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Arsenal's greatest ever players by number

Arsenal's new number 14 will experience his first-ever taste of Premier League football on Sunday afternoon, as Viktor Gyokeres squares up to former Sporting Lisbon boss and current Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim at Old Trafford.

The Sweden international snubbed a reunion with his old head coach, turned down the chance to represent Juventus and also took no notice of big-money offers from Saudi Arabia during the summer transfer window, all out of his desire to represent Mikel Arteta's Gunners.

The three-time Premier League champions threw in possibly the most iconic jersey in their history to sweeten the deal, bestowing Gyokeres with the number 14 shirt most famously sported by all-time top scorer Thierry Henry and achieving record-breaking sale numbers soon after.

Fourteen is just one number out of many that football players can don on the pitch, though, and some less conventional numbers often hold a sentimental feeling in the hearts of players; Declan Rice and Myles Lewis-Skelly are two current prime examples.

Here, Sports Mole provides an exhaustive list of the greatest-ever Arsenal players by shirt number, including some notable names more than once if they have sported more than one jersey for the Gunners.

Arsenal's greatest ever players by number

1. David Seaman (Bob Wilson, Pat Jennings, Jens Lehmann)

2. Lee Dixon (William Saliba, Pat Rice)

3. Ashley Cole (Nigel Winterburn, Kenny Sansom)

4. Patrick Vieira (Cesc Fabregas, Peter Storey)

5. David O'Leary (Martin Keown, Steve Bould, Frank McLintock)

6. Tony Adams (Peter Simpson, Laurent Koscielny, Gabriel Magalhaes)

7. Robert Pires (Bukayo Saka, Liam Brady, David Rocastle, George Armstrong)

8. Ian Wright (Martin Odegaard, Freddie Ljungberg, Alan Sunderland, Alan Ball)

9. Alan Smith (John Radford, Charlie Nicholas, Frank Stapleton)

10. Dennis Bergkamp (Paul Merson, Charlie George)

11. Robin van Persie (George Graham, Marc Overmars, Mesut Ozil)

12. Lauren (Olivier Giroud)

13. Aleksandr Hleb

14. Thierry Henry (Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Theo Walcott)

15. Ray Parlour (Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain)

16. Aaron Ramsey

17. Emmanuel Petit (Alexis Sanchez, Edu, Alex Song)

18. Nacho Monreal (Gilles Grimandi, Pascal Cygan)

19. Gilberto Silva (Santi Cazorla)

20. Mathieu Flamini (Johan Djourou, Shkodran Mustafi)

21. Calum Chambers (Lukasz Fabianski, Luis Boa Morte)

22. Gael Clichy

23. Sol Campbell (Andrey Arshavin)

24. Hector Bellerin (Manuel Almunia)

25. Nwankwo Kanu (Emmanuel Adebayor)

26. Nicklas Bendtner (Igor Stepanovs)

27. Emmanuel Eboue (Gervinho)

28. Kolo Toure

29. Granit Xhaka (Matteo Guendouzi, Kai Havertz)

30. Jeremie Aliadiere

31. Sead Kolasinac

32. Theo Walcott

33. Petr Cech

34. Granit Xhaka

35. Mohamed Elneny (Gabriel Martinelli, Francis Coquelin)

36. Martin Zubimendi

37. David Bentley

38. Chuba Akpom

39. Hector Bellerin

40. Hector Bellerin (Kieran Gibbs)

41. Declan Rice

42. Quincy Owusu-Abeyie (Henri Lansbury)

43. Fran Merida

44. Serge Gnabry

45. Alex Iwobi

46. Henri Lansbury

47. Serge Gnabry

48. Mark Randall

49. Myles Lewis-Skelly

50. Emiliano Martinez

51. Ignasi Miquel

52. Nicklas Bendtner

53. Ethan Nwaneri

54. Jeff Reine-Adelaide

55. Emile Smith-Rowe

56. Emmanuel Frimpong

57. Cesc Fabregas

58. Mika Biereth

59. Myles Lewis-Skelly

60. Alex Iwobi

61. Reiss Nelson

62. Eddie Nketiah

63. Ethan Nwaneri

64. Nico Yennaris

65. Ben Sheaf

66. Miguel Azeez

67. Chuba Akpom

68. Chris Willock

69. Joe Willock

70. Ainsley Maitland-Niles

71. Charles Sagoe Jr

72. Tyreece John-Jules

73. Stefan O'Connor

74. Brayden Clarke

75. Zach Awe

76. Ayden Heaven

77. Bukayo Saka (Henrikh Mkhitaryan)

78. Marcelo Flores

79. Ayden Heaven

80. N/A

81. N/A

82. Omari Hutchinson

83. Ethan Nwaneri

84. N/A

85. Amario Cozier-Duberry

86. N/A

87. Bukayo Saka

88. N/A

89. Bradley Ibrahim

90. N/A

91. N/A

92. Jack Porter

93. N/A

94. N/A

95. N/A

96. Lino Sousa

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98. N/A

99. N/A

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