Arsenal, English expert football (soccer) group situated in London. Arsenal is quite possibly of the best crew in English football history, having played in the nation’s top division (Football Association First Division to 1992, Premier League from there on) each season starting around 1919. In the process it has caught 13 association titles.
The club was established in 1886 and took the name Royal Arsenal after its most memorable game, consolidating the moniker of the Illustrious Oak bar, where the colleagues met, with that of their working environment, the Arsenal processing plant in Woolwich. The name was changed to Woolwich Weapons store in 1891, and Woolwich was dropped from the name after the 1912-13 season, when the group moved its home arena to the Highbury segment of the London precinct of Islington. The club played at Arsenal Arena (ordinarily alluded to as “Highbury”) until 2006, when it moved to a new, 60,000-seat arena in Islington’s Holloway locale.
Arsenal has a well established contention with another North London club, Tottenham Hotspur, against whom it plays the “North London derby” match virtually consistently. At the point when the Football Association continued play in 1919 after The Second Great War, Arsenal — which had completed fifth in the Second Division before the conflict — was questionably elevated to the Primary Division over higher-setting Tottenham after Arsenal ‘s administrator contended that his club merited advancement due to its more extended history, further prodding the contention between the two groups.
While Arsenal has stayed in the top division since its disagreeable advancement, its times of extraordinary accomplishments have been broadly scattered. The club came out on top for five association titles during the 1930s however just three absolute in the 50 seasons from 1938-39 to 1987-88. Arsène Wenger turned into the group’s director in 1996 and has served longer in that job than any other person in club history. Arsenal went undefeated in the 38 matches of the 2003-04 season, turning out to be only the second top-division English club to do as such, and it set a public standard by broadening its unbeaten streak into the following season to 49 continuous association challenges altogether. Notwithstanding its association titles, Arsenal has won the Football Affiliation (FA) Cup multiple times and the Association Cup two times, as well as the European Cup Champs’ Cup (1994). Among the champion footballers who have played for Arsenal are advances Bluff Bastin and Dennis Bergkamp, goalkeeper Pat Jennings, midfielder Liam Brady, protector Tony Adams, and, seemingly the group’s most prominent player, striker Thierry Henry, who scored a club-record 226 objectives somewhere in the range of 1999 and 2007.
