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

Arsenal welcomed Sporting Lisbon to the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday night for the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final encounter.

The two teams played out a 0-0 draw on the night, meaning the Gunners set up a semi-final clash with Atletico Madrid following their 1-0 triumph in the first leg in Portugal last week.

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

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 9

Sporting Lisbon wins: 1

Draws: 4

Arsenal wins: 4

Arsenal and Sporting Lisbon have previously clashed nine times in European competition, but only three times in the Champions League; they have crossed paths four times in the Europa League and twice in the now-defunct Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.

Under half of their previous nine showdowns have ended level at full time, while Arsenal have come up trumps on four occasions themselves, and the Portuguese giants only have one victory to their name against the three-time Premier League winners.

That success arrived in their Emirates showdown in the 2022-23 Europa League last 16, where Mikel Arteta and Ruben Amorim's teams shook hands on a pulsating 2-2 first-leg draw before reuniting in North London one week later.

With media personality Kim Kardashian watching on from the Emirates stands, Arsenal went ahead through Granit Xhaka, only to be pegged back by a 46-yard Pedro Goncalves spectacular before being knocked out by Amorim's men on penalties.

Prior to that crushing continental disappointment, though, Arsenal had kept clean sheets in each of their first four matches with Sporting, whom they also met in the group stage of the 2018-19 Europa League with Unai Emery at the helm.

That year, a 1-0 away win courtesy of a Danny Welbeck effort preceded a 0-0 draw at the Emirates, and the Gunners also proved too hot for Sporting to handle during the 1969-70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, winning their second-round tie 3-0 on aggregate before going on to lift the trophy.

Future manager George Graham netted two of Arsenal's goals in their 3-0 second-leg success at Highbury, making him the top scorer in this fixture, which has never been won in 90 minutes by the Portuguese side.

The first-ever meeting between the two clubs in the Champions League was barely a contest in truth, as the Gunners ruthlessly dispatched Sporting 5-1 at the Estadio Jose Alvalade, equalling their biggest-ever away win in the competition.

The scoreline was much closer in the recent meeting between the two sides in April 2026, which saw Kai Havertz score a late winner in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final tie between the two sides.

Arsenal and Sporting were unable to be separated in the second leg at the Emirates, with the scoreline remaining goalless at full-time, meaning the Gunners triumphed 1-0 on aggregate and booked their place in the semi-finals of the competition.