The 2003--04 season was Arsenal's 12th season in the Premier League, and their 74th consecutive season in the top division of English football.[1] In remarkable fashion, the team from North London managed to go through an entire league campaign undefeated and regain their status as Premiership champions, thus becoming only the second team to do so since Preston North End in 1889. Manager Arsène Wenger had predicted in 2002 that his squad was good enough to go unbeaten for an entire season,[4] an accomplishment which he cited as a personal goal of his.