Head-to-Head: Arsenal vs Napoli

Arsenal and Napoli have produced a limited European history with Arsenal holding the clearer balance. Their 2013 Champions League meetings split by venue, but Arsenal won both legs of the 2019 Europa League quarter-final. That sequence gives Arsenal the stronger direct position while preserving a useful counterpoint: Napoli have already shown they can win this pairing at home. The next meeting will test whether that balance shifts again.

Past matches, Arsenal vs Napoli

9 September 2026 League Stage - 1

Napoli

0 - 1

Arsenal
18 April 2019 Quarter-finals

Napoli

0 - 1

Arsenal
11 April 2019 Quarter-finals

Arsenal

2 - 0

Napoli
11 December 2013 Group stage - 6

Napoli

2 - 0

Arsenal
1 October 2013 Group stage - 2

Arsenal

2 - 0

Napoli

Match center

Napoli

0 - 1

9 September 2026

Arsenal

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Starting eleven

Substitutes Napoli

32
G
14
G
31
D
5
D
37
D
26
M
2
D
7
F
20
F

Arsenal Substitutes

G
13
G
30
D
49
D
89
D
33
M
36
M
39
M
56
F
29
F
20
F
17

Match events

45'

90'

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42'

Billy Gilmour Yellow Card
46'

V. Milinkovic-Savic A. Meret
58'

A. Vergara Alisson Santos
58'

C. Favasuli M. Politano
65'

Bruno Guimaraes M. Merino
66'

C. Tzolis E. Eze
73'

K. Havertz V. Gyokeres
73'

N. Madueke B. Saka
75'
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M. Odegaard Normal Goal (Asst: C. Tzolis)
76'

David Neres R. Hojlund
77'

L. Lucca S. Lobotka
82'

M. Zubimendi B. White
85'

Lorenzo Lucca Yellow Card
90' +1

Martin Ødegaard Yellow Card

Stats for this game

Matchup Arsenal VS Napoli

Arsenal’s stronger European balance

The 2013 Champions League meetings provided a split pattern. Napoli won 2-0 at home on 11 December, while Arsenal had already taken a 2-0 home victory on 1 October. The 2019 Europa League quarter-final then moved the balance towards Arsenal: a 2-0 home win on 11 April was followed by a 1-0 success away on 18 April. Those results give Arsenal the firmer direct position without suggesting that Napoli are unable to control the contest in their own setting.

A home counterpoint for Napoli

Napoli’s 2013 victory remains an important counterpoint because it shows that the pairing has not followed a single script across venues. Arsenal’s double in 2019 supplied greater control over a two-leg tie, but the earlier Italian response keeps the matchup from becoming a simple hierarchy. Future meetings will ask whether Arsenal can reproduce that two-leg authority, or whether Napoli can turn home advantage into a broader answer against an opponent they have already beaten.