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Arsenal has been crowned the 2025/26 Premier League champions, securing their first league title since 2004 with one game still to play. The championship was confirmed on Tuesday night after Manchester City drew 1-1 with AFC Bournemouth, leaving Arsenal with an unassailable four-point lead. Although Erling Haaland scored a 95th-minute equalizer for City, the draw was not enough to keep the title race alive until the final day of the season.
Arsenal laid the final groundwork for their championship glory just twenty-four hours prior. On Monday night, the Gunners secured a 1-0 victory over Burnley. True to their identity as the league's undisputed set-piece kings, the decisive moment arrived in the 36th minute when Kai Havertz met a pinpoint Bukayo Saka corner to head home the winner. It marked Arsenal's 19th goal from a set piece situation this term.
While the Gunners have been lethal from corners, their historical campaign has been built squarely on an elite defensive foundation. Bolstered by the rock-solid partnership of William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhães, Arsenal kept an astonishing 19 clean sheets over the course of the season, earning goalkeeper David Raya the Golden Glove award for a third consecutive year.
For Mikel Arteta, the piece of silverware marks a monumental personal triumph, thrashing the club's long-term patience through three agonizing consecutive seasons as runners-up.
As the red half of North London erupts into well-deserved, long-awaited celebrations, Arteta’s men still have their eyes on the ultimate prize. Arsenal face Paris Saint-Germain in Budapest on May 30th, where a victory would secure their first-ever UEFA Champions League trophy and complete the greatest continental double in the club's 140-year history.
