As the seasons progressed, Arsène Wenger’s 22 years as our manager saw him accumulate a wealth of remarkable facts and numbers due to the titles, success, and memories he experienced.
Three Premier League championships, seven FA Cups, and 49 games without a loss may be some of the more significant statistics from his time in our dugout, but there are many more noteworthy stats to his name if you look through the records.
The following are some of the astounding numbers from our famous manager’s stint in north London:
Arsène managed 1,235 of our games, far more than George Graham (460), who finished third, and Bertie Mee (540), who came in second. Even with them, they would still be 235 points behind Arsène.
He held office for 21 years and 7 months, over nine years longer than George Allison, our second longest-serving manager.
He presided over 828 Premier League games, 18 more than Sir Alex Ferguson, who holds the record for the most games managed in the history of the league. David Moyes, who is third on the list with 658, is his closest competition who is still actively working in the area.
Arsène led us to 716 victories, good for a victory percentage of 57.98%. During the Wenger era, we scored 1.96 points on average in Premier League games.
In those games, we scored 2,298 goals, or 1.86 per game. During that span, we had a goal difference of +1071.
Under Arsène’s leadership, we scored 100 goals or more in 13 of the 22 seasons (59%) that we played.
Arsène has won the FA Cup seven times, making him the most successful manager in the competition’s history. George Ramsey of Aston Villa, who won it six times during a 33-year period either side of the turn of the 20th century, was surpassed by him with his victory in 2017.
In north London, Wenger chose 227 different players. Patrick Vieira, who made 402 appearances between 1996 and 2005, was the player he chose the most, narrowly ahead of Theo Walcott, who made 397.
Konstantinos Mavropanos made his debut for Arsène Wenger against Manchester United in April 2018. He was the 200th and last player to do so.
Our first team was made up of players from 53 different countries while Arsène was in charge. England had the most of those, with 80, followed by France (30), and Germany (11).
Always a trailblazer, Arsène made history in 1997–98 when he led us to the English league title, making him the first foreign manager to do so.
The finest defensive record in our history was set in 1998–1999 when we allowed just 17 league goals—beating the previous mark of 18 set in 1990–1991 when we won the league championship.
We made league history in 2001–2002 by becoming the first team to score in each and every game.