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

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 216

Man City wins: 67

Draws: 48

Arsenal wins: 101

The inaugural battle between Arsenal - then prefixed with Woolwich - and Manchester City, formerly known as Ardwick, in 1893 marked the first of 216 showdowns between the Citizens and the Gunners, who lead the way with 101 wins against the English champions.

Under the watchful eye of Mikel Arteta, the Gunners clinched their most recent victory in astonishing circumstances in February 2025, pummelling the Premier League champions 5-1 at the Emirates on a day where Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri both made the net bulge.

The Spaniard has made a habit of getting one over former master Pep Guardiola recently, as Arsenal also trumped City twice in 2023, once in the Community Shield and once in the top flight on home turf.

Goalmouth action was sparse in Easter Sunday's Etihad battle in 2024, though, where Arsenal were happy to settle for a goalless stalemate, ending their streak of embarrassment after embarrassment on Man City's territory in the process.

The Gunners had previously lost seven Premier League ties in a row against the Citizens on Manchester turf, but they would be left to lament not going gung-ho for all of the spoils, losing the 2023-24 top-flight crown to Man City by a mere two points.

City's aforementioned eight-game winning sequence took them up to 65 triumphs over Arsenal in their history, and even though the Citizens remain unbreakable on their own territory, they needed a late John Stones goal to save their bacon in an absorbing 2-2 draw in September 2024.

Almost exactly a year later, it was Arsenal's turn to steal a point in the dying embers of the match, as Gabriel Martinelli rescued his side in a 1-1 stalemate for the teams' 48th draw.

However, there would be no late reprieve for the Gunners in the 2025-26 EFL Cup final, where a Nico O'Reilly brace deservedly propelled Man City to a 2-0 triumph and dashed Arsenal's quadruple dreams.

A month later, Man City piled more misery on Arteta's men when they secured a 2-1 Premier League victory in a Etihad epic, courtesy of goals from Rayan Cherki and Erling Haaland. Success in arguably the biggest game of the 2025-26 top-flight season boosted City's title hopes and moved them to within three points of the Gunners at the summit.

Across their last five top-flight showdowns at the Etihad, Man City have made the net bulge 13 times while conceding just four themselves - to three defenders in Rob Holding, Gabriel Magalhaes and Riccardo Calafiori, and attacker Kai Havertz - and it has been 11 years since Arsenal emerged victorious on the Sky Blues' soil.

On that occasion, the silky Santi Cazorla and Olivier Giroud propelled Arsene Wenger's charges to a two-goal victory, but they were just seconds away from a hoodoo-ending win with 10 men at the start of the 2024-25 season, only for Stones to score City's latest Premier League equaliser on record.