Nine games that won Arsenal the 2025/26 Premier League title

Nine games that won Arsenal the 2025/26 Premier League title originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Arsenal have ended their 22-year wait to be crowned Premier League champions.

After three consecutive second-place finishes, Mikel Arteta has guided his club to their 14th top-division title . Manchester City's 1-1 draw at Bournemouth in the final week of the season left the Gunners with an unassailable four-point advantage going into the last weekend. Here, we look back over some of the key games, results and moments that put Arsenal back at the summit of English football after two decades.

MORE: Why Arsenal winning their first Premier League title in 22 years matters so much Nine games that won Arsenal the 2025/26 Premier League title Arsenal 1-1 Manchester City (Sunday, September 21, 2025) After their timid 1-0 defeat to Liverpool at Anfield in the third game of the season, all eyes were on how Arsenal would cope against another of their presumed title rivals. Erling Haaland gave City an early lead on the counter-attack, but the most notable aspect of this game was the extent to which Arsenal dominated most of the play and pushed City back into an unfamiliar defensive shell. As laudable as that was, it would have counted for nought had Gabriel Martinelli not produced a superb, looping finish to snatch a point in stoppage time.

It is a result that looms large in the final analysis. Newcastle 1-2 Arsenal (Sunday, September 28, 2025) Another tough assignment at St. James' Park came a week after the City game.