Players from the Arsenal.com web site (players with * may not be with the club next season or were not listed on the site as starters, also Per Mertesacker is listed on the official site still but he has retired and Santi Cazorla is a Villareal player now.)
Over 30 this season:
Petr Cech – May 20, 1982 (36)
Stephan Lichtsteiner – Jan 16, 1984 (34)
Laurent Koscielny – Sep 10, 1985 (32)
Nacho Monreal – Feb 26, 1986 (32)
*Sokratis – Jun 9, 1988 (29)
David Ospina – Aug 31, 1988 (29)
*Lucas Perez – Sep 10, 1988 (29)
Mesut Özil – Oct 15, 1988 (29)
Henrikh Mkhitaryan – Jan 21, 1989 (29)
Between 25 and 30 this season:
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – Jun 18, 1989 (28)
Danny Welbeck – Nov 26, 1990 (27)
Aaron Ramsey – Dec 26, 1990 (27)
Alexandre Lacazette – May 28, 1991 (27)
*Jack Wilshere – Jan 1, 1992 (26)
Shkodran Mustafi – Apr 17, 1992 (26)
Mohamed Elneny – Jul 11, 1992 (25)
Granit Xhaka – Sep 27, 1992 (25)
Sead Kolasinac – Jun 20, 1993 (24)
Between 20 and 25 this season:
*Matt Macey – Sep 9, 1994 (23)
Calum Chambers – Jan 20, 1995 (23)
Héctor Bellerín – Mar 19, 1995 (23)
Rob Holding – Sep 20, 1995 (22)
Alex Iwobi – May 3, 1996 (22)
Ainsley Maitland-Niles – Aug 29, 1997 (20)
Konstantinos Mavropanos – Dec 11, 1997 (20)
Academy players used in Premier League matches last season or on loan:
Eddie Nketiah – May 20, 1999 (19)
Joe Willock – Aug 20, 1999 (18)
Reiss Nelson – Dec 10, 1999 (18)
Players who will be over 30 this season: 9
Players who are in their prime, between 25 and 29: 10
Players coming into their prime, between 20 and 25: 7
Players under 20: 3
Most likely starting 11 from the players listed above:
Cech (36)
Bellerin (23) – Mustafi (26) – Sokratis (30) – Kolasinac (25)
Ramsey (27.5) – Xhaka (26) – Mkhitaryan (29.5)
Ozil (30) – Aubameyang (29) – Lacazette (27)
Average age of that lineup: 28
Oldest possible lineup from the players listed above:
Cech (36)
Lichtsteiner (34.5) – Sokratis (30) – Koscielny (33) – Monreal (32.3)
Ramsey (27.5) – Xhaka (26) – Mkhitaryan (29.5)
Ozil (30) – Aubameyang (29) – Lacazette (27)
Average age of that lineup: 30.4
Youngest likely lineup from the players listed above:
Macey (24)
Bellerin (23) – Holding (23) – Mavropanos (20.5) – Kolasinac (25)
Ramsey (27.5) – Elneny (26) – Maitland-Niles (20)
Wilshere (26.5) – Lacazette (27) – Iwobi (22)
Average age of that lineup: 24
Keepers: Cech, Ospina, Macey
Left backs: Bellerin, Lichtsteiner
Center backs: Sokratis, Koscielny, Mustafi, Holding, Chambers, Mavropanos
Right backs: Monreal, Kolasinac
Box to box mids: Ramsey, Elneny
Deep lying midfielders: Xhaka
Defensive mids: Maitland-Niles
Attacking mids: Wilshere, Mkhitaryan
Creative forwards: Ozil, Iwobi
Forwards: Aubameyang, Welbeck, Lacazette
UPDATE:
I wondered how Arsenal compared to the other top six teams. So I went to Whoscored.com, sorted each team’s players by minutes played, took the top 14 players (by minutes played) and averaged their current age.
Arsenal are the oldest, by two years over Liverpool.
Note on theses stats:
Man City had five players over 30 in their top 14 last season (Kompany, Aguero, Silva, Fernandinho, and Oatmendi). Their oldest player in that group was Fernandinho at 33.
Arsenal had just three players over 30 in their top 14 last season (Cech, Monreal, and Koscielny). Their oldest player in that group was Cech at 36.
Chelsea had just three players over 30 in their top 14 last season (Cahill, Fabregas, and Pedro). Their oldest player in that group was Cahill at 32.
Tottenham had just three players over 30 in their top 14 last season (Lloris, Vertonghen, and Dembele). Their oldest players in that group were Lloris and Vertonghen at 31.
Liverpool had just two players over 30 in their top 14 last season (Mignolet and Milner). Their oldest player in that group was Milner who is 32.
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