Arsenal vs. Dinamo Zagreb: Head-to-head record and past meetings

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Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 5 Arsenal wins: 4 Draws: 0 Dinamo Zagreb wins: 1

Arsenal and Dinamo Zagreb's league phase clash in the 2024-25 Champions League was their fifth meeting in Europe's elite tournament, and the Gunners continued their dominant streak over the Croatian side with a routine 3-0 success, one in which Declan Rice, Kai Havertz and Martin Odegaard all registered.

With Arsene Wenger at the helm, Arsenal won three of their four contests against Dinamo Zagreb, the one outlier being a shock 2-1 loss away from home during the group stage of the 2015-16 competition.

On that occasion, a Theo Walcott strike was in vain following earlier efforts from Josip Pivaric and Junior Fernandes, as Dinamo Zagreb beat an English top-flight team in the Champions League for the first time in their history.

Olivier Giroud also saw red on the evening to compound Arsenal's misery, but Wenger's team made amends a couple of months later, strolling to a 3-0 win on Emirates soil courtesy of a Mesut Ozil effort and Alexis Sanchez brace.

Ozil's goal was a collector's item, just the second header he had scored in his career by that point, as Arsenal replicated the scoreline from their first-ever meeting with Dinamo Zagreb all the way back in 2006.

The Gunners came up against the Blues in the final qualifying round of the 2006-07 edition and made light work of them in the first leg away from home, where Cesc Fabregas netted twice either side of a Robin van Persie strike.

Dinamo Zagreb then had the honour of being Arsenal's first-ever Champions League opponents at the Emirates Stadium, where they briefly looked capable of springing a surprise thanks to an opening goal from future Arsenal forward Eduardo.

However, Freddie Ljungberg and Mathieu Flamini turned the tide for the Gunners in the second half, as the Gunners progressed to the group stage at the expense of a Dinamo Zagreb side employing a young Luka Modric.

Previous meetings

Jan 22, 2025: Arsenal 3-0 Dinamo Zagreb (Champions League League Phase) Nov 24, 2015: Arsenal 3-0 Dinamo Zagreb (Champions League Group Stage) Sep 16, 2015: Dinamo Zagreb 2-1 Arsenal (Champions League Group Stage) Aug 23, 2006: Arsenal 2-1 Dinamo Zagreb (Champions League Third Qualifying Round Second Leg) Aug 08, 2006: Dinamo Zagreb 0-3 Arsenal (Champions League Third Qualifying Round First Leg)