category C seat on the lower wing has historically sat around thirty pounds, a Category A seat in the upper centre well north of a hundred and forty, and away supporters are protected by the Premier League's thirty-pound cap on general admission. Resale sits above that floor by a margin that tracks demand rather than seat quality, which is why a poor seat for Tottenham costs more than a good one for a midweek cup tie.
Champions League pricing moved slightly in supporters' favour this season, with the four home league phase matches shifting from an A-B-B-B structure to A-B-B-C. That still leaves Real Madrid at the top of the range. The table below shows typical resale bands for 2026/27.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Premier League (standard fixtures) | £110 – £360 |
| Premier League (Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United) | £400 – £900+ |
| North London derby | £690 – £2,000+ |
| FA Cup and Carabao Cup | £40 – £180 |
| Champions League league phase | £220 – £750+ |
| Hospitality / VIP | £275 – £2,000+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Not through the club, no. Arsenal run no public sale for home fixtures and every seat that is not a season ticket goes to members through ballots, with Silver and Platinum drawn ahead of Red and the Ticket Exchange opening only once a match has sold out. A Red Membership costs thirty-eight pounds a year, a Silver fifty-nine and capped, and neither guarantees you a ticket for anything.
The practical routes for a non-member are three. Hospitality and authorised agents sell matchday packages at a premium. The season ticket waiting list costs fifty pounds to join and has no published timeline. Or you use the regulated secondary market, which is where most supporters without a membership actually end up, and where the seat exists because a Gold member could not attend.
One caution worth stating plainly. Arsenal police touting hard and have cancelled tens of thousands of accounts for it, so buy from a marketplace that verifies its sellers and read the listing notes on how the ticket transfers to you before you commit. Arsenal issue digital tickets through their own app rather than PDFs, which makes the transfer method the thing to check rather than the format.
Arsenal sell two season ticket products. The 23-game Gold ticket covers nineteen Premier League matches plus the four Champions League league phase games and is composed of six Category A fixtures, two B+, eleven B and four C. The 19-game version is league only, with five A, two B+, nine B and three C, and gives holders a guaranteed purchase window for European nights rather than including them.
Prices rose an average of 3.9% for 2026/27, the fifth consecutive increase since the price freezes ended, working out at roughly two pounds more per match on general admission. That leaves Arsenal with the highest season ticket entry point in the division. Holders also carry a utilisation obligation: a 23-game ticket must be used for at least twenty matches, though listing a seat on Ticket Exchange or transferring it to a friend counts as use, so the rule targets empty seats rather than absent supporters.
| Product | What It Covers | Typical Adult Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| Gold 19-game, general admission | Nineteen Premier League home matches | £1,171 – £2,196 |
| Gold 23-game, general admission | Nineteen league matches plus four Champions League league phase nights | £1,400 – £2,700 |
| Gold membership fee, on top of the seat | Adult and junior season ticket administration | £25 – £50 |
| Platinum, Club Level | Padded Club Level seat, every competitive home fixture, 25% deposit at renewal | £3,500+ |
| Waiting list joining fee | Redeemable against a first season ticket | £25 – £50 |
The Emirates is the only four-tier ground in Britain, and the numbering follows that structure rather than the stand names. Lower tier blocks run from 1 to 32 clockwise, Club Level occupies blocks in the forties through to the eighties, the box level sits above that and the upper tier runs from block 101 upward. The four stands took their names from Highbury in 2010: North Bank, Clock End, East Stand and West Stand.
| Stand / Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clock End lower tier | Atmosphere and standing | Lower to mid | Converted to rail seating for 2026/27, around 6,600 to 6,900 berths. Stand or sit as you choose, managed by stewarding rather than barriers. |
| North Bank lower tier | Traditional singing end | Lower to mid | The more partisan of the two ends by reputation. Scheduled for its own rail-seating conversion in 2027/28. |
| West Stand lower, blocks 7 to 10 | Sightlines close to the halfway line | High | The pick of the lower tier for watching the game rather than joining the noise. Category A pricing on the highest-demand fixtures. |
| Upper tier centre, blocks from 101 upward | Reading the shape of the match | Mid to high | Elevated and covered, with the whole pitch in frame. Upper centre carries the highest general admission face value of any area. |
| Club Level, blocks in the forties to eighties | Comfort and hospitality | Highest | Padded seating, dedicated lounges and bars, wider concourses. Sold to Platinum members and through hospitality packages. |
| South-east corner, lower tier | Visiting supporters only | Capped at £30 in the league | Between the East Stand and the Clock End, entered through gates K, L and M on the Drayton Park side. |
Away tickets at Arsenal run on a points system rather than a ballot. One point is earned for every competitive men's first team away fixture bought and attended, and only the current season plus the two before it count, so the window rolls rather than accumulating for life. Gold season ticket holders, Platinum members, Travel Club members and now Silver and Red members can all earn them.
Sales then run in descending order of points, and most Premier League away fixtures clear in the first phase without ever reaching supporters on zero. Silver and Red members historically get their chance at European and cup away matches rather than league trips. The table sets out what applies.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Premier League away allocation | 3,000 tickets where the home ground holds 30,000 or more, or 10% of capacity where it holds fewer. A minimum share of the home club's disabled provision is included. |
| Away price cap | General admission away tickets in the Premier League are capped at £30, a cap in place since 2016/17. |
| Champions League away allocation | 5% of stadium capacity in a segregated sector under UEFA regulations. Arsenal receive an allocation on this basis at the Allianz Arena, the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, the Fortuna Arena and the Estadio de La Cartuja. |
| How members qualify | Away points earned across a rolling three-season window, with sale phases running from highest points downward and remaining tickets released to Gold, then Silver, then Red members on zero. |
| Non-members | There is no public away sale. A supporter without a membership needs the regulated secondary market, and should check the listing notes on how the ticket will be delivered. |
What you should buy depends on what you are there for. A supporter who has stood in the North Bank for thirty years and a visitor building a weekend around one European night want opposite things from the same fixture. The table maps the five most common priorities onto the areas that actually deliver them.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Atmosphere above everything | Clock End or North Bank lower tier | The two ends carry the singing, and the Clock End now has rail seating so you can stand for the full ninety minutes without a steward asking you to sit. Expect noise, flags and very little sitting down on a European night. |
| Best view of the match | Upper tier centre | The elevation gives you both teams' shape and the roof covers you. It carries the highest general admission face value for a reason, but on resale it is frequently better value than an equivalent lower-tier seat. |
| Family-friendly | Family Enclosure and the quieter upper-tier corners | Arsenal run a dedicated Family Enclosure with its own ballot priority, and the upper corners are calmer than the ends. Junior concessions run roughly 25 to 30 per cent below adult pricing. |
| Premium experience | Club Level or a matchday hospitality package | Padded seats, private lounges and bars, and a range that runs from The Academy at the entry point through to Executive Boxes. Sold separately from the ballot, which makes it the most reliable route for a non-member. |
| Lower-priced option | A domestic cup tie or a Category C league fixture | The lowest-priced route in is choosing the right match rather than the right seat. A third-round cup tie or a Category C midweek league game costs a fraction of the derby in the same block. |
Arsenal left Highbury on 7 May 2006, beating Wigan 4-2 with a Thierry Henry hat-trick in front of 38,419 people, after ninety-three years in a ground hemmed in by terraced streets and a listed Art Deco facade that could not be expanded. The Emirates opened that July a few hundred metres away on the site of a former waste disposal depot, seating 60,704 at a build cost of around £390m, of which £260m was borrowed at a fixed rate over fourteen years. The debt shaped a decade of transfer policy and is a large part of why the Wenger era after 2006 looked different from the one before it.
Architecturally it is a clean four-tier bowl rather than a collection of stands, and for a while that was held against it. The stands were given their Highbury names in 2010 to bind the new ground to the old one: North Bank and Clock End at the ends, East and West down the sides, with the Arsenalisation programme adding murals, the Highbury clock above the Clock End and a ring of legends' faces around the exterior. It worked. The Emirates in 2026 does not feel like a stadium waiting to acquire a personality.
The most significant physical change in twenty years arrived this summer. Arsenal confirmed licensed safe standing in February 2026 after trials at Arsenal Women's European fixtures and a supporter consultation, and installation began in July. Phase one covers the Clock End lower tier, home section and away end together, converting somewhere around 6,600 to 6,900 existing seats into rail-seat berths. The North Bank lower tier follows in 2027/28, which will take the total to roughly 13,500. Capacity is unchanged, because rail seats replace seats one for one.
Expansion talk is louder than expansion progress. Arsenal began looking at raising capacity toward 70,000 in October 2025 and confirmed discussions with Populous, the stadium's original architect, in May 2026, with options ranging from reprofiled stand gradients to additional tiers and a cost estimate above £500m. A temporary move to Wembley has been floated as one scenario. Nothing has been submitted for planning and nothing has been approved, and the constraint is the same one that has always applied in Islington: a tightly built site and a transport network already at capacity on matchdays.
Getting there rewards a little planning. Arsenal station on the Piccadilly line is the closest at about five minutes on foot and by some distance the most congested afterwards. Holloway Road, also Piccadilly, is around ten minutes away but operates as exit-only around matches, with eastbound trains not stopping before kick-off. Finsbury Park gives you the Piccadilly, Victoria and National Rail lines at ten to fifteen minutes, and Highbury and Islington on the Victoria line and Overground is roughly fifteen minutes through the better pre-match pubs. Driving is not realistic, with residents' permit schemes covering the surrounding streets.
The area repays arriving early. Holloway Road and Blackstock Road carry the pub trade, the Armoury Store and the Arsenal Museum sit on the south side of the ground, and the walk in from Highbury and Islington takes you past the old Highbury site, now a residential development that kept the East Stand facade and laid out a garden square where the pitch used to be. For a first visit that detour is worth the fifteen minutes it costs.
Two references are worth having open before you travel. The Emirates Stadium tickets page collects everything playing at the ground across all competitions, which is useful when you are choosing between a league date and a European night.
The Emirates Stadium seating plan maps the block numbering across all four tiers. Check a listing against it before you buy, because a block number at this ground tells you the level as well as the position.
Arsenal sell one of the deeper hospitality ranges in English football, partly a legacy of the Emirates being designed around premium revenue from the outset. Club Level occupies an entire tier of padded seating with its own lounges and bars, and above it the box level carries executive boxes and the invitation-only Diamond Club, where the dining has been overseen by Raymond Blanc.
Packages divide into seasonal memberships and match-by-match products. Platinum Membership is the Club Level season ticket, The Avenell Club and The WM sit above it, and single-match packages run from an entry-level lounge through to boxes. Published pricing moves between fixture categories, so the ranges below are indicative rather than fixed rates, and availability for Category A matches and European nights is materially tighter than for a midweek league game.
| Package | What It Includes | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| The Academy | Entry-level matchday lounge with a padded seat, food and bar service before the match and at half time. | £275 – £450 |
| Club 1886 and Royal Arsenal | Club Level seating, lounge access, dining and a matchday programme. | £520 – £700 |
| Woolwich Arsenal and Foundry Legends | Upgraded dining, former player appearances in the Legends product, prime Club Level positions. | £700 – £950 |
| The Avenell Club and The Heritage | Box Level private members' bar, luxury padded seats and panoramic views across the pitch. | £975 – £1,200 |
| Executive Box | Private box for a group, unrestricted views, dedicated catering and a name plaque. | £8,000+ per box |
Buying for Arsenal has one wrinkle that catches people out, which is that the club issues digital tickets through its own app rather than as printable files. Working through the sequence below before you commit will save you the awkward conversation at the turnstile.
Step1
Pick the fixture, not just the club
Decide which match you want before you look at prices, because the spread across Arsenal's calendar is enormous. A Category C league game and the north London derby are separated by a factor that no amount of shopping around within one fixture will close.
Step2
Set up your account
Browsing is open to everyone, but you will need an account to complete a purchase and to keep your order in one place afterwards. Take a minute to create an account first, rather than building one at checkout while the listing you want is still live.
Step3
Choose your tier
Work out whether you want the noise of the Clock End, the sightlines of the West Stand lower tier or the elevation of the upper tier, then filter accordingly. The block number tells you the level: single and double figures are lower tier, the forties to eighties are Club Level, 101 and above is upper.
Step4
Compare listings side by side
Look past the headline figure. Check how many seats a listing holds, whether they are guaranteed together, which block and row they sit in and what the total comes to once fees are applied at checkout.
Step5
Read the listing notes on delivery
This is the step that matters most at Arsenal. The notes tell you how the ticket reaches you, which for a club that uses app-based digital ticketing is the detail worth understanding before you pay rather than the day before the match.
Step6
Complete a secure checkout
Enter your details carefully and use an address and phone number you can be reached on in the week of the match. Payment is encrypted and confirmation arrives immediately.
Step7
Plan the route and the gate
Note your block and the gate it feeds, then pick your station. Holloway Road is exit-only around kick-off, so arriving there is not an option, and Arsenal station is heavily congested afterwards. Turnstiles open two hours before kick-off and there is no re-entry once you leave.
Step8
Follow your order through to delivery
Once the purchase is confirmed you can watch its progress from the seller to you with the track order tool. Check it in the week before the match so you know exactly when and how the tickets will arrive.
Work through those eight steps and the only remaining decision is where you are eating beforehand. The Holloway Road and Blackstock Road pubs fill from about two hours out on a European night, so book if you are travelling as a group.
Not every Arsenal match is equally hard to reach. The pattern holds well enough to plan around, and knowing which band a fixture falls into tells you how early to buy and roughly what to budget.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| The north London derby | Tottenham at the Emirates is the highest-demand fixture Arsenal stage, with resale asking prices that routinely open several times above a standard league match and rarely soften. Category A pricing, no general sale and a rivalry that runs back to a disputed 1919 vote leave almost nothing on the market. |
| Real Madrid in the Champions League | A Category A European night against the most decorated club in the competition, in a season where Arsenal reached the final. UEFA's segregated away allocation removes a further slice of capacity before members even ballot. |
| Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United | The three fixtures that behave most like the derby. All sit in Category A, all clear in the first ballot phase and all carry resale markets that open weeks out and hold their level. |
| Title run-in fixtures in April and May | A champion side defending a title concentrates demand into the closing weeks in a way that a mid-table season never does. Those dates look ordinary in August and become the hardest tickets on the calendar by spring. |
| Cup ties against major opposition | Arsenal enter the FA Cup and Carabao Cup at the third round, so a home draw against a Premier League rival can land with only a few weeks' notice. Nobody has planned for those dates, which compresses the whole demand curve into a short window. |
Delivery depends on the seller and on what has been issued for that fixture. Arsenal themselves use app-based digital ticketing rather than printable files, so mobile delivery dominates, but the listing states the method before you buy and it is worth reading rather than assuming.
Whichever method applies, read the listing notes before you complete the purchase and again a few days before you travel. Bring a charged phone in any case, because even a collected ticket at the Emirates may resolve to a digital pass rather than a piece of card.
Turnstiles at the Emirates open two hours before kick-off and discounted food and drink is available inside until forty-five minutes before the start. There is no re-entry once you leave the ground, so treat going out for a pre-match pint after you have scanned in as a decision rather than an option. For Category A fixtures and European nights the concourses fill early and the approach from the tube slows considerably in the last half hour.
Arsenal issue digital tickets through their own app and do not provide PDF versions, so a charged phone with the ticket already loaded is the practical requirement. Physical copies are available only from the box office beside the Armoury Store on the south side of the ground, and collecting one requires identification. Carry photo identification in any case, particularly if you are using a concession or collecting on the day.
Bags are limited to a maximum of 21cm by 29.7cm, which is A4 size, and every bag is searched and tagged on entry. There is no storage at the stadium, so anything larger needs to be left elsewhere in London before you travel out. Prohibited items include suitcases and wheeled luggage, flares, smoke devices and pyrotechnics, weapons, large backpacks and any flag, banner or clothing carrying offensive or discriminatory content. Flags are permitted up to two metres by one metre, and medical or accessibility bags are allowed with prior notification.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Arsenal Football Club |
| Founded | October 1886, as Dial Square, by munitions workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich |
| Nickname | The Gunners |
| Stadium | Emirates Stadium, Islington, capacity 60,704 |
| Manager | Mikel Arteta, appointed 20 December 2019 |
| Captain | Martin Odegaard, with Bukayo Saka as vice-captain |
| Sporting director | Andrea Berta, in post since March 2025 |
| Ownership | Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, with Stan and Josh Kroenke as co-chairmen |
| League | Premier League, twenty clubs, reigning champions |
| Colours | Red with white sleeves, and white shorts |
| Top-flight record | 107 consecutive seasons in the English top flight, the longest unbroken run of any club |
Arsenal are the only club in England to have gone more than a century without leaving the top division, and they got there from an armaments factory on the wrong side of the Thames by way of a vote that Tottenham still dispute. The history is unusually well documented and unusually contested, and the parts supporters argue about are the parts that shaped the club.
The 1919 election is the founding grievance of the north London derby and the reason it carries a bitterness that geography alone would not explain. Norris was a Conservative MP and former Mayor of Fulham who worked the vote through political connections while Tottenham simply wrote letters to clubs. Arsenal have never been relegated since, a run now standing at 107 consecutive top-flight seasons, and the move north put two clubs four miles apart who had previously shared nothing.
Chapman changed more about English football than any manager before him and most since. Beyond the WM formation, which is the tactical ancestor of nearly everything that followed, he pushed for floodlights, numbered shirts and European competition decades before the game was ready for any of them. He installed lights on the West Stand at Highbury and staged demonstration matches under them, only for the association to ban their use competitively. Arsenal lost more players in the Second World War than any other top-flight club, and the momentum took a generation to recover.
Anfield 1989 is the match every Arsenal supporter of a certain age can recite. Arsenal needed to win by two clear goals at the ground of the reigning champions, in a game rescheduled to the end of the season after Hillsborough, and were still level at 1-0 as the clock ran out. Thomas ran through, took a touch and lifted it past Grobbelaar. Graham's sides were built on Tony Adams and a back four of Dixon, Bould, Adams and Winterburn that supporters still name in order, and they won two titles and four cups in eight years before he was dismissed in 1995 over payments from an agent.
The Invincibles remain the only side to complete a 38-match English top-flight season unbeaten, and the only unbeaten league season of any length since Preston North End managed 22 games in 1888-89. A gold trophy was commissioned to mark it. The unbeaten run itself reached 49 matches between May 2003 and October 2004, ending at Old Trafford in a match remembered for what happened in the tunnel afterwards as much as the two goals. The move to the Emirates two years later bought the club a stadium and cost it a decade of spending power, and the arguments about that trade-off ran until Arteta's side finally won the league.
The three runners-up seasons are what makes 2025-26 land the way it does. Arsenal spent more days top of the table without winning the league than any side in Premier League history in 2022-23, then took 89 points in 2023-24 and still finished second, then 74 in 2024-25. The fourth attempt worked, and it came with a Champions League campaign that produced eight wins from eight in the league phase, a bye to the last sixteen and a run past Bayer Leverkusen, Sporting and Atletico Madrid before Budapest. Arteta enters this season in the final year of his contract, having said publicly in August that he intends to extend.
Arsenal do not retire shirt numbers. Thierry Henry's fourteen has been worn continuously since he left, currently by Viktor Gyokeres, and the club honours its history instead through statues at the Emirates, the museum and the 100 Club for retired players with a hundred or more league appearances. The six below are the names supporters measure every new arrival against.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thierry Henry | Forward, 1999 to 2007 and on loan in 2012 | The club's record scorer and the defining player of the Wenger peak. He passed Ian Wright's mark in October 2005 and became the first Arsenal player to reach 200 four months later. Captain from 2005, and the focal point of the Invincibles side. A statue stands outside the Emirates. | 377 appearances, 228 goals, 175 of them in the league. Two titles, two FA Cups. |
| David O'Leary | Centre-back, 1975 to 1993 | The club's record appearance holder by a margin that is unlikely to be challenged. He played under Terry Neill, Don Howe and George Graham across eighteen seasons, bridging the 1979 FA Cup side and the title winners of 1989 and 1991. | 722 appearances, 14 goals. Two titles, one FA Cup, two League Cups. |
| Tony Adams | Centre-back and captain, 1983 to 2002 | Known simply as Mr Arsenal. Captain from 1988 to 2002 and the only man to lead an English title-winning side in three different decades. He anchored the back four under Graham and then adapted to Wenger's football in his thirties. | 669 appearances, 48 goals. Four titles, three FA Cups, two League Cups, one Cup Winners' Cup. |
| Cliff Bastin | Winger and inside-forward, 1929 to 1947 | Signed by Chapman as a teenager and the club's record scorer for fifty-eight years until Ian Wright passed him in 1997. He was central to five league titles in the 1930s, playing wide but scoring at a rate no winger of the era matched. | 396 appearances, 178 goals. Five titles, two FA Cups. |
| Dennis Bergkamp | Second striker, 1995 to 2006 | The signing that changed what Arsenal could attract, arriving under Bruce Rioch and flourishing under Wenger. He holds the appearance record for an overseas player at the club and supplied the technical intelligence behind both of Wenger's Doubles and the Invincibles. | 423 appearances, 120 goals. Three titles, four FA Cups. |
| Patrick Vieira | Central midfielder and captain, 1996 to 2005 | The engine of the Wenger era and captain from 2002. He lifted the Invincibles title and the 2005 FA Cup, scoring the winning penalty in the shootout against Manchester United in his final match for the club. | 406 appearances, 33 goals. Three titles, four FA Cups. |
Arsenal hold the outright FA Cup record and sit third on the all-time list of English league champions. The counts below have been cross-referenced against multiple independent records, and where a total is reported differently elsewhere the reason is a methodology difference rather than a factual dispute.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| First Division and Premier League | 14 (1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1971, 1989, 1991, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2026) |
| FA Cup | 14, an outright record (1930, 1936, 1950, 1971, 1979, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020) |
| League Cup | 2 (1987, 1993) |
| FA Community Shield | 18, of which 17 outright and one shared with Tottenham in 1991 |
| European Cup Winners' Cup | 1 (1994) |
| Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1 (1970) |
| Football League Centenary Trophy | 1 (1988) |
| Doubles | 3 (1971, 1998, 2002) |
The European record carries four runners-up finishes worth naming. Arsenal lost the Champions League final in 2006 to Barcelona and again in 2026 to Paris Saint-Germain on penalties, the UEFA Cup final in 2000 to Galatasaray on penalties and the Europa League final in 2019 to Chelsea. They also lost the Cup Winners' Cup finals of 1980 and 1995, having won the trophy in between, which makes them the only club to lose that final in consecutive campaigns after lifting it. The 1970 Fairs Cup is sometimes folded into Europa League totals by data providers, but UEFA does not recognise it as one of its own competitions and Arsenal have never won the UEFA Cup or its successor.
Arsenal's rivalries divide neatly into one that is territorial, one that was built on a decade of title races and one that is simply a matter of London geography. Only the first of the three has a grievance attached to it, and it is the one that fills the ground fastest.
The north London derby has two origins and both are Arsenal moving in on Tottenham. The first was the 1913 relocation from Woolwich to Highbury, four miles from White Hart Lane, into territory Spurs regarded as theirs. The second was the vote of 10 March 1919, when Arsenal were elected into an expanded First Division ahead of a Tottenham side that had been relegated, on the strength of Henry Norris working his political connections. Across 199 competitive meetings since 1909 Arsenal lead with 86 wins to 61, with 52 drawn and a goal record of 311 to 263. Landmark dates include the title clinched at White Hart Lane in 1971 on the way to the first Double, the same feat repeated by the Invincibles in 2004 and Eberechi Eze's hat-trick in November 2025, only the third by an Arsenal player in the fixture.
This one was forged in the late 1990s and 2000s, when the two clubs won all but one Premier League title between 1993 and 2004 and the Wenger and Ferguson touchlines became a spectacle of their own. It produced the 1990 Old Trafford brawl involving twenty-one of the twenty-two players, which remains the only occasion in English league history that points have been deducted for player misconduct, Arsenal losing two and United one. Arsenal won the title that season anyway. The 2003 goalless draw at Old Trafford, remembered as the Battle of Old Trafford, and the end of the 49-match run there in October 2004 are the other flashpoints. Across 246 meetings United lead 100 wins to 91, with 55 drawn.
A London rivalry rather than an ideological one, first contested at Stamford Bridge on 9 November 1907 in the first top-flight meeting between two London clubs, watched by 65,000 people. It sharpened considerably from 2003 onward as Chelsea's spending changed the balance in the capital. Arsenal lead across 215 meetings with 87 wins to 66 and 62 draws, and the fixture has decided three finals: the 2002 FA Cup final and the 2017 and 2020 FA Cup finals all went Arsenal's way, while the 2019 Europa League final in Baku ended 4-1 to Chelsea.
Arsenal's most-played European opponent by a distance, with fifteen meetings between December 2000 and November 2025, all in the Champions League. Bayern lead the record with eight wins to four, and the low point for Arsenal was a pair of 5-1 defeats across the 2016-17 tie. The relationship has shifted since: Arsenal beat Bayern at the Emirates in November 2025 during a league phase they won eight matches from eight, and the two are drawn together again this season, with Arsenal travelling to the Allianz Arena on 21 October 2026.
Nine meetings, all in the Champions League, and Arsenal have won one of them. The rivalry is emotional rather than statistical. Barcelona beat Arsenal 2-1 in the 2006 final in Paris after Jens Lehmann was sent off inside twenty minutes, then signed Thierry Henry the following year and Cesc Fabregas in 2011, taking two players Arsenal had built teams around. The single Arsenal win came at the Emirates in February 2011, and it did not survive the second leg.
Arsenal's five-year arc is one of the cleaner upward curves in recent Premier League history: fifth, then second three times, then champions. What the table does not show is how narrow two of those second places were.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021-22 | Fifth on 69 points, missing the top four on the final day, with the youngest squad in the division. It was Arsenal's first season without European football in twenty-six years, following consecutive eighth-place finishes. The FA Cup ended in the third round and the Carabao Cup at the semi-final stage against Liverpool. Bukayo Saka finished as top scorer with twelve. |
| 2022-23 | The first near-miss under Arteta, second on 84 points behind Manchester City after leading the table for more days than any side that has failed to win the Premier League. Martinelli, Odegaard and Saka shared top-scorer honours on fifteen each. The Europa League run ended in the round of sixteen against Sporting on penalties, and both domestic cups ended early. |
| 2023-24 | The strongest runners-up season of the three: 89 points, 91 goals scored and a goal difference of plus 62, beaten by two points. Arsenal won the Community Shield in August and returned to the Champions League round of sixteen for the first time since 2017, going out to Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals. Saka top scored with twenty. |
| 2024-25 | Second again on 74 points, this time behind Liverpool, with fourteen draws proving decisive. The Champions League run went further than any since 2009, beating holders Real Madrid 5-1 on aggregate in the quarter-finals before losing 3-1 on aggregate to Paris Saint-Germain in the semis. Both domestic cups ended in defeat, the FA Cup on penalties to Manchester United. Kai Havertz top scored with fifteen. |
| 2025-26 | Champions of England on 85 points, sealed on 19 May with a game to spare, ending a twenty-two-year wait. Arsenal also reached the Carabao Cup final, losing 2-0 to Manchester City at Wembley in March, went out of the FA Cup in the quarter-finals at Southampton and reached the Champions League final, winning all eight league phase matches before losing to Paris Saint-Germain 4-3 on penalties in Budapest. Viktor Gyokeres top scored with twenty-one. |
Arteta spent heavily to reinforce a title-winning side rather than rebuild one. Bruno Guimaraes arrived from Newcastle for £75m, Ezri Konsa from Aston Villa for a package worth £55m, Christos Tzolis from Club Brugge for £34m and Piero Hincapie was made permanent from Bayer Leverkusen, against departures including Leandro Trossard to Besiktas and Jakub Kiwior to Porto. The window was still open at the end of August with further exits reported.
Market values below come from Transfermarkt and are converted to sterling, so treat them as approximate rather than precise. Valuations for this squad move faster than most, and the transfer window had not closed when this page was reviewed.
| No. | Player | Position | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Raya | Goalkeeper | 26m |
| 2 | William Saliba | Centre-back | 86m |
| 5 | Piero Hincapie | Centre-back | 43m |
| 6 | Gabriel Magalhaes | Centre-back | 64m |
| 7 | Bukayo Saka (vice-captain) | Right wing | 95m |
| 8 | Martin Odegaard (captain) | Attacking midfield | 60m |
| 10 | Eberechi Eze | Attacking midfield | 56m |
| 12 | Jurrien Timber | Right-back | 60m |
| 14 | Viktor Gyokeres | Striker | 56m |
| 15 | Ezri Konsa | Centre-back | 39m |
| 17 | Christos Tzolis | Left wing | 34m |
| 20 | Noni Madueke | Right wing | 43m |
| 29 | Kai Havertz | Striker | 47m |
| 33 | Riccardo Calafiori | Left-back | 47m |
| 36 | Martin Zubimendi | Defensive midfield | 64m |
| 39 | Bruno Guimaraes | Central midfield | 60m |
| 41 | Declan Rice | Central midfield | 103m |
To buy from the club, yes. Arsenal hold no public sale for home fixtures, so every seat goes to season ticket holders or to members through random ballots. A supporter without a membership needs hospitality, an authorised agent or the regulated secondary market.
The two ends carry the singing, and the Clock End lower tier has been converted to rail seating for 2026/27, so you can stand for the whole match there. The North Bank lower tier is the traditional home of the loudest support and gets its own conversion in 2027/28.
A standard Premier League fixture at the Emirates typically resells from around a hundred and ten pounds, while the Tottenham fixture regularly opens several times higher and can run into four figures for a good seat. Choosing a Category C league game or a domestic cup tie instead is the single biggest saving available.
Arsenal issue digital tickets through their own app rather than as printable files, so mobile delivery is the most common route, with print-at-home, tracked post and collection in London also used depending on the seller. The listing states the method before you buy, so read those notes and bring a charged phone to the ground.
Arsenal on the Piccadilly line is closest at about five minutes on foot but is heavily congested afterwards, and Holloway Road operates as exit-only around matches so you cannot arrive there. Finsbury Park is ten to fifteen minutes away with three lines, and Highbury and Islington is around fifteen minutes through the better pre-match pubs.
Whichever fixture you are chasing, 1BoxOffice has been connecting supporters with verified sellers since 2006 and every order carries a 150% money-back guarantee. Compare the listings across Arsenal's home and away calendar, check the block and the delivery notes, then book knowing the seat is covered. It is a good season to be going to the Emirates.
Sources: Arsenal FC official club website and help centre, Arsenal Hospitality, the Premier League, The Football Association, UEFA, Transfermarkt, RSSSF, Level Playing Field and Wikipedia as a cross-reference.Our benefits
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