Arsenal Premier League Champions 2025: Players Celebrate Historic Title Win at Emirates at 5am
The wait is finally over. Arsenal are Premier League champions for the first time in 22 years — and the celebrations that followed were as passionate, emotional, and unforgettable as the moment itself.
Players, staff, and fans marked the historic title win deep into the night and well into the early hours of Wednesday morning. Arsenal’s stars were pictured outside Emirates Stadium at 5am, refusing to let the moment end. After three consecutive runner-up finishes that brought heartbreak instead of glory, this was a night nobody connected with the club wanted to stop living.
Here is a full look at how Arsenal celebrated becoming Premier League champions in 2025.
The Moment It Happened: Manchester City Drop Points
Arsenal did not win the title on the pitch themselves — they won it by watching rivals Manchester City fail to beat Bournemouth on Tuesday night.
Pep Guardiola’s side needed a win at the south coast to keep the title race alive. In the end, they could only draw — and with that full-time whistle, Arsenal were confirmed as Premier League champions for the first time since 2003-04.
The reaction was instant and electric. In pubs across north London, fans erupted. Outside Emirates Stadium, supporters who had gathered to watch the match together shared an explosion of emotion that had been building for over two decades.
What made this title win so significant:
- Arsenal’s first Premier League title in 22 years
- It ended three consecutive seasons of finishing second — a run that had critics labelling them perennial bottlers
- The win came under Mikel Arteta in his seventh year in charge at the club
- It confirmed that patience with a long-term manager can produce extraordinary results
5am at Emirates: The Players Take to the Streets
While thousands of supporters celebrated across north London, the Arsenal squad gathered at the club’s training ground to watch the decisive Manchester City result together. And when the celebrations began, they did not stop for hours.
Eberechi Eze posted pictures on Instagram in the early hours of Wednesday morning, stood outside Emirates Stadium alongside teammates Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka, and Jurrien Timber. The image — four Arsenal players at their home ground at 5am, Premier League champions — immediately became iconic.
It was a raw, spontaneous snapshot of what the title meant to a group of players who had endured so much near-miss heartache together.
Saka’s Emotional Message: “They Are Not Laughing Anymore”
Bukayo Saka delivered one of the most powerful moments of the entire celebration. Dutch defender Jurrien Timber posted a video alongside Saka at the club’s training ground, where both players stood beside a blacked-out Premier League trophy — one that had been designed specifically to light up the moment Arsenal won the title.
Saka’s words in that moment captured everything.
“Let me tell you something. Twenty-two years, 22 years. There was laughing, there was joking — they are not laughing anymore. Look, it is going to be shining. It is going to be shining bright.”
The trophy lit up. The celebrations intensified. And Saka’s message rang out as both a personal statement and a collective one for an entire fanbase that had spent years absorbing mockery about Arsenal’s inability to finish the job.
Myles Lewis-Skelly: “They Called Us Bottlers”
If Saka provided the emotional centrepiece of the night, 19-year-old academy graduate Myles Lewis-Skelly delivered its most quotable moment.
In another video posted by Saka, Lewis-Skelly was seen holding a champagne bottle — and he made full use of the symbolism.
“They called us bottlers,” he said. “And now we are holding the bottle.”
The line immediately went viral. It summed up three years of criticism absorbed by a young Arsenal side that had repeatedly come close and repeatedly fallen short — until now.
Lewis-Skelly’s emergence as one of the stars of Arsenal’s title-winning season made his words hit even harder. An academy product, raised at the club, now a Premier League champion at 19 years old.
Social Media Erupts: “It’s Done”
Arsenal captain Declan Rice had one of the most memorable social media arcs of the entire season. Last month, after a painful defeat to Manchester City, Rice was caught on camera insisting emphatically: “It’s not done.”
On Tuesday night, with the title confirmed, he posted a picture of the celebrating Arsenal squad with a single caption: “It’s done.”
The contrast was perfect — and it captured the resilience and belief that had carried this Arsenal team through a final push that, in previous years, had ended in disappointment.
Other standout social media moments from the celebrations:
- Eze’s Instagram post included an Arsenal-branded bottle, a direct callback to the bottler criticism the squad had absorbed for three seasons
- An Instagram story showed captain Martin Odegaard celebrating with a bottle — another pointed and joyful response to the years of mockery
- Timber’s training ground video of the trophy lighting up became one of the most shared clips of the night across football social media
Ian Wright and the Fans: North London Belongs to Arsenal
At Emirates Stadium, the scenes on the streets were extraordinary. Supporters had gathered outside the ground and in nearby pubs while the Manchester City match played out, and when the result came through, north London exploded.
Arsenal legend Ian Wright — who scored 185 goals for the club and won the title himself in 1998 — was mobbed by fans as he celebrated outside the Emirates. The sight of one of the club’s greatest ever players sharing that moment with supporters who had waited so long made for one of the most emotional images of the entire night.
The sense of community and shared history between fans and club was palpable. This was not just a football result — it was the end of a 22-year wait that had tested the patience and belief of an entire generation of supporters.
Arteta’s Legacy: What Time and Trust Can Build
The title win arrived in Mikel Arteta’s seventh year as Arsenal head coach — a tenure that began in December 2019 and required enormous patience from the club’s board before delivering this moment.
Former Premier League goalkeeper Paul Robinson spoke to the wider lesson the title carries for football as a whole.
“Mikel Arteta has been there a long period of time. The best gift you can give a good manager is time. Yes, you can give them hundreds of millions of pounds, but you have to mould that money into a team, into a dressing room, into a winning side.”
That process — slow, sometimes painful, occasionally doubted — has now produced the Premier League trophy. Arsenal did not just win the title. They built something.
What Arteta’s title-winning tenure shows:
- Long-term planning and consistent identity beat short-term fixes
- Player development within a settled system produces elite results
- Trust between a board and a manager is a competitive advantage in itself
- A squad that endures setbacks together becomes stronger for having faced them
Key Moments From Arsenal’s Historic Title Celebration
- Players photographed outside Emirates Stadium at 5am after the title was confirmed
- Saka’s emotional speech at the lighting of the Premier League trophy at the training ground
- Myles Lewis-Skelly’s instant-classic line about bottlers and bottles
- Declan Rice’s “It’s done” post ending his own season-long narrative arc
- Ian Wright mobbed by fans outside the Emirates as a champion himself in 1998
- The full Arsenal squad chanting “Campeones, Campeones, Ole Ole Ole” at the training ground
- Odegaard and Eze leading the bottle-themed social media response to three years of criticism
Arsenal are Premier League champions. After 22 years, the trophy is back at Emirates. And if the celebrations at 5am outside their own stadium are anything to go by, nobody at this club is taking a single second of it for granted.
For a full breakdown of the Premier League 2024-25 title race and final standings, visit the official Premier League website.
