Arteta wins Premier League Coach of the Season award
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has been named Premier League coach of the season for the 2025-26 campaign after leading the club to their first title since 2004.
He ended the club’s 22 years title drought in style with a seven points lead over second-placed Manchester City.
Arteta is the first Arsenal boss to win the Manager of the Season award since Wenger, who achieved it in each of his three title-winning campaigns (1997/98, 2001/02 and 2003/04).
The Spanish manager finally got his hands on the trophy after three consecutive second-place finishes.
He beat the likes of Brentford’s Keith Andrews, Manchester United’s Michael Carrick, Man City’s Pep Guardiola, AFC Bournemouth’s Andoni Iraola and Sunderland’s Regis Le Bris to the prestigious award.
The winner was decided after votes by the public were combined with those of a panel of football experts.
Aged 44 years and 54 days, Arteta is the third-youngest manager to win the Premier League.
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The first and second-youngest were both Jose Mourinho, who won the title with Chelsea at the age of 42 years and 94 days in 2004/05, and then 43 years and 93 days in 2005/06.
Arteta is the first manager to win the Premier League with a club that he also played for in the competition, after representing them as a player from 2011 until 2016.
The award was first introduced in the 1993/94 season with Sir Alex Ferguson winning the inaugural award.
Ferguson is the most successful manager in the award’s history, winning it a record 10 times.
Pep Guardiola has won it five times which puts him into second place for the most Manager of the Season awards, behind him is Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho with three, while Jurgen Klopp has won it twice.
Arteta led Arsenal to 26 wins, seven draws and five defeats in the Premier League while scoring 71 goals and conceding 27.
The Gunners will take on PSG in the Champions League final in Budapest on Saturday for a chance to win the double.
