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Arsenal F.C.

January 01, 1970

This article is about the men's football club based in England. For the women's team, see Arsenal W.F.C. For other uses, see Arsenal (disambiguation).

The Arsenal Football Club (commonly known as simply Arsenal) is an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. Arsenal compete in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. In domestic football, Arsenal has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 17 FA Community Shields, and a Football League Centenary Trophy. In European football, they have one European Cup Winners' Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football.[2]

Arsenal
Full nameThe Arsenal Football Club[1]
Nickname(s)The Gunners
FoundedOctober 1886; 137 years ago (1886-10), as Dial Square
GroundEmirates Stadium
Capacity60,704
OwnerKroenke Sports & Entertainment
Co-chairmenStan and Josh Kroenke
ManagerMikel Arteta
LeaguePremier League
2022–23Premier League, 2nd of 20
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Arsenal was the first club from southern England to join the Football League in 1893, and it reached the First Division in 1904. Relegated only once, in 1913, it continues the longest streak in the top division,[3] and has won the second-most top-flight matches in English football history.[4] 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, it won its first 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 20th century with the highest average league position.[5] Between 1998 and 2017, Arsenal qualified for the UEFA Champions League for an English football record nineteen consecutive seasons.[6] The streak ended after a 38-game season in 2017, when Arsenal finished in fifth place, one point away from the fourth spot occupied by Liverpool.[6]

In 1886, munitions workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich founded the club as Dial Square. In 1913, the club crossed the city to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury, becoming close neighbours of Tottenham Hotspur, and creating the North London derby. Herbert Chapman won the club its first silverware, and his legacy enabled a trophy-laden period in the 1930s. He helped introduce the WM formation, floodlights, and shirt numbers;[7] he also added the white sleeves and brighter red to the club's jersey.[8] Arsène Wenger is the club's longest-serving manager and has won the most trophies. He won a record seven FA Cups, and his title-winning team set an English record for the longest top-flight unbeaten league run at 49 games between 2003 and 2004, receiving the nickname The Invincibles.

In 2006, the club moved to the nearby Emirates Stadium. With an annual revenue of £367.1m in the 2021–22 season,[9] Arsenal was estimated to be worth US$2.26 billion by Forbes, making it the world's tenth-most valuable football club,[10] while it is one of the most followed on social media.[11] The motto of the club is Victoria Concordia Crescit, Latin for "Victory Through Harmony.".

History

Further information: History of Arsenal F.C. (1886–1966), History of Arsenal F.C. (1966–present), and Arsenal Football Club Museum

1886–1912: from Dial Square to Arsenal

 
Royal Arsenal squad in 1888. Original captain David Danskin sits on the right of the bench.

In October 1886, Scotsman David Danskin and fifteen fellow 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 also added three shillings to help form the club.[12][note 1] Dial Square played their first match on 11 December 1886 against the Eastern Wanderers and won 6–0.[16] The club had been renamed Royal Arsenal by January 1887,[15][17] and its first home was Plumstead Common,[15] though they spent most of their time playing at the Manor Ground. Their first 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.[18][19] In 1891, Royal Arsenal became the first London club to turn professional.[20]

Royal Arsenal was renamed for the second time upon becoming a limited liability company in 1893. They registered their new name, Woolwich Arsenal, with the Football League when the club ascended later that year.[21][22]: 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 financial 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.[23][22]: 112–149  Businessmen Henry Norris and William Hall became involved in the club, and sought to move them elsewhere.[24][22]: 22–42 

1912–1925: Bank of England club

In 1913, soon after relegation back to the Second Division, the club moved across the river to the new Arsenal Stadium in Highbury.[25][26][27] In 1919, the Football League controversially voted to promote The Arsenal, instead of relegated local 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. Later that year, The Arsenal started dropping "The" in official documents, gradually shifting its name for the final time towards Arsenal, as it is generally known today.[28]

 
A bronze bust of Herbert Chapman stands inside the Emirates Stadium.

With a new home and First Division football, attendances were more than double those at the Manor Ground, and Arsenal's budget grew rapidly.[29][30] With record-breaking spending and gate receipts, Arsenal quickly became known as the Bank of England club.[31][32]

1925–1934: Herbert Chapman's legendary Gunners

Arsenal's location and record-breaking salary offer lured star Huddersfield Town manager Herbert Chapman in 1925.[33][34] Over the next five years, Chapman built a revolutionary new Arsenal. Firstly, he appointed an enduring new trainer, Tom Whittaker who would one day rise to become a fabled Arsenal manager himself.[35] With the help of player Charlie Buchan, implemented the nascent WM formation which would serve as a stable bedrock to his outfit.[36][37] He also captured generational young talents such as Cliff Bastin and Eddie Hapgood, whilst also lavishing Highbury's high income on stars such as David Jack and Alex James.

Transformed, Chapman's Arsenal claimed their first national trophy, the FA Cup in 1930, and League Championships followed in 1930–31 and 1932–33.[38] Chapman also presided over off-pitch changes: white sleeves and shirt numbers were added to the kit;[note 2] a Tube station was named after the club;[42][43] and the first of two opulent Art Deco stands was completed, with some of the first floodlights in English football.[30] Suddenly, in the middle of the 1933–34 season, Chapman died of pneumonia.[44]

1934–1947: Shaw, Allison & the Second World War

Chapman's death meant work was left to his colleagues Joe Shaw and George Allison, with both proving to be shrewd & consummate custodians of Chapman's excellent Arsenal team, seeing out a hat-trick of league wins with the 1933–34, 1934–35, and 1937–38 titles, and then furthermore winning the 1936 FA Cup.[45][46]

World War II meant the Football League was suspended for seven years. While Arsenal were paraded by the nation as a symbol of solidarity with war efforts, the war took a huge toll on the team as the club had had more players killed than any top flight club.[47] Furthermore, debt from reconstructing an ambitious North Bank Stand redevelopment greatly bled Arsenal's resources.[48][30]

1947–1962: Tom Whittaker's meteoric Gunners

Despite this period of turbulence & churn, Arsenal returned to win the league in the second post-war season of 1947–48. This was Tom Whittaker's first season as manager, and meant the club equalled the champions of England record.[49] Tom Whittaker, despite his disarming humble & modest disposition, was oft-referred to as the "brains" behind charismatic Chapman's legendary Arsenal side.[50][51] He gathered a successful & highly skilled Arsenal side in spite of greatly limited resources, with a fiery and expansive style that drove great fanfare at the time.[52]

They won a third FA Cup in 1950, and then won a record-breaking seventh championship in 1952–53 making Arsenal the most successful team in English history at the time.[53][54]

1962–1984: Billy Wright, Bertie Mee and Neill's cohorts

 
Alan Ball (left) and Bertie Mee (who led Arsenal to their first double in 1971), pictured in 1972

Arsenal were not to win the League or the FA Cup for another 18 years. The '53 Champions squad had aged, and the club failed to attract strong enough replacements.[55] Although Arsenal were competitive during these years, their fortunes had waned; the club spent most of the 1950s and 1960s in mid-table mediocrity.[56] Even former England captain Billy Wright could not bring the club any success as manager, in a stint between 1962 and 1966.[57]

Arsenal tentatively appointed club physiotherapist Bertie Mee as acting manager in 1966.[58][59] With new 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. Next season saw a breakthrough, with Arsenal's first competitive European trophy, the 1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. The season after, Arsenal achieved an even greater triumph with their first League and FA Cup double, and a new champions of England record.[60] 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 near misses, with Arsenal finishing as FA Cup runners up in 1972, and First Division runners-up in 1972–73.[59]

Former player Terry Neill succeeded Mee in 1976. At the age of 34, he became the youngest Arsenal manager to date.[61] With new signings like Malcolm Macdonald and Pat Jennings, and a crop of talent in the side like Liam Brady and Frank Stapleton, the club reached a trio of FA Cup finals (1978 FA Cup, 1979 FA Cup and 1980 FA Cup), and lost the 1980 European Cup Winners' Cup Final on penalties. The club's only trophy during this time was the 1979 FA Cup, achieved with a last-minute 3–2 victory over Manchester United, in a final is widely regarded as a classic.[62][63]

1984–1996: George Graham's Arsenal

 
Tony Adams statue outside the Emirates Stadium

One of Mee's double winners, George Graham, returned as manager in 1986, with Arsenal winning their first League Cup in 1987, Graham's first season in charge. New signings Nigel Winterburn, Lee Dixon and Steve Bould had joined the club by 1988 to complete the "famous Back Four", led by homegrown player Tony Adams.[64][note 3] Graham's credo of prioritising defensive excellence seemingly clashed with the club's traditional expansive motif and with the young player demographic at the club at the time; however, it quickly gained a cult following after initial successes.[65]

The side immediately won the 1988 Football League Centenary Trophy, 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.[66] Graham's Arsenal won another title in 1990–91, losing only one match, won the FA Cup and League Cup double in 1993, and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1994. Graham's reputation was tarnished when he was found to have taken kickbacks from agent Rune Hauge for signing certain players, and he was dismissed in 1995.[67][68] His replacement, Bruce Rioch, lasted for only one season, leaving the club after a dispute with the board of directors.[69]

1996–2018: Wenger years

 
After completing the only unbeaten Premier League season, a unique gold trophy was commissioned to Arsenal.

The club metamorphosed during the tenure of French manager Arsène Wenger, who was appointed in 1996. Attacking football,[70] an overhaul of dietary and fitness practices,[note 4] and efficiency with money[note 5] defined his reign. Accumulating key players from Wenger's homeland, such as Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry, Arsenal won a second League and Cup double in 1997–98 and a third in 2001–02. In addition, the club reached the final of the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup, were victorious in the 2003 and 2005 FA Cup finals, and won the Premier League in 2003–04 without losing a single match, an achievement which earned the side the nickname "The Invincibles".[79] This feat came within a run of 49 league matches unbeaten from 7 May 2003 to 24 October 2004, a national record.[80]

Arsenal finished in either first or second place in the league in eight of Wenger's first nine seasons at the club, although they never won the title in two consecutive seasons.[81] The club had never progressed beyond the quarter-finals of the Champions League until 2005–06; in that season, they became the first club from London to reach the final in the competition's fifty-year history, but were beaten 2–1 by Barcelona.[82] In July 2006, they moved into the Emirates Stadium, after 93 years at Highbury.[83] Arsenal reached the finals 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 club record acquisition 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.[84] A year later, Arsenal completed another victorious FA Cup campaign,[85] and became the most successful club in the tournament's history by winning their 13th FA Cup in 2016–17. However, in that same season Arsenal finished fifth in the league, the first time they had finished outside the top four since before Wenger arrived in 1996.[86] In his 21st and final season, Arsenal under Arsene Wenger finished sixth and won the community shield.[87][88] Wenger departed Arsenal following the end of the season on 13 May 2018.[89]

2018–2020: post-Wenger revolution

After conducting an overhaul in the club's operating model to coincide with Wenger's departure, Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club's new head coach on 23 May 2018. He became the club's first ever 'head coach' and second manager from outside the United Kingdom.[90][91] In Emery's first season, Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League.[92][93] On 29 November 2019, Emery was dismissed as manager and former player and assistant first team coach Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach.[94][95][96]

2020–: Arteta era

On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach.[97][98] Arsenal finished the league season in eighth, their lowest finish since 1994–95, but beat Chelsea 2–1 to earn a record-extending 14th FA Cup win.[99] After the season, Arteta's title was changed from head coach to manager.[100] On 18 April 2021, Arsenal were announced as a founding club of the breakaway European competition The Super League;[101] they withdrew from the competition two days later amid near-universal condemnation.[102] Arsenal finished the 2020–21 season in eighth place once again, not qualifying for a European competition for the first time in 26 years.[103] In the 2022–23 Premier League season, Arsenal returned to the Champions League by coming second to Manchester City. Arsenal led the league for most of the season, but suffered a series of losses at the end of the run, setting a record for most time spent on top of the table without actually winning the league.[104]

Crest

Crests of Arsenal F.C. prior to current current crest
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    Royal Arsenal's first crest, adopted in 1888, two years after the formation of the club
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    'Monogram' badge used in the 1930 FA Cup Final
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    'Art Deco' badge
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    Cannon featured on shirt from 1960s to 1990s
  •  
    VCC crest: used between 1949 and 2002
Alternative versions of the VCC crest
 
c. 1990–1993
 
c. 1994–1995
 
c. 1996–2001
 
2001–02 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 (nowadays transferred to the coat of arms of the Royal Borough of Greenwich). These can sometimes be mistaken for chimneys, but the presence of a carved lion's head and a cascabel on each are clear indicators that they are cannons.[105] This was dropped after the move 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 only lasted until 1925, when the cannon was reversed to point westward and its barrel slimmed down.[105]

In 1949, the club unveiled a modernised crest featuring the same style 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 (VCC) – "victory comes from harmony" – coined by the club's programme editor Harry Homer.[105][106] For the first time, the crest was rendered in colour, which varied slightly over the crest's lifespan, finally becoming red, gold and green. Because of the numerous revisions of the crest, Arsenal were unable to copyright it.[107] Although the club had managed to register the crest as a trademark, and had fought (and eventually won) a long legal battle with a local street trader who sold "unofficial" Arsenal merchandise,[108] Arsenal eventually sought a more comprehensive legal protection. Therefore, in 2002 they introduced a new crest featuring more modern curved lines and a simplified style, which was copyrightable.[109] The cannon once again faces east, and the club's name is written in a sans-serif typeface above the cannon. Green was replaced by dark blue. The new crest was criticised by some supporters; the Arsenal Independent Supporters' Association claimed that the club had ignored much of Arsenal's history and tradition with such a radical modern design, and that fans had not been properly consulted on the issue.[110] Until the 1960s, a badge was worn on the playing shirt only for high-profile matches such as FA Cup finals, usually in the form of a monogram of the club's initials in red on a white background.[111]

The monogram theme 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 hexagonal border. This early example of a corporate logo, introduced as part of Herbert Chapman's rebranding of the club in the 1930s, was used not only on Cup Final shirts but as a design feature throughout Highbury Stadium, including above the main entrance and inlaid in the floors.[112] From 1967, a white cannon was regularly worn on the shirts, until replaced by the club crest, sometimes with the addition of the nickname "The Gunners", in the 1990s.[111]

In the 2011–12 season, Arsenal celebrated their 125th anniversary. The celebrations included a modified version of the current crest worn on their jerseys for the season. The crest was all-white, surrounded by 15 oak leaves to the right and 15 laurel leaves to the left. The oak leaves represent the 15 founding members of the club who met at the Royal Oak pub. The 15 laurel leaves represent the design detail on the six pence pieces paid by the founding fathers to establish the club. The laurel leaves also represent strength. To complete the crest, 1886 and 2011 are shown on either sides of the motto "Forward" at the bottom of the crest.[113]

Colours

 
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Arsenal's original home colours. The team wore a similar kit (but with redcurrant socks) during the 2005–06 season.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
White sleeves first appeared on the shirt in 1933.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Yellow shirt with blue trim and blue shorts are Arsenal's traditional away colours.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Since the 1990s, Blue has been prominently used for either the away or third kit.

For much of Arsenal's history, their home colours have been bright red shirts with white sleeves and white shorts, though this has not always been the case. The choice of red is in recognition of a charitable donation from Nottingham Forest, soon after Arsenal's foundation in 1886. Two of Dial Square's founding members, Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates, were former Forest players who had moved to Woolwich for work. As they put together the first team in the area, no kit could be found, so Beardsley and Bates wrote home for help and received a set of kit and a ball.[114] The shirt was redcurrant, a dark shade of red, and was worn with white shorts and socks with blue and white hoops.[115][116]

In 1933, Herbert Chapman, wanting his players to be more distinctly dressed, updated the kit, adding white sleeves and changing the shade to a brighter pillar box red. Two possibilities have been suggested for the origin of the white sleeves. One story reports that Chapman noticed a supporter in the stands wearing a red sleeveless sweater over a white shirt; another was that he was inspired by a similar outfit worn by the cartoonist Tom Webster, with whom Chapman played golf.[117] Regardless of which story is true, the red-and-white shirts have come to define Arsenal, and the team have worn that combination ever since that time, aside from two seasons. The first was 1966–67, when Arsenal wore all-red shirts;[116] this proved unpopular, and the white sleeves returned the following season. The second was 2005–06, the last season that Arsenal played at Highbury, when the team wore commemorative redcurrant shirts similar to those worn in 1913, their first season in the stadium; the side reverted to their normal colours at the start of the next season.[117] In the 2008–09 season, Arsenal replaced the traditional all-white sleeves with red sleeves that bore a broad white stripe.[116]

Arsenal's home colours have been the inspiration for at least three other clubs. In 1909, Sparta Prague adopted a dark red kit like the one Arsenal wore at the time;[117] in 1938, Hibernian adopted the design of the Arsenal shirt sleeves in their own green-and-white strip.[118] In 1941, Luis Robledo, an England-schooled founder of Santa Fe and a fan of Arsenal, selected the main colours for his newly created team. In 1920, Sporting Clube de Braga's manager returned from a game at Highbury and changed his team's green kit to a duplicate of Arsenal's red-with-white-sleeves-and-shorts, giving rise to the team's nickname of Os Arsenalistas.[119] These teams still wear those designs to this day.

For many years Arsenal's away colours were white or navy blue. However, in 1968 the FA banned navy shirts (they looked too similar to referees' black kit), so in the 1969–70 season Arsenal introduced an away kit of yellow shirts with blue shorts. This kit was worn in the 1971 FA Cup Final when Arsenal beat Liverpool to secure the double for the first time in their history. The yellow and blue strip became almost as famous as their iconic red-and-white home kit.[120][121] Arsenal reached the FA Cup final again the following year wearing the red-and-white home strip and were beaten by Leeds United. Arsenal then competed in three consecutive FA Cup finals between 1978 and 1980 wearing their "lucky" yellow and blue strip,[120] which remained the club's away strip until the release of a green and navy away kit in 1982–83. The following season, Arsenal returned to the yellow and blue scheme, albeit with a darker shade of blue than before.

When Nike took over from Adidas as Arsenal's kit 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 market, the away kits have been changed regularly, with Arsenal usually releasing both away and third choice kits. During this period the designs have been either all blue designs, or variations on the traditional yellow and blue, such as the metallic gold and navy strip used in the 2001–02 season, the yellow and dark grey used from 2005 to 2007, and the yellow and maroon of 2010 to 2013.[122] Until 2014, the away kit 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.[123]

After Puma began manufacturing Arsenal's kits in 2014, new home, away and third kits were released every season. In the 2017–18 season, Puma released a new colour scheme for the away and third kits. The away kit was a light blue, which faded to a darker blue near the bottom, while the third kit was black with red highlight. Puma returned to the original colour scheme for the 2018–19 season.[124]

From the 2019–20 season Arsenal's kits are manufactured by Adidas.[125] In the 2020–21 season, Adidas unveiled the new away kit to mark the 15-year anniversary of leaving Highbury. The new away kit is white, with a marbled pattern to replicate the iconic marble hall in the East stand of Highbury.[126]

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Arsenal kits[127]
Period Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor (chest) Shirt sponsor (sleeve)
1886–1930 Unidentified None None
1930–1970 Bukta
1971–1981 Umbro
1981–1986 JVC
1986–1994 Adidas
1994–1999 Nike
1999–2002 Dreamcast
Sega
2002–2006 O2
2006–2014 Emirates[128]
2014–2018 Puma
2018–2019 Visit Rwanda[129]
2019–present Adidas[130]

Stadiums

 
Manor Ground, Woolwich Arsenal vs. Everton F.C.

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 terracing, upgrading it from just a field. Arsenal continued to play their home games there for the next twenty years (with two exceptions in the 1894–95 season), until the move to north London in 1913.[131][132]

Widely referred to as Highbury, Arsenal Stadium was the club's home from September 1913 until May 2006. The original stadium was designed by the renowned football architect Archibald Leitch, and had a design common to many football grounds in the UK at the time, with a single covered stand and three open-air banks of terracing.[30] 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 terrace, which was bombed during the Second World War and not restored until 1954.[30]

Highbury could hold more than 60,000 spectators at its peak, 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, thus reducing the capacity to 38,419 seated spectators.[133] This capacity had to be reduced further during Champions League matches to accommodate additional advertising boards, so much 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.[134]

 
The North Bank Stand, Arsenal Stadium, Highbury

Expansion of Highbury was restricted because the East Stand had been designated as a Grade II listed building and the other three stands were close to residential properties.[30] These limitations prevented the club from maximising matchday revenue during the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, putting them in danger of being left behind in the football boom of that time.[135] After considering various options, in 2000 Arsenal proposed building a new 60,361-capacity stadium at Ashburton Grove, since named the Emirates Stadium, about 500 metres south-west of Highbury.[136] The project was initially delayed by red tape and rising costs,[137] and construction was completed in July 2006, in time for the start of the 2006–07 season.[138] The stadium was named after its sponsors, the airline company Emirates, with whom the club signed the largest sponsorship deal in English football history, worth around £100 million.[139] Some fans referred to the ground as Ashburton Grove, or the Grove, as they did not agree with corporate sponsorship of stadium names.[140] The stadium will be officially known as Emirates Stadium until at least 2028, and the airline will be the club's shirt sponsor until at least 2024.[141][142] 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.[143] The capacity of the Emirates now stands at 60,704.[144]

Arsenal's players train at the Shenley Training Centre in Hertfordshire, a purpose-built facility which opened in 1999.[145] 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.[146] Arsenal's Academy under-18 teams play their home matches at Shenley, while the reserves play their games at Meadow Park,[147] which is also the home of Boreham Wood F.C. Both the Academy under-18 & the reserves occasionally play their big games at the Emirates in front of a crowd reduced to only the lower west stand.[148][149]

 
A panorama of the Emirates Stadium before a match

Supporters and rivalries

Further information: Arsenal F.C. supporters
 
Arsenal supporters

Arsenal's fanbase are referred to as "Gooners" – the name derived from the club's nickname "The Gunners". Virtually all home 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 capacity),[150] and, as of 2015, the third-highest all-time average attendance.[151] Arsenal have the seventh highest average attendance of European football clubs only behind Borussia Dortmund, Barcelona, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Schalke 04.[152][153][154][155] The club's location, adjoining wealthy areas such as Canonbury and Barnsbury, mixed areas such as Islington, Holloway, Highbury, and the adjacent London Borough of Camden, and largely working-class areas such as Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington, has meant that Arsenal's supporters have come from a variety of social classes. Much of the Afro-Caribbean support comes from the neighbouring London Borough of Hackney and a large portion of the South Asian Arsenal supporters commute to the stadium from Wembley Park, North West of the capital. There was also traditionally a large Irish community that followed Arsenal, with the surrounding Islington and particularly the nearby Archway area having a large community of residents with Irish heritage. But Irish migration to North London is recently much lower than in the 1960s or 1970s.

Like all major English football clubs, Arsenal have a number of domestic supporters' clubs, including the Arsenal Football Supporters' Club, which works closely with the club, and the Arsenal Independent Supporters' Association, which maintains a more independent line. The Arsenal Supporters' Trust promotes greater participation in ownership of the club by fans. The club's supporters also publish fanzines such as The Gooner, Gunflash and the satirical Up The Arse!

There have always been Arsenal supporters outside London, and since the advent of satellite television, a supporter's attachment to a football club has become less dependent 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 overseas supporters' clubs were affiliated with the club.[156] A 2011 report by SPORT+MARKT estimated Arsenal's global fanbase at 113 million.[157] The club's social media activity was the fifth highest in world football during the 2014–15 season.[158]

Anthem

The team's anthem is The Angel (North London Forever) by Louis Dunford.[159][160][161] The song is typically played at Arsenal home games before a match.

Other songs

In addition to the usual English football chants, Arsenal's supporters sing "One-Nil to the Arsenal" (to the tune of "Go West") and also regularly sing "Who's that team they call the Arsenal", "Good Old Arsenal" (to the tune of "Rule, Britannia!") and "We're the North Bank/Clock End Highbury". The fans also chant "Boring, Boring Arsenal" in self-deprecating reference to Arsenal's reputation during the 1970s and 1980s as an overly defensive, cautious team.[162]

Rivalries

Main articles: North London derby, Arsenal F.C.–Manchester United F.C. rivalry, Arsenal F.C.–Chelsea F.C. rivalry, and Arsenal F.C.–Manchester City F.C. rivalry
 
Arsenal playing against rivals Tottenham, in a game known as the North London derby, in November 2010

Arsenal's longest-running and deepest rivalry is with their nearest major neighbour, Tottenham Hotspur; matches between the two are referred to as the North London derby.[163] There also exists a rivalry between Arsenal and Chelsea. In addition, Arsenal and Manchester United developed a strong on-pitch rivalry in the late 1980s, which intensified in the early 2000s when both clubs were competing for the Premier League title. During the 2010s and now the 2020s, a competitive rivalry with Manchester City began during the Arteta era following a close title race in the 2022-23 Premier League season.[164][165][166]

Mascot

The club mascot is Gunnersaurus Rex, a smiling, 7-foot-tall green dinosaur, who first 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 idea won a Junior Gunners contest; his official backstory is that he hatched from an egg found during renovations at Highbury.[167][168][169][170][171][172]

The same person, Jerry Quy, has been inside the suit from the start; in early October 2020, as part of cost-cutting brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the club made him redundant from that and his other part-time job in supporter liaison, together with 55 full-time employees, although they later said Gunnersaurus could return after spectators were allowed back in stadiums.[171][173][174] An online fundraiser was begun for Quy,[174] and Mesut Özil offered to pay his salary himself as long as he remains with Arsenal.[175][176] In November 2020, in advance 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 roster of people that could include Quy if he wished.[177][178]

Ownership and finances

Further information: Ownership of Arsenal F.C. & W.F.C.

The largest shareholder on the Arsenal board is American sports tycoon Stan Kroenke.[179] Kroenke first launched a bid for the club in April 2007,[180] and faced competition for shares from Red and White Securities, which acquired its first shares from David Dein in August 2007.[181] Red & White Securities was co-owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov and London-based Iranian financier Farhad Moshiri, though Usmanov bought Moshiri's stake in 2016.[182] Kroenke came close to the 30% takeover threshold in November 2009, when he increased his holding to 18,594 shares (29.9%).[183][184] In April 2011, Kroenke achieved a full takeover by purchasing the shareholdings of Nina Bracewell-Smith and Danny Fiszman, taking his shareholding to 62.89%.[185][186] In May 2017, Kroenke owned 41,721 shares (67.05%) and Red & White Securities owned 18,695 shares (30.04%).[179] In January 2018, Kroenke expanded his ownership by buying twenty-two more shares, taking his total ownership to 67.09%.[187] In August 2018, Kroenke bought out Usmanov for £550m. Now owning more than 90% of the shares, he had the required stake to complete the buyout of the remaining shares and become the sole owner.[188] There has been criticism of Arsenal's poor performance since Kroenke took over, which has been attributed to his ownership.[189] Ivan Gazidis was the club's Chief executive from 2009 to 2018.[179][190]

Arsenal's parent company, Arsenal Holdings plc, operates as an unlisted public limited company, whose ownership is considerably different from that of other football clubs. Only 62,219 shares in Arsenal have been issued,[179] and they are not traded on a public exchange such as the FTSE or AIM; instead, they are traded relatively infrequently on the ICAP Securities and Derivatives Exchange, a specialist market. On 29 May 2017, a single share in Arsenal had a mid price of £18,000, which sets the club's market capitalisation value at approximately £1,119.9m.[191] Most football clubs are not listed on an exchange, 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 global brand.[192] Business magazine Forbes valued Arsenal as a whole at $2.238 billion (£1.69 billion) in 2018, ranked third in English football.[193] Research by the Henley Business School ranked Arsenal second in English football, modelling the club's value at £1.118 billion in 2015.[194][195]

Arsenal's financial results for the 2019–20 season showed an after tax loss of £47.8m, due in part to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.[196] The Deloitte Football Money League is a publication that homogenises and compares clubs' annual revenue. Deloitte put Arsenal's footballing revenue in 2019 at £392.7m (€445.6m),[197] ranking Arsenal eleventh among world football clubs.[158] Arsenal and Deloitte both listed the match day revenue generated in 2019 by the Emirates Stadium as €109.2m (£96.2m).[197]

In popular culture

Partly due to their proximity to the Alexandra Palace transmitter, Arsenal have appeared in a number of media "firsts". On 22 January 1927, their match at Highbury against Sheffield United was the first English League match to be broadcast live on radio.[198][199] A decade later, on 16 September 1937, an exhibition match between Arsenal's first team and the reserves was the first football match in the world to be televised live.[198][200] Arsenal also 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.[198][201] Sky's coverage of Arsenal's January 2010 match against Manchester United was the first live public broadcast of a sports event on 3D television.[198][202]

As one of the most successful teams in the country, Arsenal have often 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.[203] The story 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 manager George Allison was given a speaking part.[204] The book Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby was an autobiographical account of Hornby's life and relationship with football, and with Arsenal in particular. Published in 1992, it formed part of the revival and rehabilitation of football in British society during the 1990s.[205] The book was twice adapted for the cinema – the 1997 British film focuses on Arsenal's 1988–89 title win, and a 2005 American version features a fan of baseball's Boston Red Sox.[206]

Arsenal have often been stereotyped as a defensive and "boring" side, especially during the 1970s and 1980s.[207][208] In the 1997 film The Full Monty the principal characters move forward in a line and raise their hands, deliberately mimicking the Arsenal defence's offside trap, in an attempt to co-ordinate their striptease routine.[204] Fifteen years later an almost identical scene was included in the 2012 Disney science-fiction film John Carter (director and co-writer Andrew Stanton, a notable overseas supporter of the club), along with other visual cues and oblique dialogue hints and references to the club throughout the film.[209] Another film reference to the club's defence 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.[204]

In August 2022, Amazon Prime Video released an eight-episode docuseries called All or Nothing: Arsenal.[210][211] It documented the club by spending time with the coaching staff and players behind the scenes both on and off the field throughout their 2021–22 season, in which they were the youngest team in the Premier League with an average starting age of 24 years and 308 days – more than a whole year younger than the next team.[212][213]

In the community

In 1985, Arsenal founded a community scheme, "Arsenal in the Community", which offered sporting, social inclusion, educational and charitable projects. The club support a number of charitable causes directly and in 1992 established The Arsenal Charitable Trust, which by 2006 had raised more than £2 million for local causes.[214] An ex-professional and celebrity football team associated with the club also raised money by playing charity matches.[215] The club launched the Arsenal for Everyone initiative in 2008 as an annual celebration of the diversity of the Arsenal family.[216] In the 2009–10 season Arsenal announced that they had raised a record breaking £818,897 for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. The original target was £500,000.[217] In 2022, Arsenal and Adidas partnered up to launch the "No More Red" campaign to support the long-standing work being done by Arsenal in the Community to help keep young people safe from knife crime and youth violence. To promote the event, the club launched an exclusive all white kit that was not commercially available and only awarded to individuals who are making a positive difference in the community.[218]

Save the Children has been Arsenal global charity partner since 2011 and have worked together in numerous projects to improve safety and well-being 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.[219] 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 return meeting on 8 September 2018 at the Emirates stadium where proceeds will go towards the Arsenal foundation.[220]

During 2007 in Pleiku, Vietnam, Arsenal partnered with the JMG Academy and the Hoang Anh Gia Lai Corporation to found a youth academy for the V.League 1 side Hoàng Anh Lai Lai,[221] which saw a selection of Vietnam-based players train with Arsenal;[222] the club ended their partnership with the club in 2017.[223] Additionally, the club formally partnered with a variety of clubs overseas including Virginia based Richmond Strikers and Cairo based Wadi Degla.[224][225]

Players

For a complete list of players, see List of Arsenal F.C. players with 100+ appearances, 25–99 appearances and 1–24 appearances.
See also: Arsenal Player of the Season

First-team squad

As of 31 January 2024[226]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
3 DF   SCO Kieran Tierney (at Real Sociedad until 30 June 2024)[229]
23 MF   BEL Albert Sambi Lokonga (at Luton Town until 30 June 2024)[230]
27 FW   BRA Marquinhos (at Fluminense until 1 January 2025)[231]
No. Pos. Nation Player
33 GK   ENG Arthur Okonkwo (at Wrexham until 30 June 2024)[232]
— DF   POR Nuno Tavares (at Nottingham Forest until 30 June 2024)[233]

Academy

Further information: Arsenal F.C. Under-21s and Academy
As of 31 January 2024[234]
Players to have at least one first-team appearance for Arsenal.[235]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
63 MF   ENG Ethan Nwaneri
67 MF   ENG Charlie Patino (on loan at Swansea City until 30 June 2024)[236]
No. Pos. Nation Player
71 MF   ENG Charles Sagoe Jr. (on loan at Swansea City until 30 June 2024)[237]

Management and staff

See also: List of Arsenal F.C. managers

Current staff

 
Arteta was Arsenal's club captain during his playing career, he was appointed Arsenal's head coach in December 2019.[238]
 
Arsène Wenger managed Arsenal from 1996 to 2018, he is the club's longest serving manager.[239]
Management and staff as of 16 December 2023[240]
Position Name
Manager Mikel Arteta
Assistant coaches Albert Stuivenberg
Carlos Cuesta[241]
Nicolas Jover[242]
Miguel Molina[243]
Goalkeeping coach Iñaki Caña[244]
Academy manager Per Mertesacker
Director of football operations Richard Garlick
Head of sports medicine and performance Vacant[245]
Chief executive officer Vinai Venkatesham
Sporting director Edu Gaspar
Chief commercial officer Juliet Slot
Chief financial officer Stuart Wisely
Communications director Kate Laurens
Club secretary Zayna Perkins

Arsenal board

Arsenal board as of 16 December 2023[246]
Position Name
Co-chair Stan Kroenke
Co-chair Josh Kroenke
Executive Vice-chair Tim Lewis
Director Lord Harris of Peckham

Statistics and records

Further information: List of Arsenal F.C. records and statistics
 
Thierry Henry is Arsenal's record goalscorer, with 228 goals in all competitions.[247]

Arsenal's tally of 13 League Championships is the third highest in English football, after Manchester United (20) and Liverpool (19),[248] 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.[249]

They hold the highest number of FA Cup trophies, with 14.[250] The club is one of only six clubs to have won the FA Cup twice in succession, in 2002 and 2003, and 2014 and 2015.[251] 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).[81][252] They were the first side in English football to complete the FA Cup and League Cup double, in 1993.[253] Arsenal were also the first London club to reach the final of the UEFA Champions League, in 2006, losing the final 2–1 to Barcelona.[254]

Arsenal have one of the best top-flight records in history, having finished below fourteenth only seven times. They have won the second most top flight league matches in English football, and have also accumulated the second most points,[4] whether calculated by two points per win[4] or by the contemporary points value.[255] They have been in the top flight for the most consecutive seasons (98 as of 2023–24).[3][256][257] Arsenal also have the highest average league finishing position for the 20th century, with an average league placement of 8.5.[5]

Arsenal hold the record for the longest run of unbeaten League matches (49 between May 2003 and October 2004).[80] This included all 38 matches of their title-winning 2003–04 season, when Arsenal became only the second club to finish a top-flight campaign unbeaten, after Preston North End (who played only 22 matches) in 1888–89.[79][258] They also hold the record for the longest top flight win streak.[259] Arsenal set a Champions League record during the 2005–06 season by going ten matches without conceding a goal, beating the previous best of seven set by AC Milan. They went a record total stretch of 995 minutes without letting an opponent score; the streak ended in the final, when Samuel Eto'o scored a 76th-minute equaliser for Barcelona.[82]

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.[260] Thierry Henry is the club's top goalscorer with 228 goals in all competitions between 1999 and 2012;[247] he surpassed Ian Wright's total of 185 in October 2005.[261] Wright's record had stood since September 1997, when he overtook the longstanding total of 178 goals set by winger Cliff Bastin in 1939.[262] Henry also holds the club record for goals scored in the League, with 175,[247] a record that had been held by Bastin until February 2006.[263] Declan Rice holds the Arsenal record signing price after a deal with West Ham United was completed in July 2023, for an initial £100 million. This easily surpassed the former record of £72 million for Nicolas Pepe.

Arsenal's record home attendance is 73,707, for a UEFA Champions League match against Lens on 25 November 1998 at Wembley, where the club formerly 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,[260] while that at Emirates Stadium is 60,161, for a 2–2 draw with Manchester United on 3 November 2007.[264]

 
Chart showing Arsenal's league positions since admission to the Football League in 1893

Honours

Further information: List of Arsenal F.C. seasons
For honours won by Academy teams, see Arsenal F.C. Under-23s and Academy § Honours.

Arsenal's first ever 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 later when they won the Kent Senior Cup.[265][266] Their first national senior honour came in 1930, when they won the FA Cup.[267] The club enjoyed further success in the 1930s, winning another FA Cup and five Football League First Division titles.[52][268] Arsenal won their first league and cup double in the 1970–71 season and twice repeated the feat, in 1997–98 and 2001–02, as well as winning a cup double of the FA Cup and League Cup in 1992–93.[269] The 2003–04 season was the only 38-match league season unbeaten in English football history. A special gold version of the Premier League trophy was commissioned and presented to the club the following season.[270]

  •   record

Other

When the FA Cup was the only national football association competition available to Arsenal, the other football association competitions were County Cups, and they made up many of the matches the club played during a season.[266] Arsenal's first first-team trophy was a County Cup, the inaugural Kent Senior Cup.[18] Arsenal became ineligible for the London Cups when the club turned professional in 1891, and rarely participated in County Cups after this.[20][272] Due to the club's original location within the borders of both the London and Kent Football Associations,[273] Arsenal competed in and won trophies organised by each.[18][272]

During Arsenal's history, the club has participated in and won a variety of pre-season and friendly honours. These include Arsenal's own pre-season competition the Emirates Cup, begun in 2007.[274] During the wars, previous competitions were widely suspended and the club had to participate in wartime competitions. During WWII, Arsenal won several of these.

Notes

  1. ^ Woolwich and Plumstead were officially part of Kent until the creation of the County of London in 1889. The Arsenal History provides primary sources on the name, first meeting, and first match.[13] Bernard Joy says Danskin was captain at founding.[14] Danskin was made official captain the next month.[15]
  2. ^ The new shirts are exhibited in The Arsenal Shirt.[39] Newspaper accounts of the addition of white sleeves are provided by Mark Andrews.[40] The contemporary discussion around the first use of shirt numbers, and its initial trial by Chelsea F.C., is provided by Neil Glackin.[41]
  3. ^ Martin Keown was the 'fifth' member of the Back Four, but did not play for the club between 1986 and 1993.
  4. ^ These changes have received contemporary attention,[71] and later praise[72] and skepticism.[73] For context of the broader use of science in English football, see Soccer Science.[74]
  5. ^ Several analyses indicate strong league performance across the Wenger period, given Arsenal's footballing outlays, including a regression analysis on wage bills,[75] regression on transfer spending,[76] regression on both,[77] and a bootstrapping approach for the period 2004–09.[78]
  6. ^ Upon its formation in 1992, the Premier League became the top tier of English football; the Football League First and Second Divisions then became the second and third tiers, respectively. From 2004, the First Division became the Championship and the Second Division became League One.
  7. ^ Until 2016, the unsponsored name of the EFL Cup was the Football League Cup.
  8. ^ Until 2002, the FA Community Shield was known as the FA Charity Shield.
  9. ^ The 1991 FA Charity Shield was shared with Tottenham Hotspur.

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This article is about the men s football club based in England For the women s team see Arsenal W F C For other uses see Arsenal disambiguation The Arsenal Football Club commonly known as simply Arsenal is an English professional football club based in Holloway North London Arsenal compete in the Premier League the top flight of English football In domestic football Arsenal has won 13 league titles including one unbeaten title a record 14 FA Cups two League Cups 17 FA Community Shields and a Football League Centenary Trophy In European football they have one European Cup Winners Cup and one Inter Cities Fairs Cup In terms of trophies won it is the third most successful club in English football 2 ArsenalFull nameThe Arsenal Football Club 1 Nickname s The GunnersFoundedOctober 1886 137 years ago 1886 10 as Dial SquareGroundEmirates StadiumCapacity60 704OwnerKroenke Sports amp EntertainmentCo chairmenStan and Josh KroenkeManagerMikel ArtetaLeaguePremier League2022 23Premier League 2nd of 20WebsiteClub websiteHome coloursAway coloursThird coloursCurrent season Arsenal was the first club from southern England to join the Football League in 1893 and it reached the First Division in 1904 Relegated only once in 1913 it continues the longest streak in the top division 3 and has won the second most top flight matches in English football history 4 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 it won its first 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 20th century with the highest average league position 5 Between 1998 and 2017 Arsenal qualified for the UEFA Champions League for an English football record nineteen consecutive seasons 6 The streak ended after a 38 game season in 2017 when Arsenal finished in fifth place one point away from the fourth spot occupied by Liverpool 6 In 1886 munitions workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich founded the club as Dial Square In 1913 the club crossed the city to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury becoming close neighbours of Tottenham Hotspur and creating the North London derby Herbert Chapman won the club its first silverware and his legacy enabled a trophy laden period in the 1930s He helped introduce the WM formation floodlights and shirt numbers 7 he also added the white sleeves and brighter red to the club s jersey 8 Arsene Wenger is the club s longest serving manager and has won the most trophies He won a record seven FA Cups and his title winning team set an English record for the longest top flight unbeaten league run at 49 games between 2003 and 2004 receiving the nickname The Invincibles In 2006 the club moved to the nearby Emirates Stadium With an annual revenue of 367 1m in the 2021 22 season 9 Arsenal was estimated to be worth US 2 26 billion by Forbes making it the world s tenth most valuable football club 10 while it is one of the most followed on social media 11 The motto of the club is Victoria Concordia Crescit Latin for Victory Through Harmony Contents 1 History 1 1 1886 1912 from Dial Square to Arsenal 1 2 1912 1925 Bank of England club 1 3 1925 1934 Herbert Chapman s legendary Gunners 1 4 1934 1947 Shaw Allison amp the Second World War 1 5 1947 1962 Tom Whittaker s meteoric Gunners 1 6 1962 1984 Billy Wright Bertie Mee and Neill s cohorts 1 7 1984 1996 George Graham s Arsenal 1 8 1996 2018 Wenger years 1 9 2018 2020 post Wenger revolution 1 10 2020 Arteta era 2 Crest 3 Colours 3 1 Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors 4 Stadiums 5 Supporters and rivalries 5 1 Anthem 5 2 Other songs 5 3 Rivalries 6 Mascot 7 Ownership and finances 8 In popular culture 9 In the community 10 Players 10 1 First team squad 10 1 1 Out on loan 10 2 Academy 11 Management and staff 11 1 Current staff 11 2 Arsenal board 12 Statistics and records 13 Honours 13 1 Other 14 Notes 15 References 15 1 Works cited 16 Further reading 17 External links 17 1 Independent websitesHistoryFurther information History of Arsenal F C 1886 1966 History of Arsenal F C 1966 present and Arsenal Football Club Museum 1886 1912 from Dial Square to Arsenal nbsp Royal Arsenal squad in 1888 Original captain David Danskin sits on the right of the bench In October 1886 Scotsman David Danskin and fifteen fellow 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 also added three shillings to help form the club 12 note 1 Dial Square played their first match on 11 December 1886 against the Eastern Wanderers and won 6 0 16 The club had been renamed Royal Arsenal by January 1887 15 17 and its first home was Plumstead Common 15 though they spent most of their time playing at the Manor Ground Their first 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 18 19 In 1891 Royal Arsenal became the first London club to turn professional 20 Royal Arsenal was renamed for the second time upon becoming a limited liability company in 1893 They registered their new name Woolwich Arsenal with the Football League when the club ascended later that year 21 22 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 financial 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 23 22 112 149 Businessmen Henry Norris and William Hall became involved in the club and sought to move them elsewhere 24 22 22 42 1912 1925 Bank of England clubIn 1913 soon after relegation back to the Second Division the club moved across the river to the new Arsenal Stadium in Highbury 25 26 27 In 1919 the Football League controversially voted to promote The Arsenal instead of relegated local 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 Later that year The Arsenal started dropping The in official documents gradually shifting its name for the final time towards Arsenal as it is generally known today 28 nbsp A bronze bust of Herbert Chapman stands inside the Emirates Stadium With a new home and First Division football attendances were more than double those at the Manor Ground and Arsenal s budget grew rapidly 29 30 With record breaking spending and gate receipts Arsenal quickly became known as the Bank of England club 31 32 1925 1934 Herbert Chapman s legendary Gunners Arsenal s location and record breaking salary offer lured star Huddersfield Town manager Herbert Chapman in 1925 33 34 Over the next five years Chapman built a revolutionary new Arsenal Firstly he appointed an enduring new trainer Tom Whittaker who would one day rise to become a fabled Arsenal manager himself 35 With the help of player Charlie Buchan implemented the nascent WM formation which would serve as a stable bedrock to his outfit 36 37 He also captured generational young talents such as Cliff Bastin and Eddie Hapgood whilst also lavishing Highbury s high income on stars such as David Jack and Alex James Transformed Chapman s Arsenal claimed their first national trophy the FA Cup in 1930 and League Championships followed in 1930 31 and 1932 33 38 Chapman also presided over off pitch changes white sleeves and shirt numbers were added to the kit note 2 a Tube station was named after the club 42 43 and the first of two opulent Art Deco stands was completed with some of the first floodlights in English football 30 Suddenly in the middle of the 1933 34 season Chapman died of pneumonia 44 1934 1947 Shaw Allison amp the Second World War Chapman s death meant work was left to his colleagues Joe Shaw and George Allison with both proving to be shrewd amp consummate custodians of Chapman s excellent Arsenal team seeing out a hat trick of league wins with the 1933 34 1934 35 and 1937 38 titles and then furthermore winning the 1936 FA Cup 45 46 World War II meant the Football League was suspended for seven years While Arsenal were paraded by the nation as a symbol of solidarity with war efforts the war took a huge toll on the team as the club had had more players killed than any top flight club 47 Furthermore debt from reconstructing an ambitious North Bank Stand redevelopment greatly bled Arsenal s resources 48 30 1947 1962 Tom Whittaker s meteoric Gunners Despite this period of turbulence amp churn Arsenal returned to win the league in the second post war season of 1947 48 This was Tom Whittaker s first season as manager and meant the club equalled the champions of England record 49 Tom Whittaker despite his disarming humble amp modest disposition was oft referred to as the brains behind charismatic Chapman s legendary Arsenal side 50 51 He gathered a successful amp highly skilled Arsenal side in spite of greatly limited resources with a fiery and expansive style that drove great fanfare at the time 52 They won a third FA Cup in 1950 and then won a record breaking seventh championship in 1952 53 making Arsenal the most successful team in English history at the time 53 54 1962 1984 Billy Wright Bertie Mee and Neill s cohorts nbsp Alan Ball left and Bertie Mee who led Arsenal to their first double in 1971 pictured in 1972 Arsenal were not to win the League or the FA Cup for another 18 years The 53 Champions squad had aged and the club failed to attract strong enough replacements 55 Although Arsenal were competitive during these years their fortunes had waned the club spent most of the 1950s and 1960s in mid table mediocrity 56 Even former England captain Billy Wright could not bring the club any success as manager in a stint between 1962 and 1966 57 Arsenal tentatively appointed club physiotherapist Bertie Mee as acting manager in 1966 58 59 With new 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 Next season saw a breakthrough with Arsenal s first competitive European trophy the 1969 70 Inter Cities Fairs Cup The season after Arsenal achieved an even greater triumph with their first League and FA Cup double and a new champions of England record 60 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 near misses with Arsenal finishing as FA Cup runners up in 1972 and First Division runners up in 1972 73 59 Former player Terry Neill succeeded Mee in 1976 At the age of 34 he became the youngest Arsenal manager to date 61 With new signings like Malcolm Macdonald and Pat Jennings and a crop of talent in the side like Liam Brady and Frank Stapleton the club reached a trio of FA Cup finals 1978 FA Cup 1979 FA Cup and 1980 FA Cup and lost the 1980 European Cup Winners Cup Final on penalties The club s only trophy during this time was the 1979 FA Cup achieved with a last minute 3 2 victory over Manchester United in a final is widely regarded as a classic 62 63 1984 1996 George Graham s Arsenal nbsp Tony Adams statue outside the Emirates Stadium One of Mee s double winners George Graham returned as manager in 1986 with Arsenal winning their first League Cup in 1987 Graham s first season in charge New signings Nigel Winterburn Lee Dixon and Steve Bould had joined the club by 1988 to complete the famous Back Four led by homegrown player Tony Adams 64 note 3 Graham s credo of prioritising defensive excellence seemingly clashed with the club s traditional expansive motif and with the young player demographic at the club at the time however it quickly gained a cult following after initial successes 65 The side immediately won the 1988 Football League Centenary Trophy 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 66 Graham s Arsenal won another title in 1990 91 losing only one match won the FA Cup and League Cup double in 1993 and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1994 Graham s reputation was tarnished when he was found to have taken kickbacks from agent Rune Hauge for signing certain players and he was dismissed in 1995 67 68 His replacement Bruce Rioch lasted for only one season leaving the club after a dispute with the board of directors 69 1996 2018 Wenger years nbsp After completing the only unbeaten Premier League season a unique gold trophy was commissioned to Arsenal The club metamorphosed during the tenure of French manager Arsene Wenger who was appointed in 1996 Attacking football 70 an overhaul of dietary and fitness practices note 4 and efficiency with money note 5 defined his reign Accumulating key players from Wenger s homeland such as Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry Arsenal won a second League and Cup double in 1997 98 and a third in 2001 02 In addition the club reached the final of the 1999 2000 UEFA Cup were victorious in the 2003 and 2005 FA Cup finals and won the Premier League in 2003 04 without losing a single match an achievement which earned the side the nickname The Invincibles 79 This feat came within a run of 49 league matches unbeaten from 7 May 2003 to 24 October 2004 a national record 80 Arsenal finished in either first or second place in the league in eight of Wenger s first nine seasons at the club although they never won the title in two consecutive seasons 81 The club had never progressed beyond the quarter finals of the Champions League until 2005 06 in that season they became the first club from London to reach the final in the competition s fifty year history but were beaten 2 1 by Barcelona 82 In July 2006 they moved into the Emirates Stadium after 93 years at Highbury 83 Arsenal reached the finals 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 club record acquisition Mesut Ozil Arsenal beat Hull City in the 2014 FA Cup Final coming back from a 2 0 deficit to win the match 3 2 84 A year later Arsenal completed another victorious FA Cup campaign 85 and became the most successful club in the tournament s history by winning their 13th FA Cup in 2016 17 However in that same season Arsenal finished fifth in the league the first time they had finished outside the top four since before Wenger arrived in 1996 86 In his 21st and final season Arsenal under Arsene Wenger finished sixth and won the community shield 87 88 Wenger departed Arsenal following the end of the season on 13 May 2018 89 2018 2020 post Wenger revolution After conducting an overhaul in the club s operating model to coincide with Wenger s departure Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club s new head coach on 23 May 2018 He became the club s first ever head coach and second manager from outside the United Kingdom 90 91 In Emery s first season Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner up in the Europa League 92 93 On 29 November 2019 Emery was dismissed as manager and former player and assistant first team coach Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach 94 95 96 2020 Arteta era On 20 December 2019 Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach 97 98 Arsenal finished the league season in eighth their lowest finish since 1994 95 but beat Chelsea 2 1 to earn a record extending 14th FA Cup win 99 After the season Arteta s title was changed from head coach to manager 100 On 18 April 2021 Arsenal were announced as a founding club of the breakaway European competition The Super League 101 they withdrew from the competition two days later amid near universal condemnation 102 Arsenal finished the 2020 21 season in eighth place once again not qualifying for a European competition for the first time in 26 years 103 In the 2022 23 Premier League season Arsenal returned to the Champions League by coming second to Manchester City Arsenal led the league for most of the season but suffered a series of losses at the end of the run setting a record for most time spent on top of the table without actually winning the league 104 CrestCrests of Arsenal F C prior to current current crest nbsp Royal Arsenal s first crest adopted in 1888 two years after the formation of the club nbsp Monogram badge used in the 1930 FA Cup Final nbsp Art Deco badge nbsp Cannon featured on shirt from 1960s to 1990s nbsp VCC crest used between 1949 and 2002 Alternative versions of the VCC crest nbsp c 1990 1993 nbsp c 1994 1995 nbsp c 1996 2001 nbsp 2001 02 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 nowadays transferred to the coat of arms of the Royal Borough of Greenwich These can sometimes be mistaken for chimneys but the presence of a carved lion s head and a cascabel on each are clear indicators that they are cannons 105 This was dropped after the move 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 only lasted until 1925 when the cannon was reversed to point westward and its barrel slimmed down 105 In 1949 the club unveiled a modernised crest featuring the same style 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 VCC victory comes from harmony coined by the club s programme editor Harry Homer 105 106 For the first time the crest was rendered in colour which varied slightly over the crest s lifespan finally becoming red gold and green Because of the numerous revisions of the crest Arsenal were unable to copyright it 107 Although the club had managed to register the crest as a trademark and had fought and eventually won a long legal battle with a local street trader who sold unofficial Arsenal merchandise 108 Arsenal eventually sought a more comprehensive legal protection Therefore in 2002 they introduced a new crest featuring more modern curved lines and a simplified style which was copyrightable 109 The cannon once again faces east and the club s name is written in a sans serif typeface above the cannon Green was replaced by dark blue The new crest was criticised by some supporters the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association claimed that the club had ignored much of Arsenal s history and tradition with such a radical modern design and that fans had not been properly consulted on the issue 110 Until the 1960s a badge was worn on the playing shirt only for high profile matches such as FA Cup finals usually in the form of a monogram of the club s initials in red on a white background 111 The monogram theme 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 hexagonal border This early example of a corporate logo introduced as part of Herbert Chapman s rebranding of the club in the 1930s was used not only on Cup Final shirts but as a design feature throughout Highbury Stadium including above the main entrance and inlaid in the floors 112 From 1967 a white cannon was regularly worn on the shirts until replaced by the club crest sometimes with the addition of the nickname The Gunners in the 1990s 111 In the 2011 12 season Arsenal celebrated their 125th anniversary The celebrations included a modified version of the current crest worn on their jerseys for the season The crest was all white surrounded by 15 oak leaves to the right and 15 laurel leaves to the left The oak leaves represent the 15 founding members of the club who met at the Royal Oak pub The 15 laurel leaves represent the design detail on the six pence pieces paid by the founding fathers to establish the club The laurel leaves also represent strength To complete the crest 1886 and 2011 are shown on either sides of the motto Forward at the bottom of the crest 113 Colours nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arsenal F C kits nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Arsenal s original home colours The team wore a similar kit but with redcurrant socks during the 2005 06 season nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp White sleeves first appeared on the shirt in 1933 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Yellow shirt with blue trim and blue shorts are Arsenal s traditional away colours nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Since the 1990s Blue has been prominently used for either the away or third kit For much of Arsenal s history their home colours have been bright red shirts with white sleeves and white shorts though this has not always been the case The choice of red is in recognition of a charitable donation from Nottingham Forest soon after Arsenal s foundation in 1886 Two of Dial Square s founding members Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates were former Forest players who had moved to Woolwich for work As they put together the first team in the area no kit could be found so Beardsley and Bates wrote home for help and received a set of kit and a ball 114 The shirt was redcurrant a dark shade of red and was worn with white shorts and socks with blue and white hoops 115 116 In 1933 Herbert Chapman wanting his players to be more distinctly dressed updated the kit adding white sleeves and changing the shade to a brighter pillar box red Two possibilities have been suggested for the origin of the white sleeves One story reports that Chapman noticed a supporter in the stands wearing a red sleeveless sweater over a white shirt another was that he was inspired by a similar outfit worn by the cartoonist Tom Webster with whom Chapman played golf 117 Regardless of which story is true the red and white shirts have come to define Arsenal and the team have worn that combination ever since that time aside from two seasons The first was 1966 67 when Arsenal wore all red shirts 116 this proved unpopular and the white sleeves returned the following season The second was 2005 06 the last season that Arsenal played at Highbury when the team wore commemorative redcurrant shirts similar to those worn in 1913 their first season in the stadium the side reverted to their normal colours at the start of the next season 117 In the 2008 09 season Arsenal replaced the traditional all white sleeves with red sleeves that bore a broad white stripe 116 Arsenal s home colours have been the inspiration for at least three other clubs In 1909 Sparta Prague adopted a dark red kit like the one Arsenal wore at the time 117 in 1938 Hibernian adopted the design of the Arsenal shirt sleeves in their own green and white strip 118 In 1941 Luis Robledo an England schooled founder of Santa Fe and a fan of Arsenal selected the main colours for his newly created team In 1920 Sporting Clube de Braga s manager returned from a game at Highbury and changed his team s green kit to a duplicate of Arsenal s red with white sleeves and shorts giving rise to the team s nickname of Os Arsenalistas 119 These teams still wear those designs to this day For many years Arsenal s away colours were white or navy blue However in 1968 the FA banned navy shirts they looked too similar to referees black kit so in the 1969 70 season Arsenal introduced an away kit of yellow shirts with blue shorts This kit was worn in the 1971 FA Cup Final when Arsenal beat Liverpool to secure the double for the first time in their history The yellow and blue strip became almost as famous as their iconic red and white home kit 120 121 Arsenal reached the FA Cup final again the following year wearing the red and white home strip and were beaten by Leeds United Arsenal then competed in three consecutive FA Cup finals between 1978 and 1980 wearing their lucky yellow and blue strip 120 which remained the club s away strip until the release of a green and navy away kit in 1982 83 The following season Arsenal returned to the yellow and blue scheme albeit with a darker shade of blue than before When Nike took over from Adidas as Arsenal s kit 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 market the away kits have been changed regularly with Arsenal usually releasing both away and third choice kits During this period the designs have been either all blue designs or variations on the traditional yellow and blue such as the metallic gold and navy strip used in the 2001 02 season the yellow and dark grey used from 2005 to 2007 and the yellow and maroon of 2010 to 2013 122 Until 2014 the away kit 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 123 After Puma began manufacturing Arsenal s kits in 2014 new home away and third kits were released every season In the 2017 18 season Puma released a new colour scheme for the away and third kits The away kit was a light blue which faded to a darker blue near the bottom while the third kit was black with red highlight Puma returned to the original colour scheme for the 2018 19 season 124 From the 2019 20 season Arsenal s kits are manufactured by Adidas 125 In the 2020 21 season Adidas unveiled the new away kit to mark the 15 year anniversary of leaving Highbury The new away kit is white with a marbled pattern to replicate the iconic marble hall in the East stand of Highbury 126 Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors Arsenal kits 127 Period Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor chest Shirt sponsor sleeve 1886 1930 Unidentified None None 1930 1970 Bukta 1971 1981 Umbro 1981 1986 JVC 1986 1994 Adidas 1994 1999 Nike 1999 2002 Dreamcast Sega 2002 2006 O2 2006 2014 Emirates 128 2014 2018 Puma 2018 2019 Visit Rwanda 129 2019 present Adidas 130 Stadiums nbsp Manor Ground Woolwich Arsenal vs Everton F C 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 terracing upgrading it from just a field Arsenal continued to play their home games there for the next twenty years with two exceptions in the 1894 95 season until the move to north London in 1913 131 132 Widely referred to as Highbury Arsenal Stadium was the club s home from September 1913 until May 2006 The original stadium was designed by the renowned football architect Archibald Leitch and had a design common to many football grounds in the UK at the time with a single covered stand and three open air banks of terracing 30 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 terrace which was bombed during the Second World War and not restored until 1954 30 Highbury could hold more than 60 000 spectators at its peak 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 thus reducing the capacity to 38 419 seated spectators 133 This capacity had to be reduced further during Champions League matches to accommodate additional advertising boards so much 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 134 nbsp The North Bank Stand Arsenal Stadium Highbury Expansion of Highbury was restricted because the East Stand had been designated as a Grade II listed building and the other three stands were close to residential properties 30 These limitations prevented the club from maximising matchday revenue during the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century putting them in danger of being left behind in the football boom of that time 135 After considering various options in 2000 Arsenal proposed building a new 60 361 capacity stadium at Ashburton Grove since named the Emirates Stadium about 500 metres south west of Highbury 136 The project was initially delayed by red tape and rising costs 137 and construction was completed in July 2006 in time for the start of the 2006 07 season 138 The stadium was named after its sponsors the airline company Emirates with whom the club signed the largest sponsorship deal in English football history worth around 100 million 139 Some fans referred to the ground as Ashburton Grove or the Grove as they did not agree with corporate sponsorship of stadium names 140 The stadium will be officially known as Emirates Stadium until at least 2028 and the airline will be the club s shirt sponsor until at least 2024 141 142 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 143 The capacity of the Emirates now stands at 60 704 144 Arsenal s players train at the Shenley Training Centre in Hertfordshire a purpose built facility which opened in 1999 145 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 146 Arsenal s Academy under 18 teams play their home matches at Shenley while the reserves play their games at Meadow Park 147 which is also the home of Boreham Wood F C Both the Academy under 18 amp the reserves occasionally play their big games at the Emirates in front of a crowd reduced to only the lower west stand 148 149 nbsp A panorama of the Emirates Stadium before a matchSupporters and rivalriesFurther information Arsenal F C supporters nbsp Arsenal supporters Arsenal s fanbase are referred to as Gooners the name derived from the club s nickname The Gunners Virtually all home 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 capacity 150 and as of 2015 the third highest all time average attendance 151 Arsenal have the seventh highest average attendance of European football clubs only behind Borussia Dortmund Barcelona Manchester United Real Madrid Bayern Munich and Schalke 04 152 153 154 155 The club s location adjoining wealthy areas such as Canonbury and Barnsbury mixed areas such as Islington Holloway Highbury and the adjacent London Borough of Camden and largely working class areas such as Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington has meant that Arsenal s supporters have come from a variety of social classes Much of the Afro Caribbean support comes from the neighbouring London Borough of Hackney and a large portion of the South Asian Arsenal supporters commute to the stadium from Wembley Park North West of the capital There was also traditionally a large Irish community that followed Arsenal with the surrounding Islington and particularly the nearby Archway area having a large community of residents with Irish heritage But Irish migration to North London is recently much lower than in the 1960s or 1970s Like all major English football clubs Arsenal have a number of domestic supporters clubs including the Arsenal Football Supporters Club which works closely with the club and the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association which maintains a more independent line The Arsenal Supporters Trust promotes greater participation in ownership of the club by fans The club s supporters also publish fanzines such as The Gooner Gunflash and the satirical Up The Arse There have always been Arsenal supporters outside London and since the advent of satellite television a supporter s attachment to a football club has become less dependent 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 overseas supporters clubs were affiliated with the club 156 A 2011 report by SPORT MARKT estimated Arsenal s global fanbase at 113 million 157 The club s social media activity was the fifth highest in world football during the 2014 15 season 158 Anthem The team s anthem is The Angel North London Forever by Louis Dunford 159 160 161 The song is typically played at Arsenal home games before a match Other songs In addition to the usual English football chants Arsenal s supporters sing One Nil to the Arsenal to the tune of Go West and also regularly sing Who s that team they call the Arsenal Good Old Arsenal to the tune of Rule Britannia and We re the North Bank Clock End Highbury The fans also chant Boring Boring Arsenal in self deprecating reference to Arsenal s reputation during the 1970s and 1980s as an overly defensive cautious team 162 Rivalries Main articles North London derby Arsenal F C Manchester United F C rivalry Arsenal F C Chelsea F C rivalry and Arsenal F C Manchester City F C rivalry nbsp Arsenal playing against rivals Tottenham in a game known as the North London derby in November 2010 Arsenal s longest running and deepest rivalry is with their nearest major neighbour Tottenham Hotspur matches between the two are referred to as the North London derby 163 There also exists a rivalry between Arsenal and Chelsea In addition Arsenal and Manchester United developed a strong on pitch rivalry in the late 1980s which intensified in the early 2000s when both clubs were competing for the Premier League title During the 2010s and now the 2020s a competitive rivalry with Manchester City began during the Arteta era following a close title race in the 2022 23 Premier League season 164 165 166 MascotThe club mascot is Gunnersaurus Rex a smiling 7 foot tall green dinosaur who first 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 idea won a Junior Gunners contest his official backstory is that he hatched from an egg found during renovations at Highbury 167 168 169 170 171 172 The same person Jerry Quy has been inside the suit from the start in early October 2020 as part of cost cutting brought about by the COVID 19 pandemic the club made him redundant from that and his other part time job in supporter liaison together with 55 full time employees although they later said Gunnersaurus could return after spectators were allowed back in stadiums 171 173 174 An online fundraiser was begun for Quy 174 and Mesut Ozil offered to pay his salary himself as long as he remains with Arsenal 175 176 In November 2020 in advance 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 roster of people that could include Quy if he wished 177 178 Ownership and financesFurther information Ownership of Arsenal F C amp W F C The largest shareholder on the Arsenal board is American sports tycoon Stan Kroenke 179 Kroenke first launched a bid for the club in April 2007 180 and faced competition for shares from Red and White Securities which acquired its first shares from David Dein in August 2007 181 Red amp White Securities was co owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov and London based Iranian financier Farhad Moshiri though Usmanov bought Moshiri s stake in 2016 182 Kroenke came close to the 30 takeover threshold in November 2009 when he increased his holding to 18 594 shares 29 9 183 184 In April 2011 Kroenke achieved a full takeover by purchasing the shareholdings of Nina Bracewell Smith and Danny Fiszman taking his shareholding to 62 89 185 186 In May 2017 Kroenke owned 41 721 shares 67 05 and Red amp White Securities owned 18 695 shares 30 04 179 In January 2018 Kroenke expanded his ownership by buying twenty two more shares taking his total ownership to 67 09 187 In August 2018 Kroenke bought out Usmanov for 550m Now owning more than 90 of the shares he had the required stake to complete the buyout of the remaining shares and become the sole owner 188 There has been criticism of Arsenal s poor performance since Kroenke took over which has been attributed to his ownership 189 Ivan Gazidis was the club s Chief executive from 2009 to 2018 179 190 Arsenal s parent company Arsenal Holdings plc operates as an unlisted public limited company whose ownership is considerably different from that of other football clubs Only 62 219 shares in Arsenal have been issued 179 and they are not traded on a public exchange such as the FTSE or AIM instead they are traded relatively infrequently on the ICAP Securities and Derivatives Exchange a specialist market On 29 May 2017 a single share in Arsenal had a mid price of 18 000 which sets the club s market capitalisation value at approximately 1 119 9m 191 Most football clubs are not listed on an exchange 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 global brand 192 Business magazine Forbes valued Arsenal as a whole at 2 238 billion 1 69 billion in 2018 ranked third in English football 193 Research by the Henley Business School ranked Arsenal second in English football modelling the club s value at 1 118 billion in 2015 194 195 Arsenal s financial results for the 2019 20 season showed an after tax loss of 47 8m due in part to the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic 196 The Deloitte Football Money League is a publication that homogenises and compares clubs annual revenue Deloitte put Arsenal s footballing revenue in 2019 at 392 7m 445 6m 197 ranking Arsenal eleventh among world football clubs 158 Arsenal and Deloitte both listed the match day revenue generated in 2019 by the Emirates Stadium as 109 2m 96 2m 197 In popular culturePartly due to their proximity to the Alexandra Palace transmitter Arsenal have appeared in a number of media firsts On 22 January 1927 their match at Highbury against Sheffield United was the first English League match to be broadcast live on radio 198 199 A decade later on 16 September 1937 an exhibition match between Arsenal s first team and the reserves was the first football match in the world to be televised live 198 200 Arsenal also 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 198 201 Sky s coverage of Arsenal s January 2010 match against Manchester United was the first live public broadcast of a sports event on 3D television 198 202 As one of the most successful teams in the country Arsenal have often 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 203 The story 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 manager George Allison was given a speaking part 204 The book Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby was an autobiographical account of Hornby s life and relationship with football and with Arsenal in particular Published in 1992 it formed part of the revival and rehabilitation of football in British society during the 1990s 205 The book was twice adapted for the cinema the 1997 British film focuses on Arsenal s 1988 89 title win and a 2005 American version features a fan of baseball s Boston Red Sox 206 Arsenal have often been stereotyped as a defensive and boring side especially during the 1970s and 1980s 207 208 In the 1997 film The Full Monty the principal characters move forward in a line and raise their hands deliberately mimicking the Arsenal defence s offside trap in an attempt to co ordinate their striptease routine 204 Fifteen years later an almost identical scene was included in the 2012 Disney science fiction film John Carter director and co writer Andrew Stanton a notable overseas supporter of the club along with other visual cues and oblique dialogue hints and references to the club throughout the film 209 Another film reference to the club s defence comes in the film Plunkett amp 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 204 In August 2022 Amazon Prime Video released an eight episode docuseries called All or Nothing Arsenal 210 211 It documented the club by spending time with the coaching staff and players behind the scenes both on and off the field throughout their 2021 22 season in which they were the youngest team in the Premier League with an average starting age of 24 years and 308 days more than a whole year younger than the next team 212 213 In the communityIn 1985 Arsenal founded a community scheme Arsenal in the Community which offered sporting social inclusion educational and charitable projects The club support a number of charitable causes directly and in 1992 established The Arsenal Charitable Trust which by 2006 had raised more than 2 million for local causes 214 An ex professional and celebrity football team associated with the club also raised money by playing charity matches 215 The club launched the Arsenal for Everyone initiative in 2008 as an annual celebration of the diversity of the Arsenal family 216 In the 2009 10 season Arsenal announced that they had raised a record breaking 818 897 for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children s Charity The original target was 500 000 217 In 2022 Arsenal and Adidas partnered up to launch the No More Red campaign to support the long standing work being done by Arsenal in the Community to help keep young people safe from knife crime and youth violence To promote the event the club launched an exclusive all white kit that was not commercially available and only awarded to individuals who are making a positive difference in the community 218 Save the Children has been Arsenal global charity partner since 2011 and have worked together in numerous projects to improve safety and well being 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 219 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 return meeting on 8 September 2018 at the Emirates stadium where proceeds will go towards the Arsenal foundation 220 During 2007 in Pleiku Vietnam Arsenal partnered with the JMG Academy and the Hoang Anh Gia Lai Corporation to found a youth academy for the V League 1 side Hoang Anh Lai Lai 221 which saw a selection of Vietnam based players train with Arsenal 222 the club ended their partnership with the club in 2017 223 Additionally the club formally partnered with a variety of clubs overseas including Virginia based Richmond Strikers and Cairo based Wadi Degla 224 225 PlayersFor a complete list of players see List of Arsenal F C players with 100 appearances 25 99 appearances and 1 24 appearances See also Arsenal Player of the Season First team squad As of 31 January 2024 226 Note Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules Players may hold more than one non FIFA nationality No Pos Nation Player 1 GK nbsp ENG Aaron Ramsdale 2 DF nbsp FRA William Saliba 4 DF nbsp ENG Ben White 5 MF nbsp GHA Thomas Partey 6 DF nbsp BRA Gabriel Magalhaes 7 FW nbsp ENG Bukayo Saka 8 MF nbsp NOR Martin Odegaard captain 227 9 FW nbsp BRA Gabriel Jesus 10 MF nbsp ENG Emile Smith Rowe 11 FW nbsp BRA Gabriel Martinelli 12 DF nbsp NED Jurrien Timber 14 FW nbsp ENG Eddie Nketiah 15 DF nbsp POL Jakub Kiwior No Pos Nation Player 17 DF nbsp POR Cedric Soares 18 DF nbsp JPN Takehiro Tomiyasu 19 FW nbsp BEL Leandro Trossard 20 MF nbsp ITA Jorginho 21 MF nbsp POR Fabio Vieira 22 GK nbsp ESP David Raya on loan from Brentford 228 24 FW nbsp ENG Reiss Nelson 25 MF nbsp EGY Mohamed Elneny 29 MF nbsp GER Kai Havertz 31 GK nbsp EST Karl Hein 35 DF nbsp UKR Oleksandr Zinchenko 41 MF nbsp ENG Declan Rice Out on loan Note Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules Players may hold more than one non FIFA nationality No Pos Nation Player 3 DF nbsp SCO Kieran Tierney at Real Sociedad until 30 June 2024 229 23 MF nbsp BEL Albert Sambi Lokonga at Luton Town until 30 June 2024 230 27 FW nbsp BRA Marquinhos at Fluminense until 1 January 2025 231 No Pos Nation Player 33 GK nbsp ENG Arthur Okonkwo at Wrexham until 30 June 2024 232 DF nbsp POR Nuno Tavares at Nottingham Forest until 30 June 2024 233 Academy Further information Arsenal F C Under 21s and Academy As of 31 January 2024 234 Players to have at least one first team appearance for Arsenal 235 Note Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules Players may hold more than one non FIFA nationality No Pos Nation Player 63 MF nbsp ENG Ethan Nwaneri 67 MF nbsp ENG Charlie Patino on loan at Swansea City until 30 June 2024 236 No Pos Nation Player 71 MF nbsp ENG Charles Sagoe Jr on loan at Swansea City until 30 June 2024 237 Management and staffSee also List of Arsenal F C managers Current staff nbsp Arteta was Arsenal s club captain during his playing career he was appointed Arsenal s head coach in December 2019 238 nbsp Arsene Wenger managed Arsenal from 1996 to 2018 he is the club s longest serving manager 239 Management and staff as of 16 December 2023 240 Position Name Manager Mikel Arteta Assistant coaches Albert Stuivenberg Carlos Cuesta 241 Nicolas Jover 242 Miguel Molina 243 Goalkeeping coach Inaki Cana 244 Academy manager Per Mertesacker Director of football operations Richard Garlick Head of sports medicine and performance Vacant 245 Chief executive officer Vinai Venkatesham Sporting director Edu Gaspar Chief commercial officer Juliet Slot Chief financial officer Stuart Wisely Communications director Kate Laurens Club secretary Zayna Perkins Arsenal board Arsenal board as of 16 December 2023 246 Position Name Co chair Stan Kroenke Co chair Josh Kroenke Executive Vice chair Tim Lewis Director Lord Harris of PeckhamStatistics and recordsFurther information List of Arsenal F C records and statistics nbsp Thierry Henry is Arsenal s record goalscorer with 228 goals in all competitions 247 Arsenal s tally of 13 League Championships is the third highest in English football after Manchester United 20 and Liverpool 19 248 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 249 They hold the highest number of FA Cup trophies with 14 250 The club is one of only six clubs to have won the FA Cup twice in succession in 2002 and 2003 and 2014 and 2015 251 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 81 252 They were the first side in English football to complete the FA Cup and League Cup double in 1993 253 Arsenal were also the first London club to reach the final of the UEFA Champions League in 2006 losing the final 2 1 to Barcelona 254 Arsenal have one of the best top flight records in history having finished below fourteenth only seven times They have won the second most top flight league matches in English football and have also accumulated the second most points 4 whether calculated by two points per win 4 or by the contemporary points value 255 They have been in the top flight for the most consecutive seasons 98 as of 2023 24 3 256 257 Arsenal also have the highest average league finishing position for the 20th century with an average league placement of 8 5 5 Arsenal hold the record for the longest run of unbeaten League matches 49 between May 2003 and October 2004 80 This included all 38 matches of their title winning 2003 04 season when Arsenal became only the second club to finish a top flight campaign unbeaten after Preston North End who played only 22 matches in 1888 89 79 258 They also hold the record for the longest top flight win streak 259 Arsenal set a Champions League record during the 2005 06 season by going ten matches without conceding a goal beating the previous best of seven set by AC Milan They went a record total stretch of 995 minutes without letting an opponent score the streak ended in the final when Samuel Eto o scored a 76th minute equaliser for Barcelona 82 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 260 Thierry Henry is the club s top goalscorer with 228 goals in all competitions between 1999 and 2012 247 he surpassed Ian Wright s total of 185 in October 2005 261 Wright s record had stood since September 1997 when he overtook the longstanding total of 178 goals set by winger Cliff Bastin in 1939 262 Henry also holds the club record for goals scored in the League with 175 247 a record that had been held by Bastin until February 2006 263 Declan Rice holds the Arsenal record signing price after a deal with West Ham United was completed in July 2023 for an initial 100 million This easily surpassed the former record of 72 million for Nicolas Pepe Arsenal s record home attendance is 73 707 for a UEFA Champions League match against Lens on 25 November 1998 at Wembley where the club formerly 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 260 while that at Emirates Stadium is 60 161 for a 2 2 draw with Manchester United on 3 November 2007 264 nbsp Chart showing Arsenal s league positions since admission to the Football League in 1893HonoursFurther information List of Arsenal F C seasons For honours won by Academy teams see Arsenal F C Under 23s and Academy Honours Arsenal s first ever 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 later when they won the Kent Senior Cup 265 266 Their first national senior honour came in 1930 when they won the FA Cup 267 The club enjoyed further success in the 1930s winning another FA Cup and five Football League First Division titles 52 268 Arsenal won their first league and cup double in the 1970 71 season and twice repeated the feat in 1997 98 and 2001 02 as well as winning a cup double of the FA Cup and League Cup in 1992 93 269 The 2003 04 season was the only 38 match league season unbeaten in English football history A special gold version of the Premier League trophy was commissioned and presented to the club the following season 270 Arsenal F C honours 271 Type Competition Titles Seasons Domestic First Division Premier League note 6 13 1930 31 1932 33 1933 34 1934 35 1937 38 1947 48 1952 53 1970 71 1988 89 1990 91 1997 98 2001 02 2003 04 FA Cup 14 1929 30 1935 36 1949 50 1970 71 1978 79 1992 93 1997 98 2001 02 2002 03 2004 05 2013 14 2014 15 2016 17 2019 20 EFL Cup note 7 2 1986 87 1992 93 FA Community Shield note 8 17 1930 1931 1933 1934 1938 1948 1953 1991 note 9 1998 1999 2002 2004 2014 2015 2017 2020 2023 Football League Centenary Trophy 1 1988 Continental Inter Cities Fairs Cup 1 1969 70 UEFA Cup Winners Cup 1 1993 94 record Other When the FA Cup was the only national football association competition available to Arsenal the other football association competitions were County Cups and they made up many of the matches the club played during a season 266 Arsenal s first first team trophy was a County Cup the inaugural Kent Senior Cup 18 Arsenal became ineligible for the London Cups when the club turned professional in 1891 and rarely participated in County Cups after this 20 272 Due to the club s original location within the borders of both the London and Kent Football Associations 273 Arsenal 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