Arsenal Games With The Most Yellow Cards

Arsenal Games With The Most Yellow Cards In Premier League History

Arsenal games with the most yellow cards in the English Premier League? Which Arsenal games have the most yellow cards? Here we look at the most fierce Premier League Arsenal games ever to see the Arsenal games with the most yellow cards. Watch & Bet on Football =>

Here we look at the most fierce Premier League games ever for Arsenal. Arsenal have had some great players over the years but also aggressive ones too. Arsenal players like Patrick Vieira, Tony Adams, Kolo Toure and William Gallas all come to mind. But which Arsenal games saw the most yellow cards? Well, read more to find out.

Arsenal Games With The Most Yellow Cards

Premier League Arsenal Most Yellow Cards In A Game (Overall)
Yellow Cards	Vs Club	Date
7	Leeds United	26-11-2000
6	Wigan Athletic	11-02-2007
6	Manchester United	29-08-2009
6	Manchester City	05-11-2017
6	Manchester United	13-04-2008
5	Fulham	29-11-2006
5	Everton	10-02-2002
5	Chelsea	16-12-2007
5	West Ham United	03-10-1999
5	Sunderland	04-10-2008
5	Huddersfield Town	08-12-2018
5	Manchester United	16-05-2009
5	Fulham	24-08-2005
5	Crystal Palace	18-10-1997
5	Newcastle United	13-08-2011
5	Chelsea	08-09-2001
5	Manchester United	22-01-2012
5	Manchester United	16-11-1996
5	Everton	29-12-2007
5	Tottenham Hotspur	07-11-1999
5	Tottenham Hotspur	07-02-2015
5	Sunderland	11-01-1997
5	Chelsea	30-09-1995
5	Leeds United	11-05-1999
5	Newcastle United	30-11-1996

Leeds United 1-0 Arsenal – 26 November 2000

7 Arsenal players were booked in this showdown – Etame-Mayer Lauren (5 Min), Martin Keown (25 Min), Oleg Luzhniy (40 Min), Thierry Henry (45 Min), Ray Parlour (55 Min), Silvinho (62 Min), Tony Adams (90 Min)

It must have been a heated race since Arsenal were chasing for the league title but eventually conceded it to Manchester United by 10 points.

Arsenal 2-1 Wigan Athletic – 11 February 2007

Tomas Rosicky scored his first Premier League goal to break Wigan’s hearts as Arsenal fought back all the way from a goal down in the final 10 minutes to move back into the top-four standings.

Wigan broke the deadlock with Denny Landzaat’s superb strike from 35 yards, Jens Lehmann had no chance.

Luckily for the Gunners, Emile Heskey hit the post and missed a good opportunity to put Wigan further ahead, while Thierry Henry was also wasteful in front of the opposition.

But Fitz Hall ended up putting the ball into his own net to concede the equaliser and Arsenal’s Rosicky headed in Julio Baptista’s cross.

Six Arsenal players were awarded –

Kolo Toure (30 Min), Thierry Henry (82 Min), Jens Lehmann (86 Min), Tomas Rosicky (86 Min), Francesc Fabregas (89 Min), Gael Clichy (90 Min)

But the so were 3 of the Wigan players – Leighton Baines (57 Min), Lee McCulloch (83 Min), Fitz Hall (90 Min)

Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal – 29 August 2009

Manchester United ended Arsenal’s perfect start to the season by winning the fixture 2-1 win at Old Trafford.

Abou Diaby scored an own goal through one of Ryan Giggs’ free-kicks in the 64th minute after Wayne Rooney’s penalty levelled United with the Gunners. It was Andrey Arshavin who opened the scoring with his goal in the first half.

Arsenal looked really frustrated on the pitch, collecting 6 yellows in the process –

Alex Song (23 Min), William Gallas (31 Min), Robin van Persie (45 Min), Manuel Almunia (59 Min), Emmanuel Eboue (70 Min), Bacary Sagna (75 Min)

Manchester City 3-1 Arsenal 5 November 2017

Kevin de Bruyne’s classy finish and Sergio Aguero’s penalty put City in command even though Arsenal substitute, Alexandre Lacazette pulled one back in the 65th minute, Gabriel Jesus managed to seal the victory and make it their 9th consecutive one.

6 Arsenal players went into the referee’s book –

Nacho Monreal (49 Min), Alexandre Lacazette (59 Min), Laurent Koscielny (67 Min), Granit Xhaka (75 Min), Alexis Sanchez (77 Min), Mesut Ozil (90 Min), while only one of the City players got shown the yellow – Nicholas Otamendi (75 min)

Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal – 13 April 2008

With their title dreams hanging in the balance, it was hardly any surprise that it was Arsenal who started the match in the most upbeat fashion, forcing the pace of the game and really drilling into the opposition goal line. However, Manchester United ended the visitor’s hopes of taking the title with a 2-1 victory at Old Trafford.

The Gunners took the early lead through Emmanuel Adebayor but were eventually beaten by a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty and a remarkable free-kick from Owen Hargreaves.

This is one of the Arsenal games with the most yellow cards. 6 yellow cards were awarded to the Gunners players while United only collected 2 –

Robin van Persie (38 Min), William Gallas (52 Min), Jens Lehmann (53 Min), Aliaksandr Hleb (56 Min), Emmanuel Adebayor (63 Min), Justin Hoyte (90 Min)

Wes Brown (15 Min), Michael Carrick (59 Min)

Arsenal Players With Most Yellow Cards – Premier League

This list has been taken from Statbunker and has been compiled over the past 27 years of data.

Premier League Arsenal All time – Yellow Cards
Players	Yellow Cards	Minutes Played	Minutes/Cards
Patrick Vieira	75	23941	319.21
Martin Keown	55	24113	438.42
Ray Parlour	52	22623	435.06
Ian Wright	44	15978	363.14
Francesc Fabregas	42	16797	399.93
Dennis Bergkamp	41	22227	542.12
Nigel Winterburn	37	23224	627.68
Tony Adams	37	22480	607.57
Steve Bould	36	14810	411.39
Alex Song	36	10938	303.83
Robin van Persie	35	13295	379.86
Laurent Koscielny	33	20919	633.91
Etame-Mayer Lauren	32	13620	425.63
Lee Dixon	30	21683	722.77
Thierry Henry	29	21225	731.9
Jack Wilshere	28	9933	354.75
Ashley Cole	28	13363	477.25
Mathieu Flamini	27	10546	390.59
Gael Clichy	27	15287	566.19
Aaron Ramsey	26	12756	490.62
Shkodran Mustafi	24	6535	272.29
Gilles Grimandi	23	7815	339.78
Bacary Sagna	23	18130	788.26
Granit Xhaka	22	7837	356.23
Tomas Rosicky	22	9930	451.36
Kolo Toure	22	18183	826.5
Fredrik Ljungberg	21	14001	666.71
Hector Bellerin	20	11886	594.3
Francis Coquelin	18	5725	318.06
Nacho Monreal	18	14156	786.44
John Hartson	17	4728	278.12
Olivier Giroud	16	10897	681.06
Emmanuel Eboue	16	7399	462.44
William Gallas	15	9015	601
Mikel Arteta	15	8598	573.2
Alexis Sanchez	15	11177	745.13
Thomas Vermaelen	14	7512	536.57
Abou Diaby	14	7803	557.36
Kieran Gibbs	14	8923	637.36
Santi Cazorla	13	10808	831.38
Emmanuel Petit	13	7089	545.31
Jens Lehmann	12	10641	886.75
Edu	12	3762	313.5
Sol Campbell	12	12790	1065.83
David Platt	12	6247	520.58
John Jensen	11	7982	725.64
Per Mertesacker	11	13206	1200.55
Robert Pires	11	9318	847.09
Calum Chambers	11	2751	250.09
Mesut Ozil	11	9252	841.09

Arsenal Players With Most Yellow Cards – Premier League 2023/24

Sokratis is currently leading the bookings list with 8 but the Greek international’s defensive impacts have been felt by the team.

Arsenal continue to struggle at the backline but somehow the veteran centre-back manages to hold it together even if it means collecting a yellow card every third game. Watch & Bet on Football =>

Players	Yellow Cards	Min.	Minutes/Cards
	8	1659	207.38
Sokratis Papastathopoulos
	7	1987	283.86
Shkodran Mustafi
	7	2065	295
Granit Xhaka
	6	2070	345
Luca Torreira
	5	1691	338.2
Matteo Guendouzi
	3	1441	480.33
Sead Kolasinac
	3	1535	511.67
Hector Bellerin
	2	773	386.5
Stephen Lichtsteiner
	2	1231	615.5
Nacho Monreal
	2	1888	944
Alexandre Lacazette
	1	523	523
Ainsley Maitland-Niles
	1	807	807
Rob Holding
	1	868	868
Laurent Koscielny
	1	1159	1159
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
	1	1192	1192
Mesut Ozil