After the most exciting ever Premiership race, Arsenal became victorious on the back of several records
• The 13 game winning run to end the season pips Manchester United's previous best set at the end of 1999/00 and the beginning of the following year

• The unbeaten 21 game run they finished with is a team record, the best ever to close out the season and only ony shy of United's 1993/4 single season record

• Scoring in every game is one record that will never be betterered. This dwarfs the nearest competition of 21 games by Norwich in 1993/4. Liverpool have managed a 25 game stretch covering more than one year

• The lack of a goalless draw in the campaign has been done on twelve previous occasions and the Gunners have now lost the lead in Premiership no-score draws, totalling 45 to Leeds' 46

• Surprisingly they suffered an 11 game spell in which they conceded at least one goal - only Leicester fared worse

• The team never went more than two hours between scoring. Next best is Manchester United's maximum gap of 152 minute in 1995/6

• Their away form was particularly impressive. The eight game winning run to end the season is already two up on the competition and the total unbeaten, 19, eclipses the 13 achieved by Manchester United on two occasions. The 11 goals conceded is a Premiership record and the Gunners now hold the four best seasons for this stat, having previously held opponents to 12,13 and 14 strikes in other years

• Thierry topped the scoring list for the Champions. Shearer achieved the same feat for Blackburn in 1994/5 and Yorke was joint-top scorer when Manchester United triumphed in 1998/9

• Only West Ham scored fewer than the six goals Arsenal managed from dead-ball situations. Every other Championship team has managed at least 11

• In the team's first eight games, a total of nine players from both sides were dismissed; in the final 14 matches, none

• The team averaged 4.4 UK players pergame, only Chelsea with 2.5 had a lower-proportion of home-grown players

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