Arsenal to Cut 60 Jobs Months After Winning Premier League Title

Arsenal are planning to cut around 60 jobs, just months after ending their 22-year wait for the Premier League title, as exclusively reported by Telegraph Sport.

Staff are understood to have been told about the redundancies on Wednesday morning during a call with chief executive Richard Garlick. The decision follows a review of the business carried out by management consultants Boston Consulting Group, who were brought in earlier this year.

The cuts will be concentrated in off-field departments. Performance staff working with the men's and women's first teams and the academy will not be directly affected, and roles within the Arsenal Foundation, community programmes and the security department will also not be cut.

Arsenal’s accounts for the year to May 2025 showed record revenue of £691million, yet the club still recorded a loss of £1.4million, its seventh consecutive annual loss since last turning a profit in 2017/18.

A major factor has been the rising cost of running the club. Operating costs, excluding wages, jumped from around £147million to £200.8million in a single year, with the club pointing to higher staging costs, the expense of delivering increased revenue, property matters and inflation. The wage bill also reached a club-record £346.8million.

Winning the league does not necessarily translate into an immediate windfall either, as Arsenal's bonus structure means substantial payments are triggered when major trophies are won.

Clubs across the Premier League are also facing tighter financial regulations, and Arsenal are said to be looking to make the business more efficient to support sustained success on the pitch.

It is not the first time the club has faced criticism over job cuts. In 2020, Arsenal made 55 roles redundant during the pandemic, a decision that drew a backlash from supporters after it emerged that the long-serving performer behind mascot Gunnersaurus was among those affected.

Following the news that Jerry Quy, the man behind Gunnersaurus at the time, had been made redundant, Mesut Özil took to X, formerly Twitter, and publicly offered to cover Quy's full salary for as long as he remained an Arsenal player.

The latest cuts follow a period of significant change behind the scenes. A review into the squad's fitness issues, carried out by Spanish physio Joaquín Acedo, led to the departures of head doctor Zafar Iqbal and head of sports science Tom Allen, both of whom have since been replaced.

Chief commercial officer Juliet Slot and long-serving general counsel Svenja Geissmar have also left the club in recent months.