Association football club based in London

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Arsenal Football Club is a master football club based in Islington, London, England. Arsenal plays in the Premier League, the top escape of English football. The club has won 13 league titles ( including one unbeaten title ), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 16 FA Community Shields, the League Centenary Trophy, one european Cup Winners ‘ Cup, and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.

Arsenal was the first baseball club from the South of England to join the Football League in 1893, and they reached the First Division in 1904. Relegated only once, in 1913, they continue the longest stripe in the top division, [ 6 ] and have won the second-most top-flight matches in English football history. [ 7 ] In the 1930s, Arsenal won five League Championships and two FA Cups, and another FA Cup and two Championships after the war. In 1970–71, they won their first base League and FA Cup Double. Between 1989 and 2005, they won five League titles and five FA Cups, including two more Doubles. They completed the twentieth century with the highest median league situation. [ 8 ] Between 1998 and 2017, Arsenal qualified for the UEFA Champions League for 19 true seasons, [ 9 ] and in the final seven years have won a foster four FA Cups. [ 10 ] Herbert Chapman, who changed the fortunes of Arsenal everlastingly, won the club its first silverware, and his bequest led the club to dominate the 1930s ten ; Chapman, however, died of pneumonia in 1934, aged 55. He helped introduce the WM formation, floodlights, and shirt numbers ; [ 11 ] he besides added the white sleeves and bright red to the club ‘s jersey. [ 12 ] Arsène Wenger is the longest-serving director and won the most trophies. He won a record seven FA Cups, and his title-winning team set an english criminal record for the longest top-flight unbeaten league run at 49 games between 2003 and 2004, [ 13 ] receiving the nickname The Invincibles. In 1886, munitions workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich founded the club as Dial Square. In 1913, after the end of their South London stadium by suffragettes, the club crossed the city to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury, becoming close neighbours of Tottenham Hotspur, and creating the North London bowler hat. In 2006, they moved to the nearby Emirates Stadium. With an annual tax income of €388m in the 19–20 temper, [ 14 ] Arsenal was estimated to be worth US $ 2.68 billion by Forbes, making it the world ‘s one-seventh most valuable golf club, [ 15 ] while it is one of the most followed on social media. [ 16 ] The motto of the clubhouse has long been Victoria Concordia Crescit, Latin for “ Victory Through Harmony ” .

history

1886–1919 : change names

Dial Square : the workplace of Arsenal ‘s establish fathers, and the club ‘s original eponym Royal Arsenal squad in 1888. master captain, David Danskin, sits on the right of the workbench In October 1886, Scotsman David Danskin and fifteen colleague munitions workers in Woolwich formed Dial Square Football Club, named after a workshop at the heart of the Royal Arsenal complex. Each member contributed sixpence and Danskin besides added three shillings to help form the clubhouse. [ 4 ] [ a ] Dial Square played their first match on 11 December 1886 against Eastern Wanderers and won 6–0. [ 20 ] The club renamed to Royal Arsenal a calendar month late, [ 21 ] [ 19 ] and its first home was Plumstead Common, [ 19 ] though they spent most of their prison term acting at the Manor Ground. Their first base trophies were the Kent Senior Cup and London Charity Cup in 1889–90 and the London Senior Cup in 1890–91 ; these were the only county association trophies Arsenal won during their time in South East London. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In 1891, Royal Arsenal became the foremost London club to turn professional. [ 24 ] Royal Arsenal renamed for a moment time upon becoming a limited liability company in 1893. They registered their newly name, Woolwich Arsenal, with The Football League when the clubhouse ascended later that class. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] : 5–21 Woolwich Arsenal was the first southern member of The Football League, starting out in the Second Division and reaching the first Division in 1904. Falling attendances, due to fiscal difficulties among the munitions workers and the arrival of more accessible football clubs elsewhere in the city, led the club close to bankruptcy by 1910. [ 27 ] [ 26 ] : 112–149 Businessmen Henry Norris and William Hall became involved in the club, and sought to move them elsewhere. [ 28 ] [ 26 ] : 22–42 In 1913, soon after delegating back to the Second Division, the grandstand of Woolwich Arsenal ‘s Plumstead stadium was burnt down by the suffragettes, as separate of their nationally bombard and arson campaign for women ‘s right to vote. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] The assail price £1,000 in damages ( around £120,000 today ), and sol the same year the club moved across the river to the newly Arsenal Stadium in Highbury. [ 29 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] In 1919, The Football League controversially voted to promote The Arsenal, rather of banish local anesthetic rivals Tottenham Hotspur, into the newly enlarged First Division, despite only finishing fifth in the Second Division ‘s last pre-war season of 1914–15. late that year, The Arsenal started dropping “ The ” in official documents, gradually shifting its name for the final examination clock towards Arsenal, as it is broadly known today. [ 33 ]

1919–1953 : Bank of England club

With a newfangled family and First Division football, attendances were more than double those at the Manor Ground, and Arsenal ‘s budget grew quickly. [ 35 ] Their location and record-breaking wage crack lured asterisk Huddersfield Town coach Herbert Chapman in 1925. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Over the adjacent five years, Chapman built a newly Arsenal. He appointed an enduring new flight simulator Tom Whittaker, implemented Charlie Buchan ‘s new bend on the nascent WM formation, [ 39 ] [ 40 ] captured youthful players like Cliff Bastin and Eddie Hapgood, and lavished Highbury ‘s income on stars like David Jack and Alex James. With record-breaking spend and gate receipts, Arsenal cursorily became known as the Bank of England club. [ 42 ]
Transformed, Chapman ‘s Arsenal claimed their first base home trophy, the FA Cup, in 1930, and League Championships followed in 1930–31 and 1932–33. [ 43 ] Chapman besides presided over off the peddle changes : white sleeves and shirt numbers were added to the kit out ; [ b ] a Tube station was named after the club ; [ 47 ] [ 48 ] and the first of two deluxe, Art Deco stands was completed, with some of the first floodlights in English football. [ 35 ] suddenly, in the middle of the 1933–34 season, Chapman died of pneumonia. [ 49 ] His work was left to Joe Shaw and George Allison, who saw out a hat-trick with the 1933–34 and 1934–35 titles, and then won the 1936 FA Cup and 1937–38 title. World War II meant The Football League was suspended for seven years, but Arsenal returned to win it in the second post-war season, 1947–48. This was Tom Whittaker ‘s first base season as coach, after his promotion to succeed Allison, and the golf club had equalled the champions of England record. They won a third FA Cup in 1950, and then won a record-breaking seventh championship in 1952–53. however, the war had taken its bell on Arsenal. The club had had more players killed than any top flight cabaret, [ 51 ] and debt from reconstructing the North Bank Stand bled Arsenal ‘s resources. [ 35 ]

1953–1986 : second-rater, Mee and Neill

Arsenal were not to win the League or the FA Cup for another 18 years. The ’53 Champions team was honest-to-god, and the club failed to attract impregnable enough replacements. [ 53 ] Although Arsenal were competitive during these years, their fortunes had waned ; the club spent most of the 1950s and 1960s in midleague averageness. even early England captain Billy Wright could not bring the club any success as director, in a stint between 1962 and 1966. [ 55 ]
Arsenal tentatively appointed club physical therapist Bertie Mee as acting coach in 1966. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] With raw assistant Don Howe and new players such as Bob McNab and George Graham, Mee led Arsenal to their first League Cup finals, in 1967–68 and 1968–69. future season saw a breakthrough : Arsenal ‘s first competitive european trophy, the 1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. And the season after, an evening greater gloat : Arsenal ‘s beginning League and FA Cup double, and a new champions of England commemorate. [ 58 ] This marked a premature high point of the decade ; the Double-winning side was soon broken up and the rest of the decade was characterised by a series of cheeseparing misses, starting with Arsenal eat up as FA Cup runners up in 1972, and First Division runner-up in 1972–73. [ 57 ] Former actor Terry Neill succeeded Mee in 1976. At the age of 34, he became the youngest arsenal coach to date. [ 59 ] With new signings like Malcolm Macdonald and Pat Jennings, and a snip of endowment in the side like Liam Brady and Frank Stapleton, the golf club reached a trio of FA Cup finals ( 1978, 1979 and 1980 ), and lost the 1980 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup Final on penalties. The club ‘s only trophy during this fourth dimension was the 1979 FA Cup, achieved with a last-minute 3–2 victory over Manchester United. The concluding is wide regarded as a authoritative. [ 60 ] [ 61 ]

1986–1996 : George Graham

One of Mee ‘s duplicate winners, George Graham, returned as coach in 1986, with Arsenal winning their first League Cup in 1987, Graham ‘s inaugural temper in charge. New signings Nigel Winterburn, Lee Dixon and Steve Bould had joined the club by 1988 to complete the “ celebrated back Four ”, led by homegrown player Tony Adams. [ 62 ] They immediately won the 1988 Football League Centenary, and followed it with the 1988–89 Football League title, snatched with a last-minute goal in the final game of the season against fellow title challengers Liverpool. [ 63 ] Graham ‘s Arsenal won another championship in 1990–91, losing merely one match, won the FA Cup and League Cup double in 1993, and the european Cup Winners ‘ Cup in 1994. Graham ‘s repute was tarnished when he was found to have taken kickbacks from agent Rune Hauge for signing sealed players, [ c ] and was dismissed in 1995. His permanent substitute, Bruce Rioch, lasted for merely one season, leaving the club after a dispute with the circuit board of directors. [ 66 ]

1996–2018 : The Wenger years

The club metamorphosed during the tenure of french director Arsène Wenger, who was appointed in 1996. Attacking football, [ 67 ] an overhaul of dietary and fitness practices, [ d ] and efficiency with money [ e ] have defined his reign. Accumulating key players from Wenger ‘s fatherland, such as Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry, Arsenal won a second League and Cup doubling in 1997–98 and a third in 2001–02. In accession, the club reached the final examination of the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup, were victorious in the 2003 and 2005 FA Cups, and won the Premier League in 2003–04 without losing a single pit, an accomplishment which earned the side the nickname “ The Invincibles “. [ 76 ] This latter feat came within a run of 49 league matches unbeaten from 7 May 2003 to 24 October 2004, a national read. [ 77 ]
After completing the only unbeaten Premier League season, a unique gold trophy was commissioned to Arsenal Arsenal finished in either first or irregular seat in the league in eight of Wenger ‘s first nine seasons at the club, although on no affair were they able to retain the entitle. [ 78 ] The club had never progressed beyond the quarter-finals of the Champions League until 2005–06 ; in that season they became the foremost club from London in the competition ‘s fifty-year history to reach the final, in which they were beaten 2–1 by Barcelona. [ 79 ] In July 2006, they moved into the Emirates Stadium, after 93 years at Highbury. [ 80 ] Arsenal reached the final examination of the 2007 and 2011 League Cups, losing 2–1 to Chelsea and Birmingham City respectively. The club had not gained a trophy since the 2005 FA Cup until, spearheaded by then club-record skill Mesut Özil, Arsenal beat Hull City in the 2014 FA Cup Final, coming back from a 2–0 deficit to win the match 3–2. [ 81 ] A year later, Arsenal completed another triumphant FA Cup crusade, [ 82 ] and became the most successful club in the tournament ‘s history by winning their 13th FA Cup in 2016–17. however, in that same temper, Arsenal finished in the fifth stead in the league, the first time they had finished outside the top four since ahead Wenger arrived in 1996. [ 83 ] After another unspectacular league season the keep up year, Wenger departed Arsenal on 13 May 2018. [ 84 ]

Since 2018 : Post-Wenger earned run average

After conducting an overhaul in the club ‘s manoeuver exemplary to coincide with Wenger ‘s departure, Basque-Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club ‘s new head coach on 23 May 2018. He would become the club ‘s first base ever ‘head coach ‘, while besides their second ever director from outside the United Kingdom. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] In Emery ‘s first season, Arsenal finished one-fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League. [ 87 ] [ 88 ] On 29 November 2019, Emery was sacked and former player and assistant first team bus Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head-coach. [ 89 ] [ 90 ] [ 91 ] On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed erstwhile midfielder and golf club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] Arsenal finished the league season in one-eighth, their lowest eat up since 1994–95, but beat Chelsea 2–1 to earn a record-extending 14th FA Cup title. [ 94 ] After the season, Arteta ‘s style was changed from head coach to director. [ 95 ] On 18 April 2021, Arsenal were announced as a establish club of the breakaway european rival The Super League ; [ 96 ] they withdrew from the competition two days late amid near-universal condemnation. [ 97 ] Arsenal finished the season in eighth set once again, not qualifying for a european rival for the first time in 26 years. [ 98 ]

crest

  • The first badge adopted by Royal Arsenal F.C .
  • Arsenal ‘s first base cap from 1888
  • The ‘monogram ‘ badge as used in the 1930 FA Cup Final
  • The ‘Art Deco ‘ badge
  • The Cannon featured on the shirt from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s
  • Arsenal F.C. crest from 1949 to 2002
  • Arsenal F.C. crest from 2003 to present
  • Arsenal F.C. 125th anniversary crest, created for the 2011/12 season

Unveiled in 1888, Royal Arsenal ‘s first crest featured three cannons viewed from above, pointing northwards, similar to the coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich ( present transferred to the coat of arms of the Royal Borough of Greenwich ). These can sometimes be mistaken for chimneys, but the bearing of a carved leo ‘s head and a sleigh bell on each are acquit indicators that they are cannons. [ 99 ] This was dropped after the go to Highbury in 1913, only to be reinstated in 1922, when the club adopted a crest featuring a single cannon, pointing eastwards, with the club ‘s nickname, The Gunners, inscribed alongside it ; this crest merely lasted until 1925, when the cannon was reversed to point west and its barrel slimmed polish. [ 99 ] In 1949, the club unveiled a modernize peak featuring the same stylus of cannon below the club ‘s name, set in blackletter typography, and above the coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington and a scroll inscribed with the club ‘s newly adopted Latin motto, Victoria Concordia Crescit – “ victory comes from harmony ” – coined by the club ‘s program editor Harry Homer. [ 99 ] For the foremost time, the peak was rendered in color, which varied slenderly over the cap ‘s life, finally becoming red, gold and park. Because of the numerous revisions of the crest, Arsenal were unable to copyright it. Although the club had managed to register the peak as a brand, and had fought ( and finally won ) a long legal battle with a local anesthetic street trader who sold “ unofficial ” Arsenal merchandise, [ 100 ] Arsenal finally sought a more comprehensive legal protection. Therefore, in 2002 they introduced a newfangled peak featuring more modern curved lines and a simplify dash, which was copyrightable. [ 101 ] The cannon once again faces east and the club ‘s name is written in a sans-serif font above the cannon. Green was replaced by darkness aristocratic. The new crest was criticised by some supporters ; the Arsenal Independent Supporters ‘ Association claimed that the golf club had ignored much of Arsenal ‘s history and custom with such a extremist modern purpose, and that fans had not been properly consulted on the consequence. [ 102 ] Until the 1960s, a badge was worn on the play shirt entirely for high-profile matches such as FA Cup finals, normally in the form of a monogram of the clubhouse ‘s initials in red on a white background. [ 103 ] The monogram subject was developed into an Art Deco -style badge on which the letters A and C framed a football rather than the letter F, the whole set within a hexangular border. This early case of a corporate logo, introduced as part of Herbert Chapman ‘s rebranding of the club in the 1930s, was used not alone on Cup Final shirts but as a design feature of speech throughout Highbury Stadium, including above the main entrance and inlaid in the floors. [ 104 ] From 1967, a white cannon was regularly worn on the shirts, until replaced by the golf club crown, sometimes with the addition of the dub “ The Gunners ”, in the 1990s. [ 103 ] In the 2011–12 season, Arsenal celebrated their hundred-and-twenty-fifth anniversary. The celebrations included a change translation of the stream crown wear on their jersey for the season. The crest was all ashen, surrounded by 15 oak leaves to the right and 15 laurel leaves to the bequeath. The oak leaves represent the 15 founding members of the baseball club who met at the Royal Oak public house. The 15 laurel leaves represent the design detail on the six penny pieces paid by the founding fathers to establish the clubhouse. The laurel leaves besides represent intensity. To complete the crest, 1886 and 2011 are shown on either sides of the motto “ Forward ” at the bottom of the crest. [ 105 ]

Colours



White sleeves foremost appeared on the shirt in 1933 .
Dark red shirt, white shorts, socks with blue and white stripes

Arsenal ‘s original home discolor. The team wore a alike kit ( but with redcurrant socks ) during the 2005–06 temper .Yellow shirt, blue shorts, socks blue
jaundiced shirt with blue trim and amobarbital sodium shorts are Arsenal ‘s traditional aside colours .Two tone blue kit

Since the 1990s, blue has been prominently used for either the away or third base kit. For a lot of Arsenal ‘s history, their home plate colours have been bright crimson shirts with white sleeves and white shorts, though this has not always been the casing. The choice of red is in recognition of a charitable contribution from Nottingham Forest, soon after Arsenal ‘s basis in 1886. Two of Dial Square ‘s founding members, Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates, were former Forest players who had moved to Woolwich for solve. As they put together the beginning team in the area, no kit out could be found, so Beardsley and Bates wrote dwelling for help oneself and received a set of kit and a ball. The shirt was redcurrant, a night shade of red, and was worn with white shorts and socks with blue and white hoops. [ 107 ] [ 108 ] In 1933, Herbert Chapman, wanting his players to be more distinctly dressed, updated the kit, adding white sleeves and changing the shade to a undimmed pillar box crimson. Two possibilities have been suggested for the lineage of the white sleeves. One report reports that Chapman noticed a assistant in the stands wearing a red bootless sweater over a white shirt ; another was that he was inspired by a similar outfit wear by the cartoonist Tom Webster, with whom Chapman played golf. [ 109 ] Regardless of which story is truthful, the loss and white shirts have come to define Arsenal and the team have worn the combination ever since, aside from two seasons. The foremost was 1966–67, when Arsenal wore all-red shirts ; [ 108 ] this proved unpopular and the white sleeves returned the follow season. The second was 2005–06, the end temper that Arsenal played at Highbury, when the team wore commemorative redcurrant shirts similar to those worn in 1913, their beginning season in the stadium ; the club reverted to their normal colours at the begin of the next season. [ 109 ] In the 2008–09 temper, Arsenal replaced the traditional all-white sleeves with loss sleeves with a broad white stripe. [ 108 ] Arsenal ‘s base colours have been the inspiration for at least three early clubs. In 1909, Sparta Prague adopted a dark red kit like the one Arsenal wear at the clock time ; [ 109 ] in 1938, Hibernian adopted the design of the Arsenal shirt sleeves in their own green and white leach. [ 110 ] In 1941, Luis Robledo, an England-schooled founder of Santa Fe and a fan of Arsenal, selected the main colors for his newly created team. In 1920, Sporting Clube de Braga ‘s coach returned from a game at Highbury and changed his team ‘s green kit out to a duplicate of Arsenal ‘s red with white sleeves and shorts, giving lift to the team ‘s nickname of Os Arsenalistas. [ 111 ] These teams still wear those designs to this day. For many years Arsenal ‘s away colours were white or united states navy aristocratic. however, in 1968 the FA banned navy shirts ( they looked excessively exchangeable to referees ‘ total darkness kit ) so in the 1969–70 season, Arsenal introduced an away kit of scandalmongering shirts with blue shorts. This kit out was worn in the 1971 FA Cup Final as Arsenal beat Liverpool to secure the double for the first base time in their history. The yellow and blue leach became about arsenic celebrated as their iconic bolshevik and white family kit. [ 112 ] [ 113 ] Arsenal reached the FA Cup final again the take after year wearing the bolshevik and white home clean and were beaten by Leeds United. Arsenal then competed in three straight FA Cup finals between 1978 and 1980 wearing their “ lucky ” yellow and blue denude, [ 112 ] which remained the club ‘s away strip until the release of a green and united states navy away kit in 1982–83. The pursuit season, Arsenal returned to the yellow and blue schema, albeit with a dark shade of aristocratic than ahead. When Nike took over from Adidas as Arsenal ‘s kit out provider in 1994, Arsenal ‘s away colours were again changed to two-tone blue shirts and shorts. Since the advent of the lucrative replica kit out market, the aside kits have been changed regularly, with Arsenal normally releasing both away and third gear choice kits. During this period the designs have been either all amobarbital sodium designs, or variations on the traditional yellow and gloomy, such as the metallic aureate and dark blue airstrip used in the 2001–02 season, the chicken and dark grey used from 2005 to 2007, and the yellow and maroon of 2010 to 2013. [ 114 ] Until 2014, the away kit out was changed every season, and the outgoing away kit became the third-choice kit if a new home kit was being introduced in the same year. [ 115 ] Since Puma began manufacturing Arsenal ‘s kits in 2014, new home, away and third base kits were released every single season. In the 2017–18 season, Puma released a newfangled color schema for the off and third base kits. The off kit was a light aristocratic, which fades to a blue blue near the bottom, while the third base kit out was black with bolshevik foreground. Puma returned to the original color scheme for the 2018–19 season. [ 116 ] From the 2019–20 season Arsenal ‘s kits are manufactured by Adidas. [ 117 ] In the 2020–21 season, Adidas unveiled the new off kit to mark the 15-year anniversary since leaving Highbury. The newfangled off kit out is white, with a marbled practice all across to replicate the iconic marble manor hall in the East stand of Highbury. [ 118 ]

Stadiums

Before joining the Football League, Arsenal played briefly on Plumstead Common, then at the Manor Ground in Plumstead, then spent three years between 1890 and 1893 at the nearby Invicta Ground. Upon joining the Football League in 1893, the club returned to the Manor Ground and installed stands and terrace, upgrading it from just a field. Arsenal continued to play their home games there for the following twenty years ( with two exceptions in the 1894–95 season ), until the move to north London in 1913. [ 122 ] [ 123 ] widely referred to as Highbury, Arsenal Stadium was the golf club ‘s family from September 1913 until May 2006. The original stadium was designed by the celebrated football architect Archibald Leitch, and had a invention common to many football grounds in the UK at the time, with a single report stand and three alfresco banks of terracing. [ 35 ] The entire stadium was given a massive overhaul in the 1930s : new Art Deco West and East stands were constructed, opening in 1932 and 1936 respectively, and a roof was added to the North Bank patio, which was bombed during the second gear World War and not restored until 1954. [ 35 ] Highbury could hold more than 60,000 spectators at its vertex, and had a capacity of 57,000 until the early 1990s. The Taylor Report and Premier League regulations obliged Arsenal to convert Highbury to an all-seater stadium in time for the 1993–94 season, frankincense reducing the capability to 38,419 seat spectators. [ 124 ] This capacitance had to be reduced further during Champions League matches to accommodate extra advertise boards, so a lot so that for two seasons, from 1998 to 2000, Arsenal played Champions League home matches at Wembley, which could house more than 70,000 spectators. [ 125 ]
expansion of Highbury was restricted because the East Stand had been designated as a Grade II listed build and the other three stands were close to residential properties. [ 35 ] These limitations prevented the club from maximising matchday tax income during the 1990s and first decade of the twenty-first hundred, putting them in danger of being left behind in the football boom of that time. [ 126 ] After considering assorted options, in 2000 Arsenal proposed building a new 60,361-capacity stadium at Ashburton Grove, since named the Emirates Stadium, about 500 metres southwest of Highbury. [ 127 ] The project was initially delayed by crimson videotape and heighten costs, [ 128 ] and construction was completed in July 2006, in time for the startle of the 2006–07 season. [ 129 ] The stadium was named after its sponsors, the airline party Emirates, with whom the baseball club signed the largest sponsorship deal in English football history, worth around £100 million. [ 130 ] Some fans referred to the ground as Ashburton Grove, or the Grove, as they did not agree with corporate sponsorship of stadium names. [ 131 ] The stadium will be officially known as Emirates Stadium until at least 2028, and the airline will be the baseball club ‘s shirt presenter until at least 2024. [ 132 ] [ 133 ] From the start of the 2010–11 season on, the stands of the stadium have been officially known as North Bank, East Stand, West Stand and Clock end. [ 134 ] Arsenal ‘s players train at the Shenley Training Centre in Hertfordshire, a purpose-built adeptness which opened in 1999. [ 135 ] Before that the club used facilities on a nearby site owned by the University College of London Students ‘ Union. Until 1961 they had trained at Highbury. [ 136 ] Arsenal ‘s Academy under-18 teams play their dwelling matches at Shenley, while the reserves play their games at Meadow Park, [ 137 ] which is besides the home of Boreham Wood F.C. Both the Academy under-18 & the reserves occasionally play their big games at the Emirates in front man of a crowd reduced to only the lower west stand. [ 138 ] [ 139 ]

Supporters and rivalries

Arsenal ‘s fanbase are referred to as “ Gooners ” – the list derived from the club ‘s nickname “ The Gunners ”. Virtually all base matches sell out ; in 2007–08 Arsenal had the second-highest average League attendance for an english club ( 60,070, which was 99.5 % of available capacitance ), [ 140 ] and, as of 2015, the third-highest all-time modal attendance. [ 141 ] Arsenal have the seventh highest modal attendance of european football clubs alone behind Borussia Dortmund, FC Barcelona, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Schalke. [ 142 ] [ 143 ] [ 144 ] [ 145 ] The club ‘s location, adjoining affluent areas such as Canonbury and Barnsbury, mix areas such as Islington, Holloway, Highbury, and the adjacent London Borough of Camden, and largely propertyless areas such as Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington, has meant that Arsenal ‘s supporters have come from a variety of sociable classes. much of the Afro-Caribbean back comes from the neighbouring London Borough of Hackney and a big helping of the South asian Arsenal supporters commute to the stadium from Wembley Park, North West of the capital. There was besides traditionally a large Irish residential district that followed Arsenal, with the nearby Archway sphere having a particularly large residential district, but irish migration to North London is a lot lower than in the 1960s or 1970s .
arsenal supporters Like all major English football clubs, Arsenal have a number of domestic supporters ‘ clubs, including the Arsenal Football Supporters ‘ Club, which works close with the club, and the Arsenal Independent Supporters ‘ Association, which maintains a more independent line. The armory Supporters ‘ Trust promotes greater engagement in ownership of the baseball club by fans. The club ‘s supporters besides print fanzines such as The Gooner, Gunflash and the satirical Up The Arse!. In summation to the common English football chants, supporters sing “ One-Nil to the Arsenal ” ( to the tune of “ Go West “ ). There have always been Arsenal supporters outside London, and since the advent of satellite television receiver, a patron ‘s fastening to a football club has become less dependant on geography. consequently, Arsenal have a significant number of fans from beyond London and all over the world ; in 2007, 24 UK, 37 Irish and 49 other oversea supporters clubs were affiliated with the club. [ 146 ] A 2011 composition by SPORT+MARKT estimated Arsenal ‘s ball-shaped fanbase at 113 million. [ 147 ] The golf club ‘s sociable media action was the fifth highest in global football during the 2014–15 season .

Rivalries

Arsenal ‘s longest-running and deep competition is with their nearest major neighbours, Tottenham Hotspur ; matches between the two are referred to as North London derbies. [ 149 ] early rivalries within London include those with Chelsea, Fulham and West Ham United. In summation, Arsenal and Manchester United developed a impregnable on-pitch competition in the recently 1980s, which intensified in recent years when both clubs were competing for the Premier League entitle [ 150 ] – sol much so that a 2003 on-line poll by the Football Fans Census listed Manchester United as Arsenal ‘s biggest rivals, followed by Tottenham and Chelsea. [ 151 ] A 2008 poll listed the Tottenham competition as more significant. [ 152 ]

mascot

The club mascot is Gunnersaurus Rex, a beamish, 7-foot-tall green dinosaur, who first base appeared at a home match against Manchester City in August 1994 ( or 1993 ). He is based on a drawing by then 11-year-old Peter Lovell, whose design and another similar estimate won a junior Gunners contest ; his official second story is that he hatched from an egg found during renovations at Highbury. [ 153 ] [ 154 ] [ 155 ] [ 156 ] [ 157 ] Gunnersaurus attends both men ‘s and women ‘s home plate games in addition to residential district activities. The lapp person, Jerry Quy, has been inside the suit from the start ; in early October 2020, as part of cost-cutting bring about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the golf club made him redundant from that and his other half-time caper in patron affair, together with 55 full-time employees, although they subsequently said Gunnersaurus could return after spectators were allowed spinal column in stadiums. [ 157 ] [ 158 ] [ 159 ] An on-line fundraiser was begun for Quy, [ 159 ] and Mesut Özil offered to pay his wage himself deoxyadenosine monophosphate long as he remains with Arsenal. [ 160 ] [ 161 ] In November 2020, in progress of COVID-19 regulations being relaxed to allow supporters to attend home games from 3 December, Arsenal announced that Gunnersaurus would return, to be played by a roll of people that could include Quy if he wished. [ 162 ] [ 163 ]

ownership and finances

The largest stockholder on the Arsenal control panel is american english sports baron Stan Kroenke. [ 164 ] Kroenke first launched a bid for the club in April 2007, [ 165 ] and faced competition for shares from Red and White Securities, which acquired its inaugural shares from David Dein in August 2007. [ 166 ] Red & White Securities was co-owned by russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov and irani London-based financier Farhad Moshiri, though Usmanov bought Moshiri ‘s venture in 2016. [ 167 ] Kroenke came close to the 30 % takeover threshold in November 2009, when he increased his holding to 18,594 shares ( 29.9 % ). [ 168 ] [ 169 ] In April 2011, Kroenke achieved a full coup d’etat by purchasing the shareholdings of Nina Bracewell-Smith and Danny Fiszman, taking his shareholding to 62.89 %. [ 170 ] [ 171 ] In May 2017, Kroenke owned 41,721 shares ( 67.05 % ) and Red & White Securities owned 18,695 shares ( 30.04 % ). [ 164 ] In January 2018, Kroenke expanded his ownership by buying twenty-two more shares, taking his sum ownership to 67.09 %. [ 172 ] In August 2018, Kroenke bought out Usmanov for £550m. now owning more than 90 % of the shares, he had the want venture to complete the buyout of the remaining shares and become the lone owner. [ 173 ] There has been criticism of Arsenal ‘s inadequate performance since Kroenke took over, which has been attributed to his possession. [ 174 ] Ivan Gazidis was the club ‘s Chief executive from 2009 to 2018. [ 164 ] [ 175 ] Arsenal ‘s parent company, Arsenal Holdings plc, operates as a non-quoted public limited company, whose ownership is well different from that of other football clubs. alone 62,219 shares in Arsenal have been issued, [ 164 ] and they are not traded on a public substitution such as the FTSE or AIM ; rather, they are traded relatively infrequently on the ICAP Securities and Derivatives Exchange, a specialist market. On 29 May 2017, a unmarried share in Arsenal had a mid price of £18,000, which sets the club ‘s market capitalization value at approximately £1,119.9m. [ 176 ] Most football clubs are not listed on an substitution, which makes direct comparisons of their values difficult. Consultants Brand Finance valued the club ‘s brand and intangible assets at $ 703m in 2015, and consider Arsenal an AAA ball-shaped stigmatize. Business magazine Forbes valued Arsenal as a wholly at $ 2.238 billion ( £1.69 billion ) in 2018, ranked one-third in English football. [ 178 ] Research by the Henley Business School ranked arsenal second in English football, modelling the clubhouse ‘s value at £1.118 billion in 2015. [ 179 ] [ 180 ] Arsenal ‘s fiscal results for the 2019–20 temper showed an after tax passing of £47.8m, due in partially to the affect of the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 181 ] The Deloitte Football Money League is a publication that homogenises and compares clubs ‘ annual gross. Deloitte put Arsenal ‘s footballing gross in 2019 at £392.7m ( €445.6m ), [ 182 ] ranking Arsenal eleventh among universe football clubs. Arsenal and Deloitte both listed the equal day tax income generated in 2019 by the Emirates Stadium as €109.2m ( £96.2m ). [ 183 ]

In popular culture

Arsenal have appeared in a number of media “ firsts ”. On 22 January 1927, their match at Highbury against Sheffield United was the foremost English League equal to be broadcast know on radio. [ 184 ] [ 185 ] A ten late, on 16 September 1937, an exhibition match between Arsenal ‘s first team and the reserves was the first football catch in the world to be televised be. [ 184 ] [ 186 ] Arsenal besides featured in the first edition of the BBC ‘s Match of the Day, which screened highlights of their match against Liverpool at Anfield on 22 August 1964. [ 184 ] [ 187 ] Sky ‘s coverage of Arsenal ‘s January 2010 match against Manchester United was the first base live public air of a sports event on 3D television. [ 184 ] [ 188 ] As one of the most successful teams in the country, Arsenal have much featured when football is depicted in the arts in Britain. They formed the backdrop to one of the earliest football-related novels, The Arsenal Stadium Mystery ( 1939 ), which was made into a film in the same year. [ 189 ] The report centres on a friendly match between Arsenal and an amateur side, one of whose players is poisoned while playing. many Arsenal players appeared as themselves in the film and coach George Allison was given a speaking part. [ 190 ] The book Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby was an autobiographical history of Hornby ‘s animation and relationship with football and Arsenal in particular. Published in 1992, it formed depart of the revival and rehabilitation of football in british society during the 1990s. [ 191 ] The book was twice adapted for the film – the 1997 british film focuses on Arsenal ‘s 1988–89 deed winnings, and a 2005 american english version features a winnow of baseball ‘s Boston Red Sox. [ 192 ] Arsenal have often been stereotyped as a defensive and “ boring ” english, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s ; [ 193 ] [ 194 ] many comedians, such as Eric Morecambe, made jokes about this at the team ‘s expense. The theme was repeated in the 1997 film The Full Monty, in a scene where the head actors move in a line and raise their hands, intentionally mimicking the Arsenal defense ‘s offside bunker, in an try to co-ordinate their stripper act. [ 190 ] Fifteen years late an about identical picture was included in the 2012 Disney science-fiction film John Carter ( film director and co-writer Andrew Stanton, a celebrated oversea athletic supporter of the club ), along with other ocular cues and external oblique muscle dialogue hints and references to the club throughout the film. [ 195 ] Another film reference to the club ‘s defense comes in the film Plunkett & Macleane, in which two characters are named Dixon and Winterburn after Arsenal ‘s long-serving full backs – the right-sided Lee Dixon and the left-sided Nigel Winterburn. [ 190 ]

In the community

In 1985, Arsenal founded a community outline, “ Arsenal in the Community ”, which offered dissipated, social inclusion body, educational and charitable projects. The clubhouse support a act of charitable causes directly and in 1992 established The Arsenal Charitable Trust, which by 2006 had raised more than £2 million for local anesthetic causes. [ 196 ] An ex-professional and fame football team associated with the club besides raised money by playing charity matches. [ 197 ] The club launched the Arsenal for Everyone first step in 2008 as an annual celebration of the diversity of the Arsenal kin. [ 198 ] In the 2009–10 season Arsenal announced that they had raised a record bankrupt £818,897 for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children ‘s Charity. The original target was £500,000. [ 199 ] Save the Children has been Arsenal global charity partner since 2011 and have worked together in numerous projects to improve base hit and wellbeing for vulnerable children in London and abroad. On 3 September 2016 The Arsenal Foundation has donated £1m to build football pitches for children in London, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan and Somalia thanks to The Arsenal Foundation Legends Match against Milan Glorie at the Emirates Stadium. [ 200 ] On 3 June 2018, Arsenal played Real Madrid in the Corazon Classic Match 2018 at the Bernabeu, where the proceeds went to Realtoo Real Madrid Foundation projects that are aimed at the most vulnerable children. In addition there will be a come back meet on 8 September 2018 at the Emirates stadium where proceeds will go towards the Arsenal initiation. [ 201 ]

Statistics and records

Arsenal ‘s count of 13 League Championships is the third base highest in English football, after Manchester United ( 20 ) and Liverpool ( 19 ), [ 202 ] and they were the first club to reach a seventh and an eighth League Championship. As of June 2020, they are one of seven teams, the others being Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Manchester City, Leicester City and Liverpool, to have won the Premier League since its formation in 1992. [ 203 ] They hold the highest count of FA Cup trophies, with 14. [ 204 ] The cabaret is one of only six clubs to have won the FA Cup doubly in succession, in 2002 and 2003, and 2014 and 2015. [ 205 ] Arsenal have achieved three League and FA Cup “ Doubles “ ( in 1971, 1998 and 2002 ), a feat only previously achieved by Manchester United ( in 1994, 1996 and 1999 ). [ 78 ] [ 206 ] They were the foremost side in English football to complete the FA Cup and League Cup double, in 1993. [ 207 ] Arsenal were besides the first London clubhouse to reach the final of the UEFA Champions League, in 2006, losing the final 2–1 to Barcelona. [ 208 ] Arsenal have one of the best top-flight records in history, having finished below fourteenth alone seven times. They have won the second most top flight league matches in English football, and have besides accumulated the irregular most points, [ 7 ] whether calculated by two points per succeed [ 7 ] or by the contemporary points rate. [ 209 ] They have been in the top flight for the most consecutive seasons ( 95 as of 2020–21 ). [ 6 ] [ 210 ] [ 211 ] Arsenal besides have the highest average league finish position for the twentieth century, with an median league placement of 8.5. [ 8 ] Arsenal hold the record for the longest hunt of unbeaten League matches ( 49 between May 2003 and October 2004 ). [ 77 ] This included all 38 matches of their title-winning 2003–04 season, when Arsenal became only the second clubhouse to finish a top-flight political campaign unbeaten, after Preston North End ( who played lone 22 matches ) in 1888–89. [ 76 ] [ 13 ] They besides hold the criminal record for the longest peak escape succeed streak. [ 212 ] Arsenal set a Champions League record during the 2005–06 season by going ten matches without conceding a goal, beating the former best of seven typeset by A.C. Milan. They went a read full stretch of 995 minutes without letting an opponent score ; the streak ended in the final examination, when Samuel Eto’o scored a 76th-minute counterweight for Barcelona. [ 79 ] David O’Leary holds the record for Arsenal appearances, having played 722 first-team matches between 1975 and 1993. Fellow centre half and former captain Tony Adams comes second, having played 669 times. The record for a goalkeeper is held by David Seaman, with 564 appearances. [ 213 ] Thierry Henry is the club ‘s circus tent goalscorer with 228 goals in all competitions between 1999 and 2012, [ 214 ] having surpassed Ian Wright ‘s total of 185 in October 2005. [ 215 ] Wright ‘s record had stood since September 1997, when he overtook the longstanding total of 178 goals set by winger Cliff Bastin in 1939. [ 216 ] Henry besides holds the cabaret record for goals scored in the League, with 175, [ 214 ] a record that had been held by Bastin until February 2006. [ 217 ] Arsenal ‘s record home attendance is 73,707, for a UEFA Champions League match against RC Lens on 25 November 1998 at Wembley Stadium, where the baseball club once played home european matches because of the limits on Highbury ‘s capacity. The record attendance for an Arsenal match at Highbury is 73,295, for a 0–0 draw against Sunderland on 9 March 1935, [ 213 ] while that at Emirates Stadium is 60,161, for a 2–2 draw with Manchester United on 3 November 2007. [ 218 ]

Players

First-team team

As of 31 August 2021[219]

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Under-23s

As of 26 July 2021[220]
Players to have featured in a first-team matchday squad for Arsenal.

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baseball club captains

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Managers

The club ‘s current director is Mikel Arteta. The club ‘s former coach was Unai Emery, who was appointed in May 2018 and left the cabaret in November 2019. [ 221 ] There have been nineteen permanent wave managers and six caretakers of Arsenal since the appointment of the baseball club ‘s inaugural professional coach, Thomas Mitchell in 1897. [ 222 ] The golf club ‘s longest-serving coach, in terms of both duration of tenure and number of games oversee, is Arsène Wenger, who managed the club between 1996 and 2018. [ 223 ] Two armory managers have died in the job – Herbert Chapman and Tom Whittaker. [ 224 ]

Coaching staff

Updated 26 July 2021.[225]

corporate hierarchy

Updated 15 August 2020.[234][235]

Honours

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Arsenal ‘s first always silverware was won as the Royal Arsenal in 1890. The Kent Junior Cup, won by Royal Arsenal ‘s reserves, was the club ‘s first trophy, while the first team ‘s first trophy came three weeks by and by when they won the Kent Senior Cup. [ 240 ] [ 241 ] Their first national elder award came in 1930, when they won the FA Cup. [ 242 ] The golf club enjoyed further achiever in the 1930s, winning another FA Cup and five Football League First Division titles. [ 243 ] [ 244 ] Arsenal won their first league and cup bivalent in the 1970–71 season and twice repeated the feat, in 1997–98 and 2001–02, ampere well as winning a cup bivalent of the FA Cup and League Cup in 1992–93. [ 245 ] Seasons in bold are seasons when the club won a Double of the league and FA Cup, or of the FA Cup and League Cup. The 2003–04 season was the only 38-match league season unbeaten in English football history. A special aureate version of the Premier League trophy was commissioned and presented to the baseball club the pursue season. [ 246 ] As of 29 August 2020. [ f ]

EFL and Premier League

Winners (1) (record): 1988

The FA

  • FA Community Shield (FA Charity Shield before 2002)
Winners (16): 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1991 (shared), 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020

UEFA

  • UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup (European Cup Winners’ Cup before 1994)

County FAs

When the FA Cup was the only national football association rival available to Arsenal, the other football association competitions were County Cups, and they made up many of the matches the club played during a temper. [ 241 ] Arsenal ‘s first first-team trophy was a County Cup, the inaugural Kent Senior Cup. [ 22 ] Arsenal became ineligible for the London Cups when the clubhouse turned professional in 1891, and rarely participated in County Cups after this. [ 24 ] [ 256 ] ascribable to the baseball club ‘s original placement within the borders of both the London and Kent Football Associations, [ 257 ] Arsenal competed in and won trophies organised by each. [ 22 ] [ 256 ]

other

During Arsenal ‘s history, the cabaret has participated in and won a kind of pre-season and friendly honours. These include Arsenal ‘s own pre-season rival the Emirates Cup, begun in 2007. [ 258 ] During the wars, former competitions were widely suspended and the cabaret had to participate in wartime competitions. During WWII, Arsenal won several of these .

UEFA cabaret coefficient ranking

In european football, the UEFA coefficients are statistics used for ranking and seeding teams in baseball club and international competitions. Club coefficients are used to rank individual clubs for seeding in the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and since 2021, the UEFA Europa Conference League .

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armory Women

arsenal Women is the women ‘s football club affiliated to Arsenal. Founded as Arsenal Ladies F.C. in 1987 by Vic Akers, they turned semi-professional in 2002 and are presently managed by Jonas Eidevall. Akers presently holds the function of Honorary President of Arsenal Women. [ 260 ] [ 261 ] As separate of the festivities surrounding their thirtieth anniversary in 2017, the baseball club announced that they were changing their conventional appoint to Arsenal Women F.C., and would use “ Arsenal ” in all references except rare cases where there might be confusion with the men ‘s side. [ 262 ] arsenal Women are the most successful team in English women ‘s football having won a full of 58 trophies. [ 263 ] In the 2008–09 season, they won all three major english trophies – the FA Women ‘s Premier League, FA Women ‘s Cup and FA Women ‘s Premier League Cup, [ 264 ] and, as of 2017, were the only english slope to have won the UEFA Women ‘s Cup or UEFA Women ‘s Champions League, having won the Cup in the 2006–07 season as function of a singular quadruple. [ 265 ] The men ‘s and women ‘s clubs are formally divide entities but have quite close ties ; Arsenal Women are entitled to play once a season at the Emirates Stadium, though they normally play their home matches at Meadow Park in Borehamwood. [ 266 ]

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