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Before joining the Football League, Arsenal played briefly on Plumstead Common, then at the Manor Ground in Plumstead, then spent three years between 1890 and 1893 at the nearby Invicta Ground. Upon joining the Football League in 1893, the club returned to the Manor Ground and installed stands and terracing, upgrading it from just a field ...
Arsenal have the highest proportion (7.7%) of non-white attending supporters of any club in the Premier League, according to a 2002 report. [9] There are supporters' clubs worldwide. A 2005 report by Granada Ventures, which at the time owned a 9.9% stake in the club, estimated Arsenal's global fanbase at 27 million, the third-largest in the ...
The Big Six clubs are often referred to as "the most successful group in modern day football". [8] They accounted for 57.5% of the total annual revenues of all Premier League clubs, according to a financial analysis report in 2019, [9] and in 2022 and 2023, the Big Six clubs each generated an annual revenue between £372 million to £713 ...
Arsenal and Manchester City were not traditional rivals, the first game between the two clubs was a Football League Division Two match between Woolwich Arsenal and Ardwick on 11 November 1893, ending in a 1–0 win for Arsenal. The first 14 games between the two teams were played in the second division with City winning 8, Arsenal with 4 and 2 ...
KSE is the owner shareholder of soccer club Arsenal. In April 2007, Granada Ventures, a subsidiary of ITV plc, had sold its 9.9% stake in Arsenal Holdings plc to KSE. [5] KSE went on to buy further shares in the club, taking the total stake to 12.19%. [6] The club's board initially expressed skepticism that a bid would be in its best interests, [7]
Arsenal Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Islington, London. The club was formed in Woolwich in 1886 as Dial Square before being renamed as Royal Arsenal, and then Woolwich Arsenal in 1893. [1] In 1914, the club's name was shortened to Arsenal F.C. after moving to Highbury a year earlier. [2]
It was also the first season Arsenal played in the Football League Cup. They exited the competition in the third round after a 3–1 defeat to West Ham United at Highbury. [3] Don Howe was chosen to replace the outgoing chief coach Dave Sexton the following season. Arsenal lost two successive League Cup finals in 1968 and 1969. [4]
Woolwich Arsenal (in dark shirts) playing Newcastle United (in striped shirts) in an FA Cup semi-final at the Victoria Ground, Stoke on 31 March 1906. The history of Arsenal Football Club between 1886 and 1966 covers the time from the club's foundation, through the first two major periods of success (the 1930s, and the late 1940s and early 1950s, respectively) and the club's subsequent decline ...