Bukayo Saka's goal to beat Aston Villa on Saturday was the 2,000th we have scored in Premier League history.
Now into the 30th season of the competition, the landmark goal came up nearly 30 years after our very first – netted by Steve Bould against Norwich City at Highbury on August 15, 1992.
| Goal 1 | Steve Bould | Arsenal 2-4 Norwich City (August 15, 1992) |
| Goal 100 | Ian Wright | West Ham 0-2 Arsenal (September 25, 1994) |
| Goal 200 | Martin Keown | Arsenal 3-3 Chelsea (September 4, 1996) |
| Goal 300 | Stephen Hughes | Arsenal 2-0 Chelsea (February 8, 1998) |
| Goal 400 | Kanu | Arsenal 4-1 Everton (October 16, 1999) |
| Goal 500 | Thierry Henry | Manchester United 6-1 Arsenal (February 25, 2001) |
| Goal 600 | Sylvain Wiltord | Arsenal 2-0 Birmingham 0 (August 18, 2002) |
| Goal 700 | Edu |
Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea (October 18, 2003) |
| Goal 800 | Thierry Henry | Arsenal 2-2 Chelsea (December 12, 2004) |
| Goal 900 | Dennis Bergkamp | Arsenal 3-1 West Brom (April 15, 2006) |
| Goal 1,000 | Emmanuel Adebayor | Reading 1-3 Arsenal (November 12, 2007) |
| Goal 1,100 | Mikael Silvestre | Wigan 1-4 Arsenal (April 11, 2009) |
| Goal 1,200 | Pepe Reina (og) | Liverpool 1-1 Arsenal (August 15, 2010) |
| Goal 1,300 |
Gervinho |
Wigan 0-4 Arsenal (December 3, 2011) |
| Goal 1,400 | Gervinho | Swansea 0-2 Arsenal (March 16, 2013) |
| Goal 1,500 | Alexis Sanchez | Sunderland 0-2 Arsenal (October 25, 2014) |
| Goal 1,600 | Joel Campbell |
Arsenal 1-2 Swansea (March 2, 2016) |
| Goal 1,700 | Danny Welbeck |
Arsenal 4-3 Leicester (August 11, 2017) |
| Goal 1,800 | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | Bournemouth 1-2 Arsenal (November 25, 2018) |
| Goal 1,900 | Kieran Tierney |
Arsenal 3-2 Watford (July 26, 2020) |
| Goal 2,000 | Bukayo Saka | Aston Villa 0-1 Arsenal (March 19, 2022) |
We are the third team to rack up 2,000 PL goals, after Manchester United and Liverpool - however we actually needed fewer games than Liverpool to reach the milestone. Saka's goal came in our 1,142nd game, meaning we are the second fastest team to get there, at a rate of 1.75 goals per game.
During the same period we have conceded 1,131, for an overall goal difference of +869 (which is the second best, after Manchester United).
Premier League Goals Per Season
Saka is one of 132 different players to score for us in the Premier League (not including own goals) - and leading the way is Thierry Henry with 175.
Among the 2,000 goals were 40 Premier League hat-tricks (Kevin Campbell scored the first) and our biggest win is 7-0 - recorded twice (against Everton in May 2005 and Middlesbrough in January 2006).
Top Premier League goalscorers
Where Scored/When Scored
Our highest scoring season in Premier League history is 87 in 2004/05, and we are the only side to score at least once in every single game in a campaign (2001/02). We also hold the record for most consecutive top-flight games scored in. We netted in 55 games in a row between May 19, 2001 and November 30, 2002.
That run included one our three Premier League title-winning campaigns so far - all achieved under Arsène Wenger - and more than 75 per cent (1,561) of the 2,000 goals came while the Frenchman was in charge.
| Teams | Goals | Games |
|---|---|---|
| Manchester United | 2,176 | 1,143 |
| Liverpool | 2,002 | 1,143 |
| Arsenal | 2,000 | 1,142 |
| Chelsea | 1,954 | 1,142 |
| Tottenham Hotspur | 1,723 | 1,143 |
| Manchester City | 1,627 | 953 |
| Everton | 1,477 | 1,141 |
| Newcastle United | 1,365 | 1,025 |
| Aston Villa | 1,254 | 1,029 |
| West Ham United | 1,224 | 988 |
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