Arsenal Football Club is an English Premier League football club
based inHolloway, London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups. Arsenal holds the
record for the longest uninterrupted period in the English top flight and would
be placed first in an aggregated league of the entire 20th century. It is the second side to complete an
English top flight seasonunbeaten (in
the 2003–04 season), and the only one to do so
across 38 matches.
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, it moved
north across the city to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury. In the 1930s the
club won five League Championship titles and two FA Cups. After a lean period
in the post-war years it 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
has a long-standing rivalry with North London neighbours Tottenham Hotspur, with whom it contests
the North London derby. Arsenal is the fourth most valuable association
football club in the
world as of 2013, valued at over $1.3 billion.
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