Arsenal broke multiple records vs Slavia Prague on Tuesday as they continued their perfect start in the Champions League. We break down the best of them.
Arsenal’s perfect start to their 2025-26 UEFA Champions League campaign continued on Tuesday night with a comfortable 3-0 win at Slavia Prague. That made it four wins from four for Mikel Arteta’s men in the competition this term, and they’ve kept a clean sheet in each of those victories.
Their European performances match their outstanding domestic form, with the Gunners currently six points clear at the top of the Premier League.
We break down every record Arsenal broke on a landmark evening in Prague.
A Club-Record Eight Consecutive Wins Without Conceding
Arsenal have now won eight consecutive matches in all competitions without conceding, setting a new club record in the process. Their previous best – a run of seven straight wins without shipping a goal – came between September and October 1987.
Slavia Prague 0-3 Arsenal xG shot map
Their current run also equals the longest ever by an English top-flight side, set by Preston North End (January – September 1889) and Liverpool (January – February 1920). One more victory with a clean sheet – at Sunderland this weekend – would take Arsenal to the outright longest streak in English football history.
Looking across the top five European leagues, the record for the most consecutive wins to nil is held by Bayern Munich, who went 10 wins without conceding between August and September 2011.
For Serie A clubs, in Opta’s database the record is held by Juventus, who won nine successive games while keeping a clean sheet in each between May and September 2014.
In Spain, three teams have won eight in a row without conceding (Barcelona between April and August 2016, Real Madrid in January 2014 and Valencia between September and October 2003), but nobody has gone longer than Arsenal’s current run.
They’ve already beaten the record by a French top-flight side, jointly held by Montpellier between January and February 2012 and Sedan between December 1962 and January 1963 (7).
Eight Clean Sheets in a Row to Match a Club Record Set in 1903
While they set a new record for consecutive wins without conceding, Arsenal’s eight clean sheets in a row is only a joint club record. For now.
The Gunners last kept eight shutouts in a row between April and October 1903, a sequence that included seven wins and a 0-0 draw against Leicester City in the third game of that run.
Arsenal are still a little way off the all-time English top-flight record, held by Liverpool, who kept 11 clean sheets in a row between October and December 2005.
10 Consecutive Wins: Arteta’s Longest Winning Streak Continues
Victory over Burnley last weekend set a new record for Arteta’s longest winning streak as Arsenal manager, and his side extended that run to 10 wins in all competitions on Tuesday.
You have to go back to early in Unai Emery’s spell in 2018 to find the last time Arsenal won more games in a row. After losing his first two matches, Emery rattled off 11 successive wins between August and October 2018.
As an added target to beat, Arsenal’s longest run of consecutive wins under Arsène Wenger is 13, set between March and August 2002.
David Raya Reaches 50 Clean Sheets Faster Than Any Arsenal Goalkeeper
David Raya’s clean sheet against Slavia Prague was his 50th for the club. He hit that mark in just his 110th start, making him the fastest Arsenal goalkeeper in history to reach the milestone.
The previous record had stood since October 1903, when Jimmy Ashcroft reached the half-century in his 114th start.
David Raya - fastest Arsenal goalkeeper to 50 clean sheets
Bukayo Saka Continues His European Away-Day Delights
Bukayo Saka’s first-half penalty made him the first Arsenal player ever to score in four consecutive away appearances in the Champions League in a run that stretches back into last campaign.
In the 2024-25 edition, he scored at PSG in the semi-final second leg, at Real Madrid in the Santiago Bernabéu in the quarter-final second leg, and at Sporting CP in the group phase.
Max Dowman Becomes The Youngest Player in Champions League History
Max Dowman’s second-half introduction not only broke an Arsenal record, but a Champions League one.
Aged just 15 years and 308 days, he became the youngest player to ever appear in the Champions League, surpassing the previous record set by Borussia Dortmund’s Youssoufa Moukoko (16y, 18d) in 2020.
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