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Emirates 200

Behind the Numbers

This week our statistician looks at the numbers behind Arsenal's first 200 matches at Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal's victory over Spurs last week came in the 200th match played at Emirates Stadium.

It was the Club's 136th win in that time, there have also been 42 draws and 22 defeats. The Gunners have scored 432, conceded 154 and each match has featured an average of 2.93 goals.

"The most common scoreline is 1-0, recorded for the 24th time at the weekend"

The overall goal difference is +278, very similar to the goal difference for the last 200 games played at Highbury (+280).

The games have come in four different competitions, with the breakdown as follows: 135 in the Premier League (67.5 per cent), 38 Champions League games (19 per cent), 14 matches in the FA Cup (seven per cent) and 13 League Cup fixtures (6.5 per cent).

The first game was against Aston Villa, on Saturday, August 19, 2006. Gilberto scored in a 1-1 draw, converting a Theo Walcott cross. Walcott also claimed the assist in the 200th game. Mathieu Flamini is the only other player who featured in both matches - as a sub both times. Indeed it was Flamini who scored the first ever winning goal at the stadium - against Dynamo Zagreb in a 2-1 victory four days after that Villa draw.

Arsenal's biggest win at Emirates Stadium was the 7-0 Champions League thrashing of Slavia Prague in October 2007, and the most common scoreline is 1-0, recorded for the 24th time at the weekend.

The highest scoring match was the 7-3 win over Newcastle last season. There have been 30 different scorelines in the 200 matches.

Arsenal have scored at least once in 175 of the 200 games (87.5 per cent) and kept clean sheets in 94 of them (47 per cent).

There have been seven hat-tricks, all scored by Arsenal players. The last visiting player to score a hat-trick in an Arsenal home game was Mick Quinn, for Coventry, on the opening day of the 1993/94 season.

 

Emirates Stadium - Premier League record

Emirates Stadium - Premier League record

 

 

Emirates Stadium - Full record

Emirates Stadium - Full record

 

Theo Walcott leads the way in terms of individual appearances at Emirates Stadium, having played in 141 (70.5 per cent) of the 200 matches. Five players (Walcott, Bacary Sagna, Cesc Fabregas, Gael Clichy and Robin van Persie) have played in more than half the games, while 82 players in total have represented the Gunners at Emirates. Ten of them played just once.

Of the 53 players who have made 10 appearances or more at Emirates, Eduardo has the best win average - the Croatian striker won 28 of his 34 games (82.35 per cent). The Club's overall win percentage at the stadium is 68 per cent.

Van Persie still leads the way in terms of goals scored at Emirates, with 64, which is twice as many as the next highest scorer - Fabregas. Not including own goals, 49 different players have scored for Arsenal at Emirates - which is 60 per cent of all those who have played there..
 

Emirates Stadium appearances

Player Total played Total won Win Percentage
Theo Walcott 141 92  65.25
Bacary Sagna  116  78  67.24 
Cesc Fabregas 104 70  67.31 
Gael Clichy 103  70  67.96 
Robin van Persie 101  68  67.33 
Alex Song 97  71  73.20 
Emmanuel Eboue 91  67  73.63 
Tomas Rosicky  89  63  70.79 
Abou Diaby 80  55  68.75 
Nicklas Bendtner   75  49  65.33 
Andrey Arshavin   74  50  67.57 
Aaron Ramsey  74  53  71.62 
Denilson  74  54  72.97 
William Gallas   73  47  64. 38
Manuel Almunia   71  49  69.01 
Thomas Vermaelen   68  45  66.18 
Kolo Toure  68  44  64.71 
Samir Nasri   65  43  66.15 
Emmanuel Adebayor   63  40  63.49 
Laurent Koscielny 62  41  66.13 
Wojciech Szczesny  59  38  64.41 
Kieran Gibbs  57  42  73.68 
Johan Djourou   56  39  69.64 
Jack Wilshere   51  36  70.59 
Alex Hleb   44  28  63.64 
Mikel Arteta   41  28  68.29 
Gilberto  38  26  68.42 
Carlos Vela   37  26  70.27 
Per Mertesacker  37  23  62.16 
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain  36  23  63.89 
Mathieu Flamini  36 22  61.11 
Eduardo  34  28  82.35 
Marouane Chamakh  34  23  67.65 
Gervinho  32  19  59.38
Lukasz Fabianski  31  23  74.19 
Jens Lehmann  29 19  65.52 
Santi Cazorla   28  16  57.14 
Olivier Giroud  27  16  59.26 
Philippe Senderos   27  19  70.37 
Lukas Podolski   25  14  56.00 
Mikael Silvestre  22  17 77.27 
Francis Coquelin   22  17  77.27 
Thierry Henry   20  12  60.00 
Justin Hoyte  20  12  60.00 
Sebastien Squillaci   20  13  65.00 
Andre Santos   17  11  64.71 
Carl Jenkinson   17  10  58.82 
Julio Baptista   16  10  62.50 
Yossi Benayoun  13  69.23 
Freddie Ljunberg  13  53.85 
Jeremie Aliadiere  10  40.00 
Emmanuel Frimpong   10  80.00 
Vito Mannone   10  70.00 
Armand Traore  55.56 
Ignasi Miquel   6 75.00 
Nacho Monreal   71.43 
Fran Merida   83.33 
Park Ju Young   50.00 
Sol Campbell   80.00 
Lassana Diarra  100.00 
Mark Randall   80.00 
Henri Lansbury   75.00 
Nico Yennaris   75.00 
Craig Eastmond  100.00 
Ryo Miyaichi  100.00 
Jay Simpson  100.00 
Sanchez Watt  100.00 
Amaury Bischoff   100.00 
Kerrea Gilbert   100.00 
Serge Gnabry   50.00 
Gavin Hoyte   100.00 
Oguzhan Ozyakup  2 2 100.00
Chuks Aneke   100.00 
Martin Angha   100.00 
Nacer Barazite   100.00 
Daniel Boateng   100.00 
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas   100.00 
Conor Henderson  100.00 
Damian Martinez   100.00 
Rui Fonte   100.00 
Yaya Sanogo   1 1 100.00 
Gilles Sunu  100.00 

 

Emirates Stadium goalscorers

Emirates Stadium goalscorers

 

Arsenal have played against 69 different teams at Emirates Stadium - from 17 different countries.

"Arsenal have played against 69 different teams at Emirates Stadium - from 17 different countries"

Tottenham have been the most frequent visitors - last week's game was the 10th north London derby hosted at the Emirates - and the Gunners have also scored more goals against Spurs than any other side (29).

Wigan have been beaten most often (eight times from nine meetings) while Liverpool have played out the most draws, five from nine fixtures.
 
Arsenal have beaten all of the 41 British sides to come to Emirates Stadium at least once.

As well as the 200 official first-team matches there have also been 24 Emirates Cup fixtures, six international friendlies, eight youth games and one testimonial since the stadium opened in July 2006.

 

Most frequent visitors to Emirates Stadium

Most frequent visitors to Emirates Stadium

 

Stats correct as at September 2, 2013. With thanks to Opta.

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