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

Arsenal welcomed Brighton & Hove Albion to the Emirates Stadium for a fourth-round clash in the EFL Cup on Wednesday night, and it was, as expected, the Gunners who emerged victorious.

While the Seagulls showed encouraging signs throughout the match, particularly in the first half, the Gunners were significantly improved in the second 45 minutes and marched to an eventually confident 2-0 win, courtesy of goals from Ethan Nwaneri and Bukayo Saka.

The victory extended Arsenal's winning run to eight straight matches across all competitions, while it handed Brighton their second consecutive defeat following their loss to Manchester United in the Premier League at the weekend.

Here, Sports Mole takes a look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between Arsenal and Brighton.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 33

Arsenal wins: 18

Draws: 7

Brighton wins: 8

Meetings between Arsenal and Brighton & Hove Albion have only just become commonplace thanks to the Seagulls now establishing themselves as a Premier League force, and there have now been 33 competitive clashes between the two clubs.

Eighteen of those have been won by Arsenal, while Brighton have a respectable eight victories to their name against the North London giants, and another seven showdowns have ended in a share of the spoils.

The Gunners emerged victorious in their most recent encounter in the EFL Cup fourth-round in October 2025, with goals from Nwaneri and Saka sealing a 2-0 win for Arsenal.

Both meetings in the 2024-25 campaign finished 1-1, although the Gunners felt hard done by in both; their stalemate at the Amex saw Joao Pedro equalise with a questionable penalty, after Declan Rice's contentious red card for delaying the restart at the Emirates.

However, Arsenal made light work of a Roberto De Zerbi-led Seagulls side in 2023-24, where a 2-0 Emirates success preceded a 3-0 Amex annihilation; Leandro Trossard was among the goals against his erstwhile employers in the latter game.

That campaign marked just the second time that Arsenal had completed a Premier League double over their South Coast counterparts, though - the other coming in 2020-21 - and Brighton quickly became one of Arsenal's bogey teams following their top-flight return.

Indeed, after winning their inaugural Premier League battle in 2017, the Gunners went winless in five straight matches against Brighton, who prevailed in both matches during the 2019-20 campaign, one of which came during Freddie Ljungberg's spell as interim Arsenal boss.

As well as their batch of league triumphs over Arsenal, Brighton also eliminated the Gunners from the EFL Cup third round in 2022-23, although an Arsene Wenger-led North London side prevailed 3-2 in the fourth round of the 2012-13 and 2014-15 FA Cups.

With three goals apiece, current Gunners striker Kai Havertz and Saka, as well as ex-Arsenal quartet Nicolas Pepe, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alan Sunderland and Graham Rix sit atop the scoring charts in this fixture.