Max Dowman will finish the 2025\u201326 campaign having become the youngest player to win a Premier League title. At 16 years, 144 days he lowers the previous benchmark set by Phil Foden in 2017\u201318, when Foden was recorded at 17 years, 350 days.<\/p>\n
Dowman has made five substitute appearances in the Premier League this season, the most recent coming in early May\u2019s 3\u20130 win over Fulham at the Emirates Stadium. He already holds a string of age-related records: the youngest goalscorer in Premier League history, the youngest scorer in the Champions League, Arsenal\u2019s youngest goalscorer and the club\u2019s youngest starter.<\/p>\n
Under Premier League rules, five appearances is the minimum threshold to automatically receive a winners\u2019 medal. That figure is half of the 10 matches it used to be until 2012. Each season the champions are allocated 40 medals to be distributed primarily to players who meet the five-match requirement. Leftovers are typically handed to manager and staff, while clubs can decide to award medals to players who have not reached the threshold. Clubs may also request to buy additional medals with Premier League approval.<\/p>\n
The draft recalls a past case in which Alex Manninger, Arsenal\u2019s backup goalkeeper in the late 1990s, who covered for David Seaman in the 1997\u201398 title run, only made seven appearances and did not automatically qualify for a medal; the club had to request an extra one.<\/p>\n
This season 24 Arsenal players are guaranteed to receive winners\u2019 medals. No player who has not already reached the five-match threshold will hit it on the final day because every player who featured for the club in the Premier League has made five or more appearances.<\/p>\n
Of the remaining 16 medals, one could go to backup goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga. He has not made a Premier League appearance but has been on the bench for all 37 matches so far. Should Arsenal win the Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the month, Kepa would equal Clarence Seedorf\u2019s competition record and become only the second player to win the competition with three different clubs. Each previous occasion, with Chelsea (2020\u201321) and Real Madrid (2023\u201324), saw him as the understudy goalkeeper, not a starter.<\/p>\n
The Arsenal players guaranteed a Premier League winners\u2019 medal this season include David Raya (37), Mart\u00edn Zubimendi (37), Declan Rice (36), Viktor Gy\u00f6keres (35), Eberechi Eze (35), Leandro Trossard (34), Bukayo Saka (31), Gabriel (31), William Saliba (31), Jurri\u00ebn Timber (30), Gabriel Martinelli (29), Noni Madueke (25), Riccardo Calafiori (25), Piero Hincapi\u00e9 (24), Martin \u00d8degaard (24), Mikel Merino (21), Myles Lewis-Skelly (19), Cristhian Mosquera (19), Gabriel Jesus (13), Ben White (12), Kai Havertz (11), Christian N\u00f8rgaard (6), Ethan Nwaneri (6) and Max Dowman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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