The London Borough of Islington is a London district that forms part of inner London. Islington has an estimated population of 215,667. It was formed in 1965 under the London Government Act of 1963, which simultaneously abolished the metropolitan districts of Islington and Finsbury. Wikipedia Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Islington, London. Arsenal plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
The club has won 13 league titles (including an undefeated title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 16 FA Community Shields, a European Cup Winners' Cup and an Interurban Fair Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third most successful club in English football. The Emirates Stadium is located in the Islington area of North London, just over 2 miles from Kings Cross St Pancras train station. They immediately won the 1988 Football League Centennial Trophy and then the 1988-89 Football League title, achieved with a last-minute goal in the last game of the season against Liverpool, also a contender for the title.
A decade later, on September 16, 1937, an exhibition match between Arsenal's first team and the reserves was the first live televised football match. Like all major English football clubs, Arsenal has several national fan clubs, including the Arsenal Football Supporters' Club, which works closely with the club, and the Arsenal Independent Fans Association, which maintains a more independent line. There have always been Arsenal fans outside of London and, since the advent of satellite television, a fan's attachment to a football club has become less dependent on geography. Europe's largest football stadiums Champions League final facilities Europa League final facilities Europe League final facilities Europe Cup final facilities Europe final facilitiesThe largest football stadiums in Latin America.
Arsenal jerseys have been sponsored since 1982, when the club reached an agreement with the JVC, which lasted until 1999. Arsenal is one of the Premier League clubs for which it is most difficult to get tickets and, often, you need to be a member of Arsenal in order to purchase them. The stadium is named after its sponsors, the airline Emirates, with whom the club signed the largest sponsorship agreement in the history of English football, worth approximately 100 million pounds sterling; however, some fans refer to the stadium as Ashburton Grove or The Grove, since they do not agree with the corporate sponsorship of the names of the stadiums. Arsenal has the highest proportion (7.7%) of non-white fans among English football clubs, possibly due to the high proportion of ethnic minorities in North London.
In October 1886, Scotland's David Danskin and fifteen Woolwich teammates formed the Dial Square Football Club, named after a workshop located in the heart of the Royal Arsenal complex. In addition, Chapman was reportedly behind the renaming of the local London Underground station from Gillespie Road to Arsenal in 1932, making it the only tube station that bears the specific name of a football club. Arsenal's parent company, Arsenal Holdings plc, operates as an unlisted public limited company, whose ownership is considerably different from that of other football clubs. Arsenal have finished first or second in the league in eight of Wenger's ten seasons at the club.
A year later, Arsenal participated in the FA Cup final for the second time in a row, defeating Aston Villa 4-0 in the final and becoming the most successful club in the history of the tournament with 12 titles, a record that Manchester United would tie the following season. However, the club's geographical isolation resulted in lower attendance than other clubs, leading the club to be involved in financial problems. Arsenal's board of directors owns most of the club's shares and controls more than 60% of the share capital.
