With 10 games done and dusted in the 2025/26 season, Mikel Arteta’s side have already achieved something that no other Gunners team in history have ever done.
We headed into the international break sitting at the top of the Premier League table after seven fixtures, boasting a 100% start to the Champions League phase after back-to-back victories, as well as safely advancing in the League Cup.
Defensively, we have been superb, with just three goals finding their way into our net so far, which is the least we’ve conceded 10 games into a season in all competitions in our 138-year history:
| Season | GOALS |
|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 3 |
| 2007/08 | 4 |
| 1903/04 | 5 |
| 1947/48 | 5 |
| 1986/87 | 5 |
| 1987/88 | 5 |
| 1990/91 | 5 |
| 1995/96 | 5 |
| 1998/99 | 5 |
| 2008/09 | 5 |
That beats the previous best of four, which was set 18 years ago in 2007/08 under Arsene Wenger. In the league, we conceded once each against Fulham, Blackburn Rovers, Portsmouth and Tottenham Hotspur, but kept clean sheets against Manchester City and Derby County. A 2-0 League Cup success against Newcastle United was added to by a 5-0 aggregate success over Sparta Prague in the Champions League qualifiers, and then Sevilla were beaten 3-0 in our first group game to round off a fine start to the campaign.
But we have reached new highs in 2025/26, with our total of seven clean sheets from our opening 10 encounters so far matches our previous club high, set in 1903/04, 1986/87 and 1987/88, meaning this is the most clean sheets we’ve kept at this point in 37 years. Looking through the record books, we have kept six shutouts from 10 games on 10 occasions, the last coming back in 2008/09.
Looking at our seven league games, David Raya and his defence have been rock-solid, conceding just twice from open play so far, with the other coming courtesy of Dominik Szoboszlai’s free-kick at Liverpool, a strike so good it won the Premier League’s Goal of the Month award for August.
The effort that has gone into protecting our goal also sees us top a host of Premier League metrics at this point. We’ve faced the fewest shots (56), the fewest shots on target (18) and have the lowest xG against (4.4) of all 20 sides in England’s top-flight.
| SHOTS FACED | SHOTS ON TARGET FACED | XG AGAINST | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenal | 56 | Arsenal | 56 | Arsenal | 4.39 | ||
| Newcastle | 62 | Aston Villa | 81 | Newcastle | 4.89 | ||
| Man Utd | 64 | Liverpool | 71 | Bournemouth | 6.34 | ||
| Bournemouth | 71 | Brighton | 73 | Man City | 7.48 | ||
| Liverpool | 71 | Crystal Palace | 89 | Liverpool | 7.92 |
