The Invincibles

In English football, "The Invincibles" has been used to refer to either the Preston North End team of the 1880s, or the Arsenal team of the 2003–04 season. In both cases, the teams won the top division of English football unbeaten, the only two times this has occurred in English football history.

 

Arsenal emulated Preston's unbeaten run in the 2003–04 season going unbeaten for all 38 games, almost twice as many league games as Preston had played. Their final record for the 2003–2004 league campaign stood at 26 wins, 12 draws and 0 losses, out of 38 games total, an unbeaten run not matched in any single season by any team in an English league division. Arsenal went 49 Premier League games unbeaten which was a new record for the most League games without defeat, the sequence coming to an end with a controversial 2–0 defeat to Manchester United. The Premier League commissioned a special gold version of the Premier League trophy to commemorate Arsenal's unbeaten season. A very important part of this season was Thierry Henry who scored 30 goals that season, with Robert Pires chipping in with 14 goals.