Arsenal have won the Premier League to end a 22-year wait for a title and break a run of three successive seasons as runners-up.
The Gunners were confirmed as champions with a game to spare thanks to Man City slipping up at Bournemouth in a 1-1 draw, with the gap still four points with only one game remaining.
City had been on the back foot for the entirety of the second half after Eli Kroupi Junior’s stunning 39th-minute opener, and while Erling Haaland was able to snatch a stoppage-time equaliser, it was too little, too late for Pep Guardiola who is expected to leave the club at the end of the season.
Mikel Arteta’s side will now travel across London to Crystal Palace on the final day of the 2025/26 season as champions, having clinched the club’s 14th title, the third-most in English football history, but a first since their 2004 “Invincibles”.
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Ian Wright celebrates with Arsenal fans after securing long-awaited Premier League title
Ex-Arsenal player and pundit Ian Wright was among thousands of fans celebrating the Gunners’ first Premier League title in 22 years, joining in the joyous scenes outside the Emirates on Tuesday night.
Manchester City’s failure to beat Bournemouth, instead drawing 1-1, meant Pep Guardiola’s side could mathematically no longer catch league leaders Arsenal and take the title race to the final day, with the gap at four points with one game to go.
The result sparked delirium at the Emirates and across north London, with fans flocking to the stadium to celebrate their first top-flight trophy since the 2004 ‘Invincibles’, setting off flares and fireworks.
Wright, Arsenal’s second-highest goal scorer of all time and a former Premier League winner with the side, was among their numbers, and was mobbed by fans singing his name outside the ground.
Iraola eyeing thank you gift from Arteta
Andoni Iraola is hopeful he will receive a thank you gift from childhood friend Mikel Arteta after helping deliver his side the Premier League title with a 1-1 draw with Manchester City that ensured Arsenal were mathematically out of reach.
He said: “It would be lovely. Something! I haven’t even checked my phone, I should have at least one text message or something.
“But it was not because of this game. They were probably going to go and finish it themselves.
“I’m happy for him because he’s done an incredible job there. The last few seasons they have been very consistent.”
Declan Rice celebrates Arsenal’s Premier League title win with cheeky Instagram post
Declan Rice celebrated Arsenal’s Premier League title triumph with an Instagram post calling back to his now famous line at the end of the Gunners’ April defeat by Manchester City.
Rice was pictured saying “it’s not over” to his captain Martin Odegaard at full-time in the 2-1 defeat which swung title-race momentum in favour of reigning champions City.
The moment of defiance was both hailed and mocked on social media, but Rice was proved right as the Gunners sealed their first Premier League title for 22 years following Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw between City and Bournemouth.
He posted: “I told you all… it’s done.”
Inside Arsenal’s Premier League triumph and the crucial intervention that turned the title race
As Mikel Arteta finally gets to savour the moment, he will be repeating a few words he couldn’t help ruminate on throughout the season. “Twenty-two years,” he’d say to anyone listening. “Twenty-two years. It’s far too long for a club like Arsenal.”
And now, after so much angst and frustration from the length of that very wait, Arteta and his squad can at last say it’s over. On Sunday, he will lift the Premier League trophy, the club’s first title since 2004 and 14th in all.
The Basque, for his part, was more conscious than anyone of the effects of that wait. He could sense it through the season, that sudden danger when everything looked like slipping away in the manner that so many people expected.
If there has been one great virtue of Arsenal’s campaign, it is how Arteta has managed that; how he ensured the team stayed in control.
Arsenal end 22-year wait for Premier League title
Sore heads, Arsenal fans?
Five key games that took Arsenal to the title
Arsenal were crowned Premier League champions for the first time in 22 years after Manchester City were held to a 1-1 draw at Bournemouth.
The Gunners’ long wait to add to their 13 top-flight titles was ended when Pep Guardiola’s side dropped points in their penultimate match, the game in hand they had over their rivals.
It left Arsenal with an unassailable lead at the top and kicked off the celebrations in north London.
Here are the five key matches which helped Mikel Arteta’s side see off Manchester City and secure the Premier League title:
How the world looked when Arsenal last won the Premier League: Blair in charge, Eamon at No 1, £2 pints
Here is a glimpse at how the world looked the last time the Gunners finished top of the pile.
The last time the Gunners topped the league, Tony Blair was serving his second term as Prime Minister, with Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, and Sir Keir Starmer all yet to hold the office.
Daily life also looked different: a pint of beer in the UK cost £2.33, a pint of milk was just 35p, and a loaf of bread set you back 64p.
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Pep Guardiola breaks silence on Man City exit after Arsenal seal Premier League title
Asked about his future following City’s 1-1 draw with Bournemouth on Tuesday night, which sealed Arsenal’s first Premier League title for 22 years, Guardiola said: “I can say I have one more year of contract. I’m in a position I’ve had for many many years. It’s always from my experience, when you announce during the competition, it’s a bad result.
“The first person I have to talk to is my chairman. We decide when we finish the season, we’ll see and we’ll talk. It’s as simple as that and after that we’ll take the decision. I will not tell you here because I have to talk with my chairman, my players and my staff.”
He added: “I’m the happiest man in the planet to be in this club, this club is just extraordinary.”
