Arsenal F.C.

Arsenal Football Club is an Inglis professional fitba club based in Islington, North Lunnon. Arsenal play in the Premier League, the tap flicht o Inglis fitba. The club has wan 13 league titles (including een wi nae defeats), a record 14 FA Cups, twa League Cups, 17 FA Community Shields, een European Cup Winners' Cup, an een Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms o trophies wan, it is the third-maist successful club in Inglis fitba.

Arsenal

Full name	Arsenal Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Gunners
Foondit	1886 (1886) as Dial Square
Ground	Emirates Stadium, Holloway, Lunnon
Ground Capacity	60,338
Awner	Arsenal Holdings plc
Manager	Mikel Arteta
League	Premier League
2022–23	Premier League, 2nt o 20
Wabsteid	Club wabsteid
Hame colours Awey colours Third colours

Arsenal wis the erest club fae the Sooth of England tae jyne the Football League in 1893, an they reakit the First Division in 1904. Relegated anely ance, in 1913, they conteena the langest streak in the tap division, an hae wan the seicont-maist tap-flight matches in Inglis fitba history. In the 1930s, Arsenal wan five League Championships an twa FA Cups, an anither FA Cup and twa Championships efter the war. In 1970–71, they wan their erest League and FA Cup Double. Atween 1989 an 2005, they wan five League titles an five FA Cups, including twa mair Doubles. They completit the 20th century wi the maist high average league position. Atween 1998 and 2017, Arsenal qualified for the UEFA Champions League for nineteen consecutive seasons.

In 1886, munitions wirkers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich foondit the club as Dial Square. In 1913 the club crosst the city tae Arsenal Stadium in Highbury, becoming close neebours o Tottenham Hotspur, and creatin the North London derby. Herbert Chapman, wha changed the fortunes o Arsenal foriver, won the club its erest sillerware, an his legacy led the club tae dominate the 1930s. He helpt introduce the WM formation, floodlights, an shirt nummers; he addit the white sleeves an brichter reid tae the club's jersey an aw. Arsène Wenger is the langest-serving heid-bummer an wan the maist trophies. He wan a record seiven FA Cups, an his title-wanning team set an Inglis record fir the maist lang tap-flicht unbeaten league run at 49 games atween 2003 an 2004, receiving the eik-name The Invincibles.

In 2006, the club flittit tae the near aboots Emirates Stadium. Wi an annual revenue of £367.1m in the 2021–22 season, Arsenal wis estimated tae be wirth US$2.26 billion by Forbes, makin it the warld's tenth maist vailuable fitba club, while it is een o the maist follit on social media. The motto o the club is Victoria Concordia Crescit, Latin fir "Veectory Throu Hermony".

First-team squad

(Old Squad)

As o 20th July 2023.

For ither uisses, see Arsenal F.C. (disambiguation).

Note: Banners indicate naitional team as defined unner FIFA eligibility rules. Players mey haud mair nor ane non-FIFA naitionality.

No. Poseetion Player 1 GK Aaron Ramsdale 2 DF William Saliba 3 DF Kieran Tierney 4 DF Ben White 5 MF Thomas Partey 6 DF Gabriel Magalhaes 7 FW Bukayo Saka 8 MF Martin Odegaard 9 FW Gabriel Jesus 10 MF Emile Smith-Rowe 11 FW Gabriel Martinelli

No. Poseetion Player 12 DF Jurrien Timber 14 FW Eddie Nketiah 15 DF Jakub Kiwior 17 DF Cédric Soares 18 DF Takehiro Tomiyasu 19 FW Leandro Trossard 20 MF Jorginho 21 MF Fabio Viera 22 GK David Raya 24 FW Reiss Nelson 25 MF Mohamed Elneny 29 MF Kai Havertz 31 GK Karl Hein 35 DF Oleksandr Zinchenko 41 MF Declan Rice

Honours

Domestic

• First Division (till 1992) an 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 (13): 1930, 1936, 1950, 1971, 1979, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2014, 2015. 2017

Runners-up (8): 1927, 1932, 1952, 1972, 1978, 1980, 2001, 2016

• League Cup

Winners (2): 1987, 1993

Runners-up (4): 1968, 1969, 1988, 2007

• FA Community Shield (FA Charity Shield afore 2002)

Winners (13): 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1991 (shared), 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2014, 2020, 2021, 2023

Runners-up (7): 1935, 1936, 1979, 1989, 1993, 2003, 2005

European

• UEFA Champions League

Runners-up (1): 2006

• European Cup Winners' Cup

Winners (1): 1994

Runners-up (2): 1980, 1995

• Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

Winners (1): 1970

• UEFA Cup

Runners-up (2): 2000, 2019

• UEFA Super Cup

Runners-up (1): 1994

Arsenal's tally o thirteen League Championships is the third hichtest in Inglis fitbaw, efter Liverpool an Manchester United, while the tot o ten FA Cups is tee'd for hichtest, wi Manchester Unitit. Arsenal hae achievit three League an FA Cup "Doubles" (in 1971, 1998 an 2002), a record shared wi Manchester United, an in 1993 wur the erest side in Inglis fitbaw tae complete the FA Cup an League Cup double. Thay wur the erest Lunnon club tae reach the feenal o the UEFA Champions League an aw, in 2006.

Arsenal hae ane o the best tap-flicht records in heestory, haein feenished belaw fowerteent anelie seiven times. Arsenal hae the hichtest average league feenishin poseetion for the period 1900–1999 an aw, wi an average league placin o 8.5. In addeetion, thay are ane o anerlie sax clubs tae hae wan the FA Cup twice in succession, in 2002 an 2003.