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 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)

## Honours

### Domestic
* **[[Football League First Division|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

* **[[Football League Second Division|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

* **[[Football League Cup|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

* **[[Cup Winners' Cup|European Cup Winners' Cup]]**
:**Winners (1)**: 1994
:Runners-up (2): 1980, 1995

* **[[Inter-Cities Fairs Cup]]**
:**Winners (1)**: 1970

* **[[UEFA Europa League|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.

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