Arsenal wins their first Premier League title in 22 years

• Arsenal ended their 22-year wait to win the Premier League title when they were confirmed as champions following second-placed Manchester City’s 1-1 draw at Bournemouth.

• Leaders for almost the entire season, “the Gunners” are now four points clear with one game remaining.

• Arsenal’s success follows three consecutive seasons in which they finished as runners-up, including in 2023-24 when Man City pipped them to the title by a margin of two points.

• It is Arsenal’s first Premier League title since 2003-04 when Arsene Wenger’s side went through the season unbeaten.

• Mikel Arteta becomes the first former Premier League player to win the trophy as a manager. He took charge of the Gunners in December 2019, having played for the club between 2011 and 2016.

• Arsenal’s success has been built on spreading goals around the team. Viktor Gyokeres, signed last summer, is their leading goalscorer. Bukayo Saka, Eberechi Eze, Leandro Trossard, Martin Zubimendi, Declan Rice and Mikel Merino have all contributed regularly.

• Goalkeeper David Raya has been outstanding, winning the Premier League Golden Glove award — for keeping the most clean sheets — for a third successive season.

• Arsenal teenager Max Dowman has made history as the youngest player ever to win the Premier League. Two months after becoming the competition’s youngest goalscorer, at 16 years and 73 days, he surpasses Phil Foden’s record.

• Foden won the title with Man City when aged 17 years and 350 days in 2017-18.  Dowman will be 16 years and 144 days old on the final day of this campaign.

• Arsenal have now won four Premier League titles, putting them two clear of Liverpool and only one behind Chelsea. Manchester United have won 13 Premier League titles and Man City have won eight. The only other clubs to have been crowned Premier League champions are Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City, with one triumph each.

Why Arsenal are called the Gunners?

In 1886, a group of 15 workers at the Royal Arsenal munitions factory in Woolwich, in south-east London, founded a football club named Dial Square. The club became known as Royal Arsenal in December 1886, and took on the nickname “The Gunners” in tribute to the factory they worked at.