Full name: Arsenal Football Club
Nickname: The Gunners
Founded: 1886 as Dial Square
Ground: Emirates Stadium (Capacity: 60,355)
Owner: Arsenal Holdings plc
Chairman: Peter Hill-Wood
Manager: Arsène Wenger
League: English Premier League
EPL 2010–11: 4th positionArsenal 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 Division 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 1970–71 season, 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.
In the 2011–2012 season, Arsenal will celebrate their 125th year anniversary. The celebrations will include a modified version of the current crest worn on their jerseys for the season. The crest is all white, surrounded by 15 oak leaves to the right and 15 laurel leaves to the left. The oak leaves represent the 15 founding members of the club who met at the Royal Oak pub. The 15 laurel leaves represent the design detail on the six pence pieces paid by the founding fathers to establish the club. The laurel leaves also represent strength.To complete the crest, 1886 and 2011 are shown on either sides of the motto "Forward" at the bottom of the crest.
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| Arsenal's first crest from 1888 | The 'monogram' badge as used in the 1930 FA Cup Final |
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| The 'Art Deco' badge as used in the 1952 FA Cup Final | A version of the Arsenal crest used from 1949 to 2002 |
Logo used from 2002-2012Arsenal fans often refer to themselves as "Gooners", the name derived from the team's nickname, "The Gunners". The fanbase is large and generally loyal, and virtually all home matches sell out; in 2007–08 Arsenal had the second-highest average League attendance for an English club (60,070, which was 99.5% of available capacity), and as of 2006, the fourth-highest all-time average attendance.[55] The club's location, adjoining wealthy areas such as Canonbury and Barnsbury, mixed areas such as Islington, Holloway, Highbury, and the adjacent London Borough of Camden, and largely working-class areas such as Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington, has meant that Arsenal's supporters have come from across the usual class divides. In addition, Arsenal have the highest proportion (7.7%) of non-white attending supporters of any club in English football, according to a 2002 report.
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 (49 games) and also are the only team to have gona an entire Premier League season unbeaten in 2003–04. There should also be special mention for Arsenal's consistent qualification for the Champions League-the club have managed to enter the group stages 14 years running as of 2011.
Arsenal jersey's history (2000-2011)
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| AFC Away 1999-2000 | AFC Home 2000-02 |
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| AFC Away 2000-02 | AFC Home 2002-04 |
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| AFC Away 2002-03 | AFC Home 2004-05 |
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| AFC Away 2004-05 | AFC Home 2005-06 |
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| AFC Away 2005-06 | AFC Home 2006-08 |
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| AFC Away 2006-07 | AFC Third kit 2007-08 |
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| AFC Home 2008-10 | AFC Away 2008-09 |
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| AFC Away 2009-10 | AFC Away 2010-11 |
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| AFC Home 2011/12 | AFC Away 2011/12 |
