Arsenal's Champions League record: Have the Gunners ever won the trophy? Mikel Arteta's side assessed ahead of final vs. PSG

Arsenal lifted the Premier League trophy for the archetypal clip successful 22 years this season, clinching apical spot up of Manchester City aft a bid of second-placed finishes, but adjacent greater glory awaits arsenic they hole for Saturday's Champions League final.

Mikel Arteta's Gunners beat La Liga giants Atletico Madrid 2-1 connected aggregate successful their semi-final showdown, and they volition beryllium assured that their antiaircraft resilience tin get them implicit the enactment this weekend.

However, portion the Londoners' Premier League triumph brought an extremity to their six-year silverware drought, they person ne'er won the Champions League, and completing a treble this word would spell down arsenic 1 of the club's top ever achievements.

Here, Sports Mole takes a look astatine Arsenal's Champions League and European Cup record, up of Saturday's last against PSG.

Interactive: Arsenal's European Cup & Champions League record

Arsenal are 1 of the biggest teams successful England, but their grounds successful European competitions has been acold from stellar.

The Gunners person ne'er won the Champions League oregon European Cup before, and their lone quality successful the last of either iteration anterior to this play was a 2-1 decision against Barcelona successful May 2006.

Arsene Wenger's Londoners were hopeful up of their gathering with La Blaugrana astatine the Stade de France that day, but erstwhile goalkeeper Jens Lehmann was sent disconnected with conscionable 18 minutes connected the clock, the likelihood were stacked against them.

Arsenal were arguably the amended squad successful the opening exchanges, yet erstwhile Samuel Eto'o latched onto the extremity of a Ronaldinho walk and flicked the shot beyond Lehmann, referee Terje Hauge decided to amusement a reddish paper to the German shot-stopper.

Fans inactive statement the rationale down the determination to this day, fixed that vantage was not played contempt Ludovic Giuly being connected manus to people what would person been the opener.

In the aftermath, Thierry Henry famously lambasted the official, stating “I don’t cognize if the referee was wearing a Barcelona shirt,” earlier mentioning that helium "Would person liked a due referee."

Regardless, the Gunners mustered the spot to instrumentality the pb done Sol Campbell, and went into the half-time interruption successful front, having faced small menace from Barca different than a onslaught from Eto'o that deed the post.

However, the Londoners failed to person their different chances connected the night, with Henry uncharacteristically wasteful, allowing the Catalan giants backmost into the game.

In response, Barca manager Frank Rijkaard opted to bring on Henrik Larsson conscionable beyond the hr mark, and the Swede would spell connected to assistance Eto'o's equaliser, arsenic good arsenic Juliano Belletti's 80th-minute winner.

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