Arsenal W.F.C.

Arsenal
Full nameArsenal Women Football Club
Nickname(s)The Gunners
Founded1987 (1987) as Arsenal Ladies
GroundMeadow Park
Emirates Stadium (from 2024/25 season)
Capacity4,500 (1,700 seated)
Meadow Park
60,704 (all seated)
Emirates Stadium[1]
OwnerKroenke Sports & Entertainment
Head coachJonas Eidevall
LeagueWomen's Super League
2022–23WSL, 3rd of 12
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Arsenal Women Football Club, commonly referred to as just Arsenal,[2][3] is an English professional women's football club based in Islington, London, England. The club plays in the Women's Super League, the top tier of English women's football. Arsenal were founded in 1987 following an initiative by Vic Akers, who became the club's first, longest-serving, and most successful manager. He guided Arsenal to continued success until his departure in 2009, winning the most top-flight matches in English football history. The club have sustained this record,[4] and have won the most doubles and trebles in English football history. Arsenal have also completed a record seven unbeaten league seasons, setting a number of English records for longest top-flight unbeaten run, for goals scored, and points won.[5][6]

Arsenal are statistically the most successful club in English women's football, holding the records for most titles won in each domestic competition they have played in. The club have won 15 league titles, 14 Women's FA Cups, 7 Women's League Cups, 10 Women's National League Cups, 5 Women's FA Community Shields, and are the only English club to win the UEFA Women's Champions League. They are also the only English club to win the continental treble while going undefeated in all competitions played that same season. In the 2006–07 season, the club became the first in the history of women's football to achieve the continental European sextuple.[7]

Arsenal play their home games at Meadow Park in Borehamwood, and select games at the Emirates Stadium, with all group games and knockout games in the Champions League being played there. Long term plans for the club are for all matches to be played at the Emirates Stadium, beginning with all league matches, and then qualifying rounds of the champions league, with domestic cup games to follow.[8]

  1. ^ "Emirates Stadium Arsenal FC, Info & Map". Premierleague.com. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Important update from our women's team". Arsenal Media. 28 July 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Women's Super League One : Arsenal drop 'Ladies' from name". BBC Sport. 28 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Arsenal WFC – Records and Statistics". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Arsenal Women – History". Arsenal F.C. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  6. ^ "England – Arsenal WFC". Soccerway. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  7. ^ Miller, Nick (25 December 2017). "Barcelona, Arsenal Ladies lead teams with single-season trophy hauls". ESPN. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  8. ^ "Emirates Stadium to host more AWFC matches". Arsenal Media. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.

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