As we head into the business end of the 2025/26 season, Arsenal still have their sights set on a fourth Premier League title.
Mikel Arteta’s Gunners have been runners-up in each of the last three Premier League campaigns, coming closest to glory in 2023/24 – when they finished just two points behind champions Manchester City.
And Arsenal find themselves in a battle with City once again this time around, as the North London giants chase their first trophy since lifting the FA Cup some six years ago.
Another Premier League crown would be the ultimate prize for the Gunners. Here, LiveScore looks back at the last time Arsenal reigned supreme as champions of England.
When did Arsenal last win the Premier League?
Arsenal last won the Premier League in the 2003/04 season, when their legendary ‘Invincibles’ side went the entire league campaign unbeaten, a feat which hadn’t been achieved in the English top flight since Preston North End did so 115 years earlier.
Amassing 90 points across 38 games and finishing with a record of 26 wins and 12 draws to finish 11 points ahead of second-placed Chelsea, the Gunners claimed their third Premier League title – all of them under Arsene Wenger – and their 13th English top-flight title in all.
Only Manchester United and Liverpool have been English champions on more occasions (both 20) than Arsenal.
Who were Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’?
Arsenal used 22 players en route to winning the 2003/04 Premier League title, with goalkeeper Jens Lehmann an ever-present.
Lehmann – who shared the Golden Glove for the most Premier League clean sheets that season (15) – was the last line of defence in a side which, at its strongest, also comprised the following players: Lauren; Kolo Toure; Sol Campbell; Ashley Cole; Freddie Ljungberg; Patrick Vieira; Gilberto Silva; Robert Pires; Dennis Bergkamp; Thierry Henry.
While it was unquestionably an extraordinary team effort, Henry was the star of the show. The legendary Frenchman scored 30 goals in 37 appearances to win his second of four Premier League Golden Boots, in addition to being named PFA Players’ Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year for the second successive season.
The other 11 players who featured at least once during Arsenal’s iconic ‘Invincibles’ campaign were: Martin Keown; Jose Antonio Reyes; Sylvain Wiltord; Ray Parlour; Edu; Pascal Cygan; Gael Clichy; Nwankwo Kanu; Jeremie Aliadiere; David Bentley; Justin Hoyte.
What happened to Arsenal the season after?
It was a case of roles reversed in 2004/05 as Arsenal finished second and 12 points behind Chelsea – who clinched their first Premier League title.
The Gunners kept hold of the core of their ‘Invincibles’ squad during the summer of 2004 and added the likes of Robin van Persie and Mathieu Flamini to their ranks, but they were no match for Jose Mourinho’s Blues – who were almost ‘Invincibles’ themselves, losing just once and conceding a record-low 15 Premier League goals on their way to 95 points.
Arsenal did, though, stretch their unbeaten league run to 49 matches – an English top-flight record which will take some beating. That epic streak eventually came to an end with a 2-0 defeat away to Man United in October 2004.
The Gunners would go on to place fourth or higher in every Premier League season until 2016/17, when they came fifth in Wenger’s penultimate campaign at the helm.
That was the first of six consecutive finishes of fifth or lower for Arsenal, before those three straight seasons of second place which they’ll be hoping to better in 2025/26.
