2016–17 Arsenal F.C. season

The 2016–17 season will be Arsenal's 25th in the Premier League and 97th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. The club will participate in the Premier League, FA Cup, Football League Cup, and the UEFA Champions League. The season covers the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.

Transfers in
Arsenal started their transfer business early, with the signing of Switzerland midfielder Granit Xhaka from Bundesliga side Borussia Mönchengladbach, with the undisclosed fee rumored to be around £30 million, being announced on May 25.

Total spending:  Undisclosed (~£30,000,000)

Transfers out
Total incoming:  £0

Overall transfer activity
Spending

Summer:  Undisclosed (~£30,000,000)

Winter: £0

Total:  Undisclosed (~£30,000,000)

Income

Summer: £0

Winter: £0

Total: £0

Net expenditure

Summer:  Undisclosed (~£30,000,000)

Winter: £0

Total:  Undisclosed (~£30,000,000)

Kit
Supplier: Puma Sponsor: Fly Emirates

Kit information
This is third consecutive year Puma has supplied Arsenal with kits.


 * Home: The home kit features Arsenal's traditional colours of red and white, with the addition of a dark trim around the lowered neck line, on the sleeve (hooped) and along the red stripe on the shorts. The distinguishing feature of the kit is the darkened, vertical, red stripe across the centre of the kit. It also features predominantly red socks for the first time since the 2004–05 season (as opposed to only featuring on the alternate kits).

Top scorers
Source: Arsenal F.C. and 11v11.com

Pre-season
In February 2016, it was announced that Arsenal would play in the Major League Soccer All-Star Game at Avaya Stadium in San Jose, California in addition to a friendly against Mexican side Guadalajara three days later. However, Arsenal later announced that the annual Emirates Cup would be cancelled for the second time in its history due to the extended absence of international players participating in Euro 2016 and "essential pitch reconstruction works" at the Emirates Stadium. Arsenal confirmed their final pre-season fixtures before the Premier League campaign in early-June 2016, as Scandinavian trips against Viking in Stavanger and Premier League rivals Manchester City in Gothenburg completed the line-up. It is the third time in four years that Arsenal and Manchester City will meet in a pre-season fixture outside of England.

Overview
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" !rowspan=2|Competition !colspan=8|Record !G !W !D !L !GF !GA !GD !Win %
 * Premier League
 * Premier League


 * FA Cup
 * FA Cup


 * League Cup
 * League Cup


 * Champions League
 * Champions League

! Total

Matches
On 15 June 2016, the fixtures for the forthcoming season were announced.

UEFA Champions League
Arsenal qualified for the Group Stage of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League due to finishing second in the 2015–16 Premier League. This means that Arsenal have qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the 19th consecutive year. Following changes to UEFA qualification rules from the previous season, Arsenal, having previously been seeded in pot 1 for the Champions League draw as one of the top 8 ranked teams in UEFA, are instead placed into pot 2 for the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League group stage draw with the remainder of the highest seeded non-champions according to UEFA coefficient.

Arsenal Player of the Month award
Awarded monthly to the player that was chosen by fan voting on Arsenal.com