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The first Arsenal logo was used in 1888.
Arsenal logo from 1949 to 2002.
The current logo appeared in 2002.
The Great War led to the English Premier League being
suspended for four seasons, and the football season returned to start in the
1919-20 season, but the start was difficult for the clubs as it took some time
for things to return to normal, and in the 1922-23 season when Arsenal faced
Burnley, the club showed its logo the new. Where the logo changed from three
cannons placed vertically to one cannon directed to the east, and the phrase
“The Gunners” was written on the logo, but this
uniforms
Colors
Dark red jacket, white shorts, black pouches
Arsenal original kit colours. The team wore a similar kit
(but with red socks) during the 2005–06 season.
Arsenal's standard uniform for most of the club's history
has been a red shirt with sleeves and white shorts. The red color was worn by
the players as a sign of thanks to Nottingham Forest FC for the grant it gave
to Arsenal at the beginning of his reign. toys that could be used, so they
wrote to their mother team asking for a full kit and a ball, and got a number
of dark red shirts, and to which they added white shorts and blue socks.
Theo Walcott in the traditional red Arsenal jacket with
white sleeves, featuring the Nike logo and Emirates Airline, the official
sponsor.
In 1933, Herbert Chapman wanted the team's players to appear
more distinguished, so he developed the uniform, adding white sleeves to it,
and making it a dull red like the color of mailboxes. It is said that Chapman
decided to add white sleeves to his previous outfit after a fan noticed him
wearing a red sleeveless jacket over a white shirt. In another story, the
design was inspired by a similar outfit worn by comic artist Tom Webster, who
was golfing with Chapman. The red and white uniform, regardless of its origin,
became a symbol of the Arsenal team, which has continued to wear these colors
since then without interruption, except in two seasons: the first was the
1966–67 season when the team's players wore all red shirts; They were dispensed
with the following season after the fans' preference for the first style
appeared, and the second time was in the 2005-06 season, the last season that
Arsenal played at Highbury, when the players wore red shirts similar to the
original ones from the first season in 1913, then They returned to their
natural colors with the start of the next season. The club replaced the
traditional white-sleeved players' shirts with red-sleeved shirts with a wide
white stripe in the 2008–09 season.
Arsenal's colors were a source of inspiration for at least
three other football teams. In 1909, Sparta Prague adopted the dark red shirts
and became the uniforms for its players, and in 1938 Hibernian took the design
of Arsenal's white shirt sleeves and added them to their green shirts, and in
1920 returned The coach of Sporting Braga from a match at Highbury Stadium, and
changed his green team's kit to be similar to Arsenal's, and it is noticeable
that these teams still wear these colors today.
It is an English professional football club located in
Holloway, North London. It plays in the English Premier League and is one of
the top four clubs in England. He won the English Premier League title 13
times, the FA Cup 14 times, and once the European Cup Winners' Cup, which was
later renamed the European Cup.
Arsenal Football Club was founded in 1886 in Woolwich,
southwest London, and moved north to Highbury in 1913. Then to their new
stadium, Emirates Stadium, in May 2006 near Ashberton Grove in Holloway, not
far from the previous stadium. French coach Arsene Wenger, who supervised the
team's training from September 1996 until the summer of 2018, is considered the
legendary Arsenal coach and one of the greatest coaches in the history of the
English Premier League due to the long period he spent with the team for more
than two decades, and his artillery leadership to achieve many championships
and achievements. In 2006 it became the first London club to reach the
Champions League final.
Arsenal has a large fan base, with whom it stands in a
series of long-running feuds with several other clubs; Most notably with their
neighbor, Tottenham Hotspur, with whom they have a strong enmity, as a match is
taking place between them, which is considered the most famous in the London
derbies and is called the North London derby. Arsenal is one of the richest
English football clubs (worth more than 600 million pounds according to 2007
statistics) and has regularly featured in the portrayal of football in British
culture, and in 2010 became the richest football club ever, with a value of
about 1.2 billion dollars. In 2014, the club ranked fifth in the Forbes list of
the richest football clubs in the world, with an estimated value of about 1.3
billion dollars, and in 2015 it fell to seventh place while retaining the same
value. In 2016, Forbes indicated that the club was the second most expensive
club in England, with a value of $2.0 billion. Besides, it is among the highest
earning clubs, and among the most popular around the world. Arsenal also has a
women's club which is the most successful English club in women's football.
Arsenal FC has been involved in social activities since 1985
and has undertaken various sports, educational and charitable projects. It also
appeared in several media programmes, films and documentaries after it became
an integral part of the English identity in particular and the British identity
in general. The club is owned by Arsenal Holdings, a holding company with
limited shares that are rarely offered for trading. On an individual level, the
owners of the club have historically been the descendants of the
Bracewell-Smith and Hill-Wood families. But the club has attracted the
attention of foreign millionaires since 2009. American billionaire Enos Stan
Kroenke acquired 66.64% of the shares, while his Russian rival, Uzbekistan
Alisher Usmanov, acquired 29.11% of the shares (see the list of English club
owners).
Date
foundation
Royal Arsenal team in 1888.
Welwich Arsenal (in the dark jackets) take on Newcastle
United in their FA Cup semi-final match, at Victoria Land, Stoke.
The club was founded in 1886 under the name "Dial
Square" by a group of workers who were working on the railway known as
"Underground", but it was not long before it changed shortly
afterwards to become "Royal Arsenal". : Royal Arsenal). 10 years
after its founding, the team moved to the professional world in 1896, when, by
royal orders from the Government of Great Britain, its name was changed to
"Woolwich Arsenal", but the team's supporters did not like the name
very much, as they deleted the first clip to become Arsenal Just. Which means
arsenal in the Arabic language, and it was officially adopted, and it is the
name currently in force. The club became the first southern member of the
Football League in 1893, and began playing its matches in the second division
before qualifying for the first division in 1904. The relative geographical
isolation of the club caused a lower percentage of viewers of its matches than
that of other clubs, which made it sink in problems Finance and officially
declares bankruptcy in the year 1910, that is, in the same year in which it was
bought by businessmen Henry Norris and William Hall. Norris, after buying the
club, resolved to move his geographic location elsewhere, and in 1913, after he
was relegated to the Second Division, Arsenal moved to a new stadium in
Highbury, north London; They gave up the Woolwich name the following year.
Arsenal finished fifth among the English teams in 1919, but despite this was
re-listed in the First Division at the expense of arch-rival Tottenham Hotspur,
it was rumored that this was done by dubious methods.
The club appointed Herbert Chapman as head coach in 1925. Chapman
had won the League Championship twice with Huddersfield Town during the 1923–24
and 1924–25 seasons, bringing Arsenal to a gigantic renaissance that is today
the first major success in the club's history. Chapman's training and
revolutionary tactics, along with talented players such as Alex James and Cliff
Bastine, laid the foundations for the club's dominance of English football
during the 1930s.
Championship period
The real boom period for Arsenal was in the thirties of the
twentieth century when Arsenal won five Premier League titles and two Cups in
just nine years under club president Herbert Chapman. The club won their first
title in the 1930 FA Cup Final, followed by winning the League twice in the
1930–31 and 1932–33 seasons. In addition, Chapman sought to change the name of
the local London Underground station from Gillespie Road to Arsenal, making it
the only underground station named after a football club. Chapman died of
pneumonia at the beginning of 1934. He was succeeded by Joey Shaw and George
Allison, and under their care the club won three new titles, in the 1933-34,
1934-35 and 1937-38 seasons respectively, and the 1936 FA Cup. Gradually at the
end of the thirties, during the period when a number of key players retired,
and then the Second World War broke out, all football matches in the country
were suspended, and all sports clubs stopped their activity.
The team fasted from championships until the late forties
and the beginning of the fifties, when the team won two league championships
and an English Cup championship. In the post-war period, Tom Whitaker succeeded
George Allison as coach, winning the League Championship in 1947-48 and
1952-53, and the FA Cup in 1950. But the club's fortunes dwindled after that,
as it was unable to attract players of the same caliber as its players The
thirties, and he spent most of the next two decades without achieving any
title, and the former captain of the England team, Billy Wright, when he took
over the club, could not achieve any success with him, and his stagnation
continued from 1962 until 1966.
The seventies and eighties
1970 was a special year for Arsenal as, after beating
Anderlecht 4-3, they won the first unofficial European championship in its
history, the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, which was merged with the European Cup
later. This victory was followed by another big win, which was winning the
League and Federation Cup at the same time, in the 1970-71 season. Bad luck
followed Arsenal in 1978, 1979 and 1980 as they qualified for the FA Cup three
times in a row but lost all of them. The team had only one success during this
period, a last-minute 3–2 victory over Manchester United in the 1979 FA Cup
Final, a match often considered a classic by fans.
Former team player George Graham returned to the club in
1986, this time as coach, and his coming opened a third flourishing period in
Arsenal's history, winning the League Cup in the 1986-87 season, Graham's first
season, and this victory followed another League title in a season 1988–89.
1989 was a year that fans of the English Premier League in general and Arsenal
and Liverpool fans in particular did not forget, and the reason for that is
that Liverpool were three points ahead of Arsenal and three goals ahead of
Arsenal until the last game, and the last game in the league brought them
together at Anfield Road, Liverpool's stronghold. Arsenal must win by two goals
if they want to win the English title, but Liverpool is enough to draw and even
defeat with a goal to win the title, but Arsenal managed to win two to nothing
in the Liverpool stronghold and in front of its fans to snatch the league title
by one goal and in a dramatic way that English stadiums have not seen, and more
than The excitement was that Arsenal's second goal came in the second half and
in the 94th minute through Michael Thomas, who later became a Liverpool player.
90's period
In 1991, Arsenal won the league again, but this time it was
decided from the beginning, tweeting outside the flock, as he conceded only 18
goals in 38 games, which is the lowest rate of interference against a team in
the history of the English Premier League. In 1993, Arsenal re-entered history,
becoming the first English club to combine the FA Cup and the League Cup. Not
only that, but he won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1994, after defeating
Parma, Italy, with a goal scored by Alan Smith. Graham's reputation was
tarnished after it was proven that he had received commissions from the
Norwegian sports agent "Ron Hoge" in exchange for giving up some
players, and he was sacked from his position in 1995, and was succeeded by
Bruce Rioch for one season before leaving the club due to a dispute with the
board of directors.
The club's success in the latter years of the twentieth
century and the first decade of the twenty-first century can be attributed to
the appointment of Frenchman Arsene Wenger as coach in 1996. The latter
introduced new playing tactics, introduced a modern training system, and
brought in a number of foreign players to complement the existing English
talent. In the 1998 season, Arsenal combined the league and cup championships
for the second time in its history, after it was 13 points behind in the middle
of the league from leaders Manchester United, to return and win the league four
rounds before its end. He also did not concede any goal in twelve consecutive
matches, that is, in one thousand eighty minutes (1080 minutes). In 1999,
Arsenal lost the league in a dramatic way, by one point, and also got out of
the quarter-finals of the cup due to Dennis Bergkamp's missing penalty kick in
lost time.
new millennium
Arsenal players and supporters celebrate winning the English
Premier League title in 2004.
Former Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira holds the Premier
League trophy in the 2003/04 season.
In 2000, the team qualified for the UEFA final, but luck
turned it back on it again, and lost the tournament on penalty kicks against
Galatasaray, after qualifying for the final match. In 2004, Arsenal managed to
achieve the English Premier League title without suffering any defeat, which
gave it the nickname "The Invincibles". And his record continued
unbeaten in the season that followed the 2005/2004 season, setting a record in
English football, reaching 49 games without any defeat.
The year 2006 witnessed success for Arsenal at the European
level, as it qualified for the first time in its history to the final match of
the Champions League, which was held in the French capital, Paris, and brought
Arsenal together with Barcelona, and Arsenal was close to achieving its first
European title after ending the first half with a goal scored by its English
defender. Sol Campbell. But their dreams of winning the title were dashed after
the Spanish club managed to turn the score in its favor by scoring two goals in
the last quarter of the match to be crowned European champions at the expense of
Arsenal. In July 2006, the club moved to its new stadium, Emirates Stadium,
after 93 years in the Highbury Stadium. Arsenal reached the League Cup final in
the 2010–11 season, losing 2-1 to Birmingham City, and since the beginning of
March of 2011, became one of the four clubs (the other three are: Manchester
United, Blackburn Rovers, and Chelsea) that won The English Premier League Cup,
since its founding in 1992. Arsenal did not win any important championship
until May 17, 2014, when they defeated Hull City in the FA Cup Final 3–2 after
they had fallen 2–0 at the start of the match, and qualified As a result, to
the 2014 FA Shield, where he competed with the Premier League champion
Manchester City, and won it 3-0 to win a second championship in just three months.
Almost nine months after winning the FA Cup, Arsenal re-appeared in the FA Cup
for the second year in a row
enmities
North London derby
Main article: North London derby
Photo from the two teams meeting in April 2007.
The North London derby (Italian: North London derby) or as
the London derby is famous is a football derby match between the two teams of
the city of London, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur. It is a local derby that
started in 1887 with a friendly match that was stopped before the end of the
match due to darkness, and the result was 2-1 in favor of Tottenham Hotspur.
But on December 4, 1909, they witnessed their first league meeting, which ended
with Arsenal winning 1-0. Arsenal has won the derby the most with 77 victories,
58 victories for Tottenham and 49 draws. The biggest result in the history of
the derby was in 1935 when Arsenal won by a big score of 6-0. Emmanuel Adebayor
is the all-time top scorer for this derby, with 10 goals; Including 8 goals in
the Arsenal shirt and two goals in the Tottenham Hotspur shirt. The last
meeting between them was on December 19, 2018, in the League Cup, and it ended
with Tottenham Hotspur winning 2-0. The causes of enmity between the two clubs
date back to 1913 when Arsenal moved from Manor Ground to Highbury, becoming
less than 4 miles from White Hart Lane, the stronghold of Tottenham Hotspur.
This caused the anger of Tottenham Hotspur fans.
In 1919 the conflict between the two clubs intensified, as
Arsenal came fifth among the English teams participating in the second division
in 1919, when it was decided that the Football Association decided to increase
the number of first-class teams to 22 clubs, after the number of teams was,
Only 20 clubs, before World War I. After keeping Chelsea in the top flight,
although it was 19th in the first division before the forced suspension due to
the war, the Football Association did not agree to keep Tottenham Hotspur, who
finished last (20) in the first division. before World War I. Thus, three new
teams must rise from the second division, so that the number of teams in the
“first class” league will reach 22 teams, after the First World War. The second
division champion "before" the war, "Derby County", was
chosen, as was his runner-up, "Preston North End" in a natural form.
While the choice of the third team came as a surprise to everyone, as
"Arsenal", ranked sixth (at the time), was chosen instead of the
third "Barnsley Club", the fourth "Wolverhampton" and the
fifth (at the time) "Birmingham City". But the FA announced its
mistake and that Arsenal should be in fifth place instead of Birmingham City.
Thus, the Football Association corrected its mistake and decided to escalate
the Arsenal club, which finished fifth, to the First League, accompanied by the
four clubs in the Second Division, with the relegation of 3 teams from the
First Division, bringing the number of participants in the league to 22 clubs.
It was rumored at the time that Arsenal's promotion to the Premier League at the
expense of its arch-rival, Tottenham Hotspur, had taken place in dubious ways
thanks to the strength of its owner, Sir Henry Norris.
Emirates Stadium is the current home of Arsenal Football
Club.
The Extension of Highbury Stadium was a difficult project to
implement, given that the East Stand was included in the list of Historic
Buildings of the Second Class in London, which are those old buildings that are
prohibited from demolishing or any alteration, due to their historical
importance and continuous use by the people. The remaining three are located
near buildings and residences, and demolishing them may endanger the lives or
property of residents. These bans led to a decrease in the percentage of profit
that one match per day brings to the club, throughout the nineties and the
first decade of the twenty-first century, that is, during the period that
witnessed the flourishing of football and the widespread spread of its
popularity, and the influx of unparalleled ones on the stadiums to follow the matches.
After officials proposed several solutions, in 2000 the opinion settled on
building a new stadium with a capacity of 60,355 spectators, in Ashberton
Grove, north London, 500 meters northwest of Highbury Stadium. The project cost
390 million pounds, and the construction of the new stadium was completed in
2006, although its implementation was initially delayed due to red tape and
high costs, and it opened in July of the same year, on the day of the
retirement of former Arsenal player Dennis Bergkamp, and with Beginning of
the 2006–07 season. The stadium was known as Ashberton Grove when it opened
before it was announced that a deal to buy the stadium's name rights with
Emirates Airlines was signed in 2004. This deal amounted to 100 million pounds,
the largest in the history of English football, and became known as the
"Emirates Stadium". . Some fans continued to call the stadium
"Ashburton Grove", since they did not agree to any company sponsoring
the stadium names. Since the start of the 2010–11 season, the club's platforms
have been known by distinct official names: North Bank, East Stand, West Stand,
and Clockwise.
Arsenal players practice their training at the Shenley
Training Center located in Herefordshire, which is a dedicated training center
only, which opened in 1999. Prior to that date, the club used some centers near
its land, owned by the Students’ Union at University College London, to
practice their exercises. The team members trained at Highbury before 1961.
Arsenal's U-18 teams play all their games at Shenley Stadium, while the reserve
teams play their games at Underhill Stadium, the home of Barnet.
fans
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Arsenal fans.
A foreign fan carries the flag of Saint Lucia, one of the Caribbean
islands, indicative of the club's expansion outside Britain.
Arsenal fans often refer to themselves as 'Gooners', a name
derived from the team's nickname 'The Gunners'. Arsenal's fan base is one of
the largest ever in football, and one of the most loyal to its team, and
tickets for all domestic matches are always sold out when any of them are
announced; In the 2007-08 season, Arsenal ranked second among the English clubs
with the largest attendance in its territory (60,070 spectators, or 99.5% of the
available space), and since the beginning of 2006 it has been considered the
fourth most club in terms of attendance. The club's location, which links
high-end residential areas such as Cannonbury and Branbury, mixed areas such as
Islington, Holloway and Highbury, and popular areas such as Finsbury Park and
Stoke Newton, has made the club's fan base a diverse base comprising of all
stripes and classes of society. In addition, a report from 2002 stated that
Arsenal had the largest percentage of non-white Caucasian fans (7.7%) of all
English football clubs.
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