Real Madrid vs Arsenal All Time Record: Winning Goals & Match Facts

Alright folks, settled in with my laptop and a giant mug of coffee this morning ready to dig. Always been fascinated by these historic football clashes, and Real Madrid versus Arsenal? Had this gut feeling it wasn’t gonna be straightforward. Everyone talks about Real’s dominance, but I needed to see it raw, the actual wins, losses, goals scored… the messy stuff.

Where I Started

First thing, just blasted open a search engine. Searched simple stuff like “Real Madrid vs Arsenal all time” and “H2H Real Arsenal”. Clicked through a few sites I’ve used before like FootballDatabase and FCtables. Wasn’t looking for opinions, just cold, hard numbers. Needed the official competition records – Champions League, Cup Winners’ Cup, friendlies… didn’t matter at this stage.

• Dumped every single recorded match I could find into a spreadsheet. Dates, competitions, scores, goal scorers.
• Double-checked conflicting info – found one site had a different score for an old friendly. Had to cross-reference three sources to settle it.
• Focused purely on the results first. Forget the narratives, just who won, who lost, when.

The Crazy Part

Sorting the results chronologically… honestly, it threw me early on. Arsenal actually won the first two meetings way back in 1980 in the Cup Winners’ Cup! Didn’t expect that at all. Thought it’d be all Madrid from the get-go. Kept scrolling through my list.

Saw those big Champions League clashes everyone remembers, the 2006 final especially. Gut punch seeing Arsenal so close. But the real pattern emerged later – Madrid absolutely humiliated them a few times! Like the 5-1 thrashing at the Bernabeu in 2006 after losing the final? Brutal. Then another 5-1 in London years later? Wow.

Head-To-Head? Kinda Lopsided

Tallied it all up at the end:

• Real Madrid wins: Way more than I thought. Seriously dominates.
• Arsenal wins: Just a handful early on and that one big Emirates Cup thing.
• Draws: Hardly any! These teams usually pick a winner.

Then focused on goalscorers. Made a separate list. Raul and Benzema definitely haunt Arsenal fans. Henry and Adebayor got theirs too. Van Persie’s late winner at the Bernabeu? Legendary. You see familiar names popping up.

My Weird Memory Detour

Funny thing happened digging through 2012. Came across Henry scoring his last goal for Arsenal… against Leeds. Totally irrelevant to Madrid-Arsenal! But it stopped me dead. Why? Because I watched that Leeds game live in this awful pub near Paddington Station.

Got hammered waiting on a delayed train, then bang Henry scores this perfect trademark goal. Place exploded. Total strangers hugging like family. Finished my beer right as the final whistle blew, sprinted to catch the train, made it by seconds. Still remember the sticky floor. Weird how stats trigger these random flashbacks.

Final Tally Feels Rough for Arsenal

Bottom line after counting every goal, every win, every loss: Madrid has Arsenal’s number. Like, properly. Some big Arsenal wins, yeah, but Madrid just has more of them, especially in the big moments in Europe. That feeling I had when I started? Confirmed. It’s a record tilted heavily towards Spain.

Still, finding those early Arsenal wins and Van Persie’s moment? Gold. Shows even in a lopsided history, there are sparks. Makes you think, records are one thing… but any given matchday, things can flip. Crazy sport.