Arsenal have won the Premier League to end a 22-year wait for a title and break a run of three successive seasons as runners-up.The Gunners were confirmed as champions with a game to spare thanks to Man City slipping up at Bournemouth in a 1-1 draw, with the gap still four points with only one game remaining.City had been on the back foot for the entirety of the second half after Eli Kroupi Junior’s stunning 39th-minute opener, and while Erling Haaland was able to snatch a stoppage-time equaliser, it was too little, too late for Pep Guardiola who is expected to leave the club at the end of the season.Mikel Arteta’s side will now travel across London to Crystal Palace on the final day of the 2025/26 season as champions, having clinched the club’s 14th title, the third-most in English football history, but a first since their 2004 “Invincibles”.Follow our live blog for all the latest reaction from Arsenal’s title win:Inside Arsenal’s Premier League triumph and the crucial intervention that turned the title raceAs Mikel Arteta finally gets to savour the moment, he will be repeating a few words he couldn’t help ruminate on throughout the season. “Twenty-two years,” he’d say to anyone listening. “Twenty-two years. It’s far too long for a club like Arsenal.”And now, after so much angst and frustration from the length of that very wait, Arteta and his squad can at last say it’s over. On Sunday, he will lift the Premier League trophy, the club’s first title since 2004 and 14th in all.The Basque, for his part, was more conscious than anyone of the effects of that wait. He could sense it through the season, that sudden danger when everything looked like slipping away in the manner that so many people expected.If there has been one great virtue of Arsenal’s campaign, it is how Arteta has managed that; how he ensured the team stayed in control.Miguel Delaney20 May 2026 07:30Arsenal end 22-year wait for Premier League titleSore heads, Arsenal fans?(AP)(PA)(PA)Will Castle20 May 2026 07:15Will Castle20 May 2026 07:00Five key games that took Arsenal to the titleArsenal were crowned Premier League champions for the first time in 22 years after Manchester City were held to a 1-1 draw at Bournemouth.The Gunners’ long wait to add to their 13 top-flight titles was ended when Pep Guardiola’s side dropped points in their penultimate match, the game in hand they had over their rivals.It left Arsenal with an unassailable lead at the top and kicked off the celebrations in north London.Here are the five key matches which helped Mikel Arteta’s side see off Manchester City and secure the Premier League title:Will Castle20 May 2026 06:30How the world looked when Arsenal last won the Premier League: Blair in charge, Eamon at No 1, £2 pintsHere is a glimpse at how the world looked the last time the Gunners finished top of the pile.The last time the Gunners topped the league, Tony Blair was serving his second term as Prime Minister, with Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, and Sir Keir Starmer all yet to hold the office.Daily life also looked different: a pint of beer in the UK cost £2.33, a pint of milk was just 35p, and a loaf of bread set you back 64p.Read more:Will Castle20 May 2026 06:00Pep Guardiola breaks silence on Man City exit after Arsenal seal Premier League titleAsked about his future following City’s 1-1 draw with Bournemouth on Tuesday night, which sealed Arsenal’s first Premier League title for 22 years, Guardiola said: “I can say I have one more year of contract. I’m in a position I’ve had for many many years. It’s always from my experience, when you announce during the competition, it’s a bad result.“The first person I have to talk to is my chairman. We decide when we finish the season, we’ll see and we’ll talk. It’s as simple as that and after that we’ll take the decision. I will not tell you here because I have to talk with my chairman, my players and my staff.”He added: “I’m the happiest man in the planet to be in this club, this club is just extraordinary.”Will Castle20 May 2026 04:00Will Castle20 May 2026 03:00Richards: Guardiola is 'greatest manager of his generation'"He is the greatest manager of his generation without doubt and I say that because of the way he plays football,” Micah Richards told Sky Sports, speaking on Pep Guardiola. “There are certain ways you can win a football match."Arteta and Arsenal have done it a little bit more defensively, but in terms of his 10-year tenure at Man City, if it full backs inverted, false 9s, playing Stones in central midfield in the Champions League final, he has just created a way to love the game and for the game to be played in the right way."You can see in his demeanor he is leaving. The way he was answering the questions."If he wanted to stay, he would say: 'I'm staying.' It's a sad day for the Premier League and City because he's been an absolute great."Will Castle20 May 2026 02:00Arsenal's mentality monstersWinning the title was in doubt just last month, however, when Arsenal fell to Man City at the Etihad Stadium last month, but the Londoners have since won four games without conceding a goal, with Declan Rice hailing his side’s mentality.“We knew on the inside that we had the belief and we could still win it [after losing at Man City],” Rice said. "But it’s emotional because where this club has come from over the last 10 years – the ups and downs.“I wasn’t here before, but I knew about it, I heard about it and to be a part of what is going on now is so special. This club deserves really good things and we have worked really hard towards that, so let’s keep pushing."Will Castle20 May 2026 01:30Richards says he expected more from Man City"Congratulations to Arsenal, but for City, we just expect a little bit more, when it was in their hands, they couldn't get it over the line," said former City defender Micah Richards. “It’s a bad day. To fall away how they have, Everton is tough, Bournemouth too, but we expect more.”(PA)Will Castle20 May 2026 00:40