{"id":48053,"date":"2026-05-20T08:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48053"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:35:25","slug":"arsenal-win-premier-league-title-after-22-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/arsenal-win-premier-league-title-after-22-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal win Premier League title after 22 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>London, May 20:<\/strong> Arsenal have been crowned champions of the Premier League for the first time in 22 years, after Manchester City were held to a 1-1 draw by AFC Bournemouth on Tuesday night, confirming the title race before the final matchday.<\/p>\n<p>At the Vitality Stadium, Bournemouth took the lead in the 39th minute through Junior Kroupi, giving the home side an advantage heading into half-time. Manchester City pushed hard for an equaliser throughout the second half and finally levelled the score in the 90+5th minute through Erling Haaland, but it was not enough to keep their title hopes alive.<\/p>\n<p>The draw leaves Manchester City second in the table with 78 points from 37 matches. Bournemouth sit sixth with 56 points from the same number of games.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Arsenal remain top of the league with 82 points from 37 matches. Even if Arsenal were to lose their final game and City were to win theirs, City could only reach 81 points\u2014still one point short of the leaders.<\/p>\n<p>This marks Arsenal\u2019s first Premier League title since the historic 2003\/04 \u201cInvincibles\u201d season. It is also the club\u2019s fourth league title overall in the Premier League era, ending a 22-year wait for domestic glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, May 20: Arsenal have been crowned champions of the Premier League for the first time in 22 years, after Manchester City were held to a 1-1 draw by AFC Bournemouth on Tuesday night, confirming the title race before the final matchday. At the Vitality Stadium, Bournemouth took the lead in the 39th minute through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-48053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-premier-leauge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48055,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48053\/revisions\/48055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}