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Tony Adams, who lies second in the all-time appearance list with 669.He was also captain from 1988 to 2002. Percy Sands made 350 appearances in the early years, when the team was known as Woolwich Arsenal.
Thierry Henry is the all-time top goalscorer for Arsenal. He passed Ian Wright 's eight-year record after scoring twice in a European tie against Sparta Prague in October 2005. [ 36 ] Henry was Arsenal's leading goalscorer for seven consecutive seasons, from 1999–2000 to 2005–06 .
The club's first team have competed in numerous national and continental organised competitions, and all players who have played between 1 and 24 such matches are listed below. Since Arsenal's first competitive match, more than 500 players have failed to reach 25 appearances for the club.
Arsenal F.C. wartime guest players (41 P) Pages in category "Arsenal F.C. players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,220 total.
Each player's details include the duration of his Arsenal career, his typical playing position while with the club, and the number of games played and goals scored in all senior competitive matches. Two of these players, Tom Whittaker and Don Howe , went on to manage Arsenal; the former died in 1956, while in the job. [ 8 ]
Arsenal finished top of their group unbeaten, above Ajax, Thun and Sparta Prague against whom Thierry Henry scored two goals away to become the all-time record goalscorer for Arsenal; in the knockout stages they beat Real Madrid (becoming the first British team to beat Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium), Juventus and then Villarreal to ...
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 ...
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]