Arsenal F.C. vs Real Madrid Stats: Head-to-Head Record

Real Madrid have never beaten Arsenal in a competitive UEFA Champions League match. Across four meetings spanning nearly two decades, Arsenal have emerged victorious or held firm for a draw — most recently with a 5-1 aggregate win in the 2024/25 quarter-finals that sent the Gunners through to the semi-finals.

Head-to-Head UCL Aggregate: Arsenal 6-1 Real Madrid · Recent Friendly: Real Madrid 2-2 Arsenal (Jul 23, 2019) · Key Match Possession: Arsenal 55% vs Real Madrid 45% · Arsenal UCL Win: 3-0 vs Real Madrid · Total Attempts Example: Arsenal 11 vs Real Madrid 9

UEFA’s official head-to-head records show the full scope of this fixture across four Champions League matches.

Has Real Madrid ever won against Arsenal?

In official UEFA Champions League competition, no. Real Madrid have faced Arsenal four times across two different knockout rounds, and on each occasion, the English side have emerged victorious or held firm for an aggregate win. According to UEFA’s official head-to-head records, Arsenal have recorded three wins and one draw, while Real Madrid are yet to taste victory — a striking stat given Madrid’s record 15 European Cup titles.

Historical Record in UCL

The 2005/06 season saw Arsenal eliminate Real Madrid at the Round of 16 stage. The first leg at the Bernabéu ended 0-1 in Arsenal’s favour, and the second leg at Highbury finished 0-0, sending Arsenal through 1-0 on aggregate (Sports Illustrated). Nineteen years later, the clubs met again — this time in the quarter-finals — and Arsenal delivered an even more emphatic result, winning 3-0 in London on 8 April 2025 before a 2-1 victory in Madrid sealed a 5-1 aggregate win (Sports Mole). The implication: Real Madrid’s storied European pedigree has not translated into any advantage against Arsenal specifically.

Friendly Matches

Outside of competitive fixtures, the clubs have met twice in pre-season tournaments. Most recently at the 2019 International Champions Cup, Real Madrid and Arsenal played out a 2-2 draw at FedExField in Maryland, with Madrid winning the subsequent penalty shootout 3-2 (Sky Sports match statistics). The 2008 Emirates Cup in north London also saw Arsenal win 1-0 via an Emmanuel Adebayor penalty (Sports Mole). What this means: even in friendly conditions, Arsenal have never lost to Real Madrid in 90 minutes of play.

Who scored for Arsenal FC vs Real Madrid?

In the 2025 quarter-final tie, Declan Rice became the most recent Arsenal player to find the net against Real Madrid — and he did so twice from dead-ball situations. His two free-kicks in the first leg on 8 April 2025 gave Arsenal a commanding lead (Sports Illustrated). Mikel Merino added a third goal, also in that first leg, as Arsenal recorded their biggest-ever competitive win over the Spanish giants.

Key Goals in 3-0 Win

The 8 April 2025 first leg at Emirates Stadium drew a crowd of 60,110 spectators — the largest attendance for an Arsenal match against Real Madrid on record (Sky Sports match statistics). Rice opened the scoring at the 58-minute mark and doubled the lead at 70 minutes, both from set pieces. Merino completed the rout at 75 minutes. The match also featured a dramatic late sending off: Real Madrid midfielder Eduardo Camavinga was dismissed in the 94th minute (Sky Sports match statistics), leaving Madrid to play the final moments with ten men while already three goals down.

Declan Rice Free-Kicks

Rice’s first free-kick came from approximately 22 yards out, curling around the wall and past goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. His second, struck from a slightly tighter angle at 25 yards, demonstrated consistency in a technique that Arsenal had been refining under their set-piece coach. The trade-off: while the free-kicks were decisive in this tie, they also underscore how Arsenal’s attacking variety beyond set pieces has been questioned, with open-play goals harder to come by against tighter defences.

Looking back to 2006, the goal scorers from those encounters are less consistently documented across public records. What is confirmed is that Arsenal’s single aggregate goal in 2006 came from the first leg at the Bernabéu, but the exact scorer remains disputed in several secondary sources (OneFootball historical records). The pattern: Arsenal have produced memorable goals against Real Madrid, but the historical record is often incomplete for older fixtures.

What team has a 100% win rate against Real Madrid?

Three clubs hold an unbeaten record against Real Madrid in competitive UEFA competition: Boca Juniors (Argentina), Aberdeen (Scotland), and Arsenal (England). Of these, Arsenal are the only one with multiple meetings — four matches across two knockout ties — and they remain undefeated in all of them. The catch: none of these three clubs have the overall Champions League pedigree of Real Madrid, making the record more a function of scheduling rarity than sustained dominance.

Arsenal’s Record

Arsenal’s unbeaten streak against Real Madrid in official matches spans nearly two decades. In 2006, they advanced past Madrid en route to the final, where they lost to Barcelona. In 2025, they eliminated Madrid again, this time in the quarter-finals, before progressing to the semi-finals. Real Madrid’s record of 15 European Cup titles sits in stark contrast to Arsenal’s zero, yet across these four specific fixtures, Madrid have never found a way to win.

Other Teams like Aberdeen

Aberdeen’s 100% record against Real Madrid stems from a single 1983 Cup Winners’ Cup tie — a 2-1 aggregate win that remains a celebrated chapter in the club’s history. Boca Juniors met Real Madrid in the Intercontinental Cup era and hold a similar unbeaten record from fewer meetings. The pattern: smaller clubs that rarely face Madrid accumulate unbeaten records simply because the sample size is tiny. Arsenal are different — four matches is substantial enough to validate the record as genuine rather than statistical noise.

Arsenal vs Real Madrid Head-to-Head Stats

UEFA’s official records show Arsenal have played Real Madrid four times in Champions League history, with a record of three wins, one draw, and zero defeats. The aggregate score across those four matches is Arsenal 6 goals to Real Madrid 1 (UEFA). That one Real Madrid goal came in the second leg of the 2025 quarter-final, on 16 April 2025, by which point Arsenal had already secured their 5-1 aggregate victory.

Match Stats Overview

Possession statistics from the 2025 fixtures favour Arsenal slightly, with the home leg at Emirates showing Arsenal with approximately 55% possession compared to Real Madrid’s 45% (Sky Sports). The 2019 friendly saw nearly identical split at 50.5% for Arsenal and 49.5% for Real Madrid, suggesting that even in non-competitive conditions the teams are closely matched in territorial control (Sky Sports).

Possession and Shots

Shot counts from the 2025 first leg recorded Arsenal with 11 attempts versus Real Madrid’s 9. Corners fell 5-3 in Arsenal’s favour (Sky Sports). The implication: while Real Madrid controlled the ball in patches, Arsenal created higher-quality chances and converted them efficiently — a pattern consistent across both their 2006 and 2025 encounters.

Real Madrid vs Arsenal Key Matches

Four Champions League matches define this fixture. The first two came in February and March 2006, separated by the first and second legs of the Round of 16. The second two arrived in April 2025, spanning the quarter-final first and second legs after a 19-year gap. Outside of competitive football, two additional meetings in pre-season tournaments add context but not official records.

2006 UCL Round of 16

The first leg on 21 February 2006 ended 0-1 to Arsenal at the Santiago Bernabéu (Sports Illustrated). The second leg on 8 March 2006 finished 0-0 at Highbury, sending Arsenal through 1-0 on aggregate (Sports Illustrated). Real Madrid failed to score in either leg, a fact noted across contemporary match reports (OneFootball). Arsenal went on to reach the 2006 final before losing to Barcelona in Paris.

2019 Friendly 2-2

The 2019 International Champions Cup match on 23 July 2019 was the clubs’ most recent meeting before the 2025 quarter-final. The game ended 2-2 after 90 minutes, with Real Madrid winning the subsequent penalty shootout 3-2 (Sky Sports). The attendance at FedExField was 52,826, and the match was notable for two red cards — Nacho Fernandez was sent off at 9 minutes for Real Madrid, and Sokratis Papastathopoulos followed at 40 minutes for Arsenal (Sky Sports). What this means: even in an ill-tempered friendly, Arsenal held their nerve through 90 minutes.

The fourth match, on 16 April 2025 at the Bernabéu, ended Real Madrid 1-2 Arsenal (Sports Mole). Though Madrid scored in this leg, it was too late to affect the aggregate, with Arsenal having established a 3-0 lead in the first leg on 8 April 2025.