Arsenal

Further information: History of Arsenal F.C. (1886–1966), History of Arsenal F.C. (1966–present), and Arsenal Football Club Museum

In the month of October, the year 1886 Scotsman David Danskin and 15 other munitions workers from Woolwich created the Dial Square Football Club, named after a factory located in the center of the Royal Arsenal complex. Each player contributed sixpence, and Danskin also gave three shillings towards the formation of the club. Dial Square played their first match on December 11, 1886, against Eastern Wanderers and won 6-0. The club was renamed Royal Arsenal a month later and its first venue was Plumstead Common, even though they spent the majority of their time on Manor Ground. Manor Ground. The first trophy they won was the Kent Senior Cup and London Charity Cup in 1889-90 , and they also won the London Senior Cup in 1890-91 They are the sole county association trophy that Arsenal took home during their period during their time in South East London. It was in 1891 that Royal Arsenal became the first London club to become a professional.

Royal Arsenal renamed for a second time when it became a limited liability corporation in 1893. The company registered its brand new title, Woolwich Arsenal The Football League when the club was elevated later in the year. Woolwich Arsenal is the first member from the southern part of The Football League, starting with the Second Division and reaching the First Division in 1904. The decline in attendance, caused by financial problems among workers in the munitions industry and the emergence of football clubs that were more accessible within the city, brought the club to be in financial trouble before the year 1910. The businessmen Henry Norris and William Hall were involved with the club, and fought to relocate the club elsewhere.

In 1913, just after being promoted into the Second Division, the grandstand of Woolwich Arsenal's Plumstead stadium was destroyed by the suffragettes as part of their national arson and bombing campaign to promote women's rights to vote. The incident cost PS1,000 in damage (equivalent to PS102,913 in the year 2019) which was in 1913, the club relocated over the River to the brand new Arsenal Stadium located in Highbury. The year 1919 was the first time The Football League controversially decided to move The Arsenal, instead of dropping local rivals Tottenham Hotspur, into the newly expanded First Division, despite only finishing fifth in the Second Division's final pre-war campaign of 1914-15. The following season, The Arsenal started dropping "The" in official documents, and gradually changing its name to the end of time to Arsenal The Arsenal, as it is commonly referred to today.

With a brand new stadium with a new stadium and First Division football, attendances more than doubled in Manor Ground. Manor Ground, and Arsenal's budget increased quickly. The location of the club and their record breaking wage offer attracted the renowned Huddersfield Town manager Herbert Chapman in 1925. In the subsequent five years Chapman constructed a completely new Arsenal. He appointed a dependable new coach Tom Whittaker, implemented Charlie Buchan's fresh take on the emerging WM formation, and enlisted the talents of young players such as Cliff Bastin and Eddie Hapgood and lavished the Highbury's earnings on superstars such as David Jack and Alex James. With record-breaking expenditure and gate revenue, Arsenal quickly became known as the Bank of England club.

The transformed Chapman's Arsenal won their first national trophy in the form of the FA Cup in 1930, and League Championships followed in 1930-31 and 1932-33. Chapman was also in charge of the pitch's changes the club's white sleeves and shirt numbers were added onto the kits and an Tube station named in honor of the club as well, the initial of two lavish, Art Deco stands was completed, along with the first floodlights to be seen in English football. In the middle of the season 1933-34, Chapman died from pneumonia. The work of his family was handed over up to Joe Shaw and George Allison who put together a hat-trick winning the 1934-35 and 1933-34 championships and later won 1937-38 and the 1935 FA Cup and 1937-38 title.

World War II meant The Football League was suspended for seven years, however Arsenal won it back during the second postwar season 1947-48. Tom Whittaker was in his first season as manager following his appointment to succeed to Allison as manager, and the team had surpassed its champions in England record. They took home a third FA Cup in 1950, and later won an unprecedented seventh championship in 1952-53. However, war took its toll on Arsenal. Arsenal had suffered many players murdered than the other top flight club, and the debt from the rebuilding of the North Bank Stand bled Arsenal's assets

Arsenal weren't able to be able to win either the League as well as The FA Cup for another 18 years. The Champions squad of 1953 was getting old, and the club had failed to find replacements with enough strength. While Arsenal had a good record during those times, their fortunes diminished; the club was spending majority during the 1950s as well as the the 1960s in middle-table mediocrity. Even the former England captain Billy Wright could not bring the club any joy as manager during an time span between 1962 and.

Arsenal were rumored to have hired the club's physical therapist Bertie Mee as acting manager in the year 1966. With a new manager Don Howe and new players like Bob McNab and George Graham, Mee led Arsenal to their first League Cup finals, in 1967-68 and 1968-1969. The following season was a landmark in the form of Arsenal's first European trophy in the year 1969-70, the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. The following season, Arsenal achieved an even more impressive victory by achieving its debut League as well as FA Cup double, and the new title of champions in England record. This was an early top of the decade. double-winning team soon broke into two and the rest of the decade marked by a string of close misses. Arsenal finishing in the position of FA Cup runners up in 1972 in 1972, and First Division runners-up in 1972-73.

The former footballer Terry Neill succeeded Mee in 1976. At 34, He became the youngest Arsenal manager to till. With the addition of new players like Malcolm Macdonald and Pat Jennings as well as a crop of young talent including Liam Brady and Frank Stapleton The club made it to three FA Cup finals (1978 FA Cup and 1981 FA Cup and 1980 FA Cup) but they lost the 1980 European Cup winner's cup final by penalties. The only trophy that the club received in this period was in 1979's FA Cup, achieved with the final minute victory of 3-2 against Manchester United, in a final that is widely considered to be an iconic

The double-winner of Mee's George Graham, returned as manager in 1986. Arsenal having their very first League Cup in 1987, the first year Graham was in charge. New recruits Nigel Winterburn, Lee Dixon and Steve Bould had joined the club in 1988 and formed their "famous Back Four", with the help of homegrown star Tony Adams. They quickly won an award in the year 1988: the Football League Centenary Trophy, and followed that up in 1988 with the 1989 Football League title, snatched by a last-minute goal during last game against title contenders Liverpool. Graham's Arsenal also won another trophy in 1990-91, only losing one game, and winning their first FA Cup and League Cup double in 1993 and winning the European Cup Winners Cup in 1994. Graham's reputation was damaged after he was found out to have received payments from the agent Rune Hauge in order to sign certain players. He was fired in 1995. The substitute, Bruce Rioch, lasted for only one seasonbefore being dismissed by the club following an argument over the Board of Directors.

The club changed during the time that of French coach Arsene Wenger whom was named manager in the year 1996. Football, attacking, a overhaul of fitness and diet,[cand] as well as efficiency in the use of money are the main features of his tenure. It has also brought in key players from his home country, including Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry, Arsenal won a second League and Cup double in 1997-98 as well as another in 2001-2002. Additionally, the club made it to the final of the 1999 and 2000 UEFA Cup, were victorious in the 2003 and 2005 FA Cup finals, and took home the Premier League in 2003-04 without losing a single game and earned them the nickname "The Invincibles". The feat was achieved in the course of 49 league games unbeaten between 7 May 2003 and the 24th of October, 2004 which is a national record. 

Arsenal ended up in the top or second position in the league for the first eight seasons with the club, but they did not win the title twice in consecutive seasons. The club was never beyond the quarter-finals in the Champions League until 2005-06; during that time, they became the first team from London to make it to the final of the tournament's 50-year history but they were defeated by 2-1 Barcelona. On July 6, 2006 the club moved to their new home at the Emirates Stadium, after 93 years in Highbury. Arsenal made it to the final of both the 2007 as well as the 2011 League Cups, losing the final 2-1 against Chelsea as well as Birmingham City respectively. Arsenal had not won an award since in 2005. FA Cup until, spearheaded by record-breaking acquisition Mesut Ozil. Arsenal defeated Hull City in the 2014 FA Cup Final, coming back from a 2-0 deficit beat the opposition 3-1. The following year, Arsenal completed another victorious FA Cup campaign, and became the most successful team during the tournament's history, taking home their thirteenth FA Cup in 2016-17. In the same campaign, Arsenal finished fifth in the league for their first season they not been in of the top 4 since Wenger was appointed in the year 1996. After another disappointing league season the following season, Wenger departed Arsenal on 13 May 2018.

After carrying out a major overhaul to the model of operation to coincide with the departure of Wenger the Basque-Spaniard Unai Emery was appointed the new head coach of the club on the 23rd of May, 2018. Emery was the first club's ever head coach and was the second manager to come from outside the United Kingdom. The first season of Emery's tenure, Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League. On November 29, 2019 Emery had been dismissed and his former assistant and head coach of the first team Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach.

On the 20th of December, Arsenal named the former captain of the club Mikel Arteta to be the manager for the upcoming season. Arsenal finished the season in eighthplace, their worst finish since 1994-95. They defeated Chelsea by 2-1 to secure an unprecedented fourteenth FA Cup win. Following this season's final game, Arteta's role became manager instead of head coach. On April 18, 2021 Arsenal was announced to be an official founding club of the breakaway European The Super League competition. [96The club pulled out of the tournament two days after in the face of widespread condemnation. Arsenal ended the season eighth yet again, and did not qualify for the European event for the first time for the last 26 years

In 1888, the Royal Arsenal's first crest was composed of three cannons, viewed from above, with their heads pointing towards the north, like the arms and coat of arms for the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich (nowadays moved onto the coat of arms for the Royal Borough of Greenwich). It is possible to mistake them as chimneys, but the carving of a skull of a lion as well as the cascabels on them are clear signs that they're cannons. The cannon was removed following the transfer from Highbury to Highbury during 1913 but was returned in 1922, after they adopted a crest that featured one cannon, pointed towards the east, and with the club's name, The Gunners, inscribed across the top. The logo was only in use until 1925 which was when the cannon was changed to point westward , and the barrel was reduced in size.

The club in 1949 revealed an updated crest that featured the same cannon style beneath the club's name written in blackletter type and over the arms of Islington's Metropolitan Borough of Islington and an inscribed scroll with the club's new Latin motto Victoria Concordia Crescit which means "victory is a result of harmony" coined by the club's program editor Harry Homer. The first time the crest was created in colour, and it changed little over the course of its life and eventually morphed into green, gold, and red. Due to the multiple changes to the crest, Arsenal could not copyright the crest. However, the club had been able to mark the crest as an official trademark and had also fought (and ultimately ended up winning) an extensive legal battle against an artisan on the street who was selling "unofficial" Arsenal merchandise, Arsenal finally sought more complete legal defense. So, in 2002, they launched a new crest that was more contemporary with curving lines and a more simplified design, which could be copiedrighted. The cannon faces to the east, and the club's name is written in a sans serif font above the cannon. The green crest was replaced with dark blue. It was widely criticized by some fans; the Arsenal Independent Supporters' Union claimed the club was ignoring a large portion of the history and traditions of Arsenal by adopting such a radical design, and that the fans were not properly informed regarding the matter. In the past the badge was worn on the player's shirt only for major matches like FA Cup finals, usually with an emblem of the initials of the club in red, set against white background.

The monogram design was evolved into a badge in the Art Deco style that featured the letters C and C were placed in an eagle instead of the letters F, and the entire enclosed in an hexagonal border. The first example of a corporate logo created in Herbert Chapman's branding of The club during the 1930s was not just used on Cup Final shirts but as an element of design throughout Highbury Stadium, including above the main entrance as well as on the floor. Since 1967 the white cannon was frequently featured on the shirts, and was later it was replaced by the club's crest, with sometimes adding the name "The Gunners" in the late 1990s.

For the season 2011-12, Arsenal celebrated their 125th anniversary. The celebrations featured an altered version of the current crest , which was worn on their uniforms for the duration of the season. The crest was entirely white, with 15 oak leaves on left and fifteen laurel leaves on the left. The oak leaves symbolize the 15 founders of the club who gathered in The Royal Oak pub. The 15 leaves of laurel represent the design details on the six pence pieces that were paid by the founding fathers in order to start the club. Laurel leaves also symbolize the strength. For the final crest, the year 1886 and the year 2011 are depicted on the opposite sides of the slogan "Forward" located at the lower part of the crown.

Through the course of Arsenal's history their primary colors were bright, red shirt with white sleeves and white shorts. However, this was not always the situation. The red colour is in honor of a donation to charity made by Nottingham Forest, soon after the foundation of Arsenal in 1886. One of Dial Square's founder players, Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates are former Forest players who had relocated to Woolwich to work. When they set up the first team from the area there was no kit located which is why Beardsley and Bates sent letters to their home asking for help and received a equipment as well as an athletic ball. This shirt had a color of redcurrant, which was a dark shade of red and was paired by white shorts, socks, paired with white and blue hoops. The year 1933 saw Herbert Chapman, wanting his players to appear more well-dressed, changed the uniform, including white sleeves, and changing the color to a more vibrant red pillar box. Two possible explanations have been offered as to the source of these white sleeves. According to one story, Chapman observed a fan who was in the stands sporting an unisex red sweater with a sleeveless hem with a white shirt. another is that the outfit was inspired by an identical outfit worn by comic artist Tom Webster, with whom Chapman played golf. Whatever the story may be real the white and red shirt has become synonymous with Arsenal as a team. They has used the same outfit for years with the exception of two seasons. The first was 1966-67 in which Arsenal had all-red shirts in the stadium; it didn't go over well and white sleeves returned in the next season. The next was 2005-06 the final season Arsenal were at Highbury in which the team had commemorative redcurrant shirts, similar to the ones they wore by 1913 in their debut season at the stadium. the team reverted back to their usual colours when they began the following season. The 2008-09 season saw Arsenal substituted the white sleeves with red ones with a wide white stripe.

The Arsenal home colors have served as the source of inspiration for 3 other teams. The year 1909 was the first time Sparta Prague adopted a dark red uniform similar to the one Arsenal was wearing in the same year. In 1938 Hibernian took the same design as the Arsenal shirt sleeves and wore their own white and green strip. The year was 1941. Luis Robledo, an England-born founding member from Santa Fe and a fan of Arsenal chose the principal colors of his new team. In 1920, the Sporting Clube de Braga's manager came back from a game in Highbury and changed the team's green uniform to the Arsenal red, with shorts and sleeves of white which led to the nickname for the team, Os Arsenalistas. They still sport those designs until today.

The Arsenal away kit was navy blue or white. In 1968, the FA prohibited navy shirt (they appeared much like referees' black kits) and during the season 1969-70, Arsenal released an away uniform made of blue shorts with yellow shirts. The kit was used in the 2001 FA Cup Final as Arsenal defeated Liverpool to win an historic double in the history of the club for the very first time. The blue and yellow strip became as well-known as the iconic white and red home kit. Arsenal made it to finals in the FA Cup final again the next year, wearing their white and red home strip, but were defeated in the final by Leeds United. Arsenal were then for three straight FA Cup finals between 1978 and 1980 in their "lucky" blue and yellow strip, which was the away strip of the club until the launch of a navy and green away strip in the 1982-1983 season. The next campaign, Arsenal returned to the blue and yellow scheme however with more blue as before.

When Nike replaced Adidas the Arsenal's kit manufacturer at the end of 1994, Arsenal's away colors were changed to blue shirts with two tones and shorts. Since the emergence of the market for replica kits away kits have changed frequently and Arsenal typically issuing both away and third-choice kits. The kits have featured all blue , or variations of the classic blue and yellow designs with metallic navy and gold strip that was used during the 2001-2002 season, the dark grey and the yellow that were used from 2005 until 2007 and the yellow and maroon from 2010 to 2013. The away kit was replaced every season. The outgoing away kit was the third kit in the event that there was a new home kit to be introduced that year.

Since Puma started manufacturing Arsenal's kits back in 2014 new home away, third and home kits were launched every season. The 2017-18 campaign was the first time Puma unveiled a fresh color palette for their third and away kits. It was light blue for the away kits which turns to darker blue towards the bottom. Meanwhile, the third kit was black with a highlights of red. Puma has returned to its initial color palette for the 2018-19 season.

Since the 2019-20 season, Arsenal's kits will be manufactured by Adidas. In the season 2020-21, Adidas unveiled the new away kit in celebration of the 15th anniversary since the club left Highbury. The new kit for away is white with marbled patterns all over to recreate the iconic marble hall of the East stand at Highbury.

Prior to entering in the Football League, Arsenal played briefly in the Plumstead Common, then at the Manor Ground in Plumstead, after which they played for three years from 1890 to 1893 at the adjacent Invicta Ground. When they joined to the Football League in 1893, the club returned to Manor Ground and installed stands and terracing, transforming it from a field. Arsenal played home games at the Manor Ground for the next 20 seasons (with two exceptions during the seasons 1894-95) up to the time of their move to north London in 1913.

The stadium is often referred to by the name of Highbury, Arsenal Stadium was the home of the club from September 1913 through May 2006. The stadium was originally created by the famous football designer Archibald Leitch, and had an architectural style that was common to all football fields in the UK in the late 19th century that had a single, covered stand , and three open air terraces. The entire stadium received an extensive overhaul in the 1930s. New Art Deco West and East stands were built, which opened in 1932 and in 1936 and a roof was built on top of the North Bank terrace, which was destroyed in the Second World War and not renovated until 1954.

Highbury could accommodate more than 60,000 spectators in its peakand held 57,000 capacity until the mid-1990s. It was the Taylor Report and Premier League regulations required Arsenal to change Highbury into an all-seater stadium prior to the 1993-94 season. This resulted in cutting the capacity down to 38,419 people seated. The capacity was cut to a lesser extent in Champions League matches to accommodate additional advertising boards, it was that, for two years from 1998 until in 2000 Arsenal were able to play Champions League home matches at Wembley that could accommodate over 70,000 fans.

The expansion of Highbury was restricted due to the fact that Highbury was restricted because East Stand had been designated as an Grade II listed structure as well as the three other stands were situated near residential homes. This restriction made it impossible for the club to maximize matchday revenues in the 1990s, and the first 20th century, which put the club at risk becoming a victim by the boom in football at that period. After weighing up various possibilities in 2000, Arsenal was planning to build a new stadium that could hold 60,361 people in Ashburton Grove, since named the Emirates Stadium, about 500 meters to the south-west of Highbury. The construction was delayed initially due to bureaucratic red tape and rising costs, but the it was finally completed by July of 2006 and in time for opening of the 2006-07 football season. The stadium was named in honor of its sponsors an airline firm called Emirates which they signed what was the biggest sponsorship agreement ever in English soccer history with a value of approximately PS100 million. Many fans refer to the stadium by the name of Ashburton Grove, or the Grove due to the fact that they were not happy with the corporate sponsorship of stadium names. The stadium will officially referred to as Emirates Stadium until at least 2028. Additionally, the airline will remain the shirt sponsor for the club until at least 2024. From the beginning of the 2010-11 season the stands of the stadium were officially designated in the form of North Bank, East Stand, West Stand and Clock end.

Arsenal's athletes train in Arsenal's players train at Shenley Training Centre in Hertfordshire The facility was built for purpose and was opened in 1999. Prior to that, the club had facilities at a nearby location that was owned by The University College London Student Union. The club was training until 1961 at Highbury. Arsenal's Academy's under-18 teams play their home games at Shenley while the reserves play in Meadow Park, which is also home to Boreham Wood F.C. They both Academy under-18 teams and the reserves sometimes play their major matches at the Emirates before the smallest crowd of one stand in lower West.

Arsenal's fans are known as "Gooners" the name is derived from the nickname of the club "The Arsenal". The majority of home games sell out. In 2007-2008, Arsenal was second in average League attendance of an English club (60,070 which was 99.5 percent of the capacity available) in 2015, they had the third-highest average attendance ever. Arsenal are the seventh-highest average attendance among European football clubs, which is second only to Borussia Dortmund, FC Barcelona, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Schalke. The stadium's location is in close proximity to wealthy areas like Canonbury and Barnsbury mixed areas like Islington, Holloway, Highbury and the adjoining London Borough of Camden, and predominantly working-class neighborhoods like Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington and Stoke Newington, means that the Arsenal supporters come from all classes of society. The majority of Afro-Caribbean support is from the neighboring London Borough of Hackney and many of South Asian Arsenal supporters commute to the stadium from Wembley Park, North West of the capital. There was also historically a significant Irish community who accompanied Arsenal and the surrounding Archway region having a significant population, however Irish movement into North London is much lower than during the 1960s or the 1970s.

Like other important English soccer clubs Arsenal are home to a range of clubs for domestic supporters which include The Arsenal Football Supporters' Group that collaborates closely with the club, as well as an Arsenal Independent Supporters' Alliance which has a more independent approach. The Trust for Arsenal Supporters aims to encourage an increased participation in the control of the team by supporters. The club's supporters also write fanzines like The Gooner, Gunflash and the comical Up The Arse!. Alongside the standard English songs, fans are also known to sing "One-Nil in the direction of Arsenal" (to an arrangement that is "Go west").

There are always Arsenal supporters who live outside of London however, since the advent satellite television, the supporter's connection to a club is less dependent on geographical. Therefore, Arsenal have a significant amount of fans who are from outside London and across the world. In 2007 there were the club had 24 UK 37 Irish and 49 other foreign supporters clubs were a part of the club. A report from SPORT MARKT in 2011 estimated that Arsenal's worldwide fan base was around 113 million. Arsenal's social media engagement was fifth most in football in the season 2014-15.

The longest-running rivalry and deepest is with their most important neighbors, Tottenham Hotspur; matches between them are known by the name of North London derby. Other rivalries in London include Chelsea, Fulham and West Ham United. Furthermore, Arsenal and Manchester United have developed a fierce rivalry on the pitch in the late 1980s that intensified in the beginning of the 2000s, when both clubs competed to win winning the Premier League title.

The club's mascot Gunnersaurus Rex which is a happy green dinosaur that stands 7 feet tall, that first appeared in an away game in the league against Manchester City in August 1994 (or 1993). He was based off an 11-year-old's drawing Peter Lovell, whose design and a similar concept was a winner in the Junior Gunners contest; his official story says that he was born out of an egg that was discovered in the course of renovations at Highbury.

This same individual, Jerry Quy, has been involved in the lawsuit from the beginning; however, in October of 2020, as a result of cost-cutting triggered by the COVID-19 epidemic the club eliminated him from the position as well as his part-time position as a liaison officer for supporters, along with 55 full-time staff, however, they later stated that Gunnersaurus may return when fans were allowed back into stadiums. An online fundraising effort was initiated to help Quy and Mesut Ozil was willing to pay the salary for as long as he stays in the club Arsenal. On November 20, 2020 ahead the COVID-19 rules being changed to permit supporters to go to home matches starting on December 3, Arsenal announced that Gunnersaurus will be back, to include a team of players, which could include Quy should he wish.

The biggest shareowner of the Arsenal board is American sports businessman Stan Kroenke. Kroenke first announced a bid on behalf of the team in the month April and had to contend with the shares of Red and White Securities, who acquired the first share by acquiring them from David Dein in August 2007. Red & White Securities was owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov and Iranian London-based financier Farhad Moshiri However, Usmanov took Moshiri's stake the year 2016. Kroenke was close to reaching the 30% threshold for taking over in November 2009, when he grew his stake at 18,594 shares (29.9 percent). In April of 2011, Kroenke achieved a full takeover through the purchase of shares of Nina Bracewell-Smith as well as Danny Fiszman, taking his stake to 62.89 percent. At the end of May, Kroenke held 41,721 shares (67.05 percent) in addition to Red & White Securities owned 18,695 shares (30.04 percent). In January of 2018 Kroenke increased his stake by purchasing twenty-two shares, bringing all of the shares owned to 67.09 percent. In August of 2018, Kroenke bought out Usmanov for a price of PS550 million. He now owns more than 90 percent of shares, he was able to hold the necessary stake to complete the purchase from the shares that remained, making him an owner in sole possession. There have been criticisms of Arsenal's performance since Kroenke was appointed, and this has been blamed on his ownership. Ivan Gazidis was the club's Chief Executive from 2009 until 2018.

The parent company of Arsenal, Arsenal Holdings plc, is a private non-quoted limited company, with a ownership structure significantly different from the ownership of other clubs in football. The shares of only 62,219 in Arsenal have been issued and they're not traded on a publicly-traded exchange, such as those of the FTSE or AIM rather they are traded often through the ICAP Securities and Derivatives Exchange ICAP Securities and Derivatives Exchange, a market that is specifically designed for. As of May 29, 2017, one share of Arsenal had a mid-price of PS18,000 which set the club's market capitalisation at around PS1,119.9m. A majority of football clubs are not listed on exchanges and this makes the direct comparison of their value difficult. Consulting firm Brand Finance valued the club's brand and assets intangible at $703 million in 2015 and considered Arsenal to be a global AAA brand. Business magazine Forbes estimated the value of Arsenal in total in the range of $2.238 billion (PS1.69 billion) in 2018. The club was ranked 3rd in English football. The research conducted of the Henley Business School ranked Arsenal second in English football, estimating the value of the club at PS1.118 billion in 2015.

The financials of Arsenal for the season 2019-20 revealed a loss after tax of PS47.8m which is due to the effect of the COVID-19 virus. It is the Deloitte Football Money League is an organization that unifies and ranks the revenue of each club's annual report. Deloitte estimated Arsenal's footballing revenues for 2019 as PS392.7m (EUR445.6m) and ranked Arsenal 11th out of world football clubs. Arsenal as well as Deloitte both cited the match-day revenue earned in 2019 at Emirates Stadium. Emirates Stadium as EUR109.2m (PS96.2m).

Arsenal have been featured in several different media "firsts". On January 22, 1927, their game in Highbury with Sheffield United was the first English League match to be broadcast live on radio. The following year on the 16th September 1937, an exhibition game between the first team of Arsenal and reserve team was the first football game anywhere in the world that was broadcast live. Arsenal was also featured on the very first episode of broadcast by the BBC, Match of the Day, that screened highlights from their game in the match against Liverpool in Anfield on the 22nd of August, 1964. Its broadcast of Arsenal's game in January 2010 with Manchester United was the first live broadcast television broadcast of a sporting event to 3D television.

One of the teams with the highest success across the country, Arsenal have often featured in the depiction of football in the arts of Britain. They were the setting for one of the first fictions about football, The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939) that turned into a movie that same year. The story is based on the game that takes place between Arsenal with an amateur team which has a player who gets poisoned during the game. A number of Arsenal players acted as themselves in the film, and Manager George Allison was given a speaking role. The novel Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby was an autobiographical account of Hornby's personal life as well as his connection to football in general and Arsenal specifically. It was published in 1992 and was a an integral part of the revival as well as restoration for football within British society in the late 1990s. The book was twice adapted to the screen - the 1997 British film is a celebration of Arsenal's title victory in 1988-89 as well as a 2005 American version shows the baseball team's Boston Red Sox.

Arsenal have been portrayed as an offensive and "boring" team, particularly in the 1970s and the 1980s. in the film The Full Monty the principal characters are seen moving forward in a straight line and raise their hands, purposefully replicating an Arsenal defensive trap of offside in an attempt to coordinate the routine of their strippers. A decade later, an similar scene was featured as part of the Disney science fiction movie John Carter (director and co-writer Andrew Stanton, a notable international supporter of the club) in addition to various visual cues, subtle dialogue hints and reference to the club all throughout. Another reference in the film to the defence of the club is through the feature film, Plunkett & Macleane In the film, 2 characters have the names Dixon and Winterburn after Arsenal's longest-serving full backs - the right-handed Lee Dixon and the left-sided Nigel Winterburn.

The year 1985 was the time that Arsenal created a social schemecalled "Arsenal in the Community" that offered sports and social integration, as well as educational and charitable activities. The club supports a range of charities directly, and in 1992 , it established The Arsenal Charitable Trust, that by the year 2006 had collected greater than £2 million to support local causes. A former professional and famous football team that was part of Arsenal also raised funds through charity games. The club started its Arsenal for Everyone campaign in the year 2008 to mark an annual tribute to the diverse nature that is part of members of the Arsenal family. In the 2009-10 season, Arsenal revealed that they raised record-breaking amount of £818,897 for charity the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. The initial goal was to raise £500,000.

Save the Children has been Arsenal as a global charitable partner from 2011, and has collaborated in a variety of initiatives to increase security and well-being for the most the most vulnerable kids in London as well as around the world. On September 3, 2016, the Arsenal Foundation has donated PS1m to create football fields for children in London, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan and Somalia thanks to the Arsenal Foundation Legends Match against Milan Glorie at the Emirates Stadium. On June 3, 2018 Arsenal participated against Real Madrid in the Corazon Classic Match 2018 at the Bernabeu in Madrid, where the profits were donated towards Realtoo Real Madrid Foundation projects which target the children who are most at risk. There will also take place a follow-up meeting on the 8th of September in the Emirates stadium, where the proceeds will go to foundations like the Arsenal foundation.

The Arsenal tally with 13 League Championships is the third most among English football, just behind Manchester United (20) and Liverpool (19) and they were the first team to be able to claim the seventh and eighteenth League Championship. At the time of writing they are among seven teams, with the other are Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Manchester City, Leicester City and Liverpool who have been the winners of the Premier League since its formation in 1992.

They have the most amount of FA Cup trophies, with 14. [206] They are one of just six clubs to win this FA Cup twice in succession between 2002 and 2003 as well as 2014 and 2015. Arsenal have won the three League as well as FA Cup "Doubles" (in 2001, 1998 and 2002) which was a feat that was previously accomplished in the case of Manchester United (in 1994, 1996 and 1999). The club was the very first club to play English football to achieve their FA Cup and League Cup double in 1993. Arsenal are also among the first London club to make it to the semi-finals of UEFA Champions League, in 2006, but lost the final by a score of 2-1 to Barcelona.

Arsenal are among the most impressive top-flight record in the history of football and have finished lower than fourteenth just seven times. They have also won the second highest number of top flight league games in English football. They have also amassed the second-highest number of points, whether measured by two points per victory[8or by the modern points value. Arsenal have played in top divisions for longest consecutive seasons (95 from 2020 to 21). Arsenal also have the best average league finish position for the 20th century with an average position in the league of 8.5.

Arsenal have records for having the longest stretch of non-beaten League games (49 from May 2003 between May 2003 and the month of October in 2004). It included all 38 matches of the 2003-04 title-winning season which was the time Arsenal became the only club to complete a top flight season without losing, following Preston North End (who played only 22 games) during 1888-1989. Arsenal also have records for having the longest win in the top flight streak. Arsenal have set an Champions League record during the 2005-06 campaign, when they played 10 games with no goals conceded, surpassing the previous record of seven that was set by A.C. Milan. They managed to go on a record time of 995 minutes with no scoring against a team but the streak was ended in the final match, in which Samuel Eto'o scored a 76th-minute goal to equalize for Barcelona.

David O'Leary holds the record for Arsenal appearances with 722 matches for the first team between 1975 to 1993. Former centre-half and Former captain Tony Adams comes second, having played 669 times. The record for goalkeepers holds David Seaman, with 564 appearances. Thierry Henry has been the team's leading goalscorer with 228 goals across every competition between 1999 and 2012, surpassing Ian Wright's record of 185 on October 5, 2005. Wright's record was in place until September of 1997. he surpassed the previous record of 178 goals scored by the winger Cliff Bastin in 1939. Henry has also set the record of goals for the club that were scored in the League at 175, which was held by Bastin up to February 2006.

The record attendance for Arsenal's home games was 73,707 in an UEFA Champions League match against RC Lens on 25 November 1998 at Wembley Stadium, where the team previously played home European games due to the limitations on the capacity of Highbury. The highest attendance recorded of an Arsenal match played at Highbury has been 73,295, in the draw of 0-0 against Sunderland on March 9th, 1935. The attendance in the Emirates Stadium is 60,161, for a draw of 2-2 with Manchester United on 3 November 2007.