Arsenal will meet its counterpart Bournemouth today, Saturday, as part of the eighth week of English Premier League matches, and the Gunners, led by Mikel Arteta, are looking for superiority during the confrontation to achieve a new historical record.
Everyone’s eyes are on Bournemouth’s match against Arsenal, which the latter wants to win to reach 2,000 wins during the English Premier League, according to The Analyst website, which specializes in numbers and statistics.
Arsenal achieved 1,999 victories during its Premier League campaign, and tonight it seeks to reach victory number 2,000, repeating what Liverpool did in December 2021, as the latter reached 2,056 games won at the current time.
Historical numbers for Arsenal in the English Premier League
Arsenal’s victories, which reached 1999, included several numbers and historical facts, including the stadiums in which the Gunners achieved that historic record.
Arsenal won 229 matches at the Emirates Stadium since moving there in 2006, while the team achieved 951 wins at Highbury Stadium, and the foreign stadiums during which Arsenal achieved this historic record varied in the number of matches won.
Arsenal’s victories over the English Premier League teams varied, but Everton is at the top of the clubs that suffered defeats against the Gunners, and Arsenal’s historical record of wins over the Premier League teams included the following:
Everton – 102 matches.
Manchester City – 84 matches.
Aston Villa – 80 matches.
Newcastle United – 72 matches.
Tottenham Hotspur – 72 matches.
The previous clubs are the ones that Arsenal has defeated the most in the English Premier League competition, and they are the ones that ranked first in the record of defeats against the Gunners.
Arsene Wenger, the historic coach of Arsenal, topped the record for the most victories achieved by the team in the English Premier League, as the record of the coaches with the most victories was as follows:
Arsene Wenger – 476 wins.
Bertie Mee – 181 wins.
Tom Whittaker – 178 wins.
Herbert Chapman – 171 wins.
George Graham – 162 wins.
Terry Neal – 134 wins.
George Allison – 112 wins.
Mikel Arteta – 108 wins.
Mikel Arteta, the current coach of Arsenal, is among the coaches with the most victories with Arsenal, with 108 matches, and he seeks to continue his superiority and break the records of his predecessors during the coaching journey of the London team.
Tony Adams is at the top of the players who won the most matches with Arsenal in the league championship, with a record that is difficult to achieve, which reached 255 wins, which surpassed his runner-up, David O’Reilly, who participated with the Gunners in achieving 254 victories in the Premier League.
Decisive matches
Arsenal’s first win was 2-0 against Wolverhampton Wanderers in September 1904.
The 100th win was a 1-0 win against Preston North End in October 1911.
The 500th win was a 6-0 win against Charlton Athletic in September 1947.
The 1,000th win was a 3-0 win against Newcastle United in March 1975.
The 1,500th win was 2-1 against Chelsea in December 2001.