Arsenal are celebrating Christmas top of the tree with Mikel Arteta’s side leading the Premier League title race.
The North London side’s 1-0 win at Everton on Saturday, sealed by Viktor Gyokeres’s penalty, means Arsenal will spend the festivities at the top of the Premier League.
Arsenal have lost just twice in the Premier League this season and boast a two-point lead over Manchester City.Â
It’s the position every team wants to be in, but will the Gunners go on to win the Premier League from here?
Just over half the teams (52%) to have topped the table on December 25th have been crowned champions, while Arsenal have never ended the season as Premier League title winners when leading at Christmas, despite doing so on four occasions.
5 – 2025-26 is the fifth season Arsenal will sit top of the Premier League table on Christmas Day (also in 2002-03, 2007-08, 2022-23 & 2023-24), however the Gunners have failed to go on and win the title in any of the previous four. Omen? pic.twitter.com/qhplColgw0
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 20, 2025
The lowest any team has finished after leading the table at Christmas is sixth, when Aston Villa plummeted out of the European places entirely. Such was their drop-off, The Villans ended the campaign 24 points behind champions Manchester United.
Where every team top of the Premier League at Christmas finished the season
- 1992/93 – Norwich City (final position – 3rd)
- 1993/94 – Manchester United (final position – 1st)
- 1994/95 – Blackburn Rovers (final position – 1st)
- 1995/96 – Newcastle United (final position – 2nd)
- 1996/97 – Liverpool (final position – 4th)
- 1998/99 – Aston Villa (final position – 6th)
- 1999/00 – Leeds United (final position – 3rd)
- 2000/01 – Manchester United (final position – 1st)
- 2001/02 – Newcastle United (final position – 4th)
- 2002/03 – Arsenal (final position – 2nd)
- 2003/04 – Manchester United (final position – 3rd)
- 2004/05 – Chelsea (final position – 1st)
- 2005/06 – Chelsea (final position – 1st)
- 2006/07 – Manchester United (final position – 1st)
- 2007/08 – Arsenal (final position – 3rd)
- 2008/09 – Liverpool (final position – 2nd)
- 2009/10 – Chelsea (final position – 1st)
- 2010/11 – Manchester United (final position – 1st)
- 2011/12 – Manchester City (final position – 1st)
- 2012/13 – Manchester United (final position – 1st)
- 2013/14 – Liverpool (final position – 2nd)
- 2014/15 – Chelsea (final position – 1st)
- 2015/16 – Leicester City (final position – 1st)
- 2016/17 – Chelsea (final position – 1st)
- 2017/18 – Manchester City (final position – 1st)
- 2018/19 – Liverpool (final position – 2nd)
- 2019/20 – Liverpool (final position – 1st)
- 2020/21 – Liverpool (final position – 3rd)
- 2021/22 – Manchester City (final position – 1st)
- 2022/23 – Arsenal (final position – 2nd)
- 2023/24 – Arsenal (final position – 2nd)
- 2024/25 – Liverpool (final position – 1st)
Read –Â Gyokeres urges Arsenal to stay grounded in title race
See more –Â Every Premier League title winner who was outside the top four at Christmas
