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100 wins under Mikel Arteta: The stats

Mikel Arteta celebrates on the touchline against Man United
Mikel Arteta celebrates on the touchline against Man United

Our victory against Fulham on Sunday was the 100th of the Mikel Arteta era.

It took 168 matches for us to reach the milestone – the boss has also drawn 24 and lost the other 44 – meaning his win percentage (59.5%) is the highest for any permanent Arsenal manager in history.

Arteta 100 wins playing record

Graph showing Arteta wins by competition

Next on that list is our most successful ever boss in terms of trophies, Arsène Wenger, who registered a 58 per cent win rate across his 1,235 games in charge. By way of comparison it took Arsène 184 matches to bring up his 100th win.

Mikel’s first win arrived in his third game, at home to Manchester United on New Year’s Day 2020 in the Premier League. Sokratis and Nicolas Pepe scored in a 2-0 victory. His biggest win so far came in the Carabao Cup in 2021, 6-0 away to West Brom on August 25, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scoring a hat-trick.

Mikel’s century came in five different competitions (70 of them in Premier League matches) and against 38 different teams.

The teams he’s beaten most often are Leeds and Leicester City (six times each), and he’s won at least once on every day of the week – mostly on Sunday (29 times) then Saturdays (28).

Graph showing all winning scorelines under Arteta

The most common winning scorelines are 1-0 and 2-0 (17 times each) and exactly half of the wins have come at the Emirates.

There have been three wins at Wembley, including the 2020 FA Cup final against Chelsea. That was the manager’s 28th game in charge.

Graph showing Arteta wins by day

We also won the Community Shield at Wembley after a penalty shoot out, that’s one of two victories in the 100 that were secured on penalties – both, incidentally, against Liverpool.

So far this season we have won 27 games in all competitions, already more than in the whole of the last campaign.

Most Wins as Arsenal Manager

Manager

P

W

D

L

F

A

Arsène Wenger

1235

716

266

253

2298

1227

Bertie Mee

540

241

148

151

740

545

George Graham

460

225

133

102

711

403

Tom Whittaker

429

202

106

121

798

568

Herbert Chapman

403

201

97

105

598

432

Terry Neill

416

187

117

112

601

446

George Allison

279

129

74

76

534

327

George Morrell

291

103

73

115

358

408

Mikel Arteta

168

100

24

44

292

170

 

Mikel is the ninth Arsenal manager to bring up a ton, but he has a long way to go to reach the top of that particular list; Arsène secured 716 victories during his 22-year tenure.

Tables showing Arteta's 100 wins

Speaking about the milestone after the game on Sunday, the boss said: “It’s great, we have to continue like that, I’m delighted to do that, unfortunately, it’s not a title, so there’s still a lot to improve!

“But it is incredible and that means that we have a lot of people doing the right things at the club. In the team a lot of players contributing immensely and especially the support that we have, which in my opinion, has absolutely transformed this team with that energy, so I’m really happy.”

 

Arsenal managers win percentages

Manager

Games

Won

Won%

Mikel Arteta

168

100

59.52

Arsène Wenger

1235

716

57.98

Unai Emery

78

43

55.13

Thomas Mitchell

33

18

54.55

William Elcoat

26

14

53.85

Harry Bradshaw

185

95

51.35

Herbert Chapman

403

201

49.88

George Graham

460

225

48.91

Tom Whittaker

429

202

47.09

Teams Arsenal have beaten under Mikel Arteta

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