Full name | Arsenal Football Club | |||
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Nickname(s) | The Gunners | |||
Founded | 1886 as Dial Square | |||
Ground | Emirates Stadium (Capacity: 60,355) | |||
Owner | Arsenal Holdings plc | |||
Chairman | Peter Hill-Wood | |||
Manager | Arsène Wenger | |||
League | Premier League | |||
2009–10 | Premier League, 3rd | |||
Website | Club home page | |||
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Arsenal was founded in 1886 in Woolwich and in 1893 became the first club from the south of England to join the Football League. In 1913, they moved north across the city to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury. In the 1930s they won five League Championship titles and two FA Cups. After a lean period in the post-war years they won the League and FA Cup Double, in the 1970–71 season, and in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century won two more Doubles and reached the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final.
Arsenal have a long-standing rivalry with neighbours Tottenham Hotspur, with whom they regularly contest the North London derby. Arsenal are also the third most valuable Association football club in the world as of 2010, valued at $1.2 billion.
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