In the 2020–21 season, Arsenal finished eighth in the league, thus failing to qualify for any European competition in 2021–22, including the newly introduced Conference League, for the first time since the 1994–95 season.
If it wins at Tottenham on Thursday, Arsenal will qualify for the Champions League with two games to spare after its fifth-place north London rival dropped points in a 1-1 draw at Liverpool on Saturday.
In Wenger's heyday, Champions League football was less a goal and more an expectation. The French icon infamously likened the achievement of a top-four finish to a trophy. However, he fell short in his penultimate season, of 2016-17. That was also the last season in which Arsenal played in Europe's top competition.
The Champions League places are distributed to the top four Premier League finishers, the Europa League places are given to the league's 5th-place finisher and the FA Cup winner, and the Europa Conference League place is awarded to the EFL Cup winner.
Manchester United have been mathematically eliminated from qualifying to next season's Champions League following Saturday's 4-0 thrashing at the hands of Brighton.
A maximum of five Premier League teams are eligible for UEFA Champions League qualification.
The top four teams in the Premier League qualify for the Champions League, while the FA Cup winners, the Carabao Cup winners and the fifth-placed side in the top flight go into the Europa League.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England. Arsenal plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
The team that Manchester City has met most in league competition is Arsenal, against whom they have contested 186 league matches. Arsenal have also defeated Manchester City in league competition on 87 occasions, which represents the most Manchester City have lost against any club.
The Premier League can only send a maximum of five teams to the Champions League. In normal circumstances, the places will go to the teams who finish in the top four of the league but a fifth place will go to a side if they win either the Champions League or Europa League and do not finish in the top four.
The Europa League champion qualifies for next year's Champions League group stage, but West Ham has been eliminated from the Europa League, meaning this door to Champions League play has closed as well.
How many teams from one country are allowed to play in the Champions League? The maximum any country can have playing in the Champions League is five. Only England, Spain, Germany and Italy can possibly enter five teams as they are the top four associations in Uefa and are awarded the four coveted spots.
The FA Cup winners qualify for the following season's UEFA Europa League (formerly named the UEFA Cup; from its launch in 1960 until 1998, they entered the now-defunct UEFA Cup Winners' Cup instead). This European place applies even if the team is relegated or is not in the English top flight.
Winners also qualify for European football; up to the 2019–20 season, the winners received a place in the UEFA Europa League (formerly the UEFA Cup, while from 1966–67 until 1971–72 the winners gained a place in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup), while starting in 2020–21, the winners get a place in the UEFA Europa ...
Under Uefa rules, the Champions League and Europa League winners automatically qualify for the Champions League. But Uefa also caps at a maximum of five the number of teams from ANY country in the Champions League and a total of seven teams in all competitions.
Arsenal Biggest Loss and Worst Defeat. Arsenal's biggest loss and worst defeat is the loss to Loughborough in 1896. The Gunners lost against by as much as 8 goals against a side that no longer exists today. Arsenal did get revenge by handing out a 12-0 thrashing.
Man City 6-1 Manchester United: 5 Worst Premier League Losses in United History. On Sunday Oct. 23rd Manchester United recorded the worst defeat in their history, by going down 6-1 to close neighbours and rivals Manchester City at Old Trafford.
Most City fans are agreed that Manchester United is their main rivalry, a bitter rivalry which has reignited in last few years due to the resurgence of Manchester City as one of the top teams in England following their brief absence from the top flight at the end of the 20th century and City's re-emergence as a major ...
Manchester United was the first ever club in history to win the Premier League 3 times in a row twice (1999 - 2001 & 2007 - 2009) & 4 times in a row once (2011 - 2014).