List of Arsenal F.C. records and statistics


is an English professional association football club based in Islington, London. The club was formed in Woolwich in 1886 as Dial Square before being renamed as Royal Arsenal, and then Woolwich Arsenal in 1893. In 1914, the club's name was shortened to Arsenal F.C. after moving to Highbury a year earlier. After spending their first four seasons solely participating in cup tournaments and friendlies, Arsenal became the first southern member admitted into the Football League in 1893. In spite of finishing fifth in the Second Division in 1919, the club was voted to rejoin the First Division at the expense of local rivals Tottenham Hotspur. Since that time, they have not fallen below the first tier of the English football league system and hold the record for the longest uninterrupted period in the top flight. The club remained in the Football League until 1992, when its First Division was superseded as English football's top level by the newly formed Premier League, of which they were an inaugural member.
The list encompasses the honours won by Arsenal at national, regional, county and friendly level, records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section itemises the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records notable achievements by Arsenal players on the international stage, and the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club. Attendance records at Highbury, the Emirates Stadium, the club's home ground since 2006, and Wembley Stadium, their temporary home for UEFA Champions League games between 1998 and 1999, are also included.
Arsenal have won 13 top-flight titles, and hold the record for the most FA Cup wins, also with 13. The club's record appearance maker is David O'Leary, who made 722 appearances between 1975 and 1993. Thierry Henry is Arsenal's record goalscorer, scoring 228 goals in total.
All figures are correct as of the match played on 1 September 2019.

Honours and achievements

Arsenal's first ever silverware was won as the Royal Arsenal in 1890. The Kent Junior Cup, won by Royal Arsenal's reserves, was the club's first trophy, while the first team's first trophy came three weeks later when they won the Kent Senior Cup. Their first national senior honour came in 1930, when they won the FA Cup. The club enjoyed further success in the 1930s, winning another FA Cup and five Football League First Division titles. Arsenal won their first league and cup double in the 1970–71 season and twice repeated the feat, in 1997–98 and 2001–02, as well as winning a cup double of the FA Cup and League Cup in 1992–93. In 2003–04, Arsenal recorded an unbeaten top-flight league season, something achieved only once before by Preston North End in 1888–89, who only had to play 22 games. To mark the achievement, a special gold version of the Premier League trophy was commissioned and presented to the club the following season. Their most recent success came in 2017, when they became the most successful club in FA Cup history with 13 titles.
Arsenal's honours and achievements include the following:

EFL and Premier League

County FAs

London FA

Wartime

Appearances

Competitive matches only, includes appearances as substitute. Numbers in brackets indicate goals scored.
#NameYearsLeagueaFA CupLeague CupEuropeOtherbTotal
1 558 70 70 21 3 722
2 1983–2002504 54 59 48 4 669
3 1961–1977500 60 35 26 0 621
4 1988–2002458 54 45 57 5 619
5 1987–2000440 47 49 43 5 584
6 1990–2003405 48 38 69 4 564
7 1964–1980397 67 36 27 1 528
8 1965–1977391 51 37 22 0 501
9 1964–1976379 44 34 24 0 481
10 1964–1978370 53 33 21 0 477


Goalscorers

Thierry Henry is the all-time top goalscorer for Arsenal. He passed Ian Wright's eight-year record after scoring twice in a European tie against Sparta Prague in October 2005. Henry was Arsenal's leading goalscorer for seven consecutive seasons, from 1999–2000 to 2005–06.
Competitive matches only. Numbers in brackets indicate appearances made.
#NameYearsLeagueaFA CupLeague CupEuropeOtherbTotal
1
2012		175 '8 '2 '42 '1 '228
2 1991–1998128 '12 '29 '15 '1 '185 '
3 1929–1947150 '26 '0 '0 '2 '178 '
4 1964–1976111 '15 '12 '11 '0 '149 '
5 1923–1931125 '14 '0 '0 '0 '139 '
5 1934–1945124 '12 '0 '0 '3 '139 '
7 1948–1956125 '10 '0 '0 '2 '137 '
8 2004–201296 '10 '6 '20 '0 '132 '
9 1926–1938107 '17 '0 '0 '1 '125 '
10 1928–1934113 '10 '0 '0 '1 '124


International

This section refers only to caps won while an Arsenal player.
At 17 years and 75 days, Theo Walcott became the youngest player to earn an England cap, against Hungary on 30 May 2006.

Transfers

For consistency, fees in the record transfer tables below are all sourced from the London Evening Standard's contemporary reports of each transfer. Where the report mentions an initial fee potentially rising to a higher figure depending on contractual clauses being satisfied in the future, only the initial fee is listed in the tables.

Record transfer fees paid

#FeePaid toForDateNotesRef
1£72mLilleNicolas Pépé1 August 2019
2£55mBorussia DortmundPierre-Emerick Aubameyang31 January 2018A further £5m in add-ons.
3£45mLyonAlexandre Lacazette5 July 2017A further £7m in add-ons.
4£38.2mReal MadridMesut Özil2 September 2013A further £4.3m in add-ons.
5£35mValenciaShkodran Mustafi30 August 2016

Record transfer fees received

Managerial records

Matches

Firsts

Arsenal hold several English football records, including the longest unbeaten sequence in the top flight, with 49. Arsenal scored in all 55 league matches from between 19 May 2001 to 30 November 2002 and the club also holds the longest unbeaten away sequence in league football with 27, from 5 April 2003 to 25 September 2004.
This section applies to attendances at Highbury, where Arsenal played their home matches from 1913 to 2006, the Emirates Stadium, the club's present home, and Wembley Stadium, which acted as Arsenal's home in the UEFA Champions League during the 1998–99 and 1999–2000 seasons. Arsenal's attendance figures since the move to the Emirates Stadium have been measured by tickets sold.
On 17 January 1948, a league-record attendance of 83,260 watched Manchester United play Arsenal at Maine Road. All of the top three attendances in league football occurred at Arsenal games.

European statistics

Arsenal have won two European honours: the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1970 and the Cup Winners' Cup in 1994. They also reached the final of the UEFA Cup in 2000 and the Europa League in 2019, and became the first London team to appear in a UEFA Champions League final in 2006. Despite having never won the UEFA Champions League, Arsenal have set numerous records in the competition. Between the 1998–99 and 2016–17 seasons, they participated in nineteen successive editions, a record only surpassed in Europe by Real Madrid. Goalkeeper Jens Lehmann kept ten consecutive clean sheets in the run-in to Arsenal's first UEFA Champions League final and the defence went 995 minutes until conceding a goal. Arsenal were also the first British side to defeat Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund away from home, and both Milanese teams: Internazionale and Milan at the San Siro.
Thierry Henry holds the club record for most appearances with 86, and is the club's record goalscorer in European competitions with 42 goals.

Global records

In August 1928, Arsenal, alongside Chelsea, made history by becoming the first football clubs to wear numbered shirts. A year earlier the first ever live radio commentary of a football match took place, between Arsenal and Sheffield United. Arsenal played in the first match broadcast live on television, against their reserve counterparts in 1937 and have since participated in the world's first live 3D and interactive football matches, both with Manchester United.

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