Arsenal celebrated with traveling supporters after beating Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park on Championship Sunday, marking the club's 2025-26 Premier League triumph with a trophy lift shared in South London.
The Gunners had already sealed first place midweek, but the final-day victory and the moment on the pitch at Selhurst Park allowed players and coaches to take the club's prize out to the away end and celebrate with the fans who had followed them to London.
That ritual — a public, on-the-road acknowledgement of the supporters who made the trip — underlined the scale of the achievement: Arsenal are champions of the Premier League for 2025-26, their first title in 22 years.
Club sources say the squad celebrated among themselves before moving to the traveling supporters in the stadium, but the scene was unmistakably a team sharing the moment beyond the dressing room. The arsenal trophy lift became a travelling tableau of confetti, scarves and songs, a public sealing of the season that was already decided earlier in the week.
Context matters. The win at Selhurst Park closed the domestic chapter of a season that had been wrapped up before the final whistle on Championship Sunday. Arsenal will still stage a victory parade to mark the title on home turf, a formal celebration the club has scheduled to let the wider fanbase join in.
Less than a week separates this domestic coronation from another chance at silverware. Next weekend, Arsenal will try to beat Paris Saint-Germain to the UEFA Champions League title. The club now carries both the domestic crown and the pressure of living up to it on Europe's biggest stage.
The tension in this moment is simple and sharp: the public joy of a trophy lift shared with traveling fans sits alongside an unresolved test. Celebrating at Selhurst Park felt, for many, both fitting and provisional — fitting because it acknowledged the supporters who had been with the team on the road, provisional because the real proof of this squad's stature will be measured in a Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain.
Arsenal will parade the Premier League trophy at home and will wait to see whether they can add Europe's top prize next weekend. The question now is not whether they have earned celebration — they have — but whether that celebration will be the opening note on a season capped by continental glory or a high point before another, tougher verdict arrives in Paris.
