Arsenal v West Ham United
Premier League, Emirates Stadium, Saturday 4 October 2025, 3pm BST
West Ham United will be looking to follow up Monday night's positive point away at Everton when we return to Premier League action on the road against Arsenal on Saturday.
In new Head Coach Nuno Espírito Santo's first match in charge, the Hammers fought back to earn a deserved 1-1 draw on Merseyside, with Jarrod Bowen notching his third goal of the season, and second in the space of two games.
Having had just two training sessions to work with his players before the trip to the Hill Dickinson Stadium, Nuno has been implementing his ideas at Rush Green in the run up to the weekend's short journey to the red half of north London, where he will be looking for another strong performance and result.
Though Arsenal are among the favourites for the top-flight title this season, after finishing as runners-up in each of the last three campaigns, West Ham will be encouraged by a strong recent run against the Gunners, which has seen them win on their previous two visits to the Emirates.
As it stands, Saturday's hosts are second in the table after six outings, having beaten Manchester United, Leeds United, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United, drawn with Manchester City and suffered a narrow 1-0 defeat at defending champions Liverpool.
Following a last-gasp 2-1 win at Newcastle last time out in the league, ahead of a 2-0 victory over Greek outfit Olympiacos in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday night, Mikel Arteta's men will surely be full of confidence back on home soil and eager to strengthen their hopes of lifting the Premier League trophy for the first time since 2003/04.
As anticipation for the clash continues, scroll down below to find all the information you need...
Tickets…
West Ham fans are advised that the Club’s allocation of 3,003 tickets have sold out. The first 90% of tickets sold out to Bondholders, Away Scheme Members and Season Ticket Holders with 20+ Loyalty Points. The remaining 10% (300 tickets) were then made available by a ballot process to Season Ticket Holders who had yet to purchase for this fixture. The ballot closed at 12noon on Monday 15 September.
Travel…
Supporters are strongly advised not to drive to this match.
Emirates Stadium is very well connected when it comes to public transport, with both Underground and mainline routes passing nearby.
The ground is within walking distance from Arsenal (Piccadilly line), Finsbury Park (Victoria and Piccadilly lines and Great Northern rail) and Highbury & Islington (Victoria line and Great Northern rail) stations. Crowd management and queuing systems will be in place at all three stations after the game.
Supporters should note that Holloway Road station (Piccadilly line) will be exit-only before matches with pre-match eastbound trains non-stopping, and closed for up to two hours post-match.
Alternatively, you can take a TfL bus, with stops located on Holloway Road, Nag's Head, Seven Sisters Road, Blackstock Road and Highbury Corner.
On London Overground, there will be no service on the Windrush line between Clapham Junction/Wandsworth Road and a reduced service on the Mildmay line between Camden Road/Clapham Junction.
The Circle line will be closed between Edgware Road/Tower Hill, the District line will be closed between Embankment and Ealing Broadway/Richmond/Wimbledon and the Piccadilly line will be closed between Hyde Park Corner/Acton Town and Rayners Lane/Uxbridge. The Waterloo & City line will be closed.
The DLR will be closed between Beckton/Prince Regent.
Mainline Greater Anglia and c2c services will run as scheduled,
Visit tfl.gov.uk to plan your route to and from the match.
Finally, if you cycle to the match, a parking area for bikes is clearly signposted.
How To Follow…
Saturday’s 3pm kick-off will NOT be broadcast live in the UK, but will be shown across the world by the Premier League’s international broadcast partners.
If you live outside the UK, click HERE for details of Premier League listings in your territory.
You can follow the action via our live blog on whufc.com and our app, and across our social media channels. We will also have a match report, highlights and exclusive reaction for you after the final whistle on our website, app and social media.
Live audio commentary will be available in the UK on BBC Radio 5 Live, and worldwide on our official website and app.
We Are West Ham. United...
West Ham United has a zero-tolerance approach to any form of discrimination. Equality, equity, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of the Club and we are committed to ensuring that everyone feels welcome to attend our fixtures in a safe environment.
Any form of discriminatory behaviour or chanting is unacceptable; it has no place in football and has serious criminal consequences. West Ham United will take the strongest possible action against any individual found to be engaging in such behaviour, including potential lifetime bans and referral to the police.
The Club can also face disciplinary action if any of its supporters are found to have engaged in this behaviour, which is not representative of the West Ham United fanbase and will not be tolerated by the Club.
West Ham United provides a number of support mechanisms on matchday to ensure that supporters can report any incidents discreetly and in confidence. To report any incidents during Saturday's match, either follow Arsenal’s reporting procedures at Emirates Stadium or contact West Ham United at [email protected]. Please provide as much information as possible, including the stand, row, seat number, description of the offender and incident.
We believe that the overwhelming majority of West Ham United supporters share these values and will work with us to continue to protect the Club’s status as an equity leader in the Premier League, a position recognised and acknowledged through our award and continuous retention of the Advanced level Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Standard - the League’s highest accolade attainable in this area. Anyone attending matches who does not share these values, does not share the diverse and inclusive values that West Ham United and our community stand for.
Please view our Supporter Conduct Charter for more information.
Team News…
Nuno Espírito Santo will hold his pre-match press conference on Thursday afternoon. However, we know that Tomáš Souček will be absent as he completes his three-match suspension, having been sent-off against Tottenham Hotspur in mid-September.
Aaron Wan-Bissaka has missed the Hammers' last three outings, and will be hoping to be available.
For Arsenal, Gabriel Jesus, Kai Havertz and Noni Madueke are all set to miss the clash with knee injuries, while Ecuadorian defender Piero Hincapié - who is on loan from Bayer Leverkusen - is nursing a groin problem and is a doubt.
Opposition…
When Arsenal thumped Leeds United 4-1 at Emirates Stadium on 1 April 2023, it appeared just a matter of time before the Gunners were crowned Premier League champions for the first time since 2003/04.
Victory over the relegation-bound Yorkshire side - Mikel Arteta’s 100th as manager and Arsenal’s seventh top-flight win in a row - put Arsenal eight points clear at the top of the table with nine games to play.
Pundits purred at the way Arsenal were ‘cruising’ to victories. However, a run of three draws and three defeats in their closing nine matches saw Manchester City roar past their rivals to claim the title.
A year later, in 2023/24, Arsenal won 28 of their 38 Premier League matches, conceded just 29 goals, scored 91 and amassed 89 points - just one fewer than the 90 won by the ‘Invincibles’ 20 years earlier. After losing at home to West Ham United in late December, Arsenal tasted defeat just once in their final 18 matches, collecting 50 points from a possible 54.
And yet still that wasn’t enough.
Again, it was Manchester City who pipped the north Londoners to the crown, going unbeaten from 10 December until the end of the season and going top with a 2-0 win at Arsenal’s great rivals Tottenham Hotspur in the final week of the season.
While Manchester City were a shadow of their former selves in 2024/25, and ultimately finished third after losing nine of their 38 games, Arsenal were still unable to end their wait to lift the coveted trophy.
A seven-game unbeaten start powered Arteta's troops to within a point of the summit by the start of October, but two defeats in the following three games - away at Bournemouth and Newcastle - five draws between November and January, and a run of just three victories between 22 February and 11 May opened the door for Liverpool to secure top spot by a ten-point margin in Arne Slot's first term in charge.
Incidently, West Ham's 1-0 triumph at Emirates Stadium in February 2025, the teams' last meeting, sparked that last tricky run, following a 15-game unbeaten streak.
The Gunners were struck by a number of injuries to key players throughout the season, with the likes of Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Jesus and Gabriel Martinelli all being consigned to spells on the sidelines, but by the end of May there remained a familiar sense of 'what might have been' among the fanbase.
The summer recruitment of the likes of Viktor Gyökeres, Eberechi Eze, Noni Madueke and Martín Zubimendi has strengthened Arteta's cause, and his team have duly impressed in the opening weeks, being beaten only by defending champions Liverpool, who are currently two points ahead at the top of the Premier League.
Having faced Slot's Reds, Manchester United, Manchester City and Newcastle in their first six league fixtures, Arsenal will be eager to build on their strong start over the coming weeks, with fixtures against Fulham, Crystal Palace, Burnley and Sunderland to follow West Ham's visit to N7 this weekend.
Previous Meetings…
West Ham United were the first visiting team to win at Emirates Stadium after Arsenal opened their new home in the summer of 2006.
The Irons were struggling in the Premier League when Bobby Zamora struck a long-range winner and Robert Green’s unbeatable performance in goal secured a shock 1-0 victory over the Gunners in April 2007.
We ended a run of eight straight defeats in N5 - seven in the Premier League and one in the EFL Cup - when Tomáš Souček and Dinos Mavropanos scored in a 2-0 win at the end of December 2023, then backed that up when Jarrod Bowen scored the winner in a 1-0 victory in February 2025.
Our other Premier League victory at Emirates Stadium was under Slaven Bilić in August 2015, when Cheikhou Kouyaté and Mauro Zárate found the net on Dimitri Payet’s Premier League debut for the Club.
Match Officials…
Referee: John Brooks
Assistant Referees: Simon Bennett and Matthew Wilkes
Fourth Official: Chris Kavanagh
VAR: Michael Oliver
Assistant VAR: James Mainwaring
John Brooks has been confirmed as the referee for West Ham United’s away match against Arsenal on Saturday.
The Leicestershire-born official was promoted to Professional Game Match Officials Limited's Select Group One in June 2021, and refereed his first Premier League match in December of the same year.
Brooks will officiate his first top-flight match of the 2025/26 season this weekend, having held the whistle during two EFL Championship and one Carabao Cup match so far this term, and last refereed a West Ham fixture when we defeated Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-1 in December 2024. He also refereed the 2024/25 Carabao Cup final, won by Newcastle United.
For more information about the officials, click HERE.
