What Happens If You Bet on Arsenal to Win Every Game?
Arsenal fans had it good in 2025/26. Mikel Arteta finally got his hands on the Premier League trophy, ending a 22-year wait and doing it with a defence that leaked just 27 goals all season.
If you’d backed the Gunners to win every single one of their 38 league matches though, would you actually have made any money?
It’s a question every football bettor asks themselves at some point. Backing the champions blindly, week in, week out, sounds like the kind of strategy that should print money over a title-winning season.
In practice, it’s rarely that simple, because odds-on favourites don’t pay much when they win, and they still lose often enough to hurt.
We’ve gone through Arsenal’s entire 2025/26 Premier League campaign, match by match, applying a flat £10 stake on Arsenal to win every single game at the odds available beforehand.
Here’s exactly how that blind loyalty would have paid off.
The Rules of the Experiment
To keep this simple and fair, we’re using level stakes of £10 on the straight match-result market (Arsenal to win) for all 38 league fixtures, home and away.
The odds below reflect typical prices being offered by mainstream bookmakers before each kick-off, based on Arsenal’s form, opponent quality and home advantage at the time.
No each-way nonsense, no cashing out early, no hedging — just £10 on the nose, every single week, for the whole season.
Arsenal actually finished the season with a record of 26 wins, 7 draws and 5 losses from their 38 matches, scoring 71 and conceding just 27.
On paper, that’s an excellent platform for backing them every week. Let’s see what it actually returned.
Match-by-Match Breakdown
| Date | Opponent | Venue | Odds | Result | Score | P/L | Running total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Aug | Man Utd | A | 2.10 | W | 0-1 | +£11.00 | +£11.00 |
| 23 Aug | Leeds | H | 1.30 | W | 5-0 | +£3.00 | +£14.00 |
| 31 Aug | Liverpool | A | 2.70 | L | 1-0 | -£10.00 | +£4.00 |
| 13 Sep | Nott’m Forest | H | 1.35 | W | 3-0 | +£3.50 | +£7.50 |
| 21 Sep | Man City | H | 2.20 | D | 1-1 | -£10.00 | -£2.50 |
| 29 Sep | Newcastle | A | 2.05 | W | 1-2 | +£10.50 | +£8.00 |
| 4 Oct | West Ham | H | 1.40 | W | 2-0 | +£4.00 | +£12.00 |
| 18 Oct | Fulham | A | 1.75 | W | 0-1 | +£7.50 | +£19.50 |
| 26 Oct | Crystal Palace | H | 1.45 | W | 1-0 | +£4.50 | +£24.00 |
| 1 Nov | Burnley | A | 1.50 | W | 0-2 | +£5.00 | +£29.00 |
| 8 Nov | Sunderland | A | 1.65 | D | 2-2 | -£10.00 | +£19.00 |
| 23 Nov | Tottenham | H | 1.70 | W | 4-1 | +£7.00 | +£26.00 |
| 30 Nov | Chelsea | A | 2.00 | D | 1-1 | -£10.00 | +£16.00 |
| 3 Dec | Brentford | H | 1.40 | W | 2-0 | +£4.00 | +£20.00 |
| 6 Dec | Aston Villa | A | 2.10 | L | 2-1 | -£10.00 | +£10.00 |
| 13 Dec | Wolves | H | 1.25 | W | 2-1 | +£2.50 | +£12.50 |
| 20 Dec | Everton | A | 1.85 | W | 0-1 | +£8.50 | +£21.00 |
| 27 Dec | Brighton | H | 1.75 | W | 2-1 | +£7.50 | +£28.50 |
| 30 Dec | Aston Villa | H | 1.65 | W | 4-1 | +£6.50 | +£35.00 |
| 3 Jan | Bournemouth | A | 1.95 | W | 1-3 | +£9.50 | +£44.50 |
| 8 Jan | Liverpool | H | 1.90 | D | 0-0 | -£10.00 | +£34.50 |
| 17 Jan | Nott’m Forest | A | 1.55 |