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Arsenal Football Club is a professional English football club that exists 121 years. It is also well-known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners. The present director of Arsenal FC is Peter Hill-Wood. He is the third generation of his family to serve as Chairman of Arsenal, following his father, Denis Hill-Wood (1962 – 1982), and his grandfather, Samuel Hill-Wood (1929 – 1936 & 1946 – 1949). Through its history Arsenal has a long list of managers :

• 1894 – 1897 Sam Hollis
• 1897 – 1898 Thomas Brown Mitchell
• 1898 – 1899 George Elcoat
• 1899 – 1904 Harry Bradshaw
• 1904 – 1908 Phil Kelso
• 1908 – 1915 George Morrell
• 1919 – 1925 Leslie Knighton
• 1925 – 1934 Herbert Chapman
• 1934 – 1947 George Allison
• 1947 – 1956 Tom Whittaker
• 1956 – 1958 Jack Crayston
• 1958 – 1962 George Swindin
• 1966 – 1976 Bertie Mee
• 1976 – 1983 Terry Neill
• 1984 – 1986 Don Howe
• 1986 – 1995 George Graham
• 1995 – 1996 Stewart Houston
• 1995 – 1996 Bruce Rioch
• 1996-present Wenger Arsène

The present coach is Wenger Arsène who is famous for becoming the only manager in FA Premier League history to go through the season without a loss in 2004, also he has won seven major honors at Arsenal (three league championships, four FA Cups) – more than any other Gunners coach. Arsenal remarkable for having won thirteen First Division and Premier League titles and ten FA Cups. No other club in the world had more players at the 2006 FIFA World Cup than Arsenal, who sent 16 players. Arsenal played 2,010 games at Highbury, won 1,196, drew 475 and lost 339. They scored 4,038 and conceded 1,955. Through the years this club has a lot of victories:

		year	beaten football club	score
1.	FA Cup Winners	2005	Manchester Utd	on penalties (after 0-0 draw)
		2003	Southampton	1-0
		2002	Chelsea	2-0
		1998	Newcastle United	2-0
		1993	Sheffield Wednesday	2-1
		1979	Manchester United	3-2
		1971	Liverpool	2-1
		1950	Liverpool	2-0
		1936	Sheffield United	1-0
		1930	Huddersfield Town	2-0
2.	League Cup Winners	1993	Beat Sheffield Wednesday	2-1
		1987	Beat Liverpool	2-1
3.	Charity/Community Shield Winners	2004	Manchester United	3-1
		2002	Liverpool	1-0
		1999	Manchester United	2-1
		1998	Manchester United	3-0
		1991	Tottenham Hotspur	0-0
		1953	Blackpool	3-1
		1948	Manchester United	4-3
		1938	Preston North End	2-1
		1934	Manchester City	4-0
		1933	Everton	3-0
		1931	West Bromwich Albion	1-0
		1930	Sheffield Wednesday	2-1
4.	European Fairs Cup Winners	1970	Anderlecht	4-3 on aggregate
5.	European Cup Winners Cup Winners	1994	Parma	1-0
6.	FA Youth Cup Winners	2001	Blackburn Rovers	6-3 on aggregate
		2000	Coventry City	5-1 on aggregate
		1994	Millwall	5-3 on aggregate
		1988	Doncaster Rovers	6-1 on aggregate
		1971	Cardiff City	2-0 on aggregate
		1966	Sunderland	5-3 on aggregate

This football club was formed in 1886 by a group of workers at the Woolwich Arsenal Armament Factory. The first name was Dial Square. During the years it was changed and now we know this club as Arsenal Football Club. The location and colors of the Gunners were different too over time. Today Arsenal left their stadium Highbury where they spent 93 years, and moved to a new one. It is the Emirates Stadium in nearby Holloway. The kit is represented by a red and white shirt, white shorts, red and white socks (the change kit: yellow shirt, blue shorts, blue socks ). The present Arsenal squad consists of:

Goalkeepers:	Defenders:	Midfielders:	Forwards:
Jens Lehmann	William Gallas	Tomas Rosicky	Emmanuel Adebayor
Manuel Almunia	Justin Hoyte	Gilberto Silva	Theo Walcott
Lukasz Fabianski	Emmanuel Eboue	Francesc (Cesc) Fabregas	Robin Van Persie
Vito Mannone	Gael Clichy	Kolo Toure	Nicklas Bendtner
	Kerrea Gilbert	Alexander Hleb	Eduardo da Silva
	Phillippe Senderos	Denilson
	Johan Djourou	Alexandre Song Billong
	Matthew Connolly	Mathieu Flamini
	Bakary Sagna	Vassiriki Diaby
		Lassan Diarra
		Jay Simpson

Among them was Thierry Henry, Arsenal's all-time leading goalscorer with 214 goals up to the end of the 2005/06 season. He broke Ian Wright's old record with two goals against Sparta Prague on October 18, 2006. The other highest Arsenal appearance holders are:

1.	David O'Leary	722
2.	Tony Adams	669
3.	George Armstrong	621
4.	Lee Dixon	619
5.	Nigel Winterburn	584
6.	David Seaman	564
7.	Pat Rice	528
8.	Peter Storey	501
9.	John Radford	481
10.	Peter Simpson	477

There is also a successful ladies team, Arsenal LFC. It has excellent backing and support from Arsenal Football Club. The present ALFC has a staff of more than 14 nationalities. It includes players of such countries as: Portugal, USA, Nigeria, Japan, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia etc. Mainly they are girls from the Arsenal Youth Academy. The Arsenal Ladies academy continues to prosper. The players aged between 16 and 19 combine daily football coaching with academic study. The Arsenal Ladies won the league and FA Cup 'double' last season, for the fifth time in their history. Arsenal LFC was created by the women's present General Manager and Men's present kit manager Vic Akers in 1987. After 20 years they have 31 major trophies including:

• 3 domestic Trebles (1992/1993, 2000/2001,2006/2007)
• 9 Premier League Titles (1992-93, 1994-95, 1996-97, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07)
• 9 FA Women's Premier League Cups (1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2004-05, 2006-07)
• 8 FA Womens' Cups (1992-93, 1994-95, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2000-01, 2003-04, 2005-06, 2006-07).