Stats: Emirates Stadium reaches 100 European video games | Statistics | Information

As properly as seeing us attain the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the third successive season, final night time was a momentous one as we accomplished a century of European matches at Emirates Stadium.

The first time we performed a continental recreation at our present house was in opposition to Dinamo Zagreb, on August 23, 2006. The Champions League qualifier was simply the second-ever match on the stadium, which resulted in a 2-1 win with Freddie Ljungberg and Mathieu Flamini on the right track.

Since then we now have performed 72 Champions League matches and 28 within the Europa League, successful 69. We are at present on a run of 5 straight European wins, two shy of our best-ever successful streak which got here within the Europa League between November 2018 and November 2019.

We’ve additionally misplaced simply one in every of our previous 23 European matches at Emirates Stadium – the Champions League semi-final reverse to Paris Saint-Germain final May. That was one in every of six last-four matches held at our house – three in Europe’s premier membership competitors and three within the Europa League.

A complete of 143 gamers have turned out for us in a European recreation at Emirates Stadium, with Theo Walcott doing so extra usually than anybody else. The English ahead featured 39 occasions at house throughout Champions League and Europa League fixtures, whereas Gabriel Martinelli is the participant within the present squad with the most-such video games, with 25.

We have scored 226 targets within the first 100 video games, and have conceded solely 74. Two gamers prime the charts for us in the case of including to that whole, with Robin van Persie and Walcott bagging 13 apiece.

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We have hosted European soccer in N5 in each season other than 2021/22 since transferring from Highbury, the place we performed 76 European fixtures in whole. We have a greater win proportion (69%) at our present house than our earlier one (65.8%).

Our greatest European win at Emirates Stadium was 7-0 in opposition to Slavia Prague in October 2007, and we’ve registered six-goal successes in opposition to Braga, Ludogorets, BATE Borisov and Lens.

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Making their first look in our nook of north London since 2002, Bayer Leverkusen turned the sixtieth completely different group to play at Emirates Stadium in continental soccer. Olympiacos have made essentially the most European appearances at our house with seven visits, whereas Bayern Munich have six.

Our a hundred and first recreation will see Sporting Lisbon pitch up for the third event, and we’ll be seeking to beat them on our turf for the primary time, following a goalless attract November 2018 and a 1-1 stalemate in March 2023 – one in every of two European penalty shootouts which have taken place within the century of matches, the opposite being our well-known conquer Porto in March 2024.