Arsenal are just the second club in the history of top flight English football to record 2,000 wins, reaching the milestone in Saturday's victory over Nottingham Forest.

The Gunners have been waiting some time to hit the mark, with their 1,999th win coming against Southampton over a month ago back on 5 October. But four subsequent games against Bournemouth, Liverpool, Newcastle United and Chelsea without victory served to both delay the feat and allow Liverpool to create daylight atop the Premier League table.

Given that Forest have themselves been on an excellent recent run, Arsenal fans might not have expected it to end up being such a comfortable afternoon at the Emirates Stadium.

Yet Mikel Arteta's side dominated from the earliest stages, going in front after 13 minutes courtesy of Bukayo Saka. Further goals from substitutes Thomas Partey and Ethan Nwaneri, the latter netting for the first time in the Premier League, wrapped things up in the second half.

It took Arsenal 4,335 games and 120 years to amass 2,000 top flight wins. The very first was recorded against Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1904.


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Arsene Wenger is responsible for 486 wins, or just under a quarter of the entire total. Current boss Arteta has racked up 109 league wins since he took over at the end of 2019.

Liverpool are the only club ahead of Arsenal when it comes to all-time top flight wins, claiming 2,068 victories. Manchester United are next on the list with 1,910, which is only nine more than Everton.


English clubs with most all-time top flight wins

Club

Wins

Liverpool

2,068

Arsenal

2,000

Manchester United

1,910

Everton

1,901

Aston Villa

1,724

Manchester City

1,597

Tottenham Hotspur

1,509

Chelsea

1,480

Newcastle United

1,415

Sunderland

1,260


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