New Arsenal FC 20-21 Squad Numbers Announced
After presenting the club's new home kit together with supplier adidas earlier this week, Arsenal Football Club shortly after revealed some changes to the squads numbers from the 2020-21 season - amongst others AFC youth product Bukayo Saka receives a new kit number for the 2020-21 season.
On another note, Arsenal's 2020-21 kit numbers are completely unique as the North London club's kit supplier adidas created an exclusive font for the Gunners - inspired by the past to rewrite the future.
Arsenal FC 2020-2021 Squad Numbers
As Arsenal Football Club announced on Thursday, Saka switches from the 77 to the clean number 7 in the future, which was already worn by Tomáš Rosický during the early 2000s (2006/07 - 2015/16), amongst others. In the season before, Armenian Henrikh Mkhitaryan techically still occupied Arsenal's No. 7 as he was on a one-year loan in Italy playing for Roma. At the moment, Henrikh Mkhitaryan's future within the squad is unclear.
Already signed with AFC before last season's kick-off, Saint-Étienne's prodigy William Saliba was immediately moved back to the South French outfit in a one-year loan deal. In the 2020-21 season, William Saliba will play for Arsenal FC and gets the 4. Arsenal's number 4 has been worn by iconic Arsenal players such as Patrick Vieira (1996-97 - 2004-05).
Arsenal FC 20-21 Squad Number Changes:
William Saliba: none → 4
Bukayo Saka: 77 → 7
Mohamed Elneny: 4 → 25
Arsenal FC 20-21 Squad Numbers:
1 Bernd Leno
2 Héctor Bellerin
3 Kieran Tierney
4 William Saliba
5 Sokratis
7 Bukayo Saka
8 Dani Ceballos
9 Alexandre Lacazette
10 Mesut Özil
11 Lucas Torreira
14 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
15 Ainsley Maitland-Niles
16 Rob Holding
17 Cédric Soares
19 Nicolas Pépé
20 Shkodran Mustafi
21 Calum Chambers
22 Pablo Marí
23 David Luiz
24 Reiss Nelson
25 Mohamed Elneny
26 Emiliano Martínez
28 Joe Willock
29 Mattéo Guendouzi
30 Eddie Nketiah
31 Sead Kolasinac
33 Matt Macey
34 Granit Xhaka
35 Gabriel Martinelli
AFC's shirts with the numbers 6, 12, 13 and 18 are not assigned.
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