Arsenal FC

Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League Football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Di and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups. Arsenal holds the record for the longest uninterrupted period in the English top flight and is the only side to have completed a Premier League season unbeaten.

Arsenal was founded in 1886 in Woolwich and in 1893 became the first club from the south of England to join the Football League. In 1913, it moved north across the city to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury. In the 1930s the club won five League Championship titles and two FA Cups. After a lean period in the post-war years it won the League and FA Cup double, in the , and in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century won two more Doubles and reached the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final.

Arsenal has a long-standing rivalry with neighbours Tottenham Hotspur, with whom it regularly contests the North London Derby. Arsenal is also the third most valuable Association football club in the world as of 2010, valued at $1.2 billion.
There have been eighteen permanent and five caretaker Managers of Arsenal since the appointment of the club's first professional manager, Thomas Mitchell in 1897. The club's longest-serving manager as of 2009, in terms of both length of tenure and number of games overseen, is Arsene Wenger, who was appointed in 1996. Wenger is also Arsenal's only manager from outside the United Kingdom. Two Arsenal managers have died in the job – Herbert Chapman and Tom Whittaker

Honours

Domestic
  • First Division (until 1992) and Premier League
Winners (13): 1930–31, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1934–35, 1937–38, 1947–48, 1952–53, 1970–71, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2003–04
Runners-up (8): 1925–26, 1931–32, 1972–73, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2004–05
  • Second Division
Runners-up (1): 1903–04
  • FA Cup
Winners (10): 1930, 1936, 1950, 1971, 1979, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005
Runners-up (7): 1927, 1932, 1952, 1972, 1978, 1980, 2001
  • League Cup
Winners (2): 1987, 1993
Runners-up (5): 1968, 1969, 1988, 2007, 2011
  • FA Community Shield (FA Charity Shield before 2002)
Winners (12): 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1991 (shared), 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004
Runners-up (7): 1935, 1936, 1979, 1989, 1993, 2003, 2005

European

  • UEFA Champions League
Runners-up (1): 2005–06
  • European Cup Winners' Cup
Winners (1): 1993–94
Runners-up (2): 1979–80, 1994–95
  • UEFA Cup
Runners-up (1): 1999-00
  • UEFA Super Cup
Runners-up (1): 1994
  • Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
Winners (1): 1969–70

Individual

  • European Golden Shoe
Winners (2): Thierry Henry 2003-04, 2004-05
Arsenal's tally of thirteen League Championships is the third highest in English football, after Liverpool and Manchester United, while the total of ten FA Cups is the second highest, after Manchester United. Arsenal have achieved three League and FA Cup "Doubles" (in 1971, 1998 and 2002), a record shared with Manchester United, and in 1993 were the first side in English football to complete the FA Cup and League Cup double. They were also the first London club to reach the final of the UEFA Champions League, in 2006.
Arsenal have one of the best top-flight records in history, having finished below fourteenth only seven times. Arsenal also have the highest average league finishing position for the period 1900–1999, with an average league placing of 8.5. In addition, they are one of only six clubs to have won the FA Cup twice in succession, in 2002 and 2003. Arsenal also hold the record for the longest unbeaten run in English football at 49 games, and also are the only team to have gone an entire Premier League season unbeaten in 2003–04.
As of 2011 they have also consistently qualified for the Champions League having managed to enter the group stages 14 years running.

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