Bournemouth v Arsenal Hospitality Tickets & Packages

The Vitality Stadium Hospitality Dress Code

For hospitality at Bournemouth’s Vitality Stadium, the dress code is generally smart casual. That usually means:

• Men: Collared shirts, smart trousers or chinos, optional blazer; avoid sportswear, ripped jeans, or trainers.

• Women: Dresses, skirts, smart trousers or blouses; again, avoid casual sportswear.

• General: No football jerseys, hoodies, or caps.

Hospitality areas aim for a polished but relaxed environment—so you don’t need a suit unless you want to go extra formal.

Andoni Iraola’s Bournemouth are going to be coming up against a title chasing Arsenal, who are currently led by their Spanish Head Coach Mikel Arteta. This game is going to take place at the historic Vitality Stadium in the 2025/26 Premier League season, with the action set to get underway on the afternoon of Saturday 3rd January 2026, in what is also the first home game of the 2026 calendar year for the Cherries.

If the South Coast based club are indeed able to secure all three points against the Gunners, they will not only be making a statement to the rest of the division, they will be taking one step closer to them realising their ambitions for the current campaign, which are to secure European Football for the first time in the club’s incredible history by finishing within the top seven of the league table by this season’s end.

Andoni Iraola is, of course, the current Head Coach of AFC Bournemouth, a prestigious post that he has held ever since his appointment was confirmed by the club back on Monday, 19th June 2023, with the 2025/26 season being the third full season in charge for the Spaniard. He was chosen to replace his successor, Gary O’Neil, in this role.

Going back to his first season in charge (2023/24), they were able to accumulate a total of no less than 48 points in the end from their 38 games, which was enough for them to finish in what was a very credible 12th place. This was also the new record for points for the club in their entire history in the top flight of English Football.

The most recent season, the 2024/25 campaign, was the most recent one for Iraola at the club, and it was an even better campaign. They were fighting for European Football, but they did go on to fail after finishing as many as 9 points adrift of the top seven in the Premier League table. This is because they finished in 9th place with a new record points total of no less than 56 points, and it is a tally that they will be looking to further improve on this season.

Many great results came the way of Bournemouth throughout the 2024/25 campaign, with one of the biggest results for the club being that 2 – 1 triumph over Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City side at the Vitality Stadium back on Saturday 2nd November 2024. It was Antoine Semenyo (9’) and Evanilson (64’), whilst it was Croatian defender Josko Gvardiol who was the scorer of the only goal of the game for the Cityzens that day in the latter stages of this competitive game in the second half (82’).

Moving on to Arsenal, their Head Coach, Mikel Arteta, is a fellow Spaniard, with him and Andoni Iraola set to go head to head twice in the Premier League this year. Arteta has been in charge ever since he was officially named as Unai Emery’s permanent successor at the Emirates Stadium back on Friday, 20th December 2019.

Arsenal have gone from fighting for Champions League Football to fighting for the title since Arteta’s reign got underway, and in the last three seasons in the Premier League, Arteta’s side have been runners-up, with them looking to go one better this term. In the 2024/25 season, they had accumulated a total of 74 points in the end from their 38 games in total.

They were a side that ended up finishing as many as 10 points adrift of the champions that year, Liverpool. They had lost out to Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City in the other two title races in both 2022/23 and 2023/24.

The last time that Bournemouth faced Arsenal in the Premier League was back on Saturday, 3rd May 2025 at the iconic Emirates Stadium in North London, where the Cherries earned what was a statement 2 – 1 victory over the Gunners thanks to the goals of Dean Huijsen (67’) and Evanilson (75’). Meanwhile, it was England International central midfielder Declan Rice who was the scorer of the only goal of the game for the hosts Arsenal that day (34’).

Overall, Bournemouth and Arsenal have met competitively in all competitions on no less than 18 occasions, and it is currently the latter who has the superior record of as many as 13 victories in this fixture so far, compared with the Cherries’ 3. There have also been just 2 draws between these two clubs to date, as of the time of writing.

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