{"id":741677,"date":"2026-08-18T08:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741677\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:42:14","slug":"arsenal-confirm-2026-27-squad-numbers-arsenal-fc-official-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741677\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal confirm 2026\/27 squad numbers | Arsenal FC Official Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-auto-bold-first-paragraph=\"true\">Ahead of the 2026\/27 season, we have seen some new faces arrive while other members of our title-winning squad have left for pastures new.<\/p>\n<p>That has led to some rejigging of our squad numbers, with some left vacant while others have stepped in to add to each shirt\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Bruno Guimaraes&#8217; arrival has seen him take the number 39 jersey, which he has worn throughout his career in tribute to his father, whose taxi donned the same digits when he worked in Brazil helping pave the way for his son\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Christos Tzolis has opted for number 17, previously owned by Oleksandr Zinchenko and made famous by Alexis Sanchez and Emmanuel Petit.<\/p>\n<p>Illan Meslier has picked number 30, last worn by Raheem Sterling in 2024\/25, and previously by Eddie Nketiah and Yossi Benayoun.<\/p>\n<p>Should there be any new recruits before the end of the transfer window, there are some good numbers to select from.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jakub Kiwior, Christian Norgaard and Leandro Trossard\u2019s exits have left 15, 16 and 19 up for grabs, while 18 is also vacant. Meanwhile, if a player has an affiliation for something in the twenties, 25, 26, 27 and 28 have all been available for the last couple of seasons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arsenaldirect.arsenal.com\/Football-Shirts-and-Kit\/c\/kit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your 2026\/27 home, away and third shirts now from Arsenal Direct<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ARSENAL&#8217;S 2026\/27 SQUAD NUMBERS<\/p>\n<p>1. David Raya<\/p>\n<p>2. William Saliba<\/p>\n<p>3. Cristhian Mosquera<\/p>\n<p>4. Ben White<\/p>\n<p>5. Piero Hincapie<\/p>\n<p>6. Gabriel<\/p>\n<p>7. Bukayo Saka<\/p>\n<p>8. Martin Odegaard<\/p>\n<p>9. Gabriel Jesus<\/p>\n<p>10. Eberechi Eze<\/p>\n<p>11. Gabriel Martinelli<\/p>\n<p>12. Jurrien Timber<\/p>\n<p>13. Kepa Arrizabalaga<\/p>\n<p>14. Viktor Gyokeres<\/p>\n<p>17. Christos Tzolis<\/p>\n<p>20. Noni Madueke<\/p>\n<p>21. Fabio Vieira<\/p>\n<p>22. Ethan Nwaneri<\/p>\n<p>23. Mikel Merino<\/p>\n<p>24. Reiss Nelson<\/p>\n<p>29. Kai Havertz<\/p>\n<p>30. Illan Meslier<\/p>\n<p>33. Riccardo Calafiori<\/p>\n<p>35. Tommy Setford<\/p>\n<p>36. Martin Zubimendi<\/p>\n<p>39. Bruno Guimaraes<\/p>\n<p>41. Declan Rice<\/p>\n<p>49. Myles Lewis-Skelly<\/p>\n<p>56. Max Dowman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the 2026\/27 season, we have seen some new faces arrive while other members of our title-winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}