Arsenal Football Club – know as Arsenal or The Arsenal or by their nickname ‘The Gunners’.

Arsenal is one of the most successful clubs in English football having won thirteen First Division and Premier League titles and ten FA Cups.

Arsenal hold the record for the longest uninterrupted period in the English top flight and are the only Premier League side to have completed a season unbeaten.

Arsenal was founded in 1886 and was the first Southern club to join the Football League in 1893.  They won their first major trophies in the 1930s, with five League Championship titles and two FA Cups. They became the second club of the 20^th century to win the League and FA Cup Double in 1970-71, and during the past twenty years have recorded a series of successes   In this time Arsenal have won a Cup Double, two further League and FA Cup Doubles, and became the first London club to reach the UEFA Champions League Final.

The club’s colours have traditionally been red and white, which has changed in design over the years.  The club has changed location over time too; the team were initially founded in Woolwich, South East London.  In 1913 they moved north to the Arsenal Stadium in Highbury.  In 2006 their move was just round the corner in Holloway to the magnificent Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal have a huge fan base all over the world and are the third richest club in the world.

The Arsenal Ladies team are the most successful English club in woman’s football.

David O’Leary holds the record for Arsenal appearances, having played 722 first-team matches between 1975 and 1993.

Centre half and former captain Tony Adams, comes second having played 699 times.

The record for a goalkeeper is held by David Seaman with 564 appearances

Thierry Henry is the club’s top goal scorer with 226 goals in all competitions between 1999 and 2007.

Ian Wright is 2^nd top goal scorer with 185 in October 2005. Wright’s record had stood since September 1997

Henry also holds the club record for goals scored in the League – 174 a record that had been held by Cliff Bastin until February 2006

Arsenal's record home attendance is 73,707, for a UEFA Champions League match against RC Lens on 25 November 1998 at Wembley Stadium, where Arsenal formerly played home European matches because of the limits on Highbury's capacity. The record attendance for an Arsenal match at Highbury is 73,295, for a 0–0 draw against Sunderland on 9 March 1935, while that at the Emirates Stadium is 60,161, for a 2–2 draw with Manchester United on 3 November 2007^.

Arsenal have also set records in English football, most notably the most consecutive seasons spent in the top flight (83 as of 2009–10) and the longest run of unbeaten League matches (49 between May 2003 and October 2004). This included all 38 matches of their title-winning 2003-04 season, making Arsenal only the second club ever to finish a top-flight campaign unbeaten, after Preston North End  (who played only 22 matches) in 1888–89.

Arsenal also set a UEFA Champions League record during the 2005–06 season by going ten matches without conceding a goal, beating the previous best of seven set by A.C Milan They went a record total stretch of 995 minutes without letting an opponent score; the streak finally ended in the final against FC Barcelona when Samuel Eto'o scored Barcelona's equaliser in the 76th minute.

The most Premier League games Arsenal have won consecutively is 14 – a record not only for the Premier League but all of English league football

Arsenal have clinched the title at White Hart Lane twice, in the double season of 1970/71 (1-0, Ray Kennedy) and again in 2003/04 (2-2, Vieira and Pires)