What happened the last time Arsenal won the Premier League in 2004?
Arsenal won the Premier League title in the 2025–26 season, ending a 22-year wait for the English top-flight championship since the team's unbeaten golden era in 2004. Let's look back at what happened that year.
The year 2004 was one of the most exciting in global sports history, marked by club football successes, the staging of the Olympic Games, various international competitions, and notable off-field phenomena. Many memorable events coincided with Arsenal's last Premier League triumph.
At that time, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, and Leicester City had not yet won the English Premier League.
It was Cristiano Ronaldo's first season playing for Manchester United after transferring from Sporting Lisbon.
Pavel Nedvěd of Juventus won the Ballon d'Or award.
Facebook was launched.
The Olympic Games returned to Athens, Greece, the birthplace of the competition.
Valencia and Werder Bremen surprisingly won the La Liga and Bundesliga titles in Spain and Germany, respectively.
Other notable events included Middlesbrough winning the League Cup by defeating Bolton 2-1 in the final; the popular sitcom Friends airing its 10th and final season; the Boston Red Sox moving toward their first World Series title since 1918; and Michael Schumacher winning the first five races of the 2004 Formula One season before capturing his seventh and final world championship.