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Arsenal is an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. Known also by their nickname ‘The Gunners’, Arsenal was founded in 1886 as Dial Square. Arsenal’s home stadium is Emirates Stadium (due to a naming rights deal with Emirates Airlines) and seats 60300 fans. In 2003-04 Arsenal had the fewest League defeats of the season, with zero losses out of 38 matches. The team is considered one of the ‘Big Four’ in the Premier League – as it is one of four teams that regularly holds one of the top four positions in the Premiership.

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Arsenal has a fierce rivalry with nearby Tottenham Hotspur FC and matches between the two rivals are known as the North London Derby
In 1932 when the team still played at Highbury, then-manager Herbert Chapman campaigned for the local Tube station (Gillespie Road) to change its name to ‘Arsenal’. On the 5th of November 1932, the name was officially changed, making it the only Tube station to be named specifically after a football club
The Arsenal crest is in the form of a red shield with ‘Arsenal’ in white above an East-facing cannon.
In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Arsenal as the world’s third most valuable football team, behind Manchester United and Real Madrid (ranked first and second respectively)
In 1992, the Arsenal Charitable Trust was set up and has raised over £2million for local causes
On 22 January 1927, Arsenal’s match against Sheffield United was the first English League football match to be broadcast live on radio

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