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Arsenal Football Club (also known as '''Arsenal''', '''The Arsenal''' or '''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 . Arsenal have won thirteen First Division and Premier League titles, ten FA Cup s and in 2005–06 became the first London Club to reach the UEFA Champions League final. Arsenal are also members of the G-14 group of leading Europe an football clubs. Arsenal were founded in 1886 , in Woolwich , south-east London, but in 1913 they moved north across the city to Arsenal Stadium , Highbury . In May 2006 they left Highbury, moving to their current home, the Emirates Stadium in nearby Ashburton Grove , Holloway . Arsenal have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with neighbours Tottenham Hotspur , located four miles away in Tottenham , with whom they have contested the North London Derby almost every season since 1913. HISTORY lifts the 2003–04 Premier League trophy.]] Following the suspension of English professional football during World War II , under Tom Whittaker Arsenal enjoyed a second period of success, winning the league in 1947–48 and 1952–53 , and the FA Cup in 1949–50 . However, after that their fortunes waned; unable to attract players of the same calibre as they had in the 1930s, the club spent most of the 1950s and 1960s in trophyless mediocrity. Even former England captain Billy Wright could not bring the club any success as manager, in a stint between 1962 and 1966. Arsenal have finished in either first or second place in the league in eight of Wenger's eleven seasons at the club. They are one of only four teams (along with Manchester United , Blackburn Rovers and Chelsea ) to have won the Premier League since its formation in 1993, although they have failed to retain the title each time they have been champions. Until recently, Arsenal had never progressed beyond the Champions League quarter-finals; in 2005–06 however, they reached the competition's Final , the first club from London to do so in the competition's fifty-year history, but were beaten 2–1 by FC Barcelona . CREST | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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