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Head-to-head record
Previous meetings: 4
Sevilla wins: 1
Draws: 0
Arsenal wins: 3
While they have been regular opponents in pre-season tournaments down the years, Arsenal and Sevilla have only faced off competitively four times before, most recently in the 2023-24 Champions League group stage.
Arsenal won both of those matches en route to qualifying top of Group B, while Europa League specialists Sevilla finished their Champions League campaign winless and bottom of the group.
Leandro Trossard and Bukayo Saka got the goals in a 2-0 Arsenal win at the Emirates Stadium the last time the two sides faced off, just two weeks after they had run out 2-1 victors in Seville.
It was a Brazilian show for the Gunners in that meeting, with Gabriel Jesus setting up Gabriel Martinelli before scoring a second himself to hand Arsenal their first-ever away win over Sevilla.
Prior to that, the only previous competitive meetings between these two sides had come in the 2007-08 Champions League group stage.
The home side won on both of those occasions, the first of which saw Arsenal cruise to a comfortable 3-0 triumph at the Emirates Stadium courtesy of goals from Cesc Fabregas, Robin van Persie and Eduardo.
Eduardo also gave the Gunners the lead in the reverse meeting in Seville two months later, but this time Arsene Wenger's side could not kick on against their Spanish opponents, who had seen their manager Juande Ramos resign and take over at Arsenal's North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur between their two meetings.
Manolo Jimenez was the man in the home dugout for the November clash in southern Spain, and he watched his side overcome Eduardo's early opener to run out 3-1 winners, with Seydou Keita, Luis Fabiano and former Spurs man Frederic Kanoute getting on the scoresheet.
That win sealed Sevilla's place in the knockout stages as Group H winners, but Arsenal also qualified as runners-up, two points behind Sevilla.
Previous meetings
Nov 8, 2023: Arsenal 2-0 Sevilla (Champions League group stage)
Oct 24, 2023: Sevilla 1-2 Arsenal (Champions League group stage)
Nov 27, 2007: Sevilla 3-1 Arsenal (Champions League group stage)
Sep 19, 2007: Arsenal 3-0 Sevilla (Champions League group stage)
