Our 3-0 success against Slavia Prague saw us clinch a 10th win in a row across all competitions and keep yet another clean sheet, sending the statisticians scrambling for their record books.
So how does our brilliant run of form and impenetrable defence rank across our 138-year history? Here are the landmarks we’ve hit and what else can still be claimed:
Clean sheet kings
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Tuesday’s win in Prague means that we have won eight matches in a row without conceding for the first time, surpassing the feats of George Graham’s 1987 team with our fine result in the Czech capital. In English top-flight history, only Liverpool in 1920 have ever achieved the same record of wins to nil:
**Most consecutive wins without conceding**
**Last Game**
**Team**
**Wins**
04/11/2025
Arsenal
8
21/02/1920
Liverpool
8
14/09/1889
Preston North End
8
10/10/1987
Arsenal
7
17/09/2005
Chelsea
7
19/01/2020
Liverpool
7
After maintaining our 100% start to the Champions League without conceding, we are one of only two English teams in European Cup history to win their first four matches of a season without letting in a goal, the other being Leeds United in 1969/70.
It has been 12 hours and 56 minutes in all competitions since someone found a way past our defence, when Nick Woltemade netted for Newcastle United during our win at St James’ Park in September.
And that run of eight clean sheets means that our class of 2025 have now drawn level with the previous club record, which was set across two Second Division seasons between April and October 1903. During this run, we have allowed only 12 shots on target:
Our run of eight clean sheets
Date
Opponent
Score
Shots on target faced
01/10/2025
Olympiacos
W 2-0
3
04/10/2025
West Ham
W 2-0
0
18/10/2025
Fulham
W 1-0
0
21/10/2025
Atletico Madrid
W 4-0
1
26/10/2025
Crystal Palace
W 1-0
1
29/10/2025
Brighton
W 2-0
6
01/11/2025
Burnley
W 2-0
0
04/11/2025
Sparta Prague
W 3-0
1
We now head to Sunderland on Saturday looking to reach nine in a row for the first time, and chase down Liverpool’s English record of 11 straight shutouts, set in 2005/06.
Raya’s record
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In goal during those eight matches in 1903 was Jimmy Ashcroft, who played 303 times for us between 1900 and 1908. As all of those games were in the Second Division, Ashcroft holds the record for most successive league clean sheets with eight.
The former England shot-stopper also held the record for being the fastest keeper to 50 Gunners clean sheets, but David Raya’s latest shutout against Prague has seen him climb to the top of that list: