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The 2003–04 season was Arsenal Football Club's 12th season in the Premier League and their 78th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. [3] [4] It began on 1 July 2003 and concluded on 30 June 2004, with competitive matches played between August and May.
The 2003–04 FA Premier League (known as the FA Barclaycard Premiership) was the 12th season of the Premier League. Arsenal were crowned champions ending the season without a single defeat – the first team ever to do so in a 38-game league season.
Arsène Wenger managed Arsenal to an unbeaten league season in 2003–04. The appointment of Arsène Wenger as manager of Arsenal in 1996 brought about a successful period for the club. In Wenger's first full season, 1997–98, Arsenal won the Premier League and FA Cup to complete a domestic double. [3]
The most used Arsenal players in the 2003–04 season, positioned in a 4–4–1–1 formation Of the players from Arsenal's double-winning side of 1998 , only Patrick Vieira and Dennis Bergkamp remained as first team players throughout the unbeaten run; Martin Keown featured briefly, while Ray Parlour made 25 league appearances.
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]
The 2003–04 season was the 124th season of association football in England. Arsenal completed the season without losing a league match, becoming Premier League champions in the process. Leeds United avoided going into administration, but were unable to avoid relegation and lost their place in the Premier League - along with Leicester City and ...
Peter Marinello scored on his Arsenal debut against Manchester United in January 1970. [15] Rémi Garde, who played 45 times for Arsenal, was the club's first foreign captain. [16] Eduardo made 67 appearances for Arsenal between 2007 and 2010, scoring 22 times. Joel Campbell made his debut for Arsenal as a substitute in the 2014 FA Community ...
The 2002–03 season was Arsenal Football Club's 11th season in the Premier League and their 77th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The club retained the FA Cup , a feat last achieved by Tottenham Hotspur in 1982, but finished runners-up to Manchester United in the Premier League .