Mikel Arteta Amatriain (born 26 March 1982) is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Arsenal. Arteta began his senior club career at Barcelona in 1999, but limited playing time led to a loan move to Paris Saint-Germain in 2001, where he won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in his second season. Arteta joined Rangers in 2002 for £6 million and won the league and league cup in his debut season, scoring a 93rd-minute penalty on the final day. After a brief return to his hometown club Real Sociedad, Arteta signed for Everton in 2005 and was named the club's Player of the Season twice. He joined Arsenal in 2011 for £10 million and won two FA Cups before retiring in 2016. Arteta represented Spain through several youth levels but never played for the senior national team. Arteta was appointed as an assistant coach to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City in 2016. He returned at Arsenal in a managerial capacity in 2019 and won the FA Cup in his debut season. Arteta has since gone onto become Arsenal's seventh-longest serving manager. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article TacticsPlayersComments (0)Country coaches Post your comment herePost Comment --- Today Top Games --- Accrington Stanley - Barrow Al-Hilal - Al-Khaleej Club Anderlecht - Charleroi SC Birmingham City - Derby County Bradford City - Wigan Athletic Cardiff City - Exeter City Coventry City - Swansea City Egypt - South Africa Grimsby Town - Oldham Athletic Leicester City - Watford Luton Town - Wycombe Wanderers Manchester United - Newcastle United Middlesbrough - Blackburn Rovers Millwall - Ipswich Town Newcastle Jets - Macarthur FC Norwich City - Charlton Athletic Oxford United - Southampton Plymouth Argyle - Reading Portsmouth - Queens Park Rangers RC Genk - Club Brugge Sheffield Wednesday - Hull City Standard Liege - Sint-Truidense West Bromwich Albion - Bristol City Wrexham - Sheffield United Zambia - Comoros --- Tomorrow Top Games --- AA Gent - Westerlo Aberdeen FC - Dundee United FC Adelaide United - Western Sydney Wanderers Al-Nassr - Al-Okhdood Club Arsenal - Brighton & Hove Albion Brentford - Bournemouth Burnley - Everton Chelsea - Aston Villa Dundee FC - Falkirk FC Hibernian FC - Heart of Midlothian FC Lecce - Como Liverpool - Wolverhampton Wanderers Livingston FC - Celtic FC Nigeria - Tunisia Nottingham Forest - Manchester City Palermo - Padova Parma - Fiorentina Pisa - Juventus Rangers FC - Motherwell FC Ross County - St Johnstone FC Royal Antwerp FC - Zulte-Waregem St Mirren - Kilmarnock FC Udinese - Lazio Uganda - Tanzania West Ham United - Fulham --- Recent games --- Australia - A-LeagueEngland - FA Premier LeagueEngland - League CupGermany - Frauen-BundesligaGreece - Super League GreeceItaly - Serie CItaly - Supercoppa ItalianaPortugal - Primeira LigaRomania - Liga ISpain - La LigaTurkey - Turkish Super Lig------ - Africa Cup of Nations select match 23-Dec --- Melb City 1:1 Macarthur select match 22-Dec --- Fulham 1:0 Not.Forest select match 23-Dec --- Arsenal 1:1 C Palace select match 22-Dec --- Leverkusn 0:3 Bayern select match 22-Dec --- Pans kos 0:2 Levadiakos select match 22-Dec --- U.Brescia 2:0 Inter U23 select match 22-Dec --- Napoli 2:0 Bologna select match 22-Dec --- Alverca 0:3 Porto22-Dec --- Benfica 1:0 Famalicão23-Dec --- Guimaraes 1:4 Sporting select match 22-Dec --- Craiova 5:0 M Ciuc select match 22-Dec --- Athletic 1:2 Espanyol select match 22-Dec --- Basaksehi 5:1 Gaziantep22-Dec --- Gençler 4:3 Trabzon select match 22-Dec --- Mali 1:1 Zambia22-Dec --- S. Africa 2:1 Angola22-Dec --- Egypt 2:1 Zimbabwe23-Dec --- DR Congo 1:0 Benin23-Dec --- Senegal 3:0 Botswana23-Dec --- Nigeria 2:1 Tanzania23-Dec --- Tunisia 3:1 Uganda24-Dec --- Burkina F 2:1 Eq Guinea24-Dec --- Algeria 3:0 Sudan Stories Potential Bruno Fernandes exit Celebrate the World Cup 2026 EPL promoted clubs Club World Cup Qualification A-League 2025 ending Transfer talk Liverpool 2025 Season Liverpool Influence in the Champions League Sports-Themed Online Games