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

Gameweek two of the 2026-27 Premier League season concluded with a cagey affair at Villa Park, with Arsenal running out 1-0 victors against Aston Villa.

The Gunners eventually sealed the win thanks to Bukayo Saka's goal just before the hour, with Arsenal's dominant defence ensuring Aston Villa failed to register a shot on target - leaving the Villans still without an effort on goal in the Premier League this season.

Here, Sports Mole takes a closer look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between Aston Villa and Arsenal ahead of Monday's game.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 208

Aston Villa wins: 72

Draws: 46

Arsenal wins: 90

First locking horns in a competitive setting 120 years ago - when Arsenal were prefixed by Woolwich - the two outfits have now clashed a total of 208 times, and the Gunners edge the wins counter with 90 successes compared to Aston Villa's 72.

Arsenal have won each of the last two clashes, including a 4-1 triumph at the Emirates Stadium in December 2025, as well as a narrow 1-0 victory at Villa Park on matchday two of the 2026-27 Premier League season.

Meanwhile, the last of those triumphs for the West Midlands side came in the 2025-26 campaign, when they emerged as 2-1 winners in December 2025, only weeks before enduring the 4-1 demolition at the Emirates.

Unai Emery's men took a deserved lead in the first half through Matty Cash, but the Londoners found their way back into the game shortly after the interval through Leandro Trossard.

It looked like the sides would settle for a point, but Emiliano Buendia's stoppage-time winner secured all three points, and narrowed the gap at the top of the Premier League table.

The Lions managed to do the double over Arsenal in 2023-24, prevailing 1-0 on home soil courtesy of a John McGinn effort, before silencing the Emirates around Easter time through Leon Bailey and Ollie Watkins, hammering the final nail into Arsenal's title coffin in the process.

Aston Villa have now succeeded in six of their last 14 Premier League matches with Arsenal and have already strung together a three-match winning sequence over the Gunners in this decade, prevailing in July 2020, November 2020 and February 2021 during the COVID-19 era.

Those three successes and the 2023-24 double come either side of a four-match winning sequence for Arsenal, though, including an unforgettable 4-2 triumph at Villa Park in February 2023, where ex-Gunners goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez scored one of the most unfortunate own goals the Premier League has seen.

Martinez's inadvertent header that day preceded the Argentine coming up for a corner and leaving his goal exposed for Gabriel Martinelli to tap into, as the Brazilian assured Arsenal of their 14th Premier League win at Villa Park before a record 15th in 2024, their most at a single away venue in the Premier League.

When it comes to notable Emirates meetings, Aston Villa had the honour of being Arsenal's first Premier League opponents at their current stadium in 2006, when they were on the verge of spoiling the North London party before Gilberto Silva's late equaliser in a 1-1 draw.

All-time Arsenal top scorer Thierry Henry, who leads the individual charts in this fixture with 12, followed by more ex-Gunners strikers in Olivier Giroud (eight), Tony Woodcock (seven) and Ian Wright (seven).