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The club was founded in 1886 and took the name Royal Arsenal after its first game, combining the nickname of the Royal Oak public house, where the team members met, with that of their workplace, the Arsenal munitions factory in Woolwich. The name was changed to Woolwich Arsenal in 1891, and Woolwich was dropped from the name after the 1912–13 season, when the team moved its home stadium to the Highbury section of the London borough of Islington. The club played at Arsenal Stadium ( normally referred to as “ Highbury ” ) until 2006, when it relocated to a new, 60,000-seat stadium in Islington ’ s Holloway district .
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Arsenal has a long-standing competition with another North London club, Tottenham Hotspur, against whom it plays the “ North London bowler hat ” match about every year. When the Football League resumed turn in 1919 after World War I, Arsenal—which had finished fifth in the Second Division before the war—was controversially promoted to the First Division over higher-placing Tottenham after Arsenal ’ s chair argued that his baseball club deserved promotion because of its longer history, further spurring the competition between the two teams. While Arsenal has remained in the clear division ever since its contentious promotion, its periods of bang-up achievements have been widely dispersed. The club won five league championships in the 1930s but merely three entire in the 50 seasons from 1938–39 to 1987–88. Arsène Wenger became the team ’ second director in 1996 and has served longer in that function than anyone else in clubhouse history. Arsenal went undefeated in the 38 matches of the 2003–04 season, becoming just the moment top-division English clubhouse to do so, and it set a national record by extending its unbeaten streak into the next season to 49 consecutive league contests in full. In addition to its league championships, Arsenal has won the Football Association ( FA ) Cup 13 times and the League Cup twice, a well as the european Cup Winners ’ Cup ( 1994 ). Among the standout footballers who have played for Arsenal are forwards Cliff Bastin and Dennis Bergkamp, goalkeeper Pat Jennings, midfielder Liam Brady, defender Tony Adams, and, arguably the team ’ sulfur greatest player, striker Thierry Henry, who scored a club-record 226 goals between 1999 and 2007.
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