Arsenal Football Club is a professional
football club based in
Holloway, London. The club play in the
Premier League, the top flight of English football. One of the
most successful clubs in English football, they have won 13
First Division and Premier League titles and a record 12
FA Cups.Founded in 1886, Arsenal became the first club from the south of England to join
the Football League in 1893. They won five League Championships and two FA Cups in the 1930s and became the second club to win the
League and FA Cup Double in the 20th century in the
1971. In the 1990s and 2000s, Arsenal won a Cup Double, two further League and FA Cup Doubles, went through the
2003–04 league season undefeated and became the first London club to reach the
UEFA Champions League Final.The club's colours are traditionally red and white. Founded in
Woolwich, south-east London, in 1913 they moved north across the city to
Arsenal Stadium in
Highbury. In 2006, they moved to the
Emirates Stadium in nearby Holloway. Arsenal contest the
North London derby with rivals
Tottenham Hotspur.Arsenal has one of the highest incomes and largest fanbases in the world.
[156][157] The club was named the
seventh most valuable association football club, valued at $1.3 billion, in 2015.
[158]==History==
Arsenal Football Club were formed as Dial Square in 1886 by workers at the
Royal Arsenal in
Woolwich, south-east London, and were renamed Royal Arsenal shortly afterwards.
[6] The club were renamed again to Woolwich Arsenal after becoming a
limited company in 1893.
[159] The club became the first southern member of
the Football League in 1893, starting out in the
Second Division, and won promotion to the
First Division in 1904. The club's relative geographic isolation resulted in lower attendances than those of other clubs, which led to the club becoming mired in financial problems and effectively bankrupt by 1910, when they were taken over by businessmen
Henry Norris and William Hall.
[160] Norris sought to move the club elsewhere, and in 1913, soon after relegation back to the Second Division, Arsenal moved to the new
Arsenal Stadium in
Highbury, North London; they dropped "Woolwich" from their name the following year.
[161] Arsenal only finished in fifth place in the second division during the last pre-war competitive season of 1914–15, but were nevertheless elected to rejoin the First Division when competitive football resumed in 1919–20, at the expense of local rivals
Tottenham Hotspur. Some books have reported that this election to division 1 was achieved by dubious means.
[162]Arsenal appointed
Herbert Chapman as manager in 1925. Having already won the league twice with
Huddersfield Town in
1923–24 and
1924–25 (see
Seasons in English football), Chapman brought Arsenal their first period of major success. His revolutionary tactics and training, along with the signings of star players such as
Alex James and
Cliff Bastin, laid the foundations of the club's domination of English football in the 1930s.
[163] Under his guidance Arsenal won their first major trophies – victory in the
1930 FA Cup Final preceded two League Championships, in
1930–31 and
1932–33. In addition, Chapman was behind the 1932 renaming of the local
London Underground station from "Gillespie Road" to "
Arsenal", making it the only Tube station to be named specifically after a football club.
[164]
Chart showing the progress of Arsenal's league finishes since the 1893–94 season
Chapman died suddenly of
1987, Graham's first season in charge. This was followed by a League title win in
1988–89, won with a last-minute goal in the
final game of the season against fellow title challengers
Liverpool. Graham's Arsenal won another title in
1990–91, losing only one match, won the
FA Cup and
League Cup double in 1993, and a second European trophy, the
European Cup Winners' Cup, in
1994.
[15][171] Graham's reputation was tarnished when he was found to have taken kickbacks from agent
Rune Hauge for signing certain players,
[172] and he was dismissed in 1995. His replacement,
Bruce Rioch, lasted for only one season, leaving the club after a dispute with the board of directors.
[173]
Arsenal's players and fans celebrate their 2004 League title win with an open-top bus parade.
The club's success in the late 1990s and first decade of the 21st century owed a great deal to the 1996 appointment of
Arsène Wenger as manager. Wenger brought new tactics, a new training regime and several foreign players who complemented the existing English talent. 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 (losing on penalties to
Galatasaray), were victorious in the
2003 and
2005 FA Cups, and won the Premier League in
2003–04 without losing a single match, an achievement which earned the side the nickname "
The Invincibles".
[23] The feat came within a run of 49 league matches unbeaten from 7 May 2003 to 24 October 2004, a
national record.
[24]Arsenal finished in either first or second place in the league in eight of Wenger's first eleven seasons at the club, although on no occasion were they able to retain the title.
[15] As of July 2013, they were one of only five teams, the others being Manchester United,
Blackburn Rovers,
Chelsea, and
Manchester City, to have won the Premier League since its formation in 1992.
[174] Arsenal had never progressed beyond the quarter-finals of the
Champions League until
2005–06; in that season they became the first club from London in the competition's fifty-year history to reach
the final, in which they were beaten 2–1 by
Barcelona.
[26] In July 2006, they moved into the
Emirates Stadium, after 93 years at Highbury.
[175]Arsenal reached the final of the
2007 and
2011 League Cups, losing 2–1 to Chelsea and
Birmingham City respectively. The club had not gained a major trophy since the 2005 FA Cup until 17 May 2014, when Arsenal beat
Hull City in the
2014 FA Cup Final, coming back from a 2–0 deficit to win the match 3–2.
[176] This qualified them for the
2014 FA Community Shield where they would play Premier League champions Manchester City. They recorded a resounding 3–0 win in the game, winning their second trophy in three months.
[177] Nine months after their Community Shield triumph, Arsenal appeared in the FA Cup final for the second year in a row, thrashing
Aston Villa 4–0 in the
final and becoming the most successful club in the tournament's history with 12 titles.
[178] On 2 August 2015 Arsenal beat Chelsea 1–0 at
Wembley Stadium to retain the Community Shield and earn their 14th Community Shield title.
[179]==Crest==
Arsenal's first crest from 1888
Unveiled in 1888, Royal Arsenal's first
crest featured three
cannon 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 cannon.
[32] 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.
[32]In 1949, the club unveiled a modernised crest featuring the same style of cannon below the club's name, set in
blackletter, and above the coat of arms of the
Metropolitan Borough of Islington and a scroll inscribed with the club's newly adopted Latin
motto,
Victoria Concordia Crescit "victory comes from harmony", coined by the club's programme editor Harry Homer.
[32] 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. 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,
[180] 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.
[181] 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.
[182]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.
[36]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.
[37] 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.
[36]In the 2011–12 season, Arsenal celebrated their 125th year 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.
[38]==Colours==
Arsenal's original home colours. The team wore a similar kit (but with redcurrant socks) during the
2005–06 season.
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.
[6] The shirt was redcurrant, a dark shade of red, and was worn with white shorts and socks with blue and white hoops.
[183][40]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.
[41]Regardless of which story is true, the red and white shirts have come to define Arsenal and the team have worn the combination ever since, aside from two seasons. The first was 1966–67, when Arsenal wore all-red shirts;
[40] 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 club reverted to their normal colours at the start of the next season.
[41] In the 2008–09 season, Arsenal replaced the traditional all-white sleeves with red sleeves with a broad white stripe.
[40]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;
[41] in 1938,
Hibernian adopted the design of the Arsenal shirt sleeves in their own green and white strip.
[184] 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.
[185] These teams still wear those designs to this day.For many years Arsenal's away colours were white shirts and either black or white shorts. 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 as Arsenal beat Liverpool to secure the
double for the first time in their history.
[44] 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,
[44] 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.
[186]As of 2009, the away kit is changed every season, and the outgoing away kit becomes the third-choice kit if a new home kit is being introduced in the same year.
[187]===Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors===Arsenal's shirts have been made by manufacturers including
Bukta (from the 1930s until the early 1970s),
Umbro (from the 1970s until 1986),
Adidas (1986–1994),
Nike (1994–2014), and
Puma (from 2014).
[47] Like those of most other major football clubs, Arsenal's shirts have featured sponsors' logos since the 1980s; sponsors include
JVC (1982–1999),
Sega (1999–2002),
O2 (2002–2006), and
Emirates (from 2006).
[40][41]==Stadiums==
For most of their time in south-east London, Arsenal played at the
Manor Ground in
Plumstead, apart from a three-year period at the nearby
Invicta Ground between 1890 and 1893. The Manor Ground was initially just a field, until the club installed stands and
terracing for their first Football League match in September 1893. They played 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.
[188][189]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.
[50] 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.
[50]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.
[190] 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.
[191]
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.
[50] 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.
[192]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.
[193]The project was initially delayed by red tape and rising costs,
[194]and construction was completed in July 2006, in time for the start of the 2006–07 season.
[195]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;
[57]some fans referred to the ground as Ashburton Grove, or the Grove, as they did not agree with corporate sponsorship of stadium names.
[196]The stadium will be officially known as Emirates Stadium until at least 2028, and the airline will be the club's shirt sponsor until the end of the 2018–19 season.
[197] 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.
[198]Arsenal's players train at the
Shenley Training Centre in Hertfordshire, a purpose-built facility which opened in 1999.
[199] 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.
[200] Arsenal's
Academy under-18 teams play their home matches at Shenley, while the
reserves play their games at
Meadow Park,
[201] which is also the home of
Boreham Wood F.C..==Supporters==
Arsenal fans often refer to themselves as "Gooners", the name derived from the team's nickname, "The Gunners". The fanbase is large and generally loyal, and 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),
[202] and as of 2006, the fourth-highest all-time average attendance.
[203] Arsenal have the seventh highest
average attendance of European football clubs only behind
Borussia Dortmund,
FC Barcelona,
Manchester United,
Real Madrid,
Bayern Munich, and
Schalke.
[204][205][206][207] 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.
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Arsenal supporters
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!. In addition to the usual English
football chants, supporters sing "One-Nil to the Arsenal" (to the tune of "
Go West") and "Boring, Boring Arsenal", which used to be a common taunt from opposition fans but is now sung ironically by Arsenal supporters when the team is playing well.
[70]There have always been Arsenal supporters outside of 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.
[208] A 2005 report by Granada Ventures, which at the time owned a 9.9% stake in the club, estimated Arsenal's global fanbase at 27 million.
[209]Arsenal's longest-running and deepest rivalry is with their nearest major neighbours,
Tottenham Hotspur; matches between the two are referred to as
North London derbies.
[210] Other rivalries within London include those with
Chelsea,
Fulham and
West Ham United. In addition, Arsenal and Manchester United developed a strong on-pitch rivalry in the late 1980s, which intensified in recent years when both clubs were competing for the Premier League title
[211] – so much so that a 2003
online poll by the
Football Fans Census listed Manchester United as Arsenal's biggest rivals, followed by Tottenham and Chelsea.
[212] A 2008 poll listed the Tottenham rivalry as more important.
[213]==Ownership and finances==
Arsenal's parent company, Arsenal Holdings plc, operates as a
[95] More recently, the book
Fever Pitch by
Nick Hornby was an autobiographical account of Hornby's life and relationship with football and Arsenal in particular. Published in 1992, it formed part of the revival and rehabilitation of football in British society during the 1990s.
[225] The book was twice adapted for the cinema – the
1997 British film focuses on Arsenal's 1988–89 title win,
[226] and a
2005 American version features a fan of baseball's
Boston Red Sox.
[227]Arsenal have often been stereotyped as a
defensive and "boring" side, especially during the 1970s and 1980s;
[70][228] many comedians, such as
Eric Morecambe, made jokes about this at the team's expense. The theme was repeated in the 1997 film
The Full Monty, in a scene where the lead actors move in a line and raise their hands, deliberately mimicking the Arsenal defence's
offside trap, in an attempt to co-ordinate their
striptease routine.
[95] 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.
[95]The 1991 television comedy sketch show
Harry Enfield & Chums featured a sketch from the characters Mr Cholmondly-Warner and Grayson where the Arsenal team of 1933, featuring exaggerated parodies of fictitious amateur players take on the Liverpool team of 1991.
[229]==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.
[230] An ex-professional and celebrity football team associated with the club also raised money by playing charity matches.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.
[231]==Statistics and records==
Thierry Henry is Arsenal's record goalscorer, with 228 goals in all competitions.
Arsenal's tally of 13 League Championships is the third highest in English football, after Manchester United (20) and Liverpool (18),
[232] with a record of 12 FA Cup titles.
[233] 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),
[15][234] and in 1993 were the first side in English football to complete the FA Cup and League Cup double.
[235] 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.
[236]Arsenal have one of the best top-flight records in history, having finished below fourteenth only seven times. Arsenal also have the highest average league finishing position for the 20th century, with an average league placing of 8.5.
[109] In addition, they are one of only six clubs to have won the FA Cup twice in succession, in 2002 and 2003, and 2014 and 2015.
[237] Arsenal also hold the record for the longest unbeaten run in the Premier League at 49 games, and are the only team to have gone an entire Premier League season unbeaten in 2003–04.
[238]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.
[112]Thierry Henry is the club's top goalscorer with 228 goals in all competitions between 1999 and 2012,
[113] having surpassed
Ian Wright's total of 185 in October 2005.
[239] Wright's record had stood since September 1997, when he overtook the longstanding total of 178 goals set by winger
Cliff Bastin in 1939.
[240] Henry also holds the club record for goals scored in the League, with 175,
[113] a record that had been held by Bastin until February 2006.
[241]Arsenal's record home attendance is 73,707, for a
UEFA Champions League match against
RC Lens on 25 November 1998 at
Wembley Stadium, where the 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,
[112] while that at Emirates Stadium is 60,161, for a 2–2 draw with Manchester United on 3 November 2007.
[242]Arsenal have also set records in English football, including the most consecutive seasons spent in the top flight (87 as of 2013–14) and the longest run of unbeaten League matches (49 between May 2003 and October 2004).
[24] 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.
[23]Arsenal also 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
A.C. 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.
[26]==Players=====First-team squad===
-
As of 7 August 2015.[243]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
|
No.
|
|
Position
|
Player
|
|
2
|
|
DF
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Mathieu Debuchy
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|
3
|
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DF
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Kieran Gibbs
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4
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|
DF
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Per Mertesacker (vice-captain)
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5
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DF
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Gabriel
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6
|
|
DF
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Laurent Koscielny
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7
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|
MF
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Tomáš Rosický
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8
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|
MF
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Mikel Arteta (captain)
|
|
10
|
|
MF
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Jack Wilshere
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11
|
|
MF
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Mesut Özil
|
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12
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FW
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Olivier Giroud
|
|
13
|
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GK
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David Ospina
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14
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|
FW
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}
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===Out on loan===Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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No.
|
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Position
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Player
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|
1
|
|
GK
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Wojciech Szczęsny (on loan at Roma until the end of the 2015–16 season)[244]
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22
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|
FW
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Yaya Sanogo (on loan at Ajax until the end of the 2015–16 season)[245]
|
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25
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DF
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Carl Jenkinson (on loan at West Ham United until the end of the 2015–16 season)[246]
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26
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|
GK
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}
|
|
===UEFA Reserve squad===
-
As of 15 October 2015.[250][126]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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No.
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|
Position
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Player
|
|
36
|
|
MF
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Ismaël Bennacer
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37
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MF
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Krystian Bielik
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43
|
|
GK
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Ryan Huddart
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44
|
|
GK
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Dejan Iliev
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45
|
|
FW
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Alex Iwobi
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46
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DF
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Chiori Johnson
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47
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MF
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Glen Kamara
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49
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|
GK
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}
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No.
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Position
|
Player
|
|
50
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|
FW
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Stephy Mavididi
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51
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DF
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Tafari Moore
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52
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|
DF
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Stefan O'Connor
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53
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|
DF
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Julio Pleguezuelo
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54
|
|
MF
|
Jeff Reine-Adélaïde
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|
55
|
|
MF
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Tyrell Robinson
|
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59
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|
FW
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}
|
===Former players===
==Current technical staff==
Arsène Wenger, who has been managing Arsenal since 1996.
:As of August 2014.[251]{| class="wikitable"|-! Position! Name|-| Manager| Arsène Wenger|-| Assistant manager| Steve Bould|-| rowspan="2" | First-team coaches| Boro Primorac|-| Neil Banfield|-| Goalkeeping coach| Gerry Peyton|-| Head of athletic performance enhancement| Shad Forsythe|-| Fitness coach| Tony Colbert|-| Head physiotherapist| Colin Lewin|-| Club doctor| Gary O'Driscoll|-| Kit manager| Vic Akers|-| Academy director| Andries Jonker|-| rowspan="2" | Under-21s coaches| Steve Gatting|-| Carl Laraman|-| Under-18s coach| Frans de Kat|-| Under-16s coach| Jan van Loon|}
==Managers==
There have been eighteen permanent and five caretaker managers of Arsenal since the appointment of the club's first professional manager, Thomas Mitchell in 1897.[128] The club's longest-serving manager, in terms of both length of tenure and number of games overseen, is Arsène Wenger, who was appointed in 1996.[252][130] Wenger is also Arsenal's only manager from outside the United Kingdom.[130] Two Arsenal managers have died in the job – Herbert Chapman and Tom Whittaker.[253]==Honours==
===Domestic===* First Division (until 1992) and Premier League[15][132][133][134][135]: Winners (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[15][132][133][134]: Winners (12): 1929–30, 1935–36, 1949–50, 1970–71, 1978–79, 1992–93, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2013–14, 2014–15 (record)* League Cup[15]: Winners (2): 1986–87, 1992–93* FA Community Shield (FA Charity Shield before 2002)[132][133][134][254]: Winners (14): 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1991 (shared), 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2014, 2015* Mercantile Credit Centenary Trophy[255][256]: Winners (1): 1988–89*London Challenge Cup[132][133][257][258][259]: Winners (10): 1921–22, 1923–24, 1930–31, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1953–54, 1957–58, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1969–70 (record)*Sheriff of London Charity Shield[132][133][134][260][261][262]: Winners (4): 1931, 1933, 1965, 1966 (record)*Southern Professional Floodlit Cup[263][264]:Winners (1): 1958–59*London Senior Cup[133][265][266]: Winners (1): 1890–91*London Charity Cup[133][267]: Winners (1): 1890*Kent Senior Cup[133][268]: Winners (1): 1890===European===* European Cup Winners' Cup[15]: Winners (1): 1993–94* Inter-Cities Fairs Cup[15]: Winners (1): 1969–70===Doubles===*1970–71: League and FA Cup*1992–93: FA Cup and League Cup*1997–98: League and FA Cup*2001–02: League and FA Cup==Arsenal Ladies==
Arsenal Ladies are the women's football club affiliated to Arsenal. Founded in 1987, they turned semi-professional in 2002 and are managed by Clare Wheatley.[269] Arsenal Ladies are the most successful team in English women's football. In the 2008–09 season, they won all three major English trophies – the FA Women's Premier League, FA Women's Cup and FA Women's Premier League Cup,[152] and, as of 2009, were the only English side to have won the UEFA Women's Cup, having done so in the 2006–07 season as part of a unique quadruple.[270] The men's and women's clubs are formally separate entities but have quite close ties; Arsenal Ladies are entitled to play once a season at the Emirates Stadium, though they usually play their home matches at Boreham Wood.[271]==Footnotes==
==Further reading==* * * * * * ==External links==
===Official websites===* Official website * Arsenal at the Premier League official website* Arsenal at the UEFA official website===News sites===
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