Arsenal
Football Club is a professional football club
based in Highbury, London, England, that plays in the PremierLeague, the top flight of English
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The club has won 13 League titles, 13 FA
Cups, two League
Cups, 14 FA Community Shields, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.
Arsenal was the first club
from the South of England to join The Football League, in 1893
Arsène Wenger has been the longest-serving manager and has
won the most trophies. His teams set several English records: the longest win
streak; the longest unbeaten run; and the only 38 match season unbeaten.
Arsenal earned €435.5m in 2014–15, with the Emirates Stadium generating the
highest revenue in world football.
Based on social media
activity from 2014–15, Arsenal's fanbase is the fifth largest in the world
In 2016, Forbes
estimated the club
was the second most valuable in England, worth $2.0 billion.
Former player Terry
Neill succeeded Mee
in 1976. At the age of 34, he became the youngest Arsenal manager to date.
Arsenal's shirts have been
made by manufacturers including Bukta (from the 1930s until the early 1970s), Umbro (from the 1970s until 1986), Adidas (1986–1994), Nike (1994–2014), and Puma (from 2014)
Arsenal's
shirts have featured sponsors' logos since the 1980s; sponsors include JVC (1982–1999), Sega (1999–2002), O2 (2002–2006), and Emirates (from 2006).
The stadium was named
after its sponsors, the airline company Emirates, with whom the club signed the largest sponsorship deal in English
football history, worth around £100 million
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
Arsenal fans often refer
to themselves as "Gooners", the name derived from the team's
nickname, "The Gunners".
The largest shareholder on
the Arsenal board is American sports tycoon Stan
Kroenke. As of June 2015, Kroenke owns 41,698
shares (67.02%) and Red & White Securities own 18,695 shares (30.04%).
Ivan Gazidis has been the club's Chief Executive since 2009
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. On September 3, 2016 The Arsenal
Foundation has donated £1m to build football pitches for children in London,
Iraq, Jordan and Somalia thanks to The Arsenal Foundation Legends Match against
Milan Glorie at the Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal's tally of 13
League Championships is the third highest in English football, after Manchester
United (20) and Liverpool (18), and
they were the first club to reach a seventh and an eighth League Championship. As of May 2016,
they are one of only six teams, the others being Manchester United, Blackburn
Rovers, Chelsea, Manchester
City and Leicester City, to have won the Premier League since its
formation in 1992.
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.
They were the first side
in English football to complete the FA Cup and League Cup double, in 1993
Arsenal were also the
first London club to reach the final of the UEFA Champions League, in 2006,
losing the final 2–1 to Barcelona.
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 A.C.
Milan. They went a record total
stretch of 995 minutes without letting an opponent score; the streak ended
in the final, when Samuel
Eto'o scored a
76th-minute equaliser for Barcelona.
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