2025/26 is the 100th anniversary of Arsenal playing football in the first division. To celebrate this achievement, we are publishing what we think is the only ever full history of Arsenal’s 100 years in the top flight of football. The articles in order of publication are below.
It is inevitable that a series of this size turns up occasional facts and insights after an article has been published, and at the end of this series, which is the largest original series we have ever undertaken, and indeed, I think is the only full review of 10 seasons in the top division, we will be going back to resolve such oddities.
But for now, we are plodding on year by year….
- 100 seasons in the top division: the election
- 100 Seasons in the top Division. Part 2: The opening season
- 100 seasons in the top division: Part 3 – the first north London league derby
- 100 seasons in the top division: part 4 – oh no it’s all going wrong
- 100 Seasons in the top division part 5: slipping down the league 1921/2
- 100 seasons in the top division: 1921/2 (part two)
- Arsenal 100 seasons in the top divison: 1922/3- 1924/5: why Knighton goes why Chapman comes
- 100 seasons: Removing Knighton, the arrival of Chapman, and changing reality
- 100 seasons in the top division: Chapman’s first season
- Arsenal’s first cup final; Chapman’s second season
- 100 seasons in the top division: after the cup final, Arsenal in 1927/28
- 100 seasons in the top division: towards the title
- 100 seasons at the top. Arsenal 1930-31; the goalkeeper accused of smuggling
- After the first trophies
- 1930-33, the trophies start to arrive
- 1933/4 – the key turning point
- 1934/5: After Chapman
- 100 Arsenal seasons in the top league: Allison takes over
- 1935/6: Arsenal have lost their manager but still come good
- Arsenal 1936/7: Suddenly, the trophies stop rolling in
- Arsenal’s 100 seasons in the top division: 1937/8 and on into wartime
- Arsenal’s 100 seasons in the top division: the 1939/40 war season
- 100 seasons in the top division: Arsenal after the Second World War
- 100 Arsenal seasons in the top league: Whittaker takes over
- Winning the title in Whittaker’s first season
