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This article is about the women's football club based in England. For the men's team, see Arsenal F.C. For other teams called Arsenal, see Arsenal (disambiguation) § Football.
Arsenal
Arsenal FC.svg
Full name Arsenal Women Football Club
Nickname(s) The Gunners
Founded 1987; 37 years ago (1987) as Arsenal Ladies
Ground Meadow Park
Ground Capacity 4,500 (1,700 seated)
Owner Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
Head coach Jonas Eidevall
League Women's Super League
2023–24 WSL, 3rd of 12
Website Club home page
Current season

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Arsenal Women Football Club, commonly referred to as Arsenal,[1][2] 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,[3] 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.[4][5]

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 FA Women's Cup, 5 FA WSL Cups, 10 Women's Premier League Cups, 5 FA Women's Community Shield, and are the only English club to win the UEFA Women's Champions League. In the 2006–07 season, the club became the first in the history of women's football to achieve the continental European sextuple. They are also the only English football club either male or female, to win the Continental Treble while going undefeated in all competitions played that same season.

Arsenal plays its home games at Meadow Park in Borehamwood, and occasionally at the Emirates Stadium.[6]

History

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1987–2009: Founding and early success

Arsenal celebrate a Cup double in 1998

In 1987, long-term Arsenal men's team kit manager Vic Akers helped found a women's football club, and was appointed as their initial manager. The club began operating as Arsenal Ladies Football Club.[7] Due to the status of women's football in England suffering from an overall decline in interest, Arsenal were limited to sparse, nomadic cup appearances for the first four years of their existence, and did not turn professional until 2002.[8][9] They won their first major honour, the Women's League Cup, in the 1991–92 season. Also in 1992, they won promotion to the FA Women's Premier League from the FA Women's National League South, and a season later, won the top division title at the first time of asking.[10]

This began a period of sustained dominance for the club, who soon permanently moved into Meadow Park in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, in a groundshare agreement with non-league side Boreham Wood. Following the storied successes of the men's team, Arsenal made a conscious effort to brand women's football as equitable. Over the next twenty years, Arsenal approached all facets of the game, such as training, tactics, scouting, and finance, with the goal to maximize the growth of the club and attain trophies. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Arsenal lavished atop the Premier League for many seasons, boasting academy graduates like Marieanne Spacey and Faye White, as well as utilizing the club's income on stars like Emma Byrne, to allow the club to win a slew of trophies.[11]

Under Akers' stewardship, Arsenal enjoyed unilateral domestic success, as the club claimed 11 league titles, nine FA Women's Cup titles, ten FA Women's Premier League Cup titles, and five FA Women's Community Shield wins. This included seven straight league wins from the 2003–04 season to 2008–09 season, as well as six unbeaten campaigns.[12][13] Moreover, Akers lead the team to the most successful club season in English women's football in the 2006–07 season, as the team won every single competition available to them, including the ever elusive UEFA Women's Cup. The win marked Arsenal's only trophy won from European competition, and the first time an English club won the competition.[14][15] This unique sextuple was recognized with The Committee Award by the Sports Journalists' Association in the 2007 Sports Journalists' Awards.[16]

Akers also led the team to a number of English women's football records, including a six-year league unbeaten run from October 2003[17] to March 2009, marking 108 games without defeat. During that spell, Arsenal won a record 51 league games in a row, between November 2005 and April 2008.[7] Akers retired from management following a domestic treble in the 2008–09 season.

2009–present: Post-Akers and the WSL

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Arsenal players celebrate winning the 2018–19 FA WSL title

Akers was succeeded by Tony Gervaise,[18] who resigned in February 2010 after only eight months in charge, suggesting his position had been undermined by outside interference.[18] In an unusual development, reserve coach Laura Harvey became first-team manager and Gervaise became reserve coach.[19] This appointment marked the club's first female coach in any capacity.

After a year break in play in preparation for a reformatted league, Arsenal were named as founder members of the FA Women's Super League, which commenced in the spring of 2011.[20] Arsenal won the inaugural season, marking their eighth consecutive English title, and secured another domestic double by also winning the FA Cup.[21] After a two-year period without a league triumph, Shelley Kerr was announced as Harvey's successor in 2013. Under her management, the club won two FA Women's Cups, including a win in 2014, two weeks after the men's team won the 2014 FA Cup, completing a rare FA Cup double for the club. But after a poor run of form which saw Arsenal gain only one point from the opening four league matches of the 2014 season, including exits from the Champions League to minnows Birmingham and a shock lose to Reading, Kerr resigned.[22] She was replaced by Pedro Losa.[23] Losa led the team to the 2015 FA WSL Cup[24] and the 2016 FA Women's Cup.[25] Moreover, he helped the squad rebuild, notably recruiting younger stars like Daniëlle van de Donk, Kim Little, Beth Mead and Vivianne Miedema. Losa also brought through youngsters like Leah Williamson. However, following the season's end, Losa resigned, and was replaced by Joe Montemurro.

In July 2017, the club rebranded as Arsenal Women Football Club,[2][10] in a move described by Arsenal as "clear signal of togetherness and unity", and to retain the progressive ethos of the club.[1] Utilizing the core Losa helped build, Montemurro led Arsenal to the 2018–19 Women's Super League title, with a game to spare. The win marked their first title in seven years, and marked the club's return to the Champions League for the first time in five years.

Kits

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Period Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor (chest) Shirt sponsor (sleeve)
1987–1994 Adidas JVC None
1994–1999 Nike
1999–2002 Dreamcast
Sega
2002–2006 O2
2006–2014 Fly Emirates[26]
2014–2018 Puma[27]
2018–2019 Visit Rwanda[28]
2019– Adidas[29]

Stadium

Arsenal Women play most of their home matches at Meadow Park, home of Vanarama National League side Boreham Wood, in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. It has a capacity of 4,500, although attendances for most league matches are around 1,000. Arsenal's home UEFA Women's Champions League matches are also played here. However, due to the connection with Arsenal F.C., they are permitted to play in the Emirates Stadium on occasions.[6]

Players

First-team squad

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Arsenal players lining up for a team photo in February 2020
As of 25 July 2022[9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Austria GK Manuela Zinsberger
2 Brazil DF Rafaelle Souza
3 England DF Lotte Wubben-Moy
5 Scotland DF Jen Beattie
6 England DF Leah Williamson
7 Australia DF Steph Catley
8 England MF Jordan Nobbs (vice-captain)
9 England FW Beth Mead
11 Netherlands FW Vivianne Miedema
12 Norway MF Frida Maanum
13 Switzerland MF Lia Wälti (3rd captain)
No. Position Player
14 England FW Nikita Parris
15 Republic of Ireland FW Katie McCabe
16 Switzerland DF Noëlle Maritz
18 United States GK Kaylan Marckese
19 Australia FW Caitlin Foord
23 Japan FW Mana Iwabuchi
24 England GK Fran Stenson
25 Sweden FW Stina Blackstenius
26 Austria DF Laura Wienroither
29 England DF Teyah Goldie

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
4 England DF Anna Patten (at Aston Villa until the end of the 2022–23 season)
10 Scotland MF Kim Little (captain; at OL Reign until 15 August 2022[30])

Reserves

Arsenal also operate a reserve team, which is mainly formed from Academy players. The reserves have won four FA Women's Premier Reserve League titles and five FA Women's Premier Reserve League Cups in their history.

Former players

For notable current and former players, see Category:Arsenal W.F.C. players.

Management and staff

Current staff

Joe Montemurro, who was the head coach from 2017 to 2021

As of 24 July 2022[31]

Position Name
Head of women's football England Clare Wheatley
Head coach Sweden Jonas Eidevall
Assistant coach Australia Aaron D'Antino
Assistant and personal development coach England Leanne Hall
Goalkeeper coach England Sebastian Barton
Lead strength and conditioning coach Republic of Ireland Eoin Clarkin
Head of sports medicine and sports science England Gary Lewin
Doctor England Dionisio Izquierdo
Lead physiotherapist England Rose Glendinning
Sports psychologist England Matt Domville
Analyst England Jonny Dixon
Team operations manager England Holly Skinner
Academy manager England James Honeyman

Managerial history

Dates Name
1987–2009 England Vic Akers
2009–2010 Scotland Tony Gervaise
2010–2013 England Laura Harvey
2013–2014 Scotland Shelley Kerr
2014–2017 Spain Pedro Martínez Losa
2017–2021 Australia Joe Montemurro
2021– Sweden Jonas Eidevall

Honours

Seasons in bold are seasons when the club won a double of the league and FA Cup.

As of 12 December 2019[32]

Domestic

League

Winners (15) (record): 1992–93, 1994–95, 1996–97, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011, 2012, 2018–19
Winners (1): 1991–92

Cups

Winners (14) (record): 1992–93, 1994–95, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16
Winners (5) (record): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017–18
Winners (10) (record): 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2008–09
Winners (5) (record): 2000 (shared), 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008

European

Winners (1): 2006–07

County

Winners (10) (record): 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1999–00, 2003–04, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11

UEFA club coefficient ranking

In European football, the UEFA coefficients are statistics used for ranking and seeding teams in club and international competitions. Club coefficients are used to rank individual clubs for seeding in the UEFA Women's Champions League.

As of 10 December 2021 [33]
Rank Team Points
9 Spain Atlético Madrid 43.100
10 Sweden Rosengård 38.633
11 England Arsenal 36.866
12 Czech Republic Sparta Prague 34.366
13 Denmark Brøndby IF 34.050

See also

References

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External links

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