
12. Arsenal Football Club (1,02%)(often simply known as
Arsenal or The Arsenal, or by their nickname The Gunners) are an
English professional football club based in Holloway, North London.
They play in the Premier League and are one of the most successful
clubs in English football, having won thirteen First Division and
Premier League titles and ten FA Cups, and hold the record for the
longest uninterrupted period in the English top flight.
Arsenal were founded in 1886 and were 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. After
a lean period in the post-war years they became the second club of the
20th 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, the Premier League title unbeaten, and became the first London
club to reach the UEFA Champions League Final.
The club's colours have traditionally been red and white, which have
evolved through history. Similarly, the club have changed location over
time; the team were initially founded in Woolwich, south-east London,
and in 1913 they moved north across the city to Arsenal Stadium,
Highbury. In 2006 they made a less drastic move to their current home,
the Emirates Stadium in nearby Holloway.
Arsenal have a large fanbase, who hold a string of long-standing
rivalries with several other clubs; the most notable of these is with
neighbours Tottenham Hotspur, with whom they regularly contest the
North London derby. Arsenal are one of the richest clubs in English
football (valued at over £600m as of 2008), and thanks to their
stature, have regularly featured in portrayals of football in British
culture. Arsenal Ladies are the most successful English club in women's
football and are also affiliated with the club.