Either Arsenal or Newcastle United‘s seat at the Champions League table for the 2025-26 season could be reserved on Sunday afternoon, when the Gunners lock horns with the Magpies in their final home game of the Premier League campaign.
Mikel Arteta‘s men start the penultimate gameweek two points clear of Newcastle in second place in the top-flight rankings, although they are not ending the current season as they mean to begin the next one.
Indeed, while their fightback in last weekend’s 2-2 draw with champions Liverpool was praiseworthy, that stalemate extended their winless run in all tournaments to five matches, including three failures to claim all three points in the Premier League.
Meanwhile, Newcastle enjoyed that winning feeling as recently as a few days ago, triumphing 2-0 over top-five rivals Chelsea to further enhance their Champions League credentials.
Ahead of Sunday’s Premier League contest, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between the two clubs.
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Head-to-head record
Previous meetings: 196
Newcastle wins: 72
Draws: 39
Arsenal wins: 85
Over 130 years have passed since Newcastle United and Arsenal butted heads for the first time – an 1893 Division Two clash that ended 2-2 – and there have now been 196 competitive battles between the Gunners and the Magpies in all tournaments.
The North London giants hold the bragging rights when it comes to overall victories with 85, although Newcastle are not all that far behind with 72 of their own, and another 39 battles have seen the two sides shake hands on a point apiece.
The Magpies have added another three wins to their tally in 2024-25, haunting Arsenal in the Premier League at St James’ Park and in the EFL Cup semi-finals, netting five goals and conceding zero across that successful streak.
Both teams got one over the other during the 2023-24 campaign, starting with the Magpies prevailing 1-0 at St James’ Park thanks to an Anthony Gordon goal labelled an “embarrassment” and “a disgrace” by an apoplectic Mikel Arteta.
Despite VAR reviews for an offside, a foul and the ball possibly going out of play, Newcastle’s winner was given the green light by Stockley Park, although Arsenal avenged what they felt was an unjust defeat by thrashing Howe’s men 4-1 at the Emirates in February 2024.
That was just a second win in five for Arsenal against their neighbours from the north, though, as they previously went three games without a goal in this fixture, also losing 2-0 at the back-end of the 2021-22 season and being held to a 0-0 draw in January 2023.
However, Arsenal have built up a splendid sequence of home results against Newcastle, going unbeaten in their last 12 Premier League games versus the Magpies at the Emirates – winning 11 of them – since losing 1-0 in November 2010 courtesy of an Andy Carroll header.
The two sides have also crossed paths in three FA Cup finals, the most recent of which in 1998 ended in a 2-0 win for Arsenal, but Newcastle prevailed 1-0 in the 1952 edition after a controversial 2-1 victory in 1932, where their equaliser was awarded despite the ball appearing to go out of play. Arteta’s men ironically experienced deja vu in that sense in 2023.
The highest individual scorer in this fixture donned the kits of both Arsenal and Newcastle, as Malcolm Macdonald scored six goals in Gunners-Magpies contests, although all of them came for Newcastle against Arsenal.
Last 20 meetings
Feb 05, 2025: Newcastle 2-0 Arsenal (EFL Cup Semi-Final Second Leg)
Jan 07, 2025: Arsenal 0-2 Newcastle (EFL Cup Semi-Final First Leg)
Nov 2, 2024: Newcastle 1-0 Arsenal (Premier League)
Feb 24, 2024: Arsenal 4-1 Newcastle (Premier League)
Nov 04, 2023: Newcastle 1-0 Arsenal (Premier League)
May 07, 2023: Newcastle 0-2 Arsenal (Premier League)
Jan 03, 2023: Arsenal 0-0 Newcastle (Premier League)
May 16, 2022: Newcastle 2-0 Arsenal (Premier League)
Nov 27, 2021: Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle (Premier League)
May 02, 2021: Newcastle 0-2 Arsenal (Premier League)
Jan 18, 2021: Arsenal 3-0 Newcastle (Premier League)
Jan 09, 2021: Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle (FA Cup Third Round)
Feb 16, 2020: Arsenal 4-0 Newcastle (Premier League)
Aug 11, 2019: Newcastle 0-1 Arsenal (Premier League)
Apr 01, 2019: Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle (Premier League)
Sep 15, 2018: Newcastle 1-2 Arsenal (Premier League)
Apr 15, 2018: Newcastle 2-1 Arsenal (Premier League)
Dec 16, 2017: Arsenal 1-0 Newcastle (Premier League)
Jan 02, 2016: Arsenal 1-0 Newcastle (Premier League)
Aug 29, 2015: Newcastle 0-1 Arsenal (Premier League)
Last 10 Premier League meetings
Nov 2, 2024: Newcastle 1-0 Arsenal (Premier League)
Feb 24, 2024: Arsenal 4-1 Newcastle (Premier League)
Nov 04, 2023: Newcastle 1-0 Arsenal (Premier League)
May 07, 2023: Newcastle 0-2 Arsenal (Premier League)
Jan 03, 2023: Arsenal 0-0 Newcastle (Premier League)
May 16, 2022: Newcastle 2-0 Arsenal (Premier League)
Nov 27, 2021: Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle (Premier League)
May 02, 2021: Newcastle 0-2 Arsenal (Premier League)
Jan 18, 2021: Arsenal 3-0 Newcastle (Premier League)
Feb 16, 2020: Arsenal 4-0 Newcastle (Premier League)
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