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Arsenal hold several English football records, including the longest unbeaten sequence in the top flight, with 49. Arsenal scored in all 55 league matches from between 19 May 2001 to 30 November 2002 and the club also holds the longest unbeaten away sequence in league football with 27, from 5 April 2003 to 25 September 2004. [84]
The "Most appearances" and "Top goalscorers" tables need footnotes to detail the competitions they include, like at this list. "Henry was Arsenal's leading goalscorer for seven consecutive seasons, from 1999–2000 to 2005–06": unreferenced. Footnotes A and C are unsourced. Mattythewhite 23:14, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
Northern Ireland's top Premier League scorer is Iain Dowie who scored 33 of his 57 goals in the Premier League. The top Welsh goal scorer is Ryan Giggs who scored 114 goals, 109 in the Premier League while Duncan Ferguson with 68 goals is the top Scottish goal scorer in the Premier League. All well short of the record totals by Derek Dougan ...
Goals [5] 1 Thierry Henry: Arsenal 30 2 Alan Shearer: Newcastle United 22 3 Louis Saha: Manchester United / Fulham: 20 Ruud van Nistelrooy: Manchester United 5 Mikael Forssell: Birmingham City: 17 6 Nicolas Anelka: Manchester City 16 Juan Pablo Ángel: Aston Villa Michael Owen: Liverpool Yakubu: Portsmouth: 10 James Beattie: Southampton 14
FIFA, the international governing body of football, has never released a list detailing the highest goalscorers and does not keep official records; [8] [9] in 2020, it recognised Bican, an Austrian-Czech dual international who played between the 1930s and the 1950s, [10] as the record scorer with an estimated 805 goals, [11] [12] although CNN ...
Lishman was top scorer for another two seasons after that, making it five successive seasons as the club's top scorer in total. With younger men like Derek Tapscott and David Herd taking over goalscoring duties for Arsenal, however, Lishman was dropped from the first team in 1955–56. In all he scored 137 goals in 244 appearances, making him ...
Kennedy and Radford's relationship would be essential for Arsenal's goalscoring throughout the season. Arsenal faced Huddersfield Town next, a tough game won by a Kennedy header in the last fifteen minutes. The victory took Arsenal top of the table, tied with Liverpool on points. [2] Arsenal lost their first game of the season away at Chelsea.
When Arsenal was founded in 1886 by munition workers' from Woolwich, the club resisted the lure of professionalism and remained an amateur side. [12] Success in local cup competitions soon followed, and a tie against Derby County in the FA Cup on 17 January 1891 led to the opposition approaching two of Arsenal's players, in view of offering them professional contracts. [12]