For the second season in a row, we had 20 different players score for us (not including own goals), out of a maximum of 28 outfield players who represented us in 2025\/26. We were just two shy of our highest figure in a season, when 22 Gunners found the net in the aforementioned 2016\/17. <\/p>\n
Viktor Gyokeres led the way in his debut season, netting 21 times across all competitions. That is the best return by a new arrival in their debut season with us since Alexis Sanchez bagged 25 in 2014\/15, while only the Chilean forward, plus legends Ian Wright and Thierry Henry, can boast more in their first campaign in N5.<\/p>\n
Three other players got into double figures: Gabriel Martinelli, Bukayo Saka and Eberechi Eze. It is the fifth season in a row that Bukayo has surpassed 10 or more goals, while Gabi has now done it in three of the past four campaigns. Eberechi meanwhile has hit double figures in four seasons in a row when you include his time at Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n
Martinelli\u2019s and Eze\u2019s totals were boosted by the fact that they were our two players to hit a hat-trick during the campaign, with the Brazilian registering a treble at Portsmouth in the FA Cup, where Ebz became the fourth player to score a hat-trick in a competitive north London derby.<\/p>\n
An honourable mention should also go out to Martin Zubimendi who hit a career-best six strikes, including a Premier League Goal of the Season contender against Nottingham Forest, while Jurrien Timber\u2019s four strikes represent his best seasonal haul so far.<\/p>\n
Player<\/strong><\/th>\n| Goals<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n\n | Viktor Gyokeres<\/td>\n | 21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Gabriel Martinelli<\/td>\n | 11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Bukayo Saka<\/td>\n | 11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | God bless you<\/td>\n | 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | You Maduek<\/td>\n | 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Leandro Trossard<\/td>\n | 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Kai Havertz<\/td>\n | 7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Gabriel Jesus<\/td>\n | 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Mikel Merino<\/td>\n | 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Martin Zubimendi<\/td>\n | 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Declan Rice<\/td>\n | 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Gabriel<\/td>\n | 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Jurrien Timber<\/td>\n | 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Riccardo Calafiori<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Max Dowman<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Piero Hincapie<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Ethan Nwaneri<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Martin Odegaard<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | William Saliba<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Ben White<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n | \n \n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As well as 20 goalscorers, we also had 20 players notch at least one assist during the campaign. Top of the pile was Leandro Trossard who was the only player to reach 10. Six of his came in the Premier League to tie with skipper Martin Odegaard when it comes to league matches, while Leo\u2019s other four all came in the Champions League.<\/p>\n Only those two players got more assists in the league than Timber, impressive given that he\u2019s not on set-piece duty for us. Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka\u2019s delivery from free-kicks and corners saw them once again climb high in the rankings.<\/p>\n In total, nine players hit double figures for goal involvements, with Gyokeres leading the way with 24, and Trossard, Saka and Martinelli sharing second spot with 18 apiece. Eze, Rice, Kai Havertz, Noni Madueke and Timber were the others to reach 10 or more.<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We netted 71 times across our 38 Premier League games, surpassing last season\u2019s tally by two. Another 30 came during our run to the Champions League final, one shy of our best total recorded last season.<\/p>\n Gyokeres finished as our top scorer in the top-flight with 14 goals to his name – only six players across the division netted more. <\/p>\n Meanwhile 10 of Martinelli\u2019s 11 strikes came in cup competitions, including six in the Champions League when he became the first Gunner to score in five successive games in the competition during the league phase. Four more came in the FA Cup, while all nine of our goals during the run to the Carabao Cup final were scored by different players.<\/p>\n Our players\u2019 right feet contributed to 56 of our 121 goals in 2025\/26 with Gyokeres scoring 16 of those. 33 came from left feet, with Saka unsurprisingly leading the way with eight. 24 headers were planted past goalkeepers, with Mikel Merino top scoring in that department with four of his six strikes for the season.<\/p>\n Once again, we caused havoc from dead-ball situations, scoring 36 set-piece goals (excluding penalties) and 27 times from corners alone, which were both more than any other side across Europe\u2019s top five leagues in 2025\/26. <\/p>\n 16 goals came from outside the area, with the longest distance being Noni Madueke\u2019s effort at Leeds United direct from a corner, measured at 33.6 yards out. From closer range, we converted seven out of eight penalties, with Gyokeres (4), Saka (2) and Kai Havertz (1) netting from 12 yards.<\/p>\n Our finishers also came to the fore, with the 24 goals we received from substitutes marking the most we\u2019ve ever had in a season, surpassing the 20 we registered in 2005\/06. We also benefited from seven own goals, all of which came in the Premier League.<\/p>\n We found the net 52 times in the first half of matches across the season, with our earliest goal coming when Gyokeres put us ahead against Kairat Almaty in the Champions League league phase after just 102 seconds.<\/p>\n The other 69 strikes came after the break, including 11 in second-half stoppage time. That includes Gabriel\u2019s winning goal at Newcastle United, Yerson Mosquera’s 94th-minute own goal to see us beat Wolves, Max Dowman\u2019s Premier League record-breaker against Everton and Havertz\u2019s late strike to beat Chelsea and secure our passage into the Carabao Cup final. That was our latest goal of the campaign, timed at 96 minutes and 52 seconds.<\/p>\n We found the net 64 times in total at Emirates Stadium in 2025\/26, scoring in every game except two when we drew 0-0 with Liverpool in January before a stalemate against Sporting CP saw us through to the Champions League semi-finals.<\/p>\n 57 came on our travels, with only Liverpool again and Nottingham Forest preventing us from scoring on an away day other than Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final, played on neutral turf at Wembley. We scored in every one of our nine European fixtures away from N5.<\/p>\n The stadiums we scored the most at on our travels were the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium where we ran out 4-1 victors on a glorious derby day, while across the capital we also bagged four goals at Stamford Bridge across two visits. We also hit the same total in a 4-0 success at Elland Road against Leeds in January, the same month we registered a 4-1 win at Portsmouth\u2019s Fratton Park.<\/p>\n Leeds were our biggest victims in the 2025\/26 campaign, as we netted nine times against them across our home and away encounters in the Premier League. Our 5-0 success back in August was actually the joint-biggest win in the division all season, with only eight occasions when a team won by four or more goals, including both our wins over the Whites.<\/p>\n Derby days were also a great source for celebration with us scoring eight times against Tottenham courtesy of a pair of 4-1 successes, while Chelsea also suffered seven times at our expense. In Europe, we put six goals past Atletico Madrid across our three encounters. Liverpool were the only team not to concede against us all term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a season with so much to celebrate and cherish, there were 121 specific occasions that brought Gooners joy as we found the back of the net. 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