History Arsenal FC

Arsenal FC, known as The Gunners are one of the British professional club based in North London. The full historical information at the bottom you should see this as an insight for you in the sport that leads you know much more about this club.

History of the club

Era 1886-1980

Arsenal was founded in Woolwich, southeast London in 1886 under the name Dial Square, then quickly changed their name to Royal Arsenal. In 1891 their name changed to Woolwich Arsenal and change the organizational structure into a limited company (Company Limited) and a member of the Football League. They started the game in the Second Division, then they successfully promoted to the First Division in 1904, but Arsenal are relatively low performance and even tended to decline so that they are relegated to the Second Division and went bankrupt before being bought by businessman Henry Norris and William Hall. In 1913, the club moved to the north of London, precisely in the area and build Highbury Stadium Highbury, which became their new headquarters. That's when he moved the location, name their club, which is removed so that only the name of the Woolwich Arsenal left. Arsenal back in 1919 was promoted to Division Pertama.Oleh Arsenal stadium due to its location close to Tottenham Hotspur's headquarters, would not be surprised if the match Arsenal vs Tottenham Hotspur called "North London derby" and is one of the hottest in the London derby.

Persepak Arsenal triumph in first British soccer coach Herbert Chapman preceded by a train on the range in 1925-35 and managed to win some of the English domestic competitions (FA Cup, Premier League titles, and the Charity Shield) as well as Arsenal dominated and made the most dominant force in England at that time. In the 1940s-1960s range, Arsenal can only add a little collection of domestic titles. Chapman died suddenly of pneumonia in early 1934, leaving Joe Shaw and George Allison to carry out a successful job. Under their guidance, Arsenal won three more titles, in 1933-1934, 1934-1935 1937-1938, and 1936 and the FA Cup. As key players retired, Arsenal had started to fade the end of the decade, and then the intervention of World War II meant competitive professional football in England was suspended.

After the war, Arsenal enjoyed a second period of success under Allison's successor Tom Whittaker, won the league in 1947-48 and 1952-53, and the FA Cup in 1950. their fortunes shrink thereafter, can not attract players of the same caliber as those in the 1930's, the club spent most of the 1950s and the 1960s in trophyless mediocrity. Even former England captain Billy Wright could not bring the club any success as manager, in charge between 1962 and 1966.

After losing two League Cup finals, they won their first European trophy, in the early 1970s, Arsenal Arsenal won the best performance in Europe the first time that happened in the 1969-70 season, in the event the Fairs Cup (forerunner of the UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa is now named League). Arsenal won for the first time and last time in the arena as well as the Fairs Cup (UEFA Cup replaced the Fairs Cup since the 1971-72 season) after defeating club RSC Anderlecht 4-3 on aggregate (with the home and away) At that time, the club is coached by Bertie Mee. Throughout the 1980s, Arsenal managed to add a collection of Arsenal with several domestic titles, but not with the degree of European competition.





Era 1990-present

In 1991, Arsenal won with Tottenham in the Community Shield after a 0-0 draw result of the position (at the time, if the position of the series so both teams are considered winners). Fasting Arsenal title of European competition will eventually disappear after the 1993-94 season, in the hands of coach George Graham, Arsenal won on the European scene, precisely in the Cup Winners after beating club Parma FC 1-0. In the next season, Arsenal made it to the final return at the same event, but this time they were beaten by Real Zaragoza with a score of 2-1.

The arrival of coach Arsène Wenger to Arsenal in 1996 managed to make Arsenal return victorious and managed to undermine the dominance of Manchester United in the Premier League at the time. Arsenal were brought successfully into runner-up in the UEFA Cup in 2000 after a fight against Galatasaray on penalties after a 4-1 draw position. In the 2003-04 season until the beginning of the 2004-05 season, Arsenal had scored a record 49 match unbeaten run and broke the record belongs to Nottingham Forest FC (42 times) which is the longest unbeaten record in the history of English football. In the 2005-06 season, Arsenal achieved the feat on the European scene with a Champions League finalists FC Barcelona after a 2-1 defeat at the Stade de France, Paris.

Arsenal coach Wenger's future has a good policy in coaching young players who had not qualified as well as quality but lesser known players to players who are able to show the Talent-extraordinary talent as well as targeted by top European clubs. In addition, Arsenal have a policy of awarding contracts to players that have been aged 30 years or older, that is no more than one season.


Symbol

Launched in 1888, the first Royal Arsenal top of the display of three cannon viewed from above, pointing north, similar to the symbol of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich. This can sometimes be mistaken for chimneys, but the presence of a lion's head carved on each indicator and cascabel is clear is that they are cannon. This was dropped after the moved to Highbury in 1913, only to be reinstated in 1922, when the club adopted a single peak showing cannons, pointing to the east, with the club's nickname, The Gunners, written next to it; peak lasted only until 1925, when the cannon backwards to point to the west and the barrel slimmed down. In 1949, the club announced a modern emblem featuring the same style cannon under the club name, set in blackletter, and on top of the emblem of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington and the roll-written with new club adopted Latin motto, Victoria Concordia Crescit "victory comes from harmony ", created by the club's program editor Harry Homer. For the first time, the peak is given in color, which varies little over the top of the life, eventually becoming red, gold and green.

A version of the top Arsenal used 1949-2002

Due to various revisions peak, Arsenal can not copyright it. Although the club has successfully registered as a trademark summit, and had fought (and won) a long legal battle with a local street trader who sold 'unofficial' Arsenal merchandise, Arsenal eventually seek a more comprehensive legal protection. Therefore, in 2002 they introduced a new symbol which shows curved lines are more modern and simplified style, which owns the copyright. cannon once again faces east and the club's name is written in a sans-serif typeface above the cannon. Replaced with dark blue green. The new emblem has been criticized by some supporters; Arsenal Independent Supporters Association claims that Arsenal have ignored many of the club's history and tradition with such a radical, modern design and that the fans have not been properly consulted on. Problem.

Until the 1960s, the insignia worn on the shirt just for playing high-profile game like the FA Cup final, usually in the form of the club's initials monogrammed in red on a white background.

Monogram theme is developed into an Art Deco-style badge where the letters A and C to frame a football rather than the letter F, all set in a hexagonal border. This early example of a company logo, introduced as part of the rebranding of the club's Herbert Chapman in the 1930s, used not only in the Cup Final shirt, but as a design feature throughout the Highbury Stadium, including the main entrance and decorative flooring. From 1967, a cannon used in the white shirt on a regular basis, until replaced by the top clubs, sometimes with the addition of the nickname "The Gunners", in the 1990s.

Color

For most of Arsenal's history, their home colors have been bright red shirts with white sleeves and white shorts, though this is not always the case. Choice of red in recognition of charitable contributions from Nottingham Forest, soon after Arsenal's foundation in 1886. Two of Dial Square's founding members, Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates, were former Forest players who had moved to Woolwich for work. When they collect the first team in the area, no kit could be found, so Beardsley and Bates wrote home for help and received a set of kit and balls. redcurrant shirt, dark red, and worn with white shorts and blue socks.

In 1933, Herbert Chapman, wanting his players to more clearly dressed, updated the kit, adding white sleeves and changing the shade to bright red pillar box. Two possibilities have been suggested for the origin of the white arms. One story reports that Chapman saw supporters in the stands wearing a red sweater sleeves over a white shirt, the other is that he was inspired by a similar garment worn by the cartoonist Tom Webster with whom Chapman played golf.

Regardless of the true story, red and white shirts have come to define Arsenal and the team has worn the combination ever since, apart from two seasons. The first was 1966-1967, when Arsenal wore all red shirts; this proved unpopular and the white sleeves returned the following season. The second was 2005-06, last season Arsenal played at Highbury, when the team wore redcurrant shirts similar warning to those used in 1913, their first season in the stadium, the club returned to normal color at the start of next season. In the 2008-09 season, Arsenal replaced all the traditional white sleeves with red sleeves. wide strip of white

Arsenal's home colors have been the inspiration for at least three other clubs. In 1909, Sparta Prague adopted a dark red kit like the Arsenal employed at the time; in 1938, Ireland adopted the design of Arsenal shirt sleeves in their own green and white strip them. In 1920, Sporting Clube de Braga manager 'back from the game at Highbury and changed his team green kit into a duplicate of Arsenal's red with white sleeves and shorts, giving rise to the nickname of Os Arsenalistas team. These teams still wear these designs to this day.

Over the years Arsenal colors white shirt and shorts either black or white. Since the 1969-70 season, they have worn the yellow and blue, but there have been exceptions. They wore green and navy away kit in 1982-1983, and since the early 1990s and the emergence of lucrative replica kit market, much the color has been changed regularly. During this period the design have been either two-tone blue designs, or variations on the traditional yellow and blue, like the metallic gold and navy strip used in the 2001-02 season, and gray, yellow and black are used 2005-2007. [35] In 2009, the kit further changes every season, and the kit went out a third option if the kit is the new home kit is being introduced in the same year. [36]

T-Shirt Arsenal have been made by manufacturers including Bukta (from the 1930's until the early 1970s), Umbro (from 1970 to 1986), Adidas (1986-1994), and Nike (since 1994). As with most other major football club, 's Arsenal shirt features the' sponsor logo since the 1980s; sponsors including JVC (1982-1999), Sega (1999-2002), O2 (2002-2006) and Emirates (from 2006 ).


Stadium

For most of their time in the south-east London, Arsenal played at the Manor Ground in Plumstead, apart from a period of three years near the Invicta Ground between 1890 and 1893. Manor Ground was initially just a field, until the club installed stands and terracing for the first Football League match in September 1893. They play their home games there for the next twenty years (with two exceptions in 1894-95 season), to move to north London in 1913.

Widely referred to as Highbury, Arsenal Stadium is the home club from September 1913 until May 2006. The original stadium was designed by renowned architect Archibald Leitch football, and has a design common to many football grounds in England at that time, with a single covered stand and three open-air terraces edge. The entire stadium was given a major overhaul in the 1930s: The new Art Deco West and East stands constructed, opening in 1932 and 1936 respectively, and the roof terrace has been added to the Northern Bank, which was bombed during the Second World War and not returned until 1954.

Highbury could hold over 60,000 spectators at its peak, and has a capacity of 57 000 until the early 1990s. The Taylor Report and Premier League Arsenal mandatory rules to convert Highbury into all-seater stadium in time for the 1993-94 season, thus reducing the capacity to seat 38 419 spectators. This capability must be reduced further during Champions League matches to accommodate additional advertising hoardings, so much so that over the past two seasons, from 1998 to 2000, Arsenal played Champions League home matches at Wembley, which can house more than 70,000 spectators.

Expansion of Highbury was restricted because the East Stand designated as Level II listed building and the other three stood close to housing. This limitation prevents the club from maximizing matchday revenue during the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, placing them in danger of being left behind in the boom time football. After considering various options, in 2000 Arsenal proposed building a new 60,355-capacity stadium at Ashburton Grove, since renamed the Emirates Stadium, about 500 meters south-west of Highbury. The project was initially delayed by red tape and rising costs, and construction was completed in July 2006, at the beginning of the 2006-07 season. The stadium was named after the sponsor, Emirates airlines, with whom the club signed the largest sponsorship deal in English football history, worth approximately £ 100 million, some fans refer to the ground as Ashburton Grove, or Grove, as they do not agree with the stadium name corporate sponsors . The stadium will be officially known as Emirates Stadium until at least 2012, and airlines will the club's shirt sponsor until the end of the 2013-14 season. From the beginning of the 2010-11 season, the stadium stands have been officially known as the North Bank, East Stand, West Stand and the late Jam.

Arsenal players train at Shenley in Hertfordshire Training Centre, a purpose-built facility which opened in 1999. Before that the club uses the facilities at a nearby site owned by University College London Students' Union. Until 1961 they had been trained at Highbury. Arsenal Academy under-18 team play their home matches at Shenley, while the reserves play their games at Underhill, home of Barnet FC.



Support

Arsenal fans often refer to themselves as "Gooners", the name derived from the nickname of the team, "The Gunners". fans are large and generally loyal, and virtually all home matches selling, in 2007-08 Arsenal had the highest average League attendance-both for the English club (, 60 070 is 99.5% of available capacity), and as of 2006, all-time high average of attendance-fourth. Location clubs, alongside rich regions 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, meaning that Arsenal supporters have come from all classes ordinary share. 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.

Like all major English football clubs, Arsenal have a number of domestic supporters 'clubs, including Arsenal Football Supporters Club, in cooperation with the club, and the Arsenal Independent Supporters' Association, which has a more independent facilities. The Arsenal supporters' Trust to promote greater participation in the ownership of the club by fans. club's supporters also publish fanzines such as The Gooner, Highbury High, and less brain Gunflash Up The Arse!. In addition to ordinary English football chants, supporters sing "One-Nil to the Arsenal" (to the tune of "Go West") and "Boring, Boring Arsenal", which used to be a common taunt from opposition fans but is now sung ironically by Arsenal supporters when team played well.

There is always the Arsenal supporters outside London, and since the advent of satellite television, attachment support for a football club has become less dependent on geography. As a result, Arsenal have a large number of fans from outside London and around the world, in 2007, 24 British, Irish 37, and 49 other overseas supporters clubs affiliated with the club. A 2005 report by Granada Ventures, which at times has a 9.9% stake in the club, estimated Arsenal's global fanbase at 27 million.

The longest-running and deepest rivalry Arsenal with their nearest major neighbors, Tottenham Hotspur, the match between the two is referred to as North London derbies. other competition in London, including those with Chelsea, Fulham and West Ham United. In addition, Arsenal and Manchester United to develop on-pitch rivalry strong in the late 1980s, which intensified in recent years when both clubs are competing for the Premier League title-so much so that in 2003 online poll by the Football Fans Census listed Manchester United as the biggest rival Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea followed by. A 2008 poll recorded is more important Tottenham competition.


Financial and Ownership

Arsenal's parent company, Arsenal Holdings plc, operates as a non-quoted public limited company, the ownership is very different from other football clubs. Only 62 217 shares in Arsenal have been issued, and they are not traded on public exchanges such as the FTSE or AIM, but they are relatively infrequently traded on the PLUS (AFC), a specialist market. On August 31, 2010, a single part in Arsenal has a mid-priced from £ 10,250, which set the club on the market capitalization of around £ 637.74m. club made a pre-tax operating income (including transfers) of £ 62.7m in the year ended May 31, 2009, from a turnover of £ 313.3m.

In April 2010, business magazine Forbes ranked Arsenal as the team's most valuable soccer third in the world, after Manchester United and Real Madrid, assessing the club at $ 1.181bn (£ 768m), excluding debt.

In total, Arsenal FC board currently holds 45.2% of the club's shares, the largest shareholder on the board is the American sports tycoon Stan Kroenke, who launched a bid for the club in 2007, and in November 2009 to increase its holding to 18 594 shares (29.9%). Other directors with significant ownership is a diamond dealer Danny Fiszman, who has 10 025 shares (16.1%), and club chairman Peter Hill-Wood, who has 400 (0.64%), the other directors each hold a nominal value . The former director Lady Bracewell-Smith (wife of the grandson of former chairman Sir Bracewell Smith) has 9893 shares (15.9%).

Kroenke rival bid came from Red & White Securities, which is co-owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov and London-based financier Farhad Moshiri. Red & White launched its bid in August 2007, to buy shares held by Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein, and in February 2009 held 15 555 shares (25.0%) in the club. This led to press speculation a bidding war between Kroenke and Usmanov. However, Kroenke agreed to not buy more than 29.9% of the club until at least September 2009, while the rest of the board has first option on the shares of each other until October 2012.

In April 2011, Stan Kroenke is rumored to be in "advanced talks" with Arsenal over possible takeover.

Costume and Kit Manufacturer Links
Kit manufacturers

1930's-1970: Bukta
1971-1986: Umbro
1986-1994: Adidas
1994-present: Nike

Shirt sponsor

1981-1999: JVC
1999-2002: Dreamcast (1st and 3rd Shirt) and Sega (2nd Shirt)
2002-2006: O2
2006-Present: Fly Emirates

In popular culture

Arsenal have appeared in a number of media "firsts". On January 22, 1927, their match at Highbury against Sheffield United was the first English League match to be broadcast live on radio. A decade later, on 16 September 1937, an exhibition match between Arsenal's first team and reserves is the first football game in the world which will be broadcast live. Arsenal are also shown in the first edition of the BBC's Match of the Day, which screened highlights of their matches against Liverpool at Anfield on August 22, 1964. BSkyB coverage 's January 2010 Arsenal match against Manchester United was the first public live 3D sports events on television.

As one of the most successful teams in the country, Arsenal are displayed as described in the art of football in England. They form the backdrop to one of the film associated with the earliest football, The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939). The film centers on a friendly match between Arsenal and an amateur side, one player who was poisoned while playing. Many Arsenal players appeared as themselves and manager George Allison was given the speech. More recently, the book Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby is the autobiographical account of Hornby's life and relationship with football and Arsenal in particular. Published in 1992, it was part of the revival and rehabilitation of football in British society in the 1990s. The book was twice adapted for the cinema - a 1997 British film focuses on Arsenal win the title of 1988-1989, and an American version of the 2005 features the Boston Red Sox baseball fan.

Arsenal are often stereotyped as a defensive "boring" side and, in particular during the 1970's and 1980's; comedians, such as Eric Morecambe, made jokes about it in the team fee. This theme is repeated in the 1997 film The Full Monty, in a scene in which the leaders of the actors move in line and raise their hands, deliberately mimicking the Arsenal defense offside trap, in order to coordinate their striptease routine. Another film reference to the club's defense comes in the film Plunkett & Macleane, in which two characters named Dixon and Winterburn after Arsenal's long serving full backs - right-sided Lee Dixon and Nigel Winterburn left side.

Arsenal is mentioned in the book Cognitive Surplus: and Generosity in a Connected Age examples of Web 2.0 communities around sports fan. Team Creativity

In 1991 the television comedy sketch show Harry Enfield and friends featuring a character sketch of Mr. Warner and Grayson-Cholmondly which Arsenal team of 1933, which featured a fictional parody of amateur players to take over Liverpool team in 1991.


Arsenal Ladies

Arsenal Ladies are the women's football club affiliated with Arsenal. Founded in 1987, they turned semi-professional in 2002 and is managed by Laura Harvey. Arsenal Ladies success in women's soccer team at UK. In the 2008-09 season, they won all three trophies English major - of the Women's FA Premier League, FA Women's Cup and the FA Women's Premier League Cup, and, in 2009, is the English side, has won the UEFA Women's Cup, having done it in the summer 2006-07 as part of a unique quadruple. Men and women in clubs formally separate entities but have a close enough relationship; Arsenal Ladies are entitled to play one season at the Emirates Stadium, though they usually play their home matches at Boreham Wood.

Honours
Domestic

First Division (until 1992) and the Premier League

Winner (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
Runner-up (8): 1925-26, 1931-32, 1972-73, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2004-05

Division II

Runner-up (1): 1903-1904

FA Cup

Winner (10): 1930, 1936, 1950, 1971, 1979, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005
Runner-up (7): 1927, 1932, 1952, 1972, 1978, 1980, 2001

League Cup

Winner (2): 1987, 1993
Runner-up (5): 1968, 1969, 1988, 2007, 2011

FA Community Shield (FA Charity Shield before 2002)

Winner (12): 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1991 (shared), 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004
Runner-up (7): 1935, 1936, 1979, 1989, 1993, 2003, 2005

Europe

UEFA Champions League

Runner-up (1): 2006

'European Cup Winners Cup

Winners (1): 1994
Runner-up (2): 1980, 1995

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

Winners (1): 1970

UEFA Cup

Runner-up (1): 2000

UEFA Super Cup

Runner-up (1): 1994

Arsenal with thirteen League Championships is the third highest in English football, after Liverpool and Manchester United, while a total of ten FA Cup is the second highest, after Manchester United. Arsenal have achieved three League and FA Cup "Double" (in 1971, 1998 and 2002), a record shared with Manchester United, and in 1993 was the first side in English football to complete the FA Cup and League Cup double. They are also the first London club to reach the Champions League final, in 2006.

Arsenal have one of the best 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 of 8.5 league placing. In addition, they are one of only six clubs that won the FA Cup twice in a row, in 2002 and 2003.

The full name of Arsenal Football Club
Nickname The Gunners
Founded 1886 as Dial Square
Stadium Emirates Stadium
(Capacity: 60 355)
Chairman Peter Hill-Wood
Manager Arsene Wenger
English Premier League table
2008-2009 ranked fourth in the Premier League
2009-2010 Rating 3

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