Arsenal’s trophy cabinet is substantial enough to prove the club’s status and lopsided enough to tell a more complicated story than the raw numbers suggest. Fourteen league titles. Fourteen FA Cups. One European trophy. Two League Cups. And as of May 19, 2026, a 22-year wait for the Premier League finally over. A record that spans nearly a century of top-flight football and peaks with a season nobody in English football has repeated since.
This is the full list not just the counts, but what each competition means and why certain wins carry more weight than others. The numbers alone don’t explain why Arsenal’s global reputation looks the way it does. The context does.
In my honest opinion, understanding Arsenal’s honours means understanding the difference between a club that collects trophies steadily and a club that occasionally produces something that changes how people think about football entirely. Arsenal has been both. Not always at the same time.
The league titles: 13 First Division and Premier League wins
Arsenal’s 14 top-flight league titles span from 1930-31 to 2025-26, a range that makes them one of the few clubs in English football with genuine claim to sustained excellence across multiple eras. They won five titles in the 1930s under Herbert Chapman and George Allison, two in the early 1990s under George Graham, three in seven years under Arsène Wenger, and the most recent under Mikel Arteta, ending a 22-year wait on May 19, 2026.
The 1988-89 title deserves its own mention. Arsenal needed to beat Liverpool by two goals on the final day of the season at Anfield and did it, with Michael Thomas scoring in injury time. It remains one of the most dramatic title finishes in English football history; the kind of win that gets remembered even by people who weren’t Arsenal supporters.
The last title, 2003-04, arrived without a defeat across 38 matches. It sits differently in the trophy list because it wasn’t just a championship. It was a record. The two things don’t always arrive together… and for Arsenal they have only arrived together once.
For a deeper look at the club’s history and honours, the wider context of how Arsenal built their league dominance across different eras is worth understanding alongside the individual title years.
The 2025-26 title arrived after three consecutive runners-up finishes, a run that made the eventual win feel both inevitable and genuinely uncertain right up to the end. Arsenal won 25 of their 37 league games, drawing seven and losing five, before Manchester City’s 1-1 draw at Bournemouth on May 19 confirmed the title with a game to spare.
The foundation of the season was 35 set-piece goals across all competitions, more than any club in Europe’s top five leagues across each of the last ten seasons.
In my view, the 14th title is an argument for the club’s standing; the three near-misses that came before it are an argument that standing alone doesn’t win championships. Arteta’s side finally converted.
The FA Cup: 14 wins and a record that stands alone
Arsenal have won the FA Cup 14 times — more than any other club in English football, according to Statista’s 2025 figures. The most recent came in 2020, when Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice in a 2–1 win over Chelsea at Wembley. A match played behind closed doors during the pandemic, which gave the victory a strange, hollow quality that the result itself didn’t deserve.
The spread of those 14 wins tells you something. They came in 1930, 1936, 1950, 1971, 1979, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2020 — across nine different decades, under nine different managers, with entirely different squads. That’s not a run of dominance. It’s consistency; the ability to produce a cup run when it matters, generation after generation.
The 1979 final is the one most older supporters reach for first. Arsenal led Manchester United 2–0 with five minutes remaining, conceded twice in three minutes, then won it in the final seconds through Alan Smiley… actually through Alan Sunderland, who turned in a cross at the far post in the 89th minute. A 3–2 win that most neutral observers still cite as one of Wembley’s finest finals.
In my humble opinion, 14 FA Cups is the trophy record that gets most consistently undersold. League titles measure season-long dominance; they’re the gold standard. But 14 cup wins across a century of competition measures something harder to manufacture — the capacity to peak at the right moment, repeatedly, under different circumstances.
The League Cup and Europe: the gaps in the cabinet
Arsenal have won the League Cup twice, in 1987 and 1993, both under George Graham. Neither win is remembered as a defining moment in the club’s history. The League Cup has never quite escaped the perception that it sits below the FA Cup in the English domestic hierarchy; winning it is noted, not celebrated.
The European record is the most significant gap in Arsenal’s honours list. They have won one continental trophy: the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1970, a competition that was the predecessor to the UEFA Cup and later the Europa League. It was Arsenal’s first European trophy and remains their only one.
They have come closer since without converting it. Arsenal reached the Champions League final in 2006, losing 2–1 to Barcelona after Jens Lehmann’s early red card, a match remembered as much for the injustice of the circumstances as for the defeat itself. They have not been back to a European final since.
That absence is the clearest gap between Arsenal’s domestic record and their European one. Fourteen FA Cups; no Champions League.
That asymmetry says something specific about the difference between depth and altitude — the club has shown extraordinary staying power in domestic competition and has not yet produced the sustained European push that the rest of the cabinet implies they should be capable of.
The Invincibles season: where the trophy list stops being the point
The 2003-04 Premier League title was Arsenal’s 13th league championship and for 22 years, the last. By the numbers it counts the same as any other. In practice, it sits in a different category entirely — the only unbeaten top-flight season in the modern era of English football.
Thirty-eight matches. Twenty-six wins. Twelve draws. The Invincibles went the entire league season without losing once. No team in the Premier League era has matched it; no team has come particularly close. Chelsea went 40 league matches unbeaten across 2004-05, but that run included the tail end of the previous season rather than a complete campaign.
What the season added to the trophy list was mythology. Arsenal didn’t just win a championship in 2003-04; they produced a 49-game unbeaten league run across that season and the start of the next, a record that still stands. The league title is the official entry in the honours list. The unbeaten run is the reason people still talk about that team specifically, rather than treating 2003-04 as one of thirteen.
In my honest opinion, the Invincibles season is both Arsenal’s greatest achievement and a complicated legacy. It set a standard the club has spent twenty years failing to reach again — and every near-miss title challenge since is implicitly measured against it.
What the list doesn’t yet include and what May 30 could change
Arsenal have won the Community Shield 16 times more than any other club. The competition, played at the start of each season between the league champion and FA Cup winner, sits in a contested middle ground between a genuine trophy and a glorified pre-season friendly. Most supporters count it; most neutral observers don’t. Its presence or absence in the total depends on which version of the honours list you’re reading.
What the list has never included is a Champions League trophy. Arsenal have not won European football’s biggest prize in their history — and for most of the last two decades, getting close enough to challenge for it felt distant. That changes on May 30, 2026, when Arsenal face PSG in the Champions League final in Budapest; a chance to complete a domestic and European double that no Arsenal side has ever achieved.
The route there was remarkable in itself. Arsenal beat Real Madrid 5–1 on aggregate in the quarter-finals — a result that immediately became one of the club’s great European nights. PSG, the defending Champions League champions, await in the final.
In my honest opinion, the Premier League title already makes 2025-26 a historic season. What happens in Budapest is a separate question entirely… but it’s one that no Arsenal supporter has been able to ask with genuine seriousness for a very long time.
The full picture
Arsenal’s honours list is the record of a club that has competed seriously in English football for over 130 years and produced moments of genuine excellence in every era. Fourteen league titles. Fourteen FA Cups. One European trophy — with the chance to make it two on May 30.
The gaps are real and worth naming. So is the consistency. Very few clubs have won across as many decades; fewer still have produced an unbeaten league season in the process.
In my honest opinion, the trophy list is most useful not as a ranking exercise but as a map of what Arsenal have been capable of and when. The peaks are obvious. The latest one landed on May 19, 2026. Whether Budapest adds to it is a story still being written.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many trophies has Arsenal won in total?
Arsenal have won 14 top-flight league titles, 14 FA Cups, 2 League Cups, and 1 European trophy — the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1970. If the Community Shield is included, the total rises to 47 across all competitions, though the Shield’s status as a major trophy is disputed. In my honest opinion, the FA Cup count of 14 is the single most impressive number in that list — it’s a record that no other English club has matched.
When did Arsenal last win the Premier League?
Arsenal won the Premier League in 2025-26, confirmed on May 19, 2026, when Manchester City drew 1-1 at Bournemouth, leaving Arsenal with an unassailable lead with one game remaining. It was the club’s 14th top-flight title and ended a 22-year wait since the Invincibles season of 2003-04. Three consecutive runners-up finishes in the seasons immediately prior made the eventual win both hard-earned and genuinely relieving.
How many FA Cups has Arsenal won?
Arsenal have won the FA Cup 14 times, more than any other club in English football, according to Statista’s 2025 figures. The most recent win came in 2020, against Chelsea at Wembley. The wins span nine different decades and nine different managers, which says more about the club’s durability in cup competition than any single title run could.
Has Arsenal ever won the Champions League?
Arsenal have not won the Champions League. Their closest finish was the 2006 final, in which they lost 2–1 to Barcelona after goalkeeper Jens Lehmann was sent off in the 18th minute. Arsenal led 1–0 for most of the match before conceding twice in the final 15 minutes. In my humble opinion, that match is the clearest example of how fine the margins are at the top of European competition and how much the absence of a full squad can cost you on the biggest night.
What is Arsenal’s most famous trophy win?
By common consensus, the 2003-04 Invincibles season is Arsenal’s most celebrated achievement. The unbeaten Premier League title that produced a 49-game unbeaten league run. The 1988-89 title, won on the last day of the season at Anfield with a goal in injury time, runs it close for dramatic impact. In my honest opinion, the Invincibles win is the answer most people give because it combined a championship with a record that has never been equalled — the rarest combination in football.