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| nickname = The Gunners <br /> [[Arsenal F.C. supporters|Gooners]] (supporters)
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| ground = [[Emirates Stadium]]
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| manager = [[Mikel Arteta]]
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'''The Arsenal Football Club''', commonly known as simply '''Arsenal''', is a professional [[association football|football]] club based in [[London Borough of Islington|Islington]], [[North London]], England. They compete in the [[Premier League]], the top tier of [[English football league system|English football]]. In domestic football, Arsenal have won 13 [[List of English football champions#Total titles won|league titles]] (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 [[FA Cup]]s, 2 [[EFL Cup|League Cup]]s, 17 [[FA Community Shield]]s, and a [[Football League Centenary Trophy]]. In [[UEFA competitions|European football]], they have one [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|European Cup Winners' Cup]] and one [[Inter-Cities Fairs Cup]]. In terms of trophies won, it is the [[List of football clubs in England by competitive honours won|third-most successful club in English football]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Arsenal FC – history, facts and records |url=https://www.footballhistory.org/club/arsenal.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925230002/https://footballhistory.org/club/arsenal.html |archive-date=25 September 2023 |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=footballhistory.org}}</ref>

Arsenal was the first club from southern England to join the [[English Football League|Football League]] in 1893, and it reached the [[Football League First Division|First Division]] in 1904. [[Relegated]] only once, in 1913, it continues the longest streak in the top division,<ref name="RSSSF_Div_Movements">{{cite web |last1=Ross |first1=James |last2=Heneghan |first2=Michael |last3=Orford |first3=Stuart |last4=Culliton |first4=Eoin |date=25 August 2016 |title=English Clubs Divisional Movements 1888–2016 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engall.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622041929/https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engall.html |archive-date=22 June 2023 |access-date=22 June 2023 |publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation}}</ref> and has won the second-most top-flight matches in English football history.<ref name="RSSSF1stLevelAllTime">{{cite web |last=Pietarinen |first=Heikki |title=England – First Level All-Time Tables |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engalltime.html |publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation |access-date=24 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824181412/http://www.rsssf.com/tablese/engalltime.html |archive-date=24 August 2017 |date=24 August 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> 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 Arsenal F.C. season|1970–71]], it won its first [[Double (association football)#England|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.<ref name="Independent: Hodgson">{{cite news |last=Hodgson |first=Guy |title=Football: How consistency and caution made Arsenal England's greatest |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-how-consistency-and-caution-made-arsenal-englands-greatest-team-of-the-20th-century-1133020.html |access-date=13 May 2016 |work=The Independent |date=17 December 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192410/http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-how-consistency-and-caution-made-arsenal-englands-greatest-team-of-the-20th-century-1133020.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |location=London}}</ref> Between 1998 and 2017, Arsenal qualified for the [[UEFA Champions League]] for an English football record nineteen consecutive seasons.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Dawson |first=Alan |title=Here's how much money Arsenal has lost after failing to qualify for the Champions League |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/arsenal-will-lose-50-million-if-the-club-fail-to-qualify-for-the-champions-league-2017-5 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US |archive-date=17 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417140419/https://www.businessinsider.com/arsenal-will-lose-50-million-if-the-club-fail-to-qualify-for-the-champions-league-2017-5 |url-status=live }}</ref>

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 F.C.|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]], [[Floodlight#Association football|floodlights]], and [[Squad number (association football)#First use of numbers|shirt numbers]];<ref name="Herbert Chapman Hall of Fame">{{cite web |title=Herbert Chapman |url=http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/halloffame/herbert-chapman |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418113836/http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/halloffame/herbert-chapman |archive-date=18 April 2016 |access-date=20 March 2016 |publisher=National Football Museum}}</ref> he also added the white sleeves and brighter red to the club's jersey.<ref>{{cite web |title=Arsenal |url=http://historicalkits.co.uk/Arsenal/Arsenal.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711145624/http://historicalkits.co.uk/Arsenal/Arsenal.htm |archive-date=11 July 2020 |access-date=11 July 2020 |website= |publisher=Historical Football Kits}}</ref> [[Arsène Wenger]] was the club's longest-serving manager and won the most trophies. He won [[List of FA Cup winning managers|a record]] seven FA Cups, and his third and final title-winning team set an [[Football records and statistics in England|English record]] for the longest top-flight unbeaten league run at 49 games between 2003 and 2004, receiving the nickname [[The Invincibles (English football)|The Invincibles]].

In 2006, the club moved to the nearby [[Emirates Stadium]]. With an annual revenue of £367.1m in the 2021–22 season,<ref>{{cite news|title=Deloitte Football Money League 2023|url=https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/sports-business-group/articles/deloitte-football-money-league.html|access-date=8 June 2023|publisher=Deloitte|archive-date=20 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120033918/https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/sports-business-group/articles/deloitte-football-money-league.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Arsenal was estimated to be worth US$2.26 billion by ''[[Forbes]]'', making it the world's [[Forbes' list of the most valuable football clubs|tenth-most valuable football club]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/soccer-valuations/?sh=299f6f5d198b |title=World's most valuable soccer teams |date=23 May 2024 |work=Forbes |access-date=8 June 2023 |archive-date=17 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230917130505/https://mb.moatads.com/n.js?e=35&ol=0&qn=%604%7BZEYwoqI%24%5BK%2BdLLU)%2CMm~t%7C990vv9L%24%2FoDb%2Fz(lKm3GFlNUU%2Cu%5Bh_GcS%25%5BHvLU%5B4(K%2B%7BgeG(%24y_%2CapE%3FSF(f%25%3BS%243O3P(ry5*ZRocMp1tq%5BN%7Bq%60RP%3CG.ceFW%7CoG%22mxT%3Bwv%40V374BKm55%3D%26npLvbR6thw0P%26oUK%3B(59LmmPghA.%5E*%24%26p39.aS%3B4oD%7D%60%3Fjc!L2LmqMs%3Cex1bxNTK7%2BuCTpY%3CZ.T%5B%2B%22gbzbSSr1r4V%40bLwA&tf=1_nMzjG---CSa7H-1SJH-bW7qhB-LRwqH-nMzjG-&vi=111111&rc=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1%2C0%2C0%2Cprobably%2Cprobably&rb=1-eDpKRLEIrmpgPLa0r1riEAhKBRM3uwndnCs78ABRGBCPEpDfmAqnEVFZ&rs=1-46KOVyphgEwLgg%3D%3D&sc=1&os=1-OQ%3D%3D&qp=00000&is=BBBBB2BBEYBvGl2BBCBBtUTBBRmsqbKW8BsrBu0rCFE48CRBeeBS2hWTMBBQeQBBn2soYggyUig0CBlWZ0uBBCCCCCCOgRBBiOfnE6Bkg7OxCb8MxOtJYHCBdm5kBhBBC9Y8oBXckXBR76iUUsJBCBBBBBBBBBWBSqj3BBBZeGV2BBBCMciUBBBjgEBBBBBB94UMgTdJMtEcpMBBBQBBBniOccBBBBBB47kNBBBBBBBBBBBBBhcjG6BBJM2L4Bk8BwCBQmIoRBBCzBz1BBCTClBBrbGBC4ehueB57NG9aJeRzBqEKiuwBBBB&iv=8&qt=0&gz=0&hh=0&hn=0&tw=&qc=0&qd=0&qf=1400&qe=900&qh=1400&qg=900&qm=0&qa=1400&qb=900&qi=1400&qj=900&to=000&po=1-0020002000002120&vy=ot%24b%5Bh%40%22oDgO%3DLlE6%3AYnIBMwqCf%5D)4%5Dz%2C%5B%26u9L%2F%2F%24b4%5DIAIbzbld%7Dt00%7Ca_BB%3FVxyEO%22zf4%5D%24cr16Zh5YigBghs%7ClTr1W*d%5B4kf%2FLyUoRdByZ%3C99Ks(I%7DY(T0c%7BDQ3MY.NjDby7p%26C&qr=0&ql=&qo=0&i=FORBES_PREBID_HEADER1&hp=1&wf=1&pxm=3&sgs=3&vb=-1&kq=1&hq=0&hs=0&hu=0&hr=0&ht=0&dnt=0&bq=11&f=0&j=&t=1694955905294&de=624600029364&rx=514065331694&m=0&ar=b92ee2a5-clean&iw=1fe56b3&q=1&cb=0&cu=1694955905294&ll=2&lm=0&ln=0&em=0&en=0&d=undefined%3Aundefined%3Aundefined%3Aundefined&cm=1&zMoatGSR=1&ph=&pj=standard&zGSRS=1&zGSRC=1&gu=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Flists%2Fsoccer-valuations%2F%3Fsh%3D3c6ea052198b&id=1&ii=4&bo=undefined&bd=undefined&zMoatOrigSlicer1=undefined&zMoatOrigSlicer2=undefined&dfp=true&la=undefined&gw=forbesprebidheader122641196143&fd=1&it=500&ti=0&ih=2&pe=1%3A778%3A778%3A0%3A1417&jm=-1&zMoatZone=undefined&zMoatSpecialSlot=No%20Special%20Slot%20Defined&fs=117&na=309539855&cs=0&callback=MoatDataJsonpRequest_11152314 |url-status=live }}</ref> while it is one of the most followed on [[social media]].<ref>{{cite news |date=10 January 2020 |title=Top 10: Europe's Most Popular Football Clubs on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok |url=https://www.ispo.com/en/markets/top-10-europes-most-popular-football-clubs-instagram-facebook-twitter-and-tiktok |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920174556/https://www.ispo.com/en/markets/top-10-europes-most-popular-football-clubs-instagram-facebook-twitter-and-tiktok |archive-date=20 September 2020 |access-date=10 January 2020 |publisher=ISPO}}</ref> The motto of the club is ''Victoria Concordia Crescit'', Latin for "Victory Through Harmony".

==History==
{{Further|History of Arsenal F.C. (1886–1966)|History of Arsenal F.C. (1966–present)|Arsenal Football Club Museum}} <!-- PLEASE READ BEFORE EDITING: This section aims to provide an elegant overview of Arsenal's history. While brevity is important, it is crucial to maintain accuracy and capture the essence of the club's journey in a fashion that is discernible for a lay reader. For more in-depth exploration of Arsenal's rich history, editors are encouraged to explore dedicated articles that delve into specific eras & milestones, however these should not detract from the central article. -->

===1886–1912: Dial Square to Royal Arsenal===
[[File:Arsenal 1888 squad photo.jpg|thumb|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 the 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.<ref name="dialsquare">{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/history/laying-the-foundations/-royal-arsenal-formed-in-woolwich |title='Royal Arsenal' formed in Woolwich |website=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=2 November 2018 |archive-date=25 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725142641/https://www.arsenal.com/history/laying-the-foundations/-royal-arsenal-formed-in-woolwich |url-status=live}}</ref>{{efn|group=note|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.<ref>
{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Andy |last2=Andrews |first2=Mark |title=How Arsenal's name changed – Dial Square|url=http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=7722|url-status=live|website=The Arsenal History |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150804075654/http://thearsenalhistory.com/?p=7722 |archive-date=4 August 2015 |date=10 January 2014}}</ref> [[Bernard Joy]] says Danskin was captain at founding.{{sfn|Joy|2009|p=2}} Danskin was made official captain the next month.<ref name="Royal Arsenal name"/>}} Dial Square played their first match on 11 December 1886 against the Eastern Wanderers and won 6–0. The club had been renamed Royal Arsenal by January 1887,<ref name="Royal Arsenal name">{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Andy |last2=Andrews |first2=Mark |title=How Arsenal's Name Changed – Royal Arsenal |url=http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=7726 |website=The Arsenal History |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501065626/http://thearsenalhistory.com/?p=7726 |archive-date=1 May 2015 |date=13 January 2014}}</ref>{{sfn|Masters|1995|p=91}} and its first home was [[Plumstead Common]],<ref name="Royal Arsenal name"/> though they spent most of their time playing at the [[Manor Ground (Plumstead)|Manor Ground]]. Their first trophies were the [[Kent Senior Cup]] and [[London Charity Cup]] in [[1889–90 in English football|1889–90]] and the [[London Senior Cup]] in [[1890–91 in English football|1890–91]]; these were the only [[County football association|county association]] trophies Arsenal won during their time in South East London.<ref name="FirstCountyCup">{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Andy |title=122 years ago today – Arsenal's first Silverware " The History of Arsenal |url=http://www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/3103 |website=blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329190212/http://www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/3103 |archive-date=29 March 2016 |date=1 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Andy |title=121 Years ago today – Royal Arsenal's last trophy " The History of Arsenal |url=http://www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/3154 |website=blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605041507/http://www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/3154 |archive-date=5 June 2016 |date=7 March 2012}}</ref> In 1891, Royal Arsenal became the first London club to turn professional.<ref name="TurnProfessional">{{cite web |url=http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=14579 |title=Royal Arsenal FC Turn Professional – The Truth |last=Kelly |first=Andy |date=9 May 2017 |website=The Arsenal History |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923114343/http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=14579 |archive-date=23 September 2017 |url-status=live |access-date=23 September 2017}}</ref>

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 [[English Football League|Football League]] when the club ascended later that year.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Andy |last2=Andrews |first2=Mark |title=How Arsenal's Name Changed – Woolwich Arsenal |url=http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=7728 |website=The Arsenal History |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205024313/http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=7728 |archive-date=5 February 2016 |date=20 January 2014}}</ref><ref name="arsenal2012">{{cite book |last1=Kelly |first1=Andy |last2=Andrews |first2=Mark |last3=Attwood |first3=Tony |date=1 August 2012 |isbn=978-1860837876 |title=Woolwich Arsenal FC: 1893–1915 The club that changed football |publisher=Hamilton House}}</ref>{{rp|5–21}} Woolwich Arsenal was the first southern member of the Football League, starting out in the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]] and reaching the [[Football League First Division|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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Davis |first=Sally |title=Woolwich Arsenal 1910 – the arrival of Hall and Norris |url=http://www.wrightanddavis.co.uk/Norris/SLWA10.html |website=wrightanddavis.co.uk |access-date=11 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410074122/http://www.wrightanddavis.co.uk/Norris/SLWA10.html |archive-date=10 April 2016 |date=December 2007}}</ref><ref name="arsenal2012" />{{rp|112–149}} Businessmen [[Henry Norris (businessman)|Henry Norris]] and William Hall became involved in the club, and sought to move them elsewhere.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=14520 |title=Did Henry Norris Really Buy Arsenal? |last=Kelly |first=Andy |date=12 April 2017 |website=The Arsenal History |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422072349/http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=14520 |archive-date=22 April 2017 |url-status=live |access-date=24 September 2017}}</ref><ref name="arsenal2012" />{{rp|22–42}}

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===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.<ref name="Kay">{{cite journal |last=Kay |first=Joyce |year=2008 |title=It Wasn't Just Emily Davison! Sport, Suffrage and Society in Edwardian Britain |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/09523360802212271 |url-status=live |journal=The International Journal of the History of Sport |volume=25 |issue=10 |pages=1343–1346 |doi=10.1080/09523360802212271 |issn=0952-3367 |s2cid=154063364 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230917130504/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523360802212271 |archive-date=17 September 2023 |access-date=27 September 2021 |hdl-access=free |hdl=1893/765}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mason |first=Rob |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yXrgDwAAQBAJ&q=suffragettes+burn+down+%22plumstead%22+grandstand&pg=PT15 |title=Sunderland AFC Miscellany |date=2012 |publisher=Pitch Publishing |isbn=9781909178236 |location=Brighton, UK |access-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230917130554/https://books.google.com/books?id=yXrgDwAAQBAJ&q=suffragettes+burn+down+%22plumstead%22+grandstand&pg=PT15 |archive-date=17 September 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Club moves from Woolwich to Highbury |url=https://www.arsenal.com/history/laying-the-foundations/club-moves-from-woolwich-to-highbury |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927195634/https://www.arsenal.com/history/laying-the-foundations/club-moves-from-woolwich-to-highbury |archive-date=27 September 2021 |access-date=27 September 2021 |publisher=Arsenal F.C.}}</ref> In 1919, the Football League controversially voted to promote The Arsenal, instead of relegated local rivals [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]], into the [[1919–20 Football League|newly enlarged]] First Division, despite only finishing fifth in the Second Division's last pre-war season of [[1914–15 Football League Second Division|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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Andy |last2=Andrews |first2=Mark |date=30 January 2014 |title=How Arsenal's Name Changed – Arsenal F.C. |url=http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=7732 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806204052/http://thearsenalhistory.com/?p=7732 |archive-date=6 August 2015 |access-date=12 June 2016 |website=The Arsenal History}}</ref>[[File:Herbert Chapman bust 20050922.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.7|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.{{sfn|Attwood|Kelly|Andrews|2012|p=112|ps=. ''Woolwich Arsenal FC: 1893–1915 The club that changed football''}}<ref name="conservation_plan">{{cite web |title=A Conservation Plan for Highbury Stadium, London |url=http://www.islington.gov.uk/DownloadableDocuments/Environment/Pdf/highburyconservationplan_2005.pdf |publisher=Islington Council |access-date=4 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204050811/http://www.islington.gov.uk/DownloadableDocuments/Environment/Pdf/highburyconservationplan_2005.pdf |archive-date=4 February 2012 |date=14 February 2005}}</ref> With record-breaking [[World football transfer record|spending]] and gate receipts, Arsenal quickly became known as the [[Bank of England club]].{{sfn|Joy|2009|pp=49, 75|ps=. ''Forward, Arsenal!''}}<ref name="Kelly2005">{{cite book |last=Kelly |first=Graham |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nn5tY8lLNl8C |title=Terrace Heroes: The Life and Times of the 1930s Professional Footballer |date=2005 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-7146-5359-4 |pages=26, 81–83}}</ref>

=== 1925–1934: Herbert Chapman's legendary Gunners ===
Arsenal's location and record-breaking salary offer lured star [[Huddersfield Town A.F.C.|Huddersfield Town]] manager [[Herbert Chapman]] in 1925.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Page |first1=Simon |title=Herbert Chapman: The First Great Manager |date=18 October 2006 |publisher=Heroes Publishing |isbn=978-0-9543884-5-4 |location=Birmingham |page=139}}</ref><ref name="Barclay2014">{{cite book |last1=Barclay |first1=Patrick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AeNsAAAAQBAJ |title=The Life and Times of Herbert Chapman: The Story of One of Football's Most Influential Figures |date=9 January 2014 |publisher=Orion |isbn=978-0-297-86851-4 |chapter=Arsenal: The Five-Year Plan}}</ref> Over the next five years, Chapman built a revolutionary new Arsenal. Firstly, he appointed an enduring new trainer, [[Tom Whittaker (footballer)|Tom Whittaker]] who would one day rise to become a fabled Arsenal manager himself.{{sfn|Whittaker|Peskett|1957|ps=. ''Tom Whittaker's Arsenal Story''}} With the help of player [[Charlie Buchan]], implemented the nascent [[WM formation]] which would serve as a stable bedrock to his outfit.<ref>{{cite book |author=Buchan, Charles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DZOZsXVCvS8C |title=Charles Buchan: A Lifetime in Football |date=1 April 2011 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-84596-927-1 |pages=95–97 |author-link=Charlie Buchan |orig-year=First Published 1955}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Wilson, Jonathan |title=Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics |date=2013 |publisher=Orion Publishing Group, Limited |isbn=978-1-4091-4586-8 |edition=Fifth anniversary fully revised and updated |pages=42–56 |author-link=Jonathan Wilson (writer)}}</ref> 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 (footballer)|Alex James]].

Transformed, Chapman's Arsenal claimed their first national trophy, the [[1930 FA Cup Final|FA Cup in 1930]], and League Championships followed in [[1930–31 Football League|1930–31]] and [[1932–33 Football League|1932–33]].<ref>{{cite book
| title=Champions all!
| first=Tony
| last=Brown
| publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham
| isbn=978-1-905891-02-3
| year=2007
| pages=6–7
| url=http://www.soccer.mistral.co.uk/books/ch6-10.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.soccer.mistral.co.uk/books/ch6-10.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref> Chapman also presided over off-pitch changes: white sleeves and shirt numbers were added to the kit;{{efn|group=note|The new shirts are exhibited in ''The Arsenal Shirt''.{{sfn|Elkin|Shakeshaft|2014|ps=. ''The Arsenal Shirt: Iconic Match Worn Shirts from the History of the Gunners''}} Newspaper accounts of the addition of white sleeves are provided by Mark Andrews.<ref>{{cite web |last=Andrews |first=Mark |title=Jumpers for Goalposts...No! Jumpers for Chapman's Iconic Kit Design |url=http://www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/6706 |publisher=AISA Arsenal History Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307232804/http://www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/6706 |archive-date=7 March 2016 |date=7 June 2013}}</ref> The contemporary discussion around the first use of shirt numbers, and its initial trial by [[Chelsea F.C.]], is provided by Neil Glackin.<ref>
{{cite web |last1=Glackin |first1=Neil |title=Numbered shirts and Chapman – re-writing the story once again |url=http://www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/10179 |publisher=AISA Arsenal History Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627042945/http://www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/10179 |archive-date=27 June 2014 |date=26 April 2014}}</ref>}} [[Arsenal tube station|a Tube station]] was named after the club;<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Andy |title=Arsenal underground station renamed earlier than believed |work=The Arsenal History |url=http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=12035 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620191808/http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=12035 |archive-date=20 June 2016 |date=31 October 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bull |first1=John |title=It's Arsenal Round Here: How Herbert Chapman Got His Station |url=http://www.londonreconnections.com/2015/its-arsenal-round-here/ |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160223063029/http://www.londonreconnections.com/2015/its-arsenal-round-here/ |archive-date=23 February 2016 |date=11 December 2015}}</ref> and the first of two opulent [[Art Deco]] stands was completed, with some of the first floodlights in English football.<ref name="conservation_plan" /> Suddenly, in the middle of the [[1933–34 in English football|1933–34]] season, Chapman died of [[pneumonia]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Warrior |first1=Yogi's |title=The Death of Herbert Chapman of Arsenal On This Day, 6th January 1934 |url=https://afchistory.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/the-death-of-herbert-chapman-of-arsenal-on-this-day-6th-january-1934/ |website=Arsenal On This Day: A Prestigious History of Football |access-date=1 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701111225/https://afchistory.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/the-death-of-herbert-chapman-of-arsenal-on-this-day-6th-january-1934/ |archive-date=1 July 2016 |date=6 January 2013}}</ref>

=== 1934–1947: Shaw, Allison and the Second World War ===
Chapman's death meant work was left to his colleagues [[Joe Shaw (footballer born 1883)|Joe Shaw]] and [[George Allison]], with both proving to be shrewd and consummate custodians of Chapman's excellent Arsenal team, seeing out a hat-trick of league wins with the [[1933–34 Football League|1933–34]], [[1934–35 Football League|1934–35]], and [[1937–38 Football League|1937–38]] titles, and then furthermore winning the [[1935–36 FA Cup|1936 FA Cup]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Joe Shaw |url=https://spartacus-educational.com/ARSEshawJ.htm |access-date=2023-10-01 |website=Spartacus Educational |archive-date=22 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722210145/http://spartacus-educational.com/ARSEshawJ.htm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=George Allison |url=https://spartacus-educational.com/ARSENALallison.htm |access-date=2023-10-01 |website=Spartacus Educational |archive-date=28 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128085228/https://www.spartacus-educational.com/ARSENALallison.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[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 [[List of footballers killed during World War II#Great Britain|club had had more players killed]] than any top flight club.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rippon |first1=Anton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTw7AwAAQBAJ |title=Gas Masks for Goal Posts: Football in Britain During the Second World War |date=21 October 2011 |publisher=The History Press |isbn=978-0-7524-7188-4 |chapter=Chapter Nine}}</ref> Furthermore, debt from reconstructing an ambitious North Bank Stand redevelopment greatly bled Arsenal's resources.{{sfn|Attwood|Kelly|Andrews|2012|pp=43–64|ps=. ''Woolwich Arsenal FC: 1893–1915 The club that changed football''}}<ref name="conservation_plan" />

=== 1947–1962: Tom Whittaker's meteoric Gunners ===
Despite this period of turbulence and churn, Arsenal returned to win the league in the second post-war season of [[1947–48 Football League|1947–48]]. This was [[Tom Whittaker (footballer)|Tom Whittaker]]'s first season as manager, and meant the club equalled the [[List of English football champions#List of champions|champions of England record]].<ref name="RSSSF_Div_Movements"/> Whittaker, despite his disarming humble and modest disposition, was oft-referred to as the "brains" behind charismatic Chapman's legendary Arsenal side.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tom Whittaker |url=https://spartacus-educational.com/ARSEwhittaker.htm |access-date=1 October 2023 |website=Spartacus Educational |archive-date=22 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422190134/https://spartacus-educational.com/ARSEwhittaker.htm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=4 June 2015 |title=How did Tom Whittaker get Chapman to believe in him, and other anniversaries – The History of Arsenal |url=https://blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/12161 |access-date=25 November 2023 |language=en-GB |archive-date=23 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923022652/https://blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/12161 |url-status=live }}</ref> He gathered a successful and highly skilled Arsenal side in spite of greatly limited resources, with a fiery and expansive style that drove great fanfare at the time.<ref name=":1" />

They won a third [[1949–50 FA Cup|FA Cup in 1950]], and then won a record-breaking seventh championship in [[1952–53 Football League|1952–53]] making Arsenal the most successful team in English history at the time.{{sfn|Soar|Tyler|2011|p=76|ps=. ''Arsenal 125 Years in the Making: The Official Illustrated History 1886–2011''}}<ref>{{cite web |date=25 November 2023 |title=League title win 1952/53 |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/features/20160216/league-title-win-1952/53 |access-date=25 November 2023 |website=League title win 1952/53 |archive-date=25 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125072113/https://www.arsenal.com/news/features/20160216/league-title-win-1952/53 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===1962–1984: Billy Wright, Bertie Mee and Terry Neill's cohorts===
[[File:Alan Ball and Bertie Mee.png|thumb|[[Alan Ball Jr.|Alan Ball]] (left) and [[Bertie Mee]] (who led Arsenal to their first [[Double (association football)|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Post-War Arsenal&nbsp;– Overview |url=http://www.arsenal.com/history/post-war-arsenal/post-war-arsenal-overview |url-status=live |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=27 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302080424/http://www.arsenal.com/history/post-war-arsenal/post-war-arsenal-overview |archive-date=2 March 2009}}</ref> Although Arsenal were competitive during these years, their fortunes had waned; the club spent most of the 1950s and 1960s in mid-table mediocrity.{{sfn|Sowman|Wilson|2016|ps=. ''Arsenal: The Long Sleep 1953 – 1970: A view from the terrace''}} Even former [[England national football team|England]] captain [[Billy Wright (footballer born 1924)|Billy Wright]] could not bring the club any success as manager, in a stint between 1962 and 1966.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brown |title=Champions all! |year=2007 |page=7}}</ref>

Arsenal tentatively appointed club [[physiotherapist]] [[Bertie Mee]] as acting manager in 1966.<ref>{{cite web |author=Yogi's Warrior |title=Bertie Mee Appointed Acting Manager of Arsenaln This Day, 20th June 1966 |url=https://afchistory.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/bertie-mee-appointed-acting-manager-of-arsenaln-this-day-20th-june-1966/ |website=Arsenal On This Day: A Prestigious History of Football |access-date=7 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160707165252/https://afchistory.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/bertie-mee-appointed-acting-manager-of-arsenaln-this-day-20th-june-1966/ |archive-date=7 July 2016 |date=20 June 2012}}</ref><ref name="Mee Obituary">{{cite news |last=Ponting |first=Ivan |title=Bertie Mee |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bertie-mee-9180594.html |access-date=4 July 2016 |work=The Independent |date=23 October 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306050313/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bertie-mee-9180594.html |archive-date=6 March 2016}}</ref> With new assistant [[Don Howe]] and new players such as [[Bob McNab]] and [[George Graham (footballer, born 1944)|George Graham]], Mee led Arsenal to their first [[EFL Cup|League Cup]] finals, in [[1967–68 Football League Cup|1967–68]] and [[1968–69 Football League Cup|1968–69]]. Next season saw a breakthrough, with Arsenal's first competitive European trophy, the [[1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup]]. [[1970–71 in English football|The season after]], Arsenal achieved an even greater triumph with their first [[1970–71 Football League|League]] and [[1970–71 FA Cup|FA Cup]] [[Double (association football)|double]], and a new [[List of English football champions#List of champions|champions of England record]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tossell |first1=David |last2=Wilson |first2=Bob |title=Seventy-One Guns: The Year of the First Arsenal Double |date=13 April 2012 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-78057-473-8 |page=105 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ch1-eQpfoQC}}</ref> 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 [[1971–72 FA Cup|1972]], and First Division runners-up in [[1972–73 Football League|1972–73]].<ref name="Mee Obituary"/>

Former player [[Terry Neill]] succeeded Mee in 1976. At the age of 34, he became the youngest Arsenal manager to date.<ref name="The Managers">{{cite web |last1=Media Group |first1=Arsenal |title=The Managers |url=http://www.arsenal.com/history/the-managers |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=5 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405102949/http://www.arsenal.com/history/the-managers |archive-date=5 April 2016 |date=30 June 2008}}</ref> 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 ([[1977–78 FA Cup|1978 FA Cup]], [[1978–79 FA Cup|1979 FA Cup]] and [[1979–80 FA Cup|1980 FA Cup]]), and lost the [[1980 European Cup Winners' Cup Final]] on [[penalty shootout (association football)|penalties]]. The club's only trophy during this time was the [[1979 FA Cup Final|1979 FA Cup]], achieved with a last-minute 3–2 victory over [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]], in a final is widely regarded as a classic.<ref name="FA Cup Finals">{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Andy |title=Arsenal's Complete FA Cup Final Record |url=http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=10493 |website=The Arsenal History |access-date=4 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418052939/http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=10493 |archive-date=18 April 2016 |date=27 May 2015}}</ref><ref>A 2005 poll of English football fans rated the 1979 FA Cup Final the 15th greatest game of all time. Reference: {{cite news
| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2005/04/19/sfnwin19.xml
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011211416/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fsport%2F2005%2F04%2F19%2Fsfnwin19.xml
| url-status=dead
| archive-date=11 October 2007
| title=Classic final? More like a classic five minutes
| last=Winter
| first=Henry
| work=The Daily Telegraph
| date=19 April 2005
| access-date=11 August 2008
| location=London
}}</ref>

===1984–1996: George Graham's Arsenal===
[[File:Tony Adams Statue.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|left|[[Tony Adams]] statue outside the [[Emirates Stadium]]]]
One of Mee's double winners, [[George Graham (footballer, born 1944)|George Graham]], returned as manager in 1986, with Arsenal winning their first League Cup in [[1986–87 Football League Cup|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]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Smyth |first=Rob |title=Football: Joy of Six: Rob Smyth picks the greatest defences |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2009/may/08/joy-of-six-great-defences |access-date=7 July 2016 |work=The Guardian |date=8 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310083329/http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2009/may/08/joy-of-six-great-defences |archive-date=10 March 2016 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>{{efn|group=note|[[Martin Keown]] was the 'fifth' member of the Back Four, but did not play for the club between 1986 and 1993.}} Graham's credo of prioritising defensive excellence seemingly clashed with the club's traditionally expansive motifs and many had skepticism whether it would work with the young squad at the club in that time period; however, his methods quickly gained a cult following after initial successes.<ref>{{cite web |date=10 May 2017 |title=Graham's Glory Years |url=https://www.arsenal.com/history/grahams-glory-years/graham-s-glory-years-overview |access-date=1 October 2023 |website=Graham's Glory Years |archive-date=11 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611174653/https://www.arsenal.com/history/grahams-glory-years/graham-s-glory-years-overview |url-status=live}}</ref>

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 [[Liverpool 0–2 Arsenal (26 May 1989)|final game of the season]] against fellow title challengers [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Clarke |first=Andy |title=Top Ten: Title Run-ins |url=http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11670_3335042,00.html |url-status=dead |publisher=[[Sky Sports]] |date=26 March 2009 |access-date=7 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104063057/http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11670_3335042,00.html |archive-date=4 January 2009}}</ref> Graham's Arsenal won another title in [[1990–91 Football League|1990–91]], losing only one match, won the [[1992–93 FA Cup|FA Cup]] and [[1992–93 Football League Cup|League Cup]] double in 1993, and the [[European Cup Winners' Cup]] in [[1993–94 European Cup Winners' Cup|1994]]. Graham's reputation was tarnished when he was found to have taken [[Kickback (bribery)|kickbacks]] from agent [[Rune Hauge]] for signing certain players, and he was dismissed in 1995.<ref>{{cite news |title=Why the FA banned George Graham |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/why-the-fa-banned-george-graham-1581266.html |access-date=15 July 2016 |work=The Independent |date=10 November 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111210021132/http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/why-the-fa-banned-george-graham-1581266.html |archive-date=10 December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Bower |first=Tom |title=Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-7434-4033-2|title-link=Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football}}</ref> His replacement, [[Bruce Rioch]], lasted for only one season, leaving the club after a dispute with the board of directors.<ref>{{cite news |last=Moore |first=Glenn |title=Rioch at odds with the system |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rioch-at-odds-with-the-system-1309564.html |url-status=live |work=The Independent |location=London |date=13 August 1996 |access-date=23 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903184528/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rioch-at-odds-with-the-system-1309564.html |archive-date=3 September 2018}}</ref>

===1996–2018: Arsene Wenger years===
[[File:GoldInvinciblesTrophy.jpg|thumb|upright|After completing the only unbeaten [[Premier League]] season, a unique gold trophy was commissioned to Arsenal.|alt=]]
The club metamorphosed during the tenure of French manager [[Arsène Wenger]], who was appointed in 1996. Attacking football,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Palmer |first1=Myles |title=The Professor: Arsène Wenger |date=31 March 2011 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-0-7535-4661-1 |pages=ix, 21, 90, 123, 148 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92dibTyUbo0C}}</ref> an overhaul of dietary and fitness practices,{{efn|group=note|These changes have received contemporary attention,<ref>{{cite news |title=The menu for World Cup success |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/97303.stm |access-date=11 July 2016 |publisher=BBC |date=23 May 1998 |archive-date=13 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713133422/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sport/football/97303.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> and later praise{{sfn|Cross|2015|ps=. ''Arsene Wenger: The Inside Story of Arsenal Under Wenger''}} and skepticism.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ronay |first1=Barney |title=The Manager: The absurd ascent of the most important man in football |date=5 August 2010 |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |isbn=978-0-7481-1770-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P38foEpwni4C |chapter=Chapter 30 – The Enlightenment}}</ref> For context of the broader use of science in English football, see ''Soccer Science''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Anthony |first1=Strudwick |title=Soccer Science |date=7 June 2016 |publisher=Human Kinetics |isbn=978-1-4504-9679-7 |pages=3–36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=61pNDAAAQBAJ |chapter=Part 1: Foundations of Soccer Science}}</ref>}} and elite scouting{{efn|group=note|Several analyses indicate strong league performance across the Wenger period, given Arsenal's footballing outlays, including a [[regression analysis]] on wage bills,<ref>
{{cite book |last1=Kuper |first1=Simon |last2=Szymanski |first2=Stefan |title=Soccernomics |date=24 May 2012 |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |isbn=978-0-00-746688-7 |edition=revised and expanded |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ve22HvdK_OcC |chapter=Chapter 6: Do managers matter? The cult of the white messiah}}</ref> regression on transfer spending,<ref>
{{cite web
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regression on both,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rodríguez |first1=Plácido |last2=Késenne |first2=Stefan |last3=García |first3=Jaume |title=The Econometrics of Sport |date=30 September 2013 |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |isbn=978-1-78100-286-5 |pages=53–62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zdAMAQAAQBAJ |chapter=Chapter 3: Wages transfers and the variation of team performance in the English Premier League}}</ref> and a [[Bootstrapping (statistics)|bootstrapping]] approach for the period 2004–09.<ref>
{{cite journal
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|volume=1
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|url=http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/30997/1/21649480%252E2013%252E768829.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/30997/1/21649480%252E2013%252E768829.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live
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 }}</ref>}} defined his reign. Accumulating key players from Wenger's [[France|homeland]], such as [[Patrick Vieira]] and [[Thierry Henry]], Arsenal won a second League and Cup double in [[1997–98 Arsenal F.C. season|1997–98]] and a third in [[2001–02 Arsenal F.C. season|2001–02]]. In addition, the club reached the final of the [[1999–2000 UEFA Cup]], were victorious in the [[2002–03 FA Cup|2003]] and [[2004–05 FA Cup|2005]] FA Cup finals, and won the Premier League in [[2003–04 FA Premier League|2003–04]] without losing a single match, an achievement which earned the side the nickname "[[The Invincibles (football)|The Invincibles]]".<ref name="invincibles">{{cite news
| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/3713537.stm
| title=Arsenal the Invincibles
| publisher=[[BBC Sport]]
| last=Hughes
| first=Ian
| date=15 May 2004
| access-date=11 August 2008
| archive-date=12 January 2016
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112213918/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/3713537.stm
| url-status=live
}}</ref> This feat came within a run of 49 league matches unbeaten from 7 May 2003 to 24 October 2004, a [[Football records and statistics in England|national record]].<ref name="49unbeaten">{{cite news
| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/3950453.stm
| title=Arsenal run ends at 49
| last=Fraser
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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.<ref name=FCHD>{{cite web
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The club had never progressed beyond the quarter-finals of the [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]] until [[2005–06 UEFA Champions League|2005–06]]; in that season, they became the first club from London to reach [[2006 UEFA Champions League Final|the final]] in the competition's fifty-year history, but were beaten 2–1 by [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]].<ref name="2006ucl"/> In July 2006, they moved into the [[Emirates Stadium]], after 93 years at Highbury.<ref>{{cite news
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Arsenal reached the finals of the [[2007 Football League Cup Final|2007]] and [[2011 Football League Cup Final|2011]] League Cups, losing 2–1 to [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] and [[Birmingham City F.C.|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 A.F.C.|Hull City]] in the [[2014 FA Cup Final]], coming back from a 2–0 deficit to win the match 3–2.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hytner |first=David |title=Arséne Wenger savours FA Cup win over Hull as Arsenal end drought |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/18/arsene-wenger-fa-cup-arsenal-hull-trophy-drought |url-status=live |work=The Guardian |location=UK |date=18 May 2014 |access-date=21 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708164526/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/18/arsene-wenger-fa-cup-arsenal-hull-trophy-drought |archive-date=8 July 2017}}</ref> A year later, Arsenal completed another [[2015 FA Cup Final|victorious FA Cup campaign]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Taylor |first=Daniel |title=Alexis Sánchez inspires Arsenal to win over Aston Villa |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/30/fa-cup-final-arsenal-aston-villa-alexis-sanchez |url-status=live |work=The Guardian |location=UK |date=30 May 2015 |access-date=30 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923180140/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/30/fa-cup-final-arsenal-aston-villa-alexis-sanchez |archive-date=23 September 2017}}</ref> and became the most successful club in the tournament's history by winning their 13th FA Cup in [[2016–17 FA Cup|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.<ref>{{cite news |last=McNulty |first=Phil |title=Arsenal beat 10-man Chelsea to a win record 13th FA Cup |publisher=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/39984089 |access-date=27 May 2017 |archive-date=28 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428173630/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/39984089 |url-status=live}}</ref> In his 21st and final season, Arsenal under Arsene Wenger [[2017–18 Arsenal F.C. season|finished sixth]] and [[2017 FA Community Shield|won the FA Community Shield]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Arsenal 2017/18 Premier League season review |work=Sky Sports |url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11670/11371039/arsenal-2017-18-premier-league-season-review |access-date=25 November 2023 |archive-date=20 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231220052741/https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11670/11371039/arsenal-2017-18-premier-league-season-review |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Arsenal 1-1 Chelsea (Arsenal won 4-1 on pens) |language=en-GB |publisher=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40766983 |access-date=25 November 2023 |archive-date=5 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605151339/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40766983 |url-status=live }}</ref> Wenger departed Arsenal following the end of the season on 13 May 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/huddersfield-vs-arsenal-result-goals-highlights-arsene-wenger-aubameyang-a8349441.html|title=Arsene Wenger bows out as Arsenal boss with win over Huddersfield|last=Critchley|first=Mark|date=13 May 2018|website=The Independent|access-date=14 July 2019|archive-date=14 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190714205940/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/huddersfield-vs-arsenal-result-goals-highlights-arsene-wenger-aubameyang-a8349441.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11670/11382525/arsenal-confirm-appointment-of-unai-emery-as-new-head-coach |title=Unai Emery announced as new Arsenal head coach |work=Sky Sports |access-date=25 May 2018 |archive-date=26 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526041448/http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11670/11382525/arsenal-confirm-appointment-of-unai-emery-as-new-head-coach |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/welcome-unai|title=Welcome Unai|publisher=Arsenal F.C.|date=28 May 2023|access-date=23 May 2018|archive-date=23 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523102932/https://www.arsenal.com/news/welcome-unai|url-status=live}}</ref> In Emery's [[2018–19 Premier League|first season]], Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the [[2018–19 UEFA Europa League|Europa League]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.premierleague.com/tables?co=1&se=210&ha=-1|title=Premier League Tables 2018/19|website=Premier League|access-date=14 September 2019|archive-date=17 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217125722/https://www.premierleague.com/tables?co=1&se=210&ha=-1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/0251-0e9ce2d466b4-6403225af104-1000--chelsea-win-the-2019-uefa-europa-league/|title=Chelsea win the 2019 UEFA Europa League|date=29 May 2019|website=[[UEFA]]|access-date=14 September 2019|archive-date=15 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215024306/https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/newsid=2604835.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/unai-emery-leaves-club|title=Unai Emery leaves club|date=29 November 2019|publisher=Arsenal|access-date=29 November 2019|archive-date=3 December 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20191203112353/https://www.arsenal.com/news/unai-emery-leaves-club|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/06/17/freddie-ljungberg-replaces-steve-bould-unai-emerys-assistant/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/06/17/freddie-ljungberg-replaces-steve-bould-unai-emerys-assistant/ |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Freddie Ljungberg replaces Steve Bould as Unai Emery's assistant as Arsenal shake up coaching staff|last=Sport|first=Telegraph|date=17 June 2019|work=The Telegraph|access-date=30 November 2019|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/soccer/arsenal/story/3999924/arsenal-sack-emery-after-worst-run-for-27-years-ljungberg-named-caretaker-manager|title=Arsenal sack Emery after worst run in 27 years|date=29 November 2019|website=ESPN.com|access-date=29 November 2019|archive-date=29 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129155717/https://www.espn.com/soccer/arsenal/story/3999924/arsenal-sack-emery-after-worst-run-for-27-years-ljungberg-named-caretaker-manager|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 2020–: Mikel Arteta era ===
On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain [[Mikel Arteta]] as the new head coach.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/mikel-arteta-joining-our-new-head-coach|title=Mikel Arteta joining as our new head coach|date=20 December 2019|publisher=Arsenal|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-date=31 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831091025/https://www.arsenal.com/news/mikel-arteta-joining-our-new-head-coach|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/20/arsenal-appoint-mikel-arteta-as-manager-to-replace-unai-emery|title=Mikel Arteta asks for Arsenal patience but aims for 'top trophies' as manager|date=20 December 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-date=28 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728234953/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/20/arsenal-appoint-mikel-arteta-as-manager-to-replace-unai-emery|url-status=live}}</ref> Arsenal finished the [[2019–20 Arsenal F.C. season|2019–20 season]] in eighth, their lowest finish since [[1994–95 FA Premier League|1994–95]], but [[2020 FA Cup Final|beat Chelsea 2–1]] to earn a record-extending [[2020 FA Cup Final|14th FA Cup]] win.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1 August 2020|title=FA Cup final 2020: Arsenal 2–1 Chelsea|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53546100|access-date=2 August 2020|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801202716/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53546100|url-status=live}}</ref> After the season, Arteta's title was changed from head coach to manager.<ref>{{cite web|date=10 September 2020|title=Arsenal change Arteta role as part of restructure|url=https://www.espn.com/soccer/arsenal/story/4178032/arsenal-change-arteta-to-manager-from-coach-as-part-of-restructuring-at-club|access-date=3 January 2021|website=ESPN.com|archive-date=14 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114085210/https://www.espn.com/soccer/arsenal/story/4178032/arsenal-change-arteta-to-manager-from-coach-as-part-of-restructuring-at-club|url-status=live}}</ref> On 18 April 2021, Arsenal were announced as a founding club of the breakaway European competition [[European Super League|The Super League]];<ref>{{cite web |title=The Super League |url=https://thesuperleague.com/ |website=thesuperleague.com |access-date=20 April 2021 |archive-date=18 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418235123/https://www.thesuperleague.com/ |url-status=live}}</ref> they withdrew from the competition two days later amid near-universal condemnation.<ref name="Arsenal announcement">{{Cite press release|title=An open letter to our fans|url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/open-letter-our-fans|date=20 April 2021|access-date=20 April 2021|publisher=Arsenal F.C.|archive-date=4 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404042803/https://www.arsenal.com/news/open-letter-our-fans|url-status=live}}</ref> Arsenal finished the [[2020–21 Arsenal F.C. season|2020–21 season]] in eighth place once again, not qualifying for a European competition for the first time in 26 years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Arsenal fails to qualify for Europe for 1st time in 25 years |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/english-premier-league/arsenal-fails-to-qualify-for-europe-for-1st-time-in-25-years-7327569/ |website=The Indian Express |access-date=9 December 2021 |date=24 May 2021 |archive-date=9 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209191234/https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/english-premier-league/arsenal-fails-to-qualify-for-europe-for-1st-time-in-25-years-7327569/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The season after ([[2021–22 Arsenal F.C. season|2021–22]]), Arteta had assembled the youngest outfit 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-15 |title=Our 2021/22 season in numbers |url=https://www.arsenal.com/premier-league-stats-review-emirates-stadium-attendance-goals-appearances |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=Our 2021/22 season in numbers |language=en |archive-date=26 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026143444/https://www.arsenal.com/premier-league-stats-review-emirates-stadium-attendance-goals-appearances |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Adam |date=24 May 2022 |title=Premier League: Top trends revealed for the 2021/22 season |url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/12611391/premier-league-top-trends-revealed-for-the-2021-22-season |access-date=9 September 2024 |website=Sky Sports |archive-date=28 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128184759/https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/12611391/premier-league-top-trends-revealed-for-the-2021-22-season |url-status=live }}</ref> They finished in fifth in the Premier League that year, and qualified for next season's [[2022–23 UEFA Europa League|UEFA Europa League]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Roché |first=Art de |title=Arsenal, trajectory and perspective – they've proved they belong in title races |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5495373/2024/05/17/arsenal-trajectory-and-perspective-whatever-happens-theyve-proved-they-belong-in-title-races/ |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=4 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604191850/https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5495373/2024/05/17/arsenal-trajectory-and-perspective-whatever-happens-theyve-proved-they-belong-in-title-races/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

By the [[2022–23 Arsenal F.C. season|2022–23 season]], Arsenal returned to the Champions League by coming second to [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]], setting a record for most time spent on top of the table without actually winning the league, ending on 84 points.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Drury |first1=Sam |title=Mikel Arteta: Arsenal 'must heal' after painful collapse in Premier League title race |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65660638 |access-date=3 July 2023 |publisher=BBC Sport |date=20 May 2023 |archive-date=3 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703122149/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65660638 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the [[2023–24 Arsenal F.C. season|2023–24 season]], Arsenal beat Manchester City to claim their 17th [[2023 FA Community Shield|FA Community Shield]], they finished second in the Premier League to Manchester City with an improved 89 points from their previous campaign.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-15 |title=Arsenal Analysed: 9 reasons why we shined in 23/24 |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/arsenal-analysed-9-reasons-why-we-shined-2324 |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=Arsenal Analysed: 9 reasons why we shined in 23/24 |language=en |archive-date=23 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923022749/https://www.arsenal.com/news/arsenal-analysed-9-reasons-why-we-shined-2324 |url-status=live }}</ref> In the [[2024-25 UEFA Champions League]], they reached the semi-finals only to lose to [[PSG]] 3-1 on aggregrate. <ref>{{cite news |title=Arsenal miss out on Champions League final after defeat in Paris |url=https://www.premierleague.com/news/4304103 |access-date=8 May 2025 |work=Premier League |publisher=Tom Hancock}}</ref>

==Crest==
{{Clear}}

{| class="center toccolours"
|+ '''Crests of Arsenal F.C. prior to current crest'''
|<gallery mode="packed" heights="120" style="line-height:100%">
File:Arsenal crest 1888.png|Royal Arsenal's first crest, adopted in 1888, two years after the formation of the club
File:Arsenal Crest 1930.svg|'Monogram' badge used in the [[1930 FA Cup Final]]
File:Arsenal Crest Art Deco.svg|'Art Deco Crest'
File:Arsenal Crest 1952.svg|Version of the 'Art Deco Crest' worn in the [[1952 FA Cup final]]
File:Arsenal Crest 1978-1989.svg|Cannon featured on shirt from 1960s to 1990s
File:Arsenal F.C. crest (1949–1990).png|VCC crest: used between 1949 and 2002
</gallery>
|}
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| image1            = Arsenal Crest 1990-1993.svg
| caption1          = {{circa|1990}}–1993
| alt1              = 1990–1993 Arsenal crest
| image2            = Arsenal Crest 1994-1995.svg
| caption2          = {{circa|1994}}–1995
| alt2              = 1996–2001 Arsenal crest
| image3            = Arsenal Crest 1996-2001.svg
| caption3          = {{circa|1996}}–2001
| image4            = Arsenal FC logo (2001-2002).svg
| caption4          = [[2001–02 Arsenal F.C. season|2001–02 season]]
| alt4              = 2001–2002 Arsenal crest
}}

Unveiled in 1888, Royal Arsenal's first [[crest (sports)|crest]] featured three [[cannon]]s 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 (artillery)|cascabel]] on each are clear indicators that they are cannons.<ref name="crest">{{cite web |url=http://www.arsenal.com/history/the-crest |title=The Crest |publisher=Arsenal F.C |access-date=11 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080812085724/http://www.arsenal.com/history/the-crest |archive-date=12 August 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.<ref name="crest" />

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.<ref name="crest"/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Roché |first=Art de |title=Arsenal's badge: The story of the iconic cannon |work=The New York Times |url=https://theathletic.com/3589464/2022/09/14/arsenal-badge-cannon-history/ |access-date=20 September 2022 |archive-date=20 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920172328/https://theathletic.com/3589464/2022/09/14/arsenal-badge-cannon-history/ |url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040416110605/http://www.arsenal.com/sportsappcontroller.jsp?command=forwardOnly&nextPage=theclubbadge4 |url=http://www.arsenal.com/sportsappcontroller.jsp?command=forwardOnly&nextPage=theclubbadge4 |title=New crest – press release |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |archive-date=16 April 2004 |access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref> Although the club had managed to register the crest as a trademark, and had [[Arsenal Football Club v Reed|fought (and eventually won) a long legal battle]] with a local street trader who sold "unofficial" Arsenal merchandise,<ref>{{cite web |title=''Arsenal v. Reed'' in the Court of Appeal |work=Swan Turton Solicitors |url=http://swanturton.com/arsenal-v-reed-in-the-court-of-appeal/ |url-status=live |publisher=Swan Turton |date=4 May 2003 |access-date=7 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160707192831/http://swanturton.com/arsenal-v-reed-in-the-court-of-appeal/ |archive-date=7 July 2016}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Arsenal go for a makeover |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/1795444.stm |url-status=live |publisher=BBC Sport |date=1 February 2004 |access-date=11 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112214109/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/1795444.stm |archive-date=12 January 2016}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web
| title=Crestfallen
| url=http://www.aisa.org/pdfs/crest_leaflet.pdf
| publisher=Arsenal Independent Supporters' Association
| access-date=11 August 2008
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061108191039/http://www.aisa.org/pdfs/crest_leaflet.pdf
| archive-date=8 November 2006
}}</ref>
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.<ref name="shirt badge">{{cite web
| url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/the-arsenal-shirt-badge
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091030164816/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/the-arsenal-shirt-badge
| archive-date=30 October 2009
| title=The Arsenal shirt badge
| publisher=Arsenal F.C
| access-date=24 January 2010
}}</ref>

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 [[Arsenal Stadium|Highbury Stadium]], including above the main entrance and inlaid in the floors.<ref name="artdeco">{{cite web
| url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/the-art-deco-crest
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091030172841/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/the-art-deco-crest
| archive-date=30 October 2009
| title=The Art Deco crest
| publisher=Arsenal F.C
| access-date=24 January 2010
}}</ref>
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.<ref name="shirt badge"/>

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 wreath|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.<ref name="125th anniversary crest">{{cite web |title=125th anniversary crest |url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/125-years-in-the-making-anniversary-crest |url-status=live |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=1 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505061048/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/125-years-in-the-making-anniversary-crest |archive-date=5 May 2011}}</ref>

Starting in the [[2021–22 Arsenal F.C. season|2021–22]] season, Adidas reintroduced the cannon-only crest on that season's away kit. It was the first time it had been seen on an Arsenal shirt since 1991. It would remain in use on the away kit in [[2022–23 Arsenal F.C. season|2022–23]] and in [[2023–24 Arsenal F.C. season|2023–24]] would be added to the third kit as well, before being used on all three kits in [[2024–25 Arsenal F.C. season|2024–25]] - marking the first time the crest would not be seen on an Arsenal kit since its introduction in 2002.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McNicholas |first1=James |title=Why Arsenal are replacing the club crest with the cannon on next season's kits |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5429949/2024/04/23/arsenal-cannon-crest-kit/ |access-date=1 October 2024}}</ref>

==Colours==
{{Commons|Arsenal F.C. kits}}

{{Football kit box
| align      = right
| pattern_la =
| pattern_b  = _collar
| pattern_ra =
| pattern_so = _hoops_navy
| leftarm    = 800000
| body       = 800000
| rightarm   = 800000
| shorts     = FFFFFF
| socks      = FFFFFF
| alt        = Dark red shirt, white shorts, socks with blue and white stripes
| kit_alt    = A dark-red shirt, white shorts and socks with blue and white stripes
| title      = Arsenal's original home colours. The team wore a similar kit (but with redcurrant socks) during the [[2005–06 Arsenal F.C. season|2005–06]] season.
}}
{{Football kit box |
| align = right
 | pattern_la =
 | pattern_b = _collarwhite
 | pattern_ra =
 | pattern_so = _hoops_white
 | leftarm = FFFFFF
 | body = FF0000
 | rightarm = FFFFFF
 | shorts = FFFFFF
 | socks = 000088
 | title = White sleeves first appeared on the shirt in 1933.
}}
{{Football kit box
| align      = right
| pattern_la = _blueborder
| pattern_b  = _bluecollarsimple
| pattern_ra = _blueborder
| pattern_so = _socks
| leftarm    = FFFF00
| body       = FFFF00
| rightarm   = FFFF00
| shorts     = 0000FF
| socks      = FFFF00
| alt        = Yellow shirt, blue shorts, socks blue
| kit_alt    = A yellow shirt, blue shorts and blue socks.
| title      = Yellow shirt with blue trim and blue shorts are Arsenal's traditional away colours.
}}
{{Football kit box
| align      = right
| pattern_la = _arsenal9495a
| pattern_b  = _arsenal9495a
| pattern_ra = _arsenal9495a
| pattern_sh = _
| pattern_so = 
| leftarm    = 00006A
| body       = 00006A
| rightarm   = 00006A
| shorts     = 00006A
| socks      = 00006A
| alt        = Two tone blue kit
| kit_alt    = Two tone blue kit
| title      = 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 F.C.|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.{{sfn|Soar|Tyler|2011|p=20|ps=. ''Arsenal 125 Years in the Making: The Official Illustrated History 1886–2011''}} The shirt was redcurrant, a dark shade of red, and was worn with white shorts and socks with blue and white hoops.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Arsenal home kit |url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/the-arsenal-kit |access-date=28 October 2012 |archive-date=17 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717204240/https://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/the-arsenal-kit |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="historicalkits">{{cite web
| url=http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Arsenal/Arsenal.htm
| title=Arsenal
| work=Historical Football Kits
| publisher=D & M Moor
| access-date=8 December 2006
| archive-date=27 May 2019
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527155718/http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Arsenal/Arsenal.htm
| url-status=live
}}</ref>

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 (cartoonist)|Tom Webster]], with whom Chapman played golf.<ref name="kitdesign">{{cite web |title=Arsenal Kit Design |url=http://www.arsenal.com/history/kit-design |url-status=dead |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=8 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019003758/http://www.arsenal.com/history/kit-design |archive-date=19 October 2008}}</ref> 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;<ref name="historicalkits"/> 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.<ref name="kitdesign"/> In the 2008–09 season, Arsenal replaced the traditional all-white sleeves with red sleeves that bore a broad white stripe.<ref name="historicalkits"/>

Arsenal's home colours have been the inspiration for at least three other clubs. In 1909, [[AC Sparta Prague|Sparta Prague]] adopted a dark red kit like the one Arsenal wore at the time;<ref name="kitdesign"/> in 1938, [[Hibernian F.C.|Hibernian]] adopted the design of the Arsenal shirt sleeves in their own green-and-white strip.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hibernian |url=http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Scottish_Football_League/Hibernian/hibernian.htm |url-status=live |work=Historical Football Kits |publisher=D & M Moor |access-date=11 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821120715/http://historicalkits.co.uk/Scottish_Football_League/Hibernian/hibernian.htm |archive-date=21 August 2008}}</ref> In 1941, Luis Robledo, an England-schooled founder of [[Independiente Santa Fe|Santa Fe]] and a fan of Arsenal, selected the main colours for his newly created team. In 1920, [[S.C. Braga|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''.<ref>{{cite news |author=Rui Matos Pereira |title=Secret of Braga's success |url=https://video.uefa.com/news/newsid=356684.html |url-status=dead |publisher=UEFA |date=21 October 2005 |access-date=23 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200311212945/https://www.uefa.com/video/index.html |archive-date=11 March 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref name=cupfinal>{{cite news |url=http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/English_Football_League/FA_Cup_Finals/index.html |title=FA Cup Finals |access-date=4 October 2013 |work=Historical Football Kits |archive-date=21 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921192132/http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/English_Football_League/FA_Cup_Finals/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Arsenal/Arsenal-change-kits.html |title=Arsenal Away Kits |publisher=historicalkits |access-date=8 November 2019 |archive-date=18 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191118193903/http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Arsenal/Arsenal-change-kits.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> Arsenal reached the [[1972 FA Cup Final|FA Cup final]] again the following year wearing the red-and-white home strip and were beaten by [[Leeds United A.F.C.|Leeds United]]. Arsenal then competed in three consecutive FA Cup finals between 1978 and 1980 wearing their "lucky" yellow and blue strip,<ref name=cupfinal/> 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, Inc.|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.<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Arsenal/Arsenal-change-kits.html
| title=Arsenal Change Kits
| work=Historical Football Kits
| publisher=D & M Moor
| access-date=27 November 2009
| archive-date=19 September 2018
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919090548/http://historicalkits.co.uk/Arsenal/Arsenal-change-kits.html
| url-status=live
}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://www.arsenal.com/the-club/corporate-info/the-club-charter
| title=Club Charter
| publisher=Arsenal F.C.
| access-date=23 October 2009
| archive-date=12 August 2008
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080812090815/http://www.arsenal.com/the-club/corporate-info/the-club-charter
| url-status=live
}}</ref>

After [[Puma SE|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.<ref>{{cite news
| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/arsenal-puma-kit-puma-to-release-three-new-shirts-every-season-9612371.html
| title=Puma to release three new shirts every season
| work=The Independent
| access-date=26 April 2017
| date=17 July 2014
| archive-date=27 April 2017
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427102922/http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/arsenal-puma-kit-puma-to-release-three-new-shirts-every-season-9612371.html
| url-status=live
}}</ref> From the 2019–20 season Arsenal's kits are manufactured by [[Adidas]].<ref>{{cite web|title=ADIDAS AND ARSENAL LAUNCH NEW PARTNERSHIP|date=July 2019|url=https://news.adidas.com/football/adidas-and-arsenal-launch-new-partnership-with-2019-20-home-kit/s/a792ee1b-7f39-4f66-a095-a689e151ec5b|publisher=Adidas|access-date=1 July 2019|archive-date=21 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221090612/https://news.adidas.com/fooTBAll/adidas-and-arsenal-launch-new-partnership-with-2019-20-home-kit/s/a792ee1b-7f39-4f66-a095-a689e151ec5b|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors===
{| style="width:480px; float:Left; padding-right: 1em; text-align:center"
|-
|valign=top width=90%|
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Arsenal kits<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Arsenal/Arsenal.htm|title=Arsenal|publisher=Historical Football Kits|accessdate=27 January 2022|archive-date=27 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527155718/http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Arsenal/Arsenal.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! Period
! Kit manufacturer
! Shirt sponsor (chest)
! Shirt sponsor (sleeve)
|-
| 1886–1930
|| Unidentified
| rowspan="3" | None
| rowspan="10" | None
|-
| 1930–1970
|| [[Bukta]]
|-
| 1971–1981
| rowspan="2" | [[Umbro]]
|-
| 1981–1986
| rowspan="3" | [[JVC]]
|-
| 1986–1994
|| [[Adidas]]
|-
| 1994–1999
| rowspan="4" | [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]]
|-
| 1999–2002
|| [[Dreamcast]]<br /> [[Sega]]
|-
| 2002–2006
|| [[O2 (UK)|O2]]
|-
| 2006–2014
| rowspan="4" | [[Emirates (airline)|Emirates]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.emirates.com/media-centre/emirates-and-arsenal-renew-sponsorship-deal |title=Emirates and Arsenal Renew Sponsorship Deal |website=www.emirates.com |access-date=24 February 2019 |archive-date=14 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714222642/https://www.emirates.com/media-centre/emirates-and-arsenal-renew-sponsorship-deal |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2014–2018
| rowspan="2" | [[Puma (brand)|Puma]]
|-
| 2018–2019
| rowspan="2" | [[Rwanda Development Board|Visit Rwanda]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Arsenal partner with 'Visit Rwanda' |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/club-welcomes-visit-rwanda-new-partner |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=23 May 2018 |archive-date=2 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802014646/https://www.arsenal.com/news/club-welcomes-visit-rwanda-new-partner |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 2019–present
|| [[Adidas]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/adidas-and-arsenal-launch-new-home-kit |title=Adidas and Arsenal launch new home kit |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=1 July 2019 |archive-date=1 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701174645/https://www.arsenal.com/news/adidas-and-arsenal-launch-new-home-kit |url-status=live }}</ref>
|}
|}
{{clear}}

==Stadiums==
[[File:Manor Ground, Woolwich Arsenal vs. Everton.jpg|thumb|right|[[Manor Ground (Plumstead)|Manor Ground]], Woolwich Arsenal vs. [[Everton F.C.|Everton]]]]
Before joining the Football League, Arsenal played briefly on [[Plumstead Common]], then at the [[Manor Ground, Plumstead|Manor Ground]] in [[Plumstead]], then spent three years between 1890 and 1893 at the nearby [[Invicta Ground]]. Upon joining the Football League in 1893, the club returned to the Manor Ground and installed stands and [[terrace (stadium)|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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Inglis |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Inglis |title=Football Grounds of Britain |orig-year=1985 |edition=3rd |year=1996 |publisher=CollinsWillow |location=London |isbn=0-00-218426-5 |pages=16–17}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Suspension of the Plumstead Ground |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=7 February 1895 |page=6}}</ref>

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.<ref name="conservation_plan"/> 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.<ref name="conservation_plan"/>

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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=The+Club&article=344883&Title=Highbury |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111223345/http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=The+Club&article=344883&Title=Highbury |archive-date=11 January 2008 |title=Highbury |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |url-status=dead}}</ref> This capacity had to be reduced further during [[UEFA Champions League|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 Stadium (1923)|Wembley]], which could house more than 70,000 spectators.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/138932.stm | title=Arsenal get Wembley go-ahead |publisher=BBC Sport | date=24 July 1998 | access-date=11 August 2008 | archive-date=12 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112214641/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/138932.stm | url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Arsenal Stadium interior North Bank.jpg|thumb|right|The North Bank Stand, [[Arsenal Stadium]], [[Highbury]]|alt=A grandstand at a sports stadium. The seats are predominantly red.]]
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.<ref name="conservation_plan"/> 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/arsenal-consider-leaving-hallowed-marble-halls-1246012.html |title=Arsenal consider leaving hallowed marble halls |work=The Independent |first=Clare |last=Garner |date=18 August 1997 |access-date=23 October 2009 |location=London |archive-date=31 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131180450/http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/arsenal-consider-leaving-hallowed-marble-halls-1246012.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 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&nbsp;metres south-west of Highbury.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/1011234.stm | title=Arsenal unveil new stadium plans |publisher=BBC Sport | date=7 November 2000 | access-date=11 August 2008 | archive-date=12 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112214641/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/1011234.stm | url-status=live }}</ref> The project was initially delayed by red tape and rising costs,<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/2953273.stm | title=Arsenal stadium delay |publisher=BBC Sport | date=16 April 2003 | access-date=11 August 2008 | archive-date=12 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112214644/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/2953273.stm | url-status=live }}</ref> and construction was completed in July 2006, in time for the start of the 2006–07 season.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bergkamp given rousing farewell |publisher=BBC Sport |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/5203954.stm |date=22 July 2006 |access-date=23 August 2007 |archive-date=3 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303115618/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/5203954.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> The stadium was named after its sponsors, the airline company [[Emirates (airline)|Emirates]], with whom the club signed the largest sponsorship deal in [[Football in England|English football]] history, worth around £100&nbsp;million.<ref name="emiratesdeal">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/3715678.stm | title=Arsenal name new ground |publisher=BBC Sport | date=5 October 2004 | access-date=11 August 2008 | archive-date=10 September 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910025611/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/3715678.stm | url-status=live }}</ref> Some fans referred to the ground as Ashburton Grove, or the Grove, as they did not agree with corporate sponsorship of stadium names.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.arsenal-world.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=283908 | title=The 'E' Word | work=Arsenal World | last=Dawes | first=Brian | year=2006 | publisher=Footymad | access-date=11 August 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008060533/http://www.arsenal-world.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=283908 | archive-date=8 October 2006 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |last=Riach |first=James |title=Arsenal's new Emirates sponsorship deal to fund transfers and salaries |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/nov/23/arsenal-emirates-airline-sponsorship-deal |access-date=17 December 2012 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=23 November 2012 |location=London |archive-date=30 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330113757/http://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/nov/23/arsenal-emirates-airline-sponsorship-deal |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/02/19/arsenal-agree-200m-shirt-sponsorship-deal-emirates-2024/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/02/19/arsenal-agree-200m-shirt-sponsorship-deal-emirates-2024/ |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Arsenal agree £200m shirt sponsorship deal with Emirates until 2024 |last=Wilson |first=Jeremy |date=19 February 2018 |work=The Telegraph |access-date=25 February 2018 |issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/emirates-stadium-stands-to-be-re-named Emirates Stadium stands to be renamed] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527215412/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/emirates-stadium-stands-to-be-re-named |date=27 May 2017 }} Arsenal FC, 19 July 2010</ref> The capacity of the Emirates now stands at 60,704.<ref name="cap2021">{{cite web |title=Premier League Handbook 2020/21 |url=https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/document/2021/04/07/6ebff069-a7ee-415d-afbd-15878b6d33b2/2020-21-PL-Handbook-240321.pdf|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412002820/https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/document/2021/04/07/6ebff069-a7ee-415d-afbd-15878b6d33b2/2020-21-PL-Handbook-240321.pdf|archive-date=12 April 2021 |publisher=Premier League |access-date=12 April 2021|page=4}}</ref>

Arsenal's players train at the [[Shenley Training Centre]] in Hertfordshire, a purpose-built facility which opened in 1999.<ref>{{cite news
 | url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/archive/arsenal-gets-a-complex
 | title=Arsenal gets a complex
 | magazine=The Architects' Journal
 | first=David
 | last=Taylor
 | date=21 October 1999
 | access-date=20 January 2010
 | archive-date=6 September 2018
 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906064406/https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/arsenal-gets-a-complex/774448.article
 | url-status=live
 }}</ref>
Before that the club used facilities on a nearby site owned by the [[University College London Union|University College of London Students' Union]]. Until 1961 they had trained at Highbury.<ref>{{cite web
 | url=http://www.arsenal.com/the-club/training-centre
 | title=The Training Centre
 | publisher=Arsenal F.C.
 | access-date=11 August 2008
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080812090836/http://www.arsenal.com/the-club/training-centre
 | archive-date= 12 August 2008
| url-status=live}}</ref>
Arsenal's [[Arsenal F.C. Academy|Academy under-18]] teams play their home matches at Shenley, while the [[Arsenal F.C. Reserves|reserves]] play their games at [[Meadow Park (Borehamwood)|Meadow Park]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/youth-sides-set-to-play-at-meadow-park |title=Youth sides to play at Meadow Park |date=30 July 2013 |access-date=5 August 2013 |archive-date=20 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520221805/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/youth-sides-set-to-play-at-meadow-park |url-status=live}}</ref> which is also the home of [[Borehamwood F.C.|Boreham Wood]]. Both the Academy under-18 team and the reserves occasionally play their big games at the Emirates in front of a crowd reduced to only the lower west stand.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/fixture/academy/2018-may-08/fc-porto#!match-news |title=08/05/2018 – FC Porto – Premier League International Cup – Under 23 – H |date=8 May 2018 |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=14 May 2018 |archive-date=15 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515044136/https://www.arsenal.com/fixture/academy/2018-may-08/fc-porto#!match-news |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/fixture/academy/2018-apr-30/chelsea-u18#!match-news |title=30/04/2018 – Chelsea U18 – FA Youth Cup – Under 18 – H |date=30 April 2018 |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=14 May 2018 |archive-date=15 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515044041/https://www.arsenal.com/fixture/academy/2018-apr-30/chelsea-u18#!match-news |url-status=live}}</ref>

{{wide image|Emirates Stadium - East stand Club Level.jpg|1367px|align-cap=center|A [[panorama]] of the [[Emirates Stadium]] before a match}}

==Supporters and rivalries==
{{further|Arsenal F.C. supporters}}
[[File:Arsenal Flag (7100433493).jpg|thumb|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),<ref>{{cite web |author=Kempster, Tony |title=Attendances 2007/08 |url=http://www.tonykempster.co.uk/prematt.htm?comp=1 |access-date=11 August 2008 |archive-date=25 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225014837/http://www.tonykempster.co.uk/prematt.htm?comp=1 |url-status=live}}</ref> and, as of 2015, the third-highest all-time average attendance.<ref name="All Time League Attendance">{{cite web |title=All Time League Attendance Records |url=http://www.nufc.com/2015-16html/attendance-all-time.html |website=nufc.com|publisher=NUFC |access-date=6 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406083542/http://www.nufc.com/2015-16html/attendance-all-time.html |archive-date=6 April 2016 |date=22 September 2015}} Some pre-war attendance figures used by this source were estimates and may not be entirely accurate.</ref> Arsenal have the seventh highest average attendance of European football clubs only behind [[Borussia Dortmund]], [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]], [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]], [[Real Madrid C.F.|Real Madrid]], [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]] and [[FC Schalke 04|Schalke 04]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://soccernet.espn.go.com/stats/attendance/_/league/ger.1/year/2010/german-bundesliga?cc=5901 |title=German Bundesliga Stats: Team Attendance&nbsp;– 2010–11 |work=[[ESPNsoccernet]] |access-date=7 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026124256/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/stats/attendance/_/league/ger.1/year/2010/german-bundesliga |archive-date=26 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://arxiu.fcbarcelona.cat/web/english/noticies/club/temporada10-11/05/17/n110517117527.html |title=Camp Nou league attendances rise by 2.7% |publisher=FC Barcelona |date=17 May 2011 |access-date=13 August 2012 |archive-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708133249/http://arxiu.fcbarcelona.cat/web/english/noticies/club/temporada10-11/05/17/n110517117527.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://soccernet.espn.go.com/stats/attendance/_/league/eng.1/year/2010/barclays-premier-league?cc=5901 |title= Barclays Premier League Stats: Team Attendance&nbsp;– 2010–11 |work=[[ESPNsoccernet]] |access-date=7 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026112107/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/stats/attendance/_/league/eng.1/year/2010/barclays-premier-league |archive-date=26 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://soccernet.espn.go.com/stats/attendance/_/league/ESP.1/year/2010/spanish-primera-division?cc=5901 |title=Spanish La Liga Stats: Team Attendance&nbsp;– 2010–11 |work=[[ESPNsoccernet]] |access-date=7 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403134314/http://espnfc.com/stats/attendance/_/league/esp.1/year/2010/spanish-primera-division |archive-date=3 April 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The club's location, adjoining wealthy areas such as [[Canonbury]] and [[Barnsbury]], mixed areas such as [[Islington]], [[Holloway, London|Holloway]], [[Highbury]], and the adjacent [[London Borough of Camden]], and largely working-class areas such as [[Finsbury Park (district)|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, London|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|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 [[fanzine]]s 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arsenal.com/assets/_files/documents/jul_08/gun__1215526755_charter_report_20062007.doc |format=Word document |title=Fans Report 2006/2007 |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=7 September 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080910062129/http://www.arsenal.com/assets/_files/documents/jul_08/gun__1215526755_charter_report_20062007.doc |archive-date= 10 September 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> A 2011 report by SPORT+MARKT estimated Arsenal's global fanbase at 113&nbsp;million.<ref name="SPORT+MARKT analysis">{{cite news |last=O'Connor |first=Ashling |title=Liverpool lag in fight for global fan supremacy as TV row grows |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/liverpool-lag-in-fight-for-global-fan-supremacy-as-tv-row-grows-h8zk7bxmb88 |work=[[The Times]] |access-date=22 March 2016 |archive-date=4 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204190233/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/premierleague/article3192868.ece |url-status=live}}</ref> The club's social media activity was the fifth highest in world football during the 2014–15 season.<ref name="Deloitte Football Money League">{{cite web |title=Deloitte Football Money League |url=http://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/uk/Documents/sports-business-group/uk-deloitte-sport-football-money-league-2016.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/uk/Documents/sports-business-group/uk-deloitte-sport-football-money-league-2016.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |publisher=Deloitte |access-date=21 January 2016}}</ref>

===Chants===
The team's anthem is "[[The Angel (North London Forever)]]" by [[Louis Dunford]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/premier-league-leeds-united-mikel-arteta-post-match-interview-emirates-stadium |title=Arteta – It was emotional |last=James |first=Josh |date=8 May 2022 |website=arsenal.com |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=10 May 2022 |archive-date=23 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923022721/https://www.arsenal.com/premier-league-leeds-united-mikel-arteta-post-match-interview-emirates-stadium |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://theathletic.com/3300095/2022/05/08/north-london-forever-the-goosebumps-moment-that-captured-the-spirit-of-arsenal-past-present-and-future/ |title='North London forever' – the goosebumps moment that captured the spirit of Arsenal past, present and future |last=Lawrence |first=Amy |date=9 May 2022 |website=theathletic.com |publisher=[[The Athletic]] |access-date=10 May 2022 |archive-date=9 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509041803/https://theathletic.com/3300095/2022/05/08/north-london-forever-the-goosebumps-moment-that-captured-the-spirit-of-arsenal-past-present-and-future/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/transfer-news/arsenal-trial-new-anthem-the-23898105 |title=Arsenal trial new anthem 'The Angel' at the Emirates Stadium ahead of Leeds United clash |last=Davison |first=Chris |date=8 May 2022 |website=football.london |publisher= |access-date=10 May 2022}}</ref> The song is typically played at Arsenal home games before a match.

In addition to the usual English [[football chant]]s, Arsenal's supporters sing "One-Nil to the Arsenal" (to the tune of "[[Go West (song)|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.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,353528,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930094455/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,353528,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 September 2007|title=Boring, Boring Arsenal|magazine=Time|date=22 September 2002|last=Noble|first=Kate|access-date=2 June 2013}}</ref>

===Rivalries===
{{main|North London derby|Arsenal F.C.–Manchester United F.C. rivalry|Arsenal F.C.–Chelsea F.C. rivalry|Arsenal F.C.–Manchester City F.C. rivalry}}
[[File:Laurent Koscielny clashes with Heurelho Gomes.jpg|thumb|right|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 F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]]; matches between the two are referred to as the [[North London derby]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.premierleague.com/page/Magazinedettail/0,,12306~1195275,00.html |title=The North London derby |first=Stewart |last=Coggin |publisher=Premier League |access-date=7 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080808134127/http://www.premierleague.com/page/Magazinedettail/0%2C%2C12306~1195275%2C00.html |archive-date=8 August 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> There also exists a rivalry between Arsenal and [[Chelsea F.C.|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.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/clubfootball/news/newsid=109924.html
 |title=The Classic: Arsenal-Manchester Utd
 |publisher=FIFA
 |date=17 January 2007
|access-date=23 October 2009
|url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824031335/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/clubfootball/news/newsid%3D109924.html
 |archive-date=24 August 2007
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.footballfanscensus.com/issueresults/Club_Rivalries_Uncovered_Results.pdf |title=Club Rivalries Uncovered |publisher=[[Football Fans Census]] |access-date=7 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080910061502/http://www.footballfanscensus.com/issueresults/Club_Rivalries_Uncovered_Results.pdf |archive-date=10 September 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.footballpools.com/football-fever/rivalries-league.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305004509/http://www.footballpools.com/football-fever/rivalries-league.html | archive-date=5 March 2008 | title=Football Rivalries Report 2008 | publisher=The New Football Pools | access-date=7 September 2008}}</ref>

==Mascot==
The club mascot is Gunnersaurus Rex, a smiling, seven-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.<ref>{{cite web |first=Jim |last=Weeks |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/gunnersaurus-explained-the-guy-who-dreamt-up-arsenal39s-mascot-us-translation/ |title=Gunnersaurus Explained: The Guy Who Dreamt Up Arsenal's Mascot |website=Vice Sports |date=30 May 2015 |access-date=7 October 2020 |archive-date=9 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009125404/https://www.vice.com/en/article/nzppdk/gunnersaurus-explained-the-guy-who-dreamt-up-arsenal39s-mascot-us-translation |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Phil |last=West |url=https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/07/26/gunnersaurus-arsenals-mascot-kids-drawing-international-fame |title=Gunnersaurus: Arsenal's mascot, from a kid's drawing to international fame |publisher=Major League Soccer |date=26 July 2016 |access-date=7 October 2020 |archive-date=10 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010183927/https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/07/26/gunnersaurus-arsenals-mascot-kids-drawing-international-fame |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=James |last=McNicholas |url=https://theathletic.com/1725214/2020/04/07/this-is-gunnersaurus-world-and-were-just-living-in-it/ |title=This is Gunnersaurus' world and we're just living in it |website=The Athletic |date=6 April 2020 |access-date=7 October 2020 |archive-date=10 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010002414/https://theathletic.com/1725214/2020/04/07/this-is-gunnersaurus-world-and-were-just-living-in-it/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=ESPN>{{cite news |first=Chris |last=Jones |url=https://www.espn.com/soccer/arsenal/story/3929187/gunnersaurus-the-untold-story-of-arsenals-mascot |title=Gunnersaurus: the untold story of Arsenal's mascot |publisher=ESPN |date=29 August 2019 |access-date=7 October 2020 |archive-date=7 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007184237/https://www.espn.com/soccer/arsenal/story/3929187/gunnersaurus-the-untold-story-of-arsenals-mascot |url-status=live}} <!-- This source has 20 August 1993. --></ref><ref name=Ind>{{cite news |first=Ed |last=Cumming |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/gunnersaurus-arsenal-gunners-mascot-salary-premier-league-b833399.html |title=Goodbye for now, Gunnersaurus, your departure is a lesson and a warning to us all |newspaper=The Independent |date=6 October 2020 |type=opinion |access-date=7 October 2020 |archive-date=16 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016233722/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/gunnersaurus-arsenal-gunners-mascot-salary-premier-league-b833399.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=7 February 2021 |title=Gunnersaurus: Why is Arsenal's mascot a dinosaur? |url=https://dailycannon.com/gunnersaurus/ |access-date=26 February 2022 |language=en-US |archive-date=26 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226164318/https://dailycannon.com/gunnersaurus/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The same performer, 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 in England|COVID-19 pandemic]], the club [[Layoff|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.<ref name=Ind/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.espn.com/soccer/arsenal/story/4200873/arsenal-axe-gunnersaurus-in-bid-to-save-money-amid-pandemic |title=Arsenal axe Gunnersaurus in bid to save money amid pandemic |publisher=ESPN |date=5 October 2020 |access-date=24 October 2020 |archive-date=18 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018101737/https://www.espn.com/soccer/arsenal/story/4200873/arsenal-axe-gunnersaurus-in-bid-to-save-money-amid-pandemic |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=continue>{{cite news |url=https://www.football365.com/news/gunnersaurus-continue-arsenal-reports-contrary |title=Gunnersaurus to continue Arsenal role despite reports to contrary |website=Football365 |date=6 October 2020 |access-date=9 December 2020 |agency=PA |archive-date=26 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026153813/https://www.football365.com/news/gunnersaurus-continue-arsenal-reports-contrary |url-status=live}}</ref> An online fundraiser was begun for Quy,<ref name=continue/> and [[Mesut Özil]] offered to pay his salary himself as long as he remains with Arsenal.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news |first1=Heather |last1=Murphy |first2=Tariq |last2=Panja |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/sports/arsenal-gunnersaurus-mesut-ozil.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006200014/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/sports/arsenal-gunnersaurus-mesut-ozil.html |archive-date=6 October 2020 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Arsenal Laid Off Its 'Gunnersaurus' Mascot. A Player Offered to Pay His Salary |newspaper=The New York Times |date=6 October 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Nick |last=Ames |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/oct/06/mesut-ozil-offers-to-pay-to-keep-man-inside-gunnersaurus-in-arsenal-job |title=Mesut Özil offers to pay to keep man inside Gunnersaurus in Arsenal job |newspaper=The Guardian |date=6 October 2020 |access-date=24 October 2020 |archive-date=22 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022181828/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/oct/06/mesut-ozil-offers-to-pay-to-keep-man-inside-gunnersaurus-in-arsenal-job |url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-england-ars/arsenals-mascot-gunnersaurus-returns-from-brink-of-extinction-idUKKBN27R0FR |title=Arsenal's mascot Gunnersaurus returns from brink of extinction |publisher=Reuters |date=11 November 2020 |access-date=23 December 2020 |archive-date=23 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223123118/https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-england-ars/arsenals-mascot-gunnersaurus-returns-from-brink-of-extinction-idUKKBN27R0FR |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54895699 |title=Gunnersaurus: Arsenal mascot returns to club after redundancies |publisher=BBC Sport |date=10 November 2020 |access-date=23 December 2020 |archive-date=10 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110225741/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54895699 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Ownership and finances==
{{further|Ownership of Arsenal F.C. & W.F.C.}}
The largest shareholder on the Arsenal board is American sports tycoon [[Stan Kroenke]].<ref name="Arsenal Board">{{cite news |url=http://www.arsenal.com/the-club/corporate-info/the-arsenal-board |title=The Arsenal Board |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=21 May 2017 |archive-date=19 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619041920/http://www.arsenal.com/the-club/corporate-info/the-arsenal-board |url-status=live}}</ref> Kroenke first launched a bid for the club in April 2007,<ref name="kroenke">{{cite news |title=Takeover gains pace at Arsenal with 9.9% sale |url=http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2051488,00.html |work=The Guardian |author1=Scott, Matt |author2=Allen, Katie |name-list-style=amp |date=6 April 2007 |access-date=11 August 2008 | location=London |archive-date=12 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312020703/http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2051488,00.html | url-status=live}}</ref> and faced competition for shares from Red and White Securities, which acquired its first shares from [[David Dein]] in August 2007.<ref name="usmanov">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6971124.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]] |title=Russian buys Dein's Arsenal stake| date=30 August 2007| access-date=11 August 2008 |archive-date=12 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112215140/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6971124.stm| url-status=live}}</ref> Red & White Securities was co-owned by Russian billionaire [[Alisher Usmanov]] and London-based Iranian financier [[Farhad Moshiri (businessman)|Farhad Moshiri]], though Usmanov bought Moshiri's stake in 2016.<ref name="Usmanov buys Moshiri">{{cite web|title=Everton confirm sale of 49.9% of club to former Arsenal shareholder Farhad Moshiri|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/feb/27/everton-takeover-arsenal-shareholder-farhad-moshiri|work=The Guardian|date=27 February 2016|access-date=28 March 2016|archive-date=31 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331144005/http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/feb/27/everton-takeover-arsenal-shareholder-farhad-moshiri|url-status=live}}</ref> Kroenke came close to the 30% takeover threshold in November 2009, when he increased his holding to 18,594 shares (29.9%).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/kroenke-increases-stake-in-arsenal-holdings |title=Kroenke increases stake in Arsenal Holdings |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |date=5 November 2009 |access-date=6 December 2009
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108092200/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/kroenke-increases-stake-in-arsenal-holdings |archive-date=8 November 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Kroenke at threshold">{{cite news |title=Kroenke nears Arsenal threshold |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8343943.stm |publisher=BBC News |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-date=24 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324184223/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8343943.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> 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%.<ref name="Kroenke buys Arsenal, BBC">{{cite news |title=US businessman Stan Kroenke agrees bid to buy Arsenal |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/9453736.stm |publisher=BBC News |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-date=7 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907014602/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/9453736.stm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Kroenke buys Arsenal, Guardian">{{cite web |title=Stan Kroenke takes controlling stake in Arsenal with 62.89% of shares |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/apr/11/stan-kroenke-arsenal-takeover-control |work=The Guardian |date=11 April 2011 |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-date=9 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409092334/http://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/apr/11/stan-kroenke-arsenal-takeover-control |url-status=live}}</ref> In May 2017, Kroenke owned 41,721 shares (67.05%) and Red & White Securities owned 18,695 shares (30.04%).<ref name="Arsenal Board"/> In January 2018, Kroenke expanded his ownership by buying twenty-two more shares, taking his total ownership to 67.09%.<ref>{{cite news |last=Benge |first=James |title=Arsenal majority shareholder Stan Kroenke increases stake to 67.09 per cent with £616,000 investment |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-majority-shareholder-stan-kroenke-increases-stake-to-67-09-per-cent-with-ps616-000-investment-a3747426.html |access-date=14 December 2020 |work=Evening Standard |date=23 January 2018 |archive-date=6 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210606213238/https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-majority-shareholder-stan-kroenke-increases-stake-to-67-09-per-cent-with-ps616-000-investment-a3747426.html |url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=U.S. Billionaire Gets Full Control of Arsenal, Buying Out Russian Rival |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/sports/soccer/arsenal-alisher-usmanov-stan-kroenke.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/sports/soccer/arsenal-alisher-usmanov-stan-kroenke.html |archive-date=1 January 2022 |url-access=limited |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=7 August 2018 |access-date= 7 August 2018|last1=Panja |first1=Tariq }}{{cbignore}}</ref> There has been criticism of Arsenal's poor performance since Kroenke took over, which has been attributed to his ownership.<ref>{{cite news |title=Arsenal's problems lie with Kroenke's ownership rather than Arteta |last=Ronay |first=Barney |newspaper=The Guardian |date=25 December 2020 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/25/arsenals-problems-lie-with-kroenkes-ownership-rather-than-arteta |access-date=25 December 2020 |archive-date=25 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225135455/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/25/arsenals-problems-lie-with-kroenkes-ownership-rather-than-arteta |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Ivan Gazidis]] was the club's Chief executive from 2009 to 2018.<ref name="Arsenal Board"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Arsenal chief Gazidis leaves for Milan |publisher=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45558978|access-date=4 May 2021 |archive-date=28 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128033956/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45558978 |url-status=live}}</ref>

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,<ref name="Arsenal Board"/> and they are not traded on a public exchange such as the [[FTSE Group|FTSE]] or [[Alternative Investment Market|AIM]]; instead, they are traded relatively infrequently on the [[ICAP (company)|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.<ref name="Arsenal, NEX Exchange">{{cite web |title=Arsenal Holdings plc |url=http://www.nexexchange.com/member?securityid=10092 |website=nexexchange.com |publisher=NEX Exchange |access-date=29 May 2017 |archive-date=26 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170526080650/http://www.nexexchange.com/member?securityid=10092 |url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref name="World Football Brands">{{cite web |title=Football 50 2015 |url=http://brandfinance.com/images/upload/bf_football_50_for_website.pdf |website=brandfinance.com |publisher=Brand Finance |access-date=22 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408143449/http://brandfinance.com/images/upload/bf_football_50_for_website.pdf |archive-date=8 April 2016 }}</ref> Business magazine ''[[Forbes]]'' [[Forbes' list of the most valuable football clubs|valued]] Arsenal as a whole at $2.238&nbsp;billion (£1.69&nbsp;billion) in 2018, ranked third in English football.<ref name=Forbes2018>{{Cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/soccer-valuations/list/#tab:overall |title=The Business of Soccer |last=Ozanian |first=Mike |work=Forbes |access-date=27 June 2018 |archive-date=20 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820010417/https://www.forbes.com/soccer-valuations/list/#tab:overall |url-status=live }}</ref> Research by the [[Henley Business School]] ranked Arsenal second in English football, modelling the club's value at £1.118&nbsp;billion in 2015.<ref name="Markham 2015">{{cite web |last1=Markham |first1=Tom |title=WHAT'S YOUR CLUB REALLY WORTH? |url=http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2015/08/21/from-man-utd-at-1-8bn-to-cherries-at-104m-whats-your-club-worth-210803/ |website=sportingintelligence.com |publisher=Sporting Intelligence |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-date=8 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408104931/http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2015/08/21/from-man-utd-at-1-8bn-to-cherries-at-104m-whats-your-club-worth-210803/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="MMM">{{cite journal |last1=Markham |first1=Tom |title=What is the Optimal Method to Value a Football Club? |journal=SSRN |year=2013 |doi=10.2139/ssrn.2238265 |ssrn=2238265|s2cid=153760884 |url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fd34/9ec29270e2390f0fc782a21be0606b940afd.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227023355/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fd34/9ec29270e2390f0fc782a21be0606b940afd.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 February 2020 |issn = 1556-5068}}</ref>

Arsenal's financial results for the [[2019–20 Premier League|2019–20]] season showed an after tax loss of £47.8m, due in part to the impact of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Collings|first=Simon|date=5 March 2021|title=Arsenal record £47.8m loss as pandemic hits 2019/20 finances|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-financial-results-2020-47-million-pound-loss-record-pandemic-b922487.html|access-date=4 May 2021|website=www.standard.co.uk|archive-date=4 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504213304/https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-financial-results-2020-47-million-pound-loss-record-pandemic-b922487.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 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),<ref name="cityam1">{{cite web|date=14 January 2020|title=World's richest football clubs 2020: Barcelona replace Real Madrid at top of Deloitte Football Money League as Manchester United are left behind|url=https://www.cityam.com/worlds-richest-football-clubs-2020/|access-date=4 May 2021|website=CityAM|archive-date=4 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504213321/https://www.cityam.com/worlds-richest-football-clubs-2020/|url-status=live}}</ref> ranking Arsenal eleventh among world football clubs.<ref name="Deloitte Football Money League"/> Arsenal and [[Deloitte]] both listed the match day revenue generated in 2019 by the Emirates Stadium as €109.2m (£96.2m).<ref name="cityam1"/>

==In popular culture==
Partly due to their proximity to the [[Alexandra Palace television station|Alexandra Palace transmitter]], Arsenal have appeared in a number of media "firsts". On 22 January 1927, their match at Highbury against [[Sheffield United F.C.|Sheffield United]] was the first English League match to be broadcast live on radio.<ref name="FirstsLasts">''Firsts, Lasts & Onlys: Football''&nbsp;– Paul Donnelley (Hamlyn, 2010)</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/programme-it-happened-at-highbury
| title=It Happened at Highbury: First live radio broadcast
| publisher=Arsenal F.C
| access-date=11 August 2008
| archive-date=24 July 2015
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724071511/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/programme-it-happened-at-highbury
| url-status=live
}}</ref> 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.<ref name="FirstsLasts"/><ref>{{cite news
| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/2260280.stm
| title=Happened on this day&nbsp;– 16 September
| publisher=BBC Sport
| date=16 September 2002
| access-date=11 August 2008
| archive-date=12 January 2016
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112215234/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/2260280.stm
| url-status=live
}}</ref> 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.<ref name="FirstsLasts"/><ref name="bbchist">{{cite news
 | title=History of Match of the Day
 | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/match_of_the_day/879960.stm
 | publisher=BBC Sport
 | date=14 February 2003
 | access-date=11 August 2008
 | archive-date=12 January 2016
 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112215235/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/match_of_the_day/879960.stm
 | url-status=live
 }}</ref> [[Sky UK|Sky]]'s coverage of Arsenal's January 2010 match against [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] was the first live public broadcast of a sports event on [[3D television]].<ref name="FirstsLasts"/><ref>{{cite news
 | title=Fans trial first live 3D sports event
 | url=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/fans-trial-first-live-3d-sports-event-20100201-n7bo.html
 | agency=Associated Press
 | work=The Sydney Morning Herald
 | date=1 February 2010
 | access-date=16 March 2010
 | archive-date=14 August 2014
 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814012223/http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/fans-trial-first-live-3d-sports-event-20100201-n7bo.html
 | url-status=live
 }}</ref>

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 (novel)|The Arsenal Stadium Mystery]]'' (1939), which was [[The Arsenal Stadium Mystery|made into a film]] in the same year.<ref>{{cite news |last=Redfern |first=Simon |title=The Arsenal Stadium Mystery, by Leonard Gribble |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-arsenal-stadium-mystery-by-leonard-gribble-944709.html |access-date=13 September 2017 |work=The Independent |date=27 September 2008 |archive-date=6 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806140903/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-arsenal-stadium-mystery-by-leonard-gribble-944709.html |url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref name="atthemovies"/> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nick Hornby |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/13/nick.hornby |url-status=live |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=22 July 2008 |access-date=7 September 2008 |quote=Critically acclaimed and commercial dynamite, Fever Pitch helped to make football trendy and explain its appeal to the soccerless |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603140212/http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/13/nick.hornby |archive-date=3 June 2013}}</ref> The book was twice adapted for the cinema&nbsp;– the [[Fever Pitch (1997 film)|1997 British film]] focuses on Arsenal's 1988–89 title win, and a [[Fever Pitch (2005 film)|2005 American version]] features a fan of baseball's [[Boston Red Sox]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Levy |first=Glen |title=Fever Pitch |access-date=13 September 2017 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=5 July 2010 |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2010/07/06/top-10-soccer-movies/slide/fever-pitch-1997/ |archive-date=27 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927150528/https://entertainment.time.com/2010/07/06/top-10-soccer-movies/slide/fever-pitch-1997/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Arsenal have often been stereotyped as a [[defender (association football)|defensive]] and "boring" side, especially during the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name="noble">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,353528,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930094455/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,353528,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 September 2007 |title=Boring, Boring Arsenal|last=Noble |first=Kate |date=22 September 2002 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=11 August 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/3037789.stm | title=No more boring, boring Arsenal | first=John | last=May |publisher=BBC Sport | date=19 May 2003 | access-date=7 September 2008 | archive-date=12 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112215447/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/3037789.stm | url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name="atthemovies">{{cite web
| url=http://www.arseweb.com/other/movies.html
| title=Arsenal at the movies
| publisher=Arseweb
| access-date=11 August 2008
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080726182708/http://www.arseweb.com/other/movies.html
| archive-date= 26 July 2008
| url-status=live}}</ref>
Fifteen years later, an almost identical scene was included in the 2012 Disney science-fiction film ''[[John Carter (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.<ref>Dörflinger, M., ''Taschenbuch Fußball: 333x Fußball – Superlative & Kuriositäten. Spannende Fakten und Kurioses über Fußball'' – Geramond Verlag (2019). {{ISBN|978-3964530530}}.</ref>
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]].<ref name="atthemovies"/>

In August 2022, [[Amazon Prime Video]] released an eight-episode [[documentary film|docuseries]] called ''[[All or Nothing: Arsenal]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/amazon-prime-all-or-nothing-arsenal-release-dates-trailer |title=Watch the trailer for All or Nothing: Arsenal |last=Rogers |first=Jonathon |date=28 June 2022 |website=arsenal.com |access-date=5 July 2022 |archive-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705211256/https://www.arsenal.com/amazon-prime-all-or-nothing-arsenal-release-dates-trailer |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bt.com/tv/documentary/arsenal-prime-video-tv-series-all-or-nothing-mikel-arteta-trailer-daniel-kaluuya |title=Arsenal: All or Nothing on Prime Video: Release date, trailer and all you need to know, including the celebrity narrator |last=Fletcher |first=Alex |date=28 June 2022 |website=bt.com |publisher=[[BT TV]] |access-date=5 July 2022 |archive-date=6 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706102243/https://www.bt.com/tv/documentary/arsenal-prime-video-tv-series-all-or-nothing-mikel-arteta-trailer-daniel-kaluuya |url-status=live }}</ref> 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 Arsenal F.C. season|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/premier-league-stats-review-emirates-stadium-attendance-goals-appearances |title=Our 2021/22 season in numbers |last=James |first=Josh |date=23 May 2022 |website=arsenal.com. |access-date=5 July 2022 |archive-date=26 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026143444/https://www.arsenal.com/premier-league-stats-review-emirates-stadium-attendance-goals-appearances |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/12611391/premier-league-top-trends-revealed-for-the-2021-22-season |title=Premier League: Top trends revealed for the 2021/22 season |last=Smith |first=Adam |date=24 May 2022 |website=skysports.com |publisher=Sky Sports |access-date=5 July 2022 |archive-date=28 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128184759/https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/12611391/premier-league-top-trends-revealed-for-the-2021-22-season |url-status=live}}</ref>

==In the community==
In 1985, Arsenal founded a [[corporate social responsibility|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.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal-charity-ball-raises-over-pound-60-000 | title=Arsenal Charity Ball raises over £60,000 | publisher=Arsenal F.C | date=11 May 2006 | access-date=11 August 2008 | archive-date=25 July 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725012719/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal-charity-ball-raises-over-pound-60-000 | url-status=live }}</ref> An ex-professional and celebrity football team associated with the club also raised money by playing charity matches.<ref name="community">{{cite web | url=http://www.arsenal.com/the-club/community/ex-pro-and-celebrity-xi | title=Ex-Pro and Celebrity XI | publisher=Arsenal F.C | access-date=11 August 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080822031124/http://www.arsenal.com/the-club/community/ex-pro-and-celebrity-xi |archive-date = 22 August 2008}}</ref> The club launched the Arsenal for Everyone initiative in 2008 as an annual celebration of the diversity of the Arsenal family.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/community/arsenal-for-everyone |title=Arsenal for Everyone |date=2 October 2018 |access-date=24 March 2018 |archive-date=24 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324084258/https://www.arsenal.com/community/arsenal-for-everyone |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.arsenal.com/news/community-news/arsenal-smash-fundraising-target-for-gosh Arsenal smash fundraising target for GOSH] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320231121/http://www.arsenal.com/news/community-news/arsenal-smash-fundraising-target-for-gosh |date=20 March 2017 }} Arsenal FC, 2 August 2010</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 May 2023 |title=adidas and Arsenal expand No More Red campaign |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/adidas-and-arsenal-expand-no-more-red-campaign |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307132200/https://www.arsenal.com/news/adidas-and-arsenal-expand-no-more-red-campaign |archive-date=7 March 2023 |access-date=20 February 2023 |website=adidas and Arsenal expand No More Red campaign}}</ref>

[[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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.savethechildren.org.uk/2016/09/arsenal-legends-raise-money-football-pitches-child-refugees/ |title=Arsenal legends raise money for child refugees – Save the Children UK blogs |date=1 September 2016 |access-date=17 January 2017 |archive-date=18 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118053853/http://blogs.savethechildren.org.uk/2016/09/arsenal-legends-raise-money-football-pitches-child-refugees/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/tickets/arsenal-legends/2018-Sep-08/real-madrid-legends/ |title=Arsenal Legends v Real Madrid Legends – Tickets |date=19 March 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325232029/https://www.arsenal.com/tickets/arsenal-legends/2018-Sep-08/real-madrid-legends |archive-date=25 March 2018}}</ref>

During 2007 in [[Pleiku]], Vietnam, Arsenal partnered with the [[JMG Academy]] and the [[Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group|Hoang Anh Gia Lai Corporation]] to found a [[Hoang Anh Gia Lai Academy|youth academy]] for the [[V.League 1]] side [[Hoang Anh Gia Lai FC|Hoàng Anh Lai Lai]],<ref>{{cite web |date=6 March 2007 |title=Gunners announce deal with Vietnamese club |url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/gunners-announce-deal-with-vietnamese-club |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219062008/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/gunners-announce-deal-with-vietnamese-club |archive-date=19 February 2015 |access-date=1 October 2023 |publisher=Arsenal F.C.}}</ref> which saw a selection of Vietnam-based players train with Arsenal;<ref>{{cite web |date=26 August 2009 |title=Two Hoang Anh Gia Lai's stars to practice at Arsenal |url=http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2009/08/two-hoang-anh-gia-lais-stars-to-practice-at-arsenal.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815192424/http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2009/08/two-hoang-anh-gia-lais-stars-to-practice-at-arsenal.html |archive-date=15 August 2010 |access-date=1 October 2023 |website=lookatvietnam.com}}</ref> the club ended their partnership with the club in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |date=1 July 2017 |title=HAGL end Arsenal partnership |url=https://www.aseanfootball.org/v3/hagl-end-arsenal-partnership/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001063442/https://www.aseanfootball.org/v3/hagl-end-arsenal-partnership/ |archive-date=1 October 2023 |access-date=1 October 2023 |publisher=ASEAN Football Federation}}</ref> Additionally, the club formally partnered with a variety of clubs overseas including Virginia based [[Richmond Strikers]] and Cairo based [[Wadi Degla SC|Wadi Degla]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last=Cavell |first=Nick |date=24 November 2003 |title=Arsenal set up shop in Cairo |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/3233360.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001054417/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/3233360.stm |archive-date=1 October 2023 |access-date=1 October 2023 |publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=24 September 2010 |title=Arsenal announce Richmond Strikers project |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal-announce-richmond-strikers-project |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009111204/https://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal-announce-richmond-strikers-project |archive-date=9 October 2012 |access-date=1 October 2023 |publisher=Arsenal F.C.}}</ref>

==Players==
{{for-text|a complete list of players|List of Arsenal F.C. players with [[List of Arsenal F.C. players|100+ appearances]], [[List of Arsenal F.C. players (25–99 appearances)|25–99 appearances]] and [[List of Arsenal F.C. players (1–24 appearances)|1–24 appearances]]}}
{{see also|Arsenal Player of the Season}}

===First-team squad===
{{updated|31 January 2025}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/men/players |title=Squad: Men |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=31 January 2025}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=2|nat=FRA|pos=DF|name=[[William Saliba]]}}
{{Fs player|no=3|nat=SCO|pos=DF|name=[[Kieran Tierney]]}}
{{Fs player|no=4|nat=ENG|pos=DF|name=[[Ben White (footballer)|Ben White]]}}
{{Fs player|no=5|nat=GHA|pos=MF|name=[[Thomas Partey]]}}
{{Fs player|no=6|nat=BRA|pos=DF|name=[[Gabriel Magalhães]]}}
{{Fs player|no=7|nat=ENG|pos=FW|name=[[Bukayo Saka]]}}
{{Fs player|no=8|nat=NOR|pos=MF|name=[[Martin Ødegaard]]|other=[[Captain (association football)|captain]]}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/martin-odegaard-named-captain |title=Martin Odegaard named captain |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |date=30 July 2022 |access-date=8 September 2023 |archive-date=2 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202174614/https://www.arsenal.com/news/martin-odegaard-named-captain |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{Fs player|no=9|nat=BRA|pos=FW|name=[[Gabriel Jesus]]}}
{{Fs player|no=11|nat=BRA|pos=FW|name=[[Gabriel Martinelli]]}}
{{Fs player|no=12|nat=NED|pos=DF|name=[[Jurriën Timber]]}}
{{Fs player|no=15|nat=POL|pos=DF|name=[[Jakub Kiwior]]}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=17|nat=UKR|pos=DF|name=[[Oleksandr Zinchenko (footballer)|Oleksandr Zinchenko]]}}
{{Fs player|no=18|nat=JPN|pos=DF|name=[[Takehiro Tomiyasu]]}}
{{Fs player|no=19|nat=BEL|pos=FW|name=[[Leandro Trossard]]}}
{{Fs player|no=20|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=[[Jorginho (footballer, born December 1991)|Jorginho]]}}
{{Fs player|no=22|nat=ESP|pos=GK|name=[[David Raya]]}}
{{Fs player|no=23|nat=ESP|pos=MF|name=[[Mikel Merino]]}}
{{Fs player|no=29|nat=GER|pos=MF|name=[[Kai Havertz]]}}
{{Fs player|no=30|nat=ENG|pos=FW|name=[[Raheem Sterling]]|other=on loan from [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Raheem Sterling signs for Arsenal on loan |date=31 August 2024 |access-date=31 August 2024 |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/raheem-sterling-signs-arsenal-loan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831005608/https://www.arsenal.com/news/raheem-sterling-signs-arsenal-loan |archive-date=31 August 2024}}</ref>
{{Fs player|no=32|nat=BRA|pos=GK|name=[[Neto (footballer, born 1989)|Neto]]|other=on loan from [[AFC Bournemouth|Bournemouth]]}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Neto signs for Arsenal on season-long loan |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=31 August 2024 |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/neto-signs-arsenal-season-long-loan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240928024645/https://www.arsenal.com/news/neto-signs-arsenal-season-long-loan |archive-date=28 September 2024}}</ref>
{{Fs player|no=33|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=[[Riccardo Calafiori]]}}
{{Fs player|no=41|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=[[Declan Rice]]}}
{{Fs end}}

====Out on loan====
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=21|nat=POR|pos=MF|name=[[Fábio Vieira (footballer, born 2000)|Fábio Vieira]]|other=at [[FC Porto|Porto]] until 30 June 2025}}<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/fabio-vieira-joins-porto-season-long-loan| title=Fabio Vieira joins Porto on season-long loan| publisher=Arsenal F.C.| date=28 August 2024| access-date=31 August 2024| archive-date=1 September 2024| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901161550/https://www.arsenal.com/news/fabio-vieira-joins-porto-season-long-loan| url-status=live}}</ref>
{{Fs player|no=24|nat=ENG|pos=FW|name=[[Reiss Nelson]]|other=at [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]] until 30 June 2025}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Reiss Nelson joins Fulham on loan |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/reiss-nelson-joins-fulham-loan |date=30 August 2024 |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=31 August 2024 |archive-date=31 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831004348/https://www.arsenal.com/news/reiss-nelson-joins-fulham-loan |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{Fs player|no=27|nat=BRA|pos=FW|name=[[Marquinhos (footballer, born 2003)|Marquinhos]]|other=at [[Cruzeiro Esporte Clube|Cruzeiro]] until 31 December 2025}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Marquinhos joins Cruzeiro on loan|date=9 January 2025|publisher=Arsenal F.C.|url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/marquinhos-joins-cruzeiro-loan|access-date=24 January 2025|url-status=live|archive-date=17 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250117004412/https://www.arsenal.com/news/marquinhos-joins-cruzeiro-loan}}</ref>
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=31|nat=EST|pos=GK|name=[[Karl Hein (footballer)|Karl Hein]]|other=at [[Real Valladolid]] until 30 June 2025}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Karl Hein joins Real Valladolid on loan |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/karl-hein-joins-real-valladolid-loan |date=13 August 2024 |access-date=13 August 2024 |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |archive-date=23 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923022652/https://www.arsenal.com/news/karl-hein-joins-real-valladolid-loan |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{Fs player|no=|nat=POR|pos=DF|name=[[Nuno Tavares]]|other=at [[SS Lazio|Lazio]] until 30 June 2025}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Nuno Tavares completes loan move to Lazio |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/nuno-tavares-completes-loan-move-lazio |date=15 July 2024 |access-date=15 July 2024 |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |archive-date=15 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715152534/https://www.arsenal.com/news/nuno-tavares-completes-loan-move-lazio |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{Fs player|no=|nat=BEL|pos=MF|name=[[Albert Sambi Lokonga]]|other=at [[Sevilla FC|Sevilla]] until 30 June 2025}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Sambi Lokonga joins Sevilla on season-long loan |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/sambi-lokonga-joins-sevilla-season-long-loan |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=15 July 2024 |date=15 July 2024 |archive-date=15 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715111134/https://www.arsenal.com/news/sambi-lokonga-joins-sevilla-season-long-loan |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{Fs end}}

===Academy===
{{Further|Arsenal F.C. Under-21s and Academy}}
{{updated|3 February 2025}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Squad: Academy |url=https://www.arsenal.com/academy/players |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=3 February 2025}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

: Players with at least one first-team appearance for Arsenal.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Arsenal FC, Players from A-Z |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/teams/arsenal-fc/10/ |access-date=3 February 2025 |website=worldfootball.net}}{{cbignore}}</ref><!-- Only include current Arsenal Academy players who have made a senior appearance for Arsenal -->
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=36|nat=ENG|pos=GK|name=[[Tommy Setford]]}}
{{Fs player|no=37|nat=ENG|pos=FW|name=[[Nathan Butler-Oyedeji]]}}
{{Fs player|no=46|nat=NLD|pos=FW|name=[[Ismeal Kabia]]}}
{{Fs player|no=49|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=[[Myles Lewis-Skelly]]}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=51|nat=ENG|pos=DF|name=[[Josh Nichols]]}}
{{Fs player|no=53|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=[[Ethan Nwaneri]]}}
{{Fs player|no=64|nat=ENG|pos=FW|name=[[Charles Sagoe Jr]]}}
{{Fs player|no=92|nat=ENG|pos=GK|name=[[Jack Porter (footballer)|Jack Porter]]|other=}}
{{Fs end}}

====Out on loan====
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=47|nat=ALB|pos=DF|name=[[Maldini Kacurri]]|other=at [[Bromley F.C.|Bromley]] until 30 June 2025}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Maldini Kacurri joins Bromley on loan |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/maldini-kacurri-joins-bromley-loan |date=3 February 2025 |access-date=3 February 2025}}</ref>
{{Fs end}}

==Management and staff==
{{See also|List of Arsenal F.C. managers}}

===Current staff===
[[File:Mikel Arteta 2021 (cropped).png|thumb|right|Arteta was Arsenal's club captain during his playing career, he was appointed Arsenal's head coach in December 2019.<ref>{{cite web|last=Ames|first=Nick|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/20/arsenal-appoint-mikel-arteta-as-manager-to-replace-unai-emery|website=The Guardian|access-date=16 December 2023|title=Mikel Arteta will not tolerate dissenters as he seeks to revive 'lost' Arsenal|date=21 December 2019|archive-date=28 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728234953/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/20/arsenal-appoint-mikel-arteta-as-manager-to-replace-unai-emery|url-status=live}}</ref>]]
[[File:Arsene-Wenger.jpg|thumb|right|[[Arsène Wenger]] managed Arsenal from 1996 to 2018, he is the club's longest serving manager.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Arsenal Manager History |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=142&teamTabs=managers |access-date=16 December 2023 |website=Soccerbase |publisher=Centurycomm |archive-date=16 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216060256/https://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=142&teamTabs=managers |url-status=live }}</ref>]]

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Management and staff as of 5 November 2024<ref name="arsenalpldirectory">{{cite web |title=Arsenal FC Key Personnel & Club Information |url=https://www.premierleague.com/clubs/1/Arsenal/directory |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521091733/https://www.premierleague.com/clubs/1/Arsenal/directory |archive-date=21 May 2022 |access-date=5 November 2024 |publisher=Premier League}}</ref>
|-
! Position
! Name
|-
| [[Manager (association football)|Manager]]
|[[Mikel Arteta]]
|-
| rowspan="4" |Assistant coaches
|[[Albert Stuivenberg]]
|-
| [[Carlos Cuesta (football manager)|Carlos Cuesta]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Carlos Cuesta |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/carlos-cuesta_2/ |access-date=16 December 2023 |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL |archive-date=28 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240428234509/https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/carlos-cuesta_2/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Nicolas Jover]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nicolas Jover |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/nicolas-jover/ |access-date=16 December 2023 |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL |archive-date=7 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240507225125/https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/nicolas-jover/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Miguel Molina (footballer)|Miguel Molina]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Miguel Molina |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/miguel-molina/ |access-date=16 December 2023 |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL |archive-date=28 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240428234440/https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/miguel-molina/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| Goalkeeping coach
| [[Iñaki Caña]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Iñaki Caña |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/inaki-cana/ |access-date=16 December 2023 |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL |archive-date=7 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240507225208/https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/inaki-cana/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| Academy manager
|[[Per Mertesacker]]
|-
| Head of sports medicine and performance
| [[Zafar Iqbal (physician)|Zafar Iqbal]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ornstein |first=David |title=Palace's head of sports medicine Iqbal to join Arsenal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5157401/2023/12/22/zafar-iqbal-arsenal-crystal-palace/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=23 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523130027/https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5157401/2023/12/22/zafar-iqbal-arsenal-crystal-palace/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Managing Director|Managing director]]
|Richard Garlick<ref>{{Cite web |title=Richard Garlick appointed Managing Director |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/richard-garlick-appointed-managing-director |access-date=21 August 2024 |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |archive-date=23 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240823011640/https://www.arsenal.com/news/richard-garlick-appointed-managing-director |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Chief commercial officer]]
|Juliet Slot
|-
| [[Chief financial officer]]
|Stuart Wisely
|-
| Director of football operations
|James King<ref>{{Cite web |last=Howell |first=Alex |date=4 November 2024 |title=Edu leaves role as Arsenal sporting director |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c0k83vdlzego |access-date=5 November 2024 |website=BBC Sport}}</ref>
|}

===Arsenal board===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Arsenal board as of 16 December 2023
|-
! Position
! Name
|-
| [[Chairperson|Co-chair]]
|[[Stan Kroenke]]
|-
| Co-chair
|[[Josh Kroenke]]
|-
| Executive Vice-chair
|Tim Lewis
|-
| [[Director (business)|Director]]
|[[Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham|Lord Harris of Peckham]]
|}

==Statistics and records==
{{Further|List of Arsenal F.C. records and statistics}}
[[File:Thierry Henry applauding 2012.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Thierry Henry]] is Arsenal's record goalscorer, with 228 goals in all competitions.<ref name="henry" />]]
Arsenal's tally of 13 League Championships is the [[List of English football champions#Total titles won|third highest]] in English football, after Liverpool (20) and Manchester United (20),<ref>{{cite web
| url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engchamp.html
| title=England&nbsp;– List of Champions
| publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
| last=Ross
| first=James M
| date=28 August 2009
| access-date=23 October 2009
| archive-date=30 July 2022
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730154323/https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engchamp.html
| url-status=live
}}</ref>
and they were the first club [[List of English football champions#Football League First Division (1892–1992)|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 F.C.|Blackburn Rovers]], [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]], [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]], [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] and Liverpool, to have won the Premier League since its formation in 1992.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ross|first1=James M. |title=FA Premier League Champions 1993–2016 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engchamp.html |publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]] |access-date=15 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160618174435/http://rsssf.com/tablese/engchamp.html |archive-date=18 June 2016 |date=6 May 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

They hold the highest number of FA Cup trophies, with 14.<ref>{{cite web
| url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engcuphist.html
| title=England FA Challenge Cup Finals
| publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
| last=Ross
| first=James M
| date=12 June 2009
| access-date=23 October 2009
| archive-date=13 January 2010
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113115049/http://rsssf.com/tablese/engcuphist.html
| url-status=live
}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engcuphist.html
 |title=England FA Challenge Cup Finals
 |publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
 |last=Ross
 |first=James M
 |date=12 June 2009
|access-date=23 October 2009
|url-status=live
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024121826/http://www.rsssf.com/tablese/engcuphist.html
 |archive-date=24 October 2008
}}</ref>
Arsenal have achieved three League and FA Cup "[[Double (association football)#England|Doubles]]" (in 1971, 1998 and 2002), a feat only previously achieved by Manchester United (in 1994, 1996 and 1999).<ref name=FCHD/><ref>{{cite web
| url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/doublerec.html
| title=Doing the Double: Countrywise Records
| publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
| last=Stokkermans
| first=Karel
| date=24 September 2009
| access-date=23 October 2009
| archive-date=26 November 2015
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126184235/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/doublerec.html
| url-status=live
}}</ref>
They were the first side in English football to complete the FA Cup and League Cup double, in 1993.<ref>{{cite news
| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2313666/Mourinho-collects-his-consolation-prize.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2313666/Mourinho-collects-his-consolation-prize.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live
| title=Mourinho collects his consolation prize
| first=Roy
| last=Collins
| newspaper=The Daily Telegraph
| date=20 May 2007
| access-date=6 December 2009
| quote=Chelsea's Cup came wrapped in an extra ribbon, only the second team after Arsenal in 1993 to win both domestic cups.
| location=London
}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
Arsenal were also the first London club to reach the final of the UEFA Champions League, in 2006, losing the final 2–1 to [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]].<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://www.premierleague.com/page/arsenal
| title=Arsenal Football Club
| publisher=Premier League
| access-date=11 August 2008
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080913103452/http://www.premierleague.com/page/arsenal
| archive-date= 13 September 2008 | url-status=live}}</ref>

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,<ref name="RSSSF1stLevelAllTime"/> whether calculated by two points per win<ref name="RSSSF1stLevelAllTime"/> or by the contemporary points value.<ref name="All Time Table">{{cite web |title=English Premier League : Full All Time Table |url=http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/premier-league/all-time-table/full |website=statto.com |access-date=21 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320225558/http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/premier-league/all-time-table/full |archive-date=20 March 2017}}</ref> They have been in the top flight for the most consecutive seasons (98 as of 2023–24).<ref name="RSSSF_Div_Movements"/><ref name="All-time Arsenal">{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/news/features/48523/behind-the-numbers- |title=All-time Arsenal |last=James |first=Josh |date=18 June 2013 |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=22 June 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622042610/https://www.arsenal.com/news/features/48523/behind-the-numbers- |archive-date=22 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Seasons Spent in the Top Flight of English Football by Clubs from 1888–89 to 2023–24 |url=https://www.myfootballfacts.com/england_footy/football-league/seasons-in-top-flight/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209052735/https://www.myfootballfacts.com/england_footy/football-league/seasons-in-top-flight/ |archive-date=9 December 2021 |access-date=23 September 2023 |website=My Football Facts |url-status=live }}</ref> Arsenal also have the highest average league finishing position for the 20th century, with an average league placement of 8.5.<ref name="Independent: Hodgson"/>

Arsenal hold the record for the longest run of unbeaten League matches (49 between May 2003 and October 2004).<ref name="49unbeaten"/> This included all 38 matches of their title-winning [[2003–04 in English football|2003–04]] season, when Arsenal became only the second club to finish a top-flight campaign unbeaten, after [[Preston North End F.C.|Preston North End]] (who played only 22 matches) in [[1888–89 in English football|1888–89]].<ref name="invincibles"/><ref name="49 Unbeaten">{{cite web |title=49 Unbeaten |url=https://www.arsenal.com/history/club-records/the-unbeaten-record |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |date=1 June 2017 |access-date=14 April 2018 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112010642/https://www.arsenal.com/history/club-records/the-unbeaten-record |url-status=live }}</ref> They also hold the record for the longest top flight win streak.<ref name="EPL Records">{{cite web |title=Records |url=http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/premier-league/records |website=statto.com |access-date=22 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111107021729/http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/premier-league/records |archive-date= 7 November 2011}}</ref> 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&nbsp;minutes without letting an opponent score; the streak ended in [[2006 UEFA Champions League Final|the final]], when [[Samuel Eto'o]] scored a 76th-minute equaliser for Barcelona.<ref name="2006ucl">{{cite news
 |url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/history/season=2005/intro.html
 |title=2005/06: Ronaldinho delivers for Barça
 |publisher=UEFA
 |date=17 May 2007
|access-date=11 August 2008
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915063506/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/history/season%3D2005/intro.html
 |archive-date=15 September 2008
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>

[[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 (footballer)|Tony Adams]] comes second, having played 669 times. The record for a [[Goalkeeper (association football)|goalkeeper]] is held by [[David Seaman]], with 564 appearances.<ref name="clubrecords">{{cite web |title=Club Records |url=http://www.arsenal.com/history/club-records |url-status=live |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=23 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905054109/http://www.arsenal.com/history/club-records |archive-date=5 September 2015}}</ref> [[Thierry Henry]] is the club's top goalscorer with 228 goals in all competitions between 1999 and 2012;<ref name="henry">{{cite news |title=Goalscoring Records |url=http://www.arsenal.com/history/club-records/goalscoring-records |url-status=live |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627043634/http://www.arsenal.com/history/club-records/goalscoring-records |archive-date=27 June 2012}}</ref> he surpassed [[Ian Wright]]'s total of 185 in October 2005.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wright salutes Henry's goal feat |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/4356664.stm |url-status=live |publisher=BBC Sport |date=19 October 2005 |access-date=11 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070901165242/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/4356664.stm |archive-date=1 September 2007}}</ref> Wright's record had stood since September 1997, when he overtook the longstanding total of 178 goals set by winger [[Cliff Bastin]] in 1939.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ward |first=Rupert |title=Arsenal vs Bolton. 13/0<!-- no format change -->9/97 |url=http://www.arseweb.com/97-98/reports/130997.html |url-status=live |publisher=Arseweb |access-date=11 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151008220109/http://www.arseweb.com/97-98/reports/130997.html |archive-date=8 October 2015}}</ref> Henry also holds the club record for goals scored in the League, with 175,<ref name="henry"/> a record that had been held by Bastin until February 2006.<ref>{{cite news |title=Arsenal 2–3 West Ham |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4657206.stm |url-status=live |publisher=BBC Sport |date=1 February 2006 |access-date=23 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327195228/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/4657206.stm |archive-date=27 March 2012}}</ref> [[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 [[RC Lens|Lens]] on 25 November 1998 at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|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 A.F.C.|Sunderland]] on 9 March 1935,<ref name="clubrecords"/> while that at Emirates Stadium is 60,161, for a 2–2 draw with Manchester United on 3 November 2007.<ref>{{cite news |title=Man Utd game attracts record attendance |url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/man-utd-game-attracts-record-attendance |url-status=live |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |date=5 November 2007 |access-date=11 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722231721/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/man-utd-game-attracts-record-attendance |archive-date=22 July 2015}}</ref>

{{Wide image|Arsenal FC League Performance.svg|900px|Chart showing Arsenal's league positions since admission to the [[English Football League|Football League]] in 1893}}

==Honours==
{{further information|List of Arsenal F.C. seasons}}
{{for|honours won by Academy teams|Arsenal F.C. Under-23s and Academy#Honours}}
Arsenal's first ever [[Silverware (Sport)|silverware]] was won as the Royal Arsenal in 1890. The [[Kent County Football Association#County Cup Competitions|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]].<ref>{{cite web |title=122 years ago today – Arsenal's first Silverware |url=http://www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/3103 |publisher=The History of Arsenal (AISA Arsenal History Society) |first=Andy |last=Kelly |date=1 March 2012 |access-date=18 September 2015 |archive-date=29 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329190212/http://www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/3103 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="aftlu">{{cite web |last=Kelly |first=Andy |title=Arsenal first team line ups |url=http://thearsenalhistory.com/stat/aftlu.htm |url-status=live |work=The Arsenal History |access-date=15 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160715102949/http://thearsenalhistory.com/stat/aftlu.htm |archive-date=15 July 2016}}</ref> Their first national senior honour came in 1930, when they won the [[FA Cup]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arsenal.com/ggm-36-arsenal-win-their-first-major-trophy |title=GGM 36: Arsenal win their first major trophy |publisher=Arsenal F.C |date=8 August 2007 |access-date=18 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923185120/http://www.arsenal.com/ggm-36-arsenal-win-their-first-major-trophy |archive-date=23 September 2015}}</ref> The club enjoyed further success in the 1930s, winning another FA Cup and five [[Football League First Division]] titles.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/125-years-of-arsenal-history-1931-35 |title=125 years of Arsenal history – 1931–1935 |publisher=Arsenal F.C |date=7 December 2011 |access-date=18 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930200319/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/125-years-of-arsenal-history-1931-35 |archive-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/125-years-of-arsenal-history-1936-40 |title=125 years of Arsenal history – 1936–1940 |publisher=Arsenal F.C |date=7 December 2011 |access-date=18 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930230223/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/125-years-of-arsenal-history-1936-40 |archive-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> Arsenal won their first league and cup [[Double (association football)#England|double]] in the [[1970–71 in English football|1970–71 season]] and twice repeated the feat, in [[1997–98 in English football|1997–98]] and [[2001–02 in English football|2001–02]], as well as winning a cup double of the FA Cup and [[Football League Cup|League Cup]] in [[1992–93 in English football|1992–93]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/1976840.stm |title=Double top Gunners |publisher=BBC Sport |date=9 May 2002 |access-date=18 September 2015 |archive-date=23 April 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030423214536/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/1976840.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> The [[2003–04 Arsenal F.C. season|2003–04]] season was the only 38-match league season [[The Invincibles (football)|unbeaten]] in English football history. A special gold version of the Premier League trophy was commissioned and presented to the club the following season.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/3724897.stm |title=Special trophy for Gunners |publisher=BBC Sport |date=18 May 2004 |access-date=5 June 2016 |archive-date=21 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821221043/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/3724897.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="font-size:95%; text-align:center;"
|+ Arsenal F.C. honours
! style="width: 1%;" |Type
! style="width: 5%;" |Competition
! style="width: 1%;" |Titles
! style="width: 21%;" |Seasons
|-
| scope="rowgroup" rowspan="5" |'''Domestic'''
! scope="row" |[[Football League First Division|First Division]]/[[Premier League]]{{efn|Upon its formation in 1992, the [[Premier League]] became the top tier of [[Football in England|English football]]; the [[English Football League|Football League]] [[Football League First Division|First]] and [[Football League Second Division|Second Divisions]] then became the second and third tiers, respectively. From 2004, the First Division became the [[EFL Championship|Championship]] and the Second Division became [[EFL League One|League One]].|group=note}}
| 13
| align="left" |[[1930–31 in English football|1930–31]], [[1932–33 in English football|1932–33]], [[1933–34 in English football|1933–34]], [[1934–35 in English football|1934–35]], [[1937–38 in English football|1937–38]], [[1947–48 in English football|1947–48]], [[1952–53 in English football|1952–53]], [[1970–71 in English football|1970–71]], [[1988–89 in English football|1988–89]], [[1990–91 in English football|1990–91]], [[1997–98 FA Premier League|1997–98]], [[2001–02 FA Premier League|2001–02]], [[2003–04 FA Premier League|2003–04]]
|-
! scope="row" |[[FA Cup]]
|style="background-color:gold"| '''14'''
| align="left" |[[1930 FA Cup Final|1929–30]], [[1936 FA Cup Final|1935–36]], [[1950 FA Cup Final|1949–50]], [[1971 FA Cup Final|1970–71]], [[1979 FA Cup Final|1978–79]], [[1993 FA Cup Final|1992–93]], [[1998 FA Cup Final|1997–98]], [[2002 FA Cup Final|2001–02]], [[2003 FA Cup Final|2002–03]], [[2005 FA Cup Final|2004–05]], [[2014 FA Cup Final|2013–14]], [[2015 FA Cup Final|2014–15]], [[2017 FA Cup Final|2016–17]], [[2020 FA Cup Final|2019–20]]
|-
! scope="row" |[[EFL Cup]]{{efn|Until 2016, the unsponsored name of the EFL Cup was the Football League Cup.|group=note}}
| 2
| align="left" |[[1987 Football League Cup Final|1986–87]], [[1993 Football League Cup Final|1992–93]]
|-
! scope="row" |[[FA Community Shield]]{{efn|Until 2002, the FA Community Shield was known as the FA Charity Shield.|group=note}}
| 17
| align="left" |[[1930 FA Charity Shield|1930]], [[1931 FA Charity Shield|1931]], [[1933 FA Charity Shield|1933]], [[1934 FA Charity Shield|1934]], [[1938 FA Charity Shield|1938]], [[1948 FA Charity Shield|1948]], [[1953 FA Charity Shield|1953]], [[1991 FA Charity Shield|1991]],{{efn|The 1991 FA Charity Shield was shared with Tottenham Hotspur.|group=note}} [[1998 FA Charity Shield|1998]], [[1999 FA Charity Shield|1999]], [[2002 FA Community Shield|2002]], [[2004 FA Community Shield|2004]], [[2014 FA Community Shield|2014]], [[2015 FA Community Shield|2015]], [[2017 FA Community Shield|2017]], [[2020 FA Community Shield|2020]], [[2023 FA Community Shield|2023]]
|-
! scope="row" |[[Football League Centenary Trophy]]
|style="background-color:gold"| '''1'''
| align="left" |[[Football League Centenary Trophy|1988]]
|-
| scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" |'''Continental'''
! scope="row" |[[Inter-Cities Fairs Cup]]
| 1
| align="left" |[[1970 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final|1969–70]]
|-
! scope="row" |[[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]]
| 1
| align="left" |[[1994 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final|1993–94]]
|}
* {{legend|gold|record}}
* {{smallsup|s}} shared record

===Other===
When the FA Cup was the only national [[football association]] competition available to Arsenal, the other football association competitions were [[County football association|County Cups]], and they made up many of the matches the club played during a season.<ref name="aftlu"/> Arsenal's first first-team trophy was a County Cup, the inaugural [[Kent Senior Cup]].<ref name="FirstCountyCup"/> Arsenal became ineligible for the [[London Football Association|London Cups]] when the club turned professional in 1891, and rarely participated in County Cups after this.<ref name="TurnProfessional"/><ref name="FirstSuperstar">{{cite web |url=http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=14309 |title=Arsenal's First Superstar |last=Kelly |first=Andy |date=24 February 2017 |website=The Arsenal History |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922225151/http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=14309 |archive-date=22 September 2017 |url-status=live |access-date=22 September 2017}}</ref> Due to the club's original location within the borders of both the London and [[Kent County Football Association|Kent]] Football Associations,<ref>{{cite web |date=12 January 1951 |title=Memorandum on areas and overlapping of associations |url=http://www.thefa.com/~/media/files/thefaportal/governance-docs/rules-of-the-association/2013-14/areas-and-overlapping-of-associations.ashx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022013220/http://www.thefa.com/~/media/files/thefaportal/governance-docs/rules-of-the-association/2013-14/areas-and-overlapping-of-associations.ashx |archive-date=22 October 2013 |access-date=22 September 2017 |website= |publisher=The Football Association}}</ref> Arsenal competed in and won trophies organised by each.<ref name="FirstCountyCup"/><ref name="FirstSuperstar"/>

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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=news&article=463700&cpid=703&title=Emirates+Stadium+to+host+pre-season+tournament |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503021532/http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=news&article=463700&cpid=703&title=Emirates%2BStadium%2Bto%2Bhost%2Bpre-season%2Btournament |title=Emirates Stadium to host pre-season tournament |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |date=1 May 2007 |access-date=17 June 2016 |archive-date=3 May 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> During the wars, previous competitions were widely suspended and the club had to participate in wartime competitions. [[Association football during World War II|During WWII]], Arsenal won several of these.

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}{{Notelist|group=note}}

==References==
===Citations===
{{reflist}}

===Sources===
* {{cite book |last1=Attwood |first1=Tony |last2=Kelly |first2=Andy |last3=Andrews |first3=Mark |title=Woolwich Arsenal FC: 1893–1915 The club that changed football |date=1 August 2012|publisher=First and Best in Education |isbn=978-1-86083-787-6|edition=first}}
* {{cite book |last=Cross |first=John |title=Arsene Wenger: The Inside Story of Arsenal Under Wenger |date=17 September 2015 |publisher=Simon & Schuster UK |isbn=978-1-4711-3793-8}}
* {{cite book |last1=Elkin |first1=James |last2=Shakeshaft |first2=Simon |title=The Arsenal Shirt: Iconic Match Worn Shirts from the History of the Gunners |date=1 November 2014 |publisher=Vision Sports Publishing |isbn=978-1-909534-26-1}}
* {{cite book |last=Joy |first=Bernard |title=Forward, Arsenal! |date=2009 |orig-year=First Published 1952 |publisher=GCR Books Limited |isbn=978-0-9559211-1-7 |edition=Republished |author-link=Bernard Joy}}
* {{cite book |last1=Masters |first1=Roy |year=1995 |series=Britain in Old Photographs |title=The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich |location=Strood |publisher=Sutton Publishing |isbn=0-7509-0894-7}}
* {{cite book |last1=Soar |first1=Phil |last2=Tyler |first2=Martin |title=Arsenal 125 Years in the Making: The Official Illustrated History 1886–2011 |date=3 October 2011 |publisher=Hamlyn |isbn=978-0-600-62353-3}}
* {{cite book |last1=Sowman |first1=John |last2=Wilson |first2=Bob |title=Arsenal: The Long Sleep 1953 – 1970: A view from the terrace |date=18 January 2016 |publisher=Hamilton House |isbn=978-1-86083-837-8}}
* {{cite book |author1=Whittaker, Tom |last2=Peskett |first2=Roy |title=Tom Whittaker's Arsenal Story |date=1957 |publisher=Sporting Handbooks |edition=First |ref={{harvid|Whittaker|Peskett|1957}}|author1-link=Tom Whittaker (footballer)|asin=B0018JTU5I}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Mark |last2=Kelly |first2=Andy |last3=Stillman |first3=Tim |title=Royal Arsenal: Champions of the South |date=8 November 2018|publisher=Legends Publishing |isbn=9781906796594|edition=First|ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Callow |first=Nick |title=The Official Little Book of Arsenal |date=11 April 2013 |publisher=Carlton Books Ltd |isbn=978-1-84732-680-5 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Fynn |first1=Alex |last2=Whitcher |first2=Kevin |title=Arsènal: The Making of a Modern Superclub |date=18 August 2011 |publisher=Vision Sports Publishing |isbn=978-1-907637-31-5 |edition=3rd |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Glanville |first1=Brian |title=Arsenal Football Club: From Woolwich to Whittaker |date=2011 |publisher=GCR Books |isbn=978-0-9559211-7-9 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Lane |first1=David |title=Arsenal 'Til I Die: The Voices of Arsenal FC Supporters |date=28 August 2014 |publisher=Meyer & Meyer Sport |isbn=978-1-78255-038-9 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Maidment |first1=Jem |title=The Official Arsenal Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive A–Z of London's Most Successful Club |date=2008 |publisher=Hamlyn |isbn=978-0-600-61888-1 |edition=revised |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Mangan |first1=Andrew |last2=Lawrence |first2=Amy |last3=Auclair |first3=Philippe |last4=Allen |first4=Andrew |title=So Paddy Got Up: An Arsenal anthology |date=7 December 2011 |publisher=Portnoy Publishing |isbn=978-0-9569813-7-0 |ref=none|author-link=Andrew Mangan (writer)}}
* {{cite book |last1=Roper |first1=Alan |title=Real Arsenal Story: In the Days of Gog |date=1 November 2003 |publisher=Wherry Publishing |isbn=978-0-9546259-0-0 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Spragg |first1=Iain |last2=Clarke |first2=Adrian |title=The Official Arsenal FC Book of Records |date=8 October 2015 |publisher=Carlton Books Ltd |isbn=978-1-78097-668-6 |edition=2 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Spurling |first1=Jon |title=Rebels for the Cause: The Alternative History of Arsenal Football Club |date=2 November 2012 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-78057-486-8 |edition=New |url=}}
* {{cite book |last1=Spurling |first1=Jon |title=Highbury: The Story of Arsenal in N.5 |date=21 August 2014 |publisher=Orion |isbn=978-1-4091-5306-1 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Stammers |first1=Steve |title=Arsenal: The Official Biography: The Compelling Story of an Amazing Club |date=7 November 2008 |publisher=Hamlyn |isbn=978-0-600-61892-8 |edition=First |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |author=Wall, Bob |title=Arsenal from the Heart |date=1969 |publisher=Souvenir Press Limited |isbn=978-0-285-50261-1 |author-link=Bob Wall (football administrator) |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Watt |first1=Tom |title=The End: 80 Years of Life on the Terraces |date=13 October 1995 |publisher=Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited |isbn=978-1-85158-793-3 |ref=none}}

==External links==
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* {{Official website}}

===Independent websites===
* [https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/teams/arsenal Arsenal F.C.] at [[BBC Sport]]
* [https://www.skysports.com/arsenal Arsenal F.C.] at [[Sky Sports]]
* [https://www.premierleague.com/clubs/1/Arsenal/overview Arsenal F.C.] at [[Premier League]]
* [https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/teams/52280--arsenal/ Arsenal F.C.] at [[UEFA|Union of European Football Associations]]

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[[Category:Kroenke Sports & Entertainment]]
[[Category:Premier League clubs]]
[[Category:UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winning clubs]]
[[Category:Inter-Cities Fairs Cup winning clubs]]
[[Category:United League (football)]]