Arsenal FC: Players

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

^{First team squad}

^{As of 31 August 2011.

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

No. Position Player
1 GK Manuel Almunia
2 MF Abou Diaby
3 DF Bacary Sagna
4 DF Per Mertesacker
5 DF Thomas Vermaelen (vice-captain)
6 DF Laurent Koscielny
7 MF Tomáš Rosický
8 MF Mikel Arteta
9 FW Park Chu-Young
10 FW Robin van Persie (captain)
11 DF André Santos
13 GK Wojciech Szczęsny
14 FW Theo Walcott
15 FW Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
16 MF Aaron Ramsey

No. Position Player
17 MF Alex Song
18 DF Sébastien Squillaci
19 MF Jack Wilshere
20 DF Johan Djourou
21 GK Łukasz Fabiański
23 MF Andrei Arshavin
24 GK Vito Mannone
25 DF Carl Jenkinson
26 MF Emmanuel Frimpong
27 FW Gervinho
28 DF Kieran Gibbs
29 FW Marouane Chamakh
30 MF Yossi Benayoun (on loan from Chelsea)
31 FW Ryo Miyaichi}Reserve squad

See Arsenal F.C. Reserves and Arsenal F.C. Academy

As of 6 September 2011.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
33	FW	Benik Afobe
37	DF	Daniel Boateng
38	DF	George Brislen-Hall
39	MF	Francis Coquelin
40	MF	Craig Eastmond
43	DF	Sead Hajrović
44	MF	Conor Henderson
45	DF	Gavin Hoyte

No.	Position	Player
47	GK	Sean McDermott
48	MF	Jernade Meade
49	DF	Ignasi Miquel
50	FW	Rhys Murphy
53	MF	Oğuzhan Özyakup
56	DF	Nico Yennaris
59	GK	Damian Martinez

Out on loan

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

No.	Position	Player
34	MF	Chuks Aneke (at Stevenage until 22 January 2012)
41	FW	Luke Freeman (at Stevenage until 8 January 2012)
46	MF	Henri Lansbury (at West Ham until the end of the 2011–12 season)
52	FW	Nicklas Bendtner (at Sunderland until the end of the 2011–12 season)

No.	Position	Player
55	MF	Sanchez Watt (at Sheffield Wednesday until 16 January 2012)
	FW	Joel Campbell (at Lorient until the end of the 2011–12 season)
	MF	Denílson (at São Paulo until the end of the 2011–12 season)
	FW	Carlos Vela (at Real Sociedad until the end of the 2011–12 season)

Arsenal FC

Players

Out on loan

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