Arsenal W.F.C.

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Arsenal
Arsenal FC.svg
Full nameArsenal Women Football Club
Nickname(s)The Gunners
Founded1987;37 years ago (1987) as Arsenal Ladies
Ground Emirates Stadium (from 2024–25 season)
Meadow Park (other home games)
Capacity60,704 (all seated)
Emirates Stadium [1]
4,500 (1,700 seated)
Meadow Park
Owner Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
Head coach Jonas Eidevall
League Women's Super League
2023–24 WSL, 3rd of 12
Website Club website
Soccerball current event.svg 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]

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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. 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 primarily at the Emirates Stadium, and others at Meadow Park in Borehamwood. In the 2023–24 season, Arsenal sold out the 60,000 capacity Emirates Stadium three times against Chelsea, Manchester United, and North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur; and broke the WSL record attendance three times in total during the season. Current plans for the club are for all matches to be played at the Emirates Stadium, [8] beginning with all league matches, and then qualifying rounds of the champions league, with domestic cup games to follow. [9]

History

1987–2009: Founding and early success

Arsenal Football Club had explored the idea of a women's team from as early as the 1960s, when local teams asked for financial support in an attempt to turn semi-professional; the Ladies of Islington notably sought support from the club, but were turned down by the Arsenal hierarchy in 1965. [10] Following The Football Association's (FA) decision to rescind the ban on women's football in England in 1969, the game's popularity increased following the creation of official league matches and knock-out competition organised by the Women's Football Association (WFA). [11]

Millwall Lionesses had become the first women's team to affiliate with a prominent men's team. The Rotherhithe-based side was founded in 1971 and pioneered a successful youth community scheme for young women with support from their parent club. [12] Arsenal looked to replicate Millwall's success and founded their own women's team and youth programmes for girls by amalgamating with local team Aylesbury Ladies. [13] Arsenal Ladies Football Club was formed in 1987 by long-term Arsenal men's kit manager Vic Akers, and he was appointed as the amateur side's initial manager. [14] With the support of then vice chairman David Dein, Akers' plea for resources such as playing boots, the men's team coach and the use of training facilities were often answered in a period where financial support for the women's game was scarce; Arsenal thus dominated the women's game in England during the 1990s and 2000s. [14]

Arsenal celebrate a Cup double in 1998 045 Arsenal ladies 1998.jpg
Arsenal celebrate a Cup double in 1998

They won their first major honour, the Women's League Cup, in the 1991–92 season and won promotion to the FA Women's Premier League from the FA Women's National League South in the same year. A season later, they won the top division title at the first time of asking. [15]

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 successes of the men's team, Arsenal made a conscious effort to brand women's football as equitable. Over the next 20 years, Arsenal approached all facets of the game, such as training, tactics, scouting, and finance, with the goal of growing the club and winning trophies. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Arsenal topped the Premier League for many seasons, boasting academy graduates like Marieanne Spacey and Faye White, as well as spending the club's income on stars like Emma Byrne, enabling the club to win a slew of trophies. [16] Akers stepped down as manager of Arsenal's Women's team during the summer of 1997 to become kit manager for the men's team. Terry Howard took charge of the team for the 1997–98 season [17] but Akers returned in 1998–99 following Howard's departure. The club became semi-professional in 2002. [18] [19]

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 2009–10 season, as well as six unbeaten campaigns. [20] [21] Akers led the team to the most successful club season in English women's football in the 2006–07 season as the team won every competition available to them, including the UEFA Women's Cup. The win marked Arsenal's only European trophy and was the first time an English club had won the competition. [22] This unique sextuple was recognized with The Committee Award by the Sports Journalists' Association in the 2007 Sports Journalists' Awards. [23]

Akers also led the team to a number of English women's football records, including a six-year league unbeaten run from October 2003 [24] 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. [14] Akers retired from management following a domestic treble in the 2008–09 season.

2009–present: Post-Akers and the WSL

Arsenal players celebrate winning the 2018-19 FA WSL title Arsenal WFC v Manchester City WFC, 11 May 2019 (03).jpg
Arsenal players celebrate winning the 2018–19 FA WSL title

Akers was succeeded by Tony Gervaise, [25] who resigned in February 2010 after only eight months in charge, suggesting his position had been undermined by outside interference. [25] In an unusual development, reserve coach Laura Harvey became first-team manager and Gervaise became reserve coach. [26] 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. [27] Arsenal won the inaugural season, marking their eighth consecutive English title, and secured another domestic double by also winning the FA Cup. [28] 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 loss to Reading, Kerr resigned. [29] She was replaced by Pedro Losa. [30] Losa led the team to the 2015 FA WSL Cup [31] and the 2016 FA Women's Cup. [32] Moreover, he helped to rebuild the squad, 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, Losa left following a poor start to the 2017-18 season [33] and was replaced by Joe Montemurro.

In July 2017, the club rebranded as Arsenal Women Football Club, [3] [15] in a move described by Arsenal as "clear signal of togetherness and unity", and to retain the progressive ethos of the club. [2] 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. Montemurro left the club at the end of the 2020–21 season. [34]

Following the resignation of Montemurro, the club appointed Jonas Eidevall as head coach of Arsenal. [34] On 24 September 2022, the North London derby at the Emirates Stadium recorded an attendance figure of 47,367, the highest ever for a WSL match. Arsenal won the match 4–0. [35] [36] On 5 March 2023, Arsenal defeated Chelsea 3–1 in the Women's League Cup final to win their first trophy since 2019. [37] Arsenal repeated the feat the following year, defeating Chelsea 1–0 after extra time to win their ninth Women's League Cup title. [38]

In the 2023–24 season, the WSL record attendance was broken three times at the Emirates; against Liverpool in September with 54,115, [39] Chelsea in December with 59,042, [40] followed by Manchester United in February with 60,160. [41] In March, the Emirates again sold out for the North London derby against Tottenham Hotspur with 60,050 in attendance, becoming the second biggest crowd in WSL history. [42]

Kits

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

PeriodKit manufacturerShirt sponsor (chest)Shirt sponsor (sleeve)
1987–1994 Adidas JVC None
1994–1999 Nike
1999–2002 Dreamcast
Sega
2002–2006 O2
2006–2014 Fly Emirates [43]
2014–2018 Puma [44]
2018–2019 Visit Rwanda [45]
2019– Adidas [46]

Stadium

Arsenal played the majority of their home matches at Meadow Park, home of National League side Boreham Wood, in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The ground has a capacity of 4,500.

In the 2022–23 season, the club had the highest home attendance of all clubs in the WSL, with an average of 15,046 fans in attendance per match. [47] The average was taken from matches hosted at both Meadow Park and Emirates Stadium across the season. For the 2023–24 season, Arsenal played five of their matches at the Emirates Stadium, and the remainder at Meadow Park, [48] averaging 30,017 attendance per march. [49]

As of the 2024–25 season, Emirates Stadium is the main home of Arsenal. [50] The team will play 8–11 WSL matches and Champions League 2024–25 matches at the Emirates, with the remainder of matches played at Meadow Park. [51]

Players

First-team squad

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Manuela Zinsberger
2 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Emily Fox
3 DF Flag of England.svg  ENG Lotte Wubben-Moy
5 DF Flag of Spain.svg  ESP Laia Codina
6 DF Flag of England.svg  ENG Leah Williamson (vice-captain)
7 DF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Steph Catley
8 FW Flag of Spain.svg  ESP Mariona Caldentey
9 FW Flag of England.svg  ENG Beth Mead
10 MF Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Kim Little (captain)
11 DF Flag of Ireland.svg  IRL Katie McCabe (3rd captain)
12 MF Flag of Norway.svg  NOR Frida Maanum
13 MF Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  SUI Lia Wälti (4th captain)
14 GK Flag of the Netherlands.svg  NED Daphne van Domselaar
16 FW Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Rosa Kafaji
No.Pos.NationPlayer
17 FW Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Lina Hurtig
19 FW Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Caitlin Foord
21 MF Flag of the Netherlands.svg  NED Victoria Pelova
22 MF Flag of Denmark.svg  DEN Kathrine Møller Kühl
23 FW Flag of England.svg  ENG Alessia Russo
25 FW Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Stina Blackstenius
26 DF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Laura Wienroither
28 DF Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Amanda Ilestedt
32 MF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Kyra Cooney-Cross
40 GK Flag of England.svg  ENG Naomi Williams
53 FW Flag of England.svg  ENG Vivienne Lia
56 MF Flag of England.svg  ENG Freya Godfrey
60 MF Flag of England.svg  ENG Laila Harbert
62 DF Flag of England.svg  ENG Katie Reid

Out on loan

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
29 DF Flag of England.svg  ENG Teyah Goldie (at London City Lionesses until 30 June 2025)
59 FW Flag of England.svg  ENG Michelle Agyemang (at Brighton & Hove Albion until 30 June 2025)

Academy

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.

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
44 FW Flag of England.svg  ENG Sophie Harwood
No.Pos.NationPlayer
50 MF Flag of England.svg  ENG Omotara Junaid

Out on loan

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
58 MF Flag of England.svg  ENG Isabella Fisher(at Ipswich Town until 30 June 2025)
61 MF Flag of England.svg  ENG Madison Earl(at Bristol City until January 2025)
65 FW Flag of England.svg  ENG Jessie Gale(at Watford until 30 June 2025) [lower-alpha 1]
  1. Dual registration

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 Joe Montemurro coaching against Perth.jpg
Joe Montemurro, who was the head coach from 2017 to 2021
As of 21 September 2023[ citation needed ]
PositionName
Head of women's football Clare Wheatley
Football Services Executive Jodie Taylor [52]
Head coach Jonas Eidevall
Assistant coachesAaron D'Antino
Patrick Winqvist
Kelly Smith
Renée Slegers
Goalkeeper coachSebastian Barton
Lead strength and conditioning coachEoin Clarkin
Head of sports medicine and sports science Gary Lewin
DoctorDionisio Izquierdo
Lead physiotherapistRose Glendinning
Sports psychologistMatt Domville
AnalystJonny Dixon
Melissa Phillips
Team operations managerHolly Skinner
Academy managerJames Honeyman

Managerial history

DatesName
1987–1997 Flag of England.svg Vic Akers
1997–1998 Flag of England.svg Terry Howard
1998–2009 Flag of England.svg Vic Akers
2009–2010 Flag of Scotland.svg Tony Gervaise
2010–2013 Flag of England.svg Laura Harvey
2013–2014 Flag of Scotland.svg Shelley Kerr
2014–2017 Flag of Spain.svg Pedro Martínez Losa
2017–2021 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Joe Montemurro
2021– Flag of Sweden.svg Jonas Eidevall

Honours

Arsenal W.F.C. honours [53]
TypeCompetitionTitlesSeasons
RegionalLondon County FA Women's Cup101994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1999–00, 2003–04, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11
National English Football Championship [note 1] 15 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
FA Women's Premier League South [note 2] 11991–92
Women's FA Cup 141992–93, 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
FA Women's League Cup 72011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017–18, 2022–23, 2023–24
FA Women's National League Cup 10 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2008–09
Women's FA Community Shield 5 2000, [note 3] 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008
Continental UEFA Women's Champions League 1 2006–07
  1. Including the WFA National League Premier Division (1991–1994), FA Premier League National Division (1995–2010), and the Women's Super League (since 2011)
  2. Arsenal played in the competition when it was a part of the country's joint second division, in conjunction with the northern section. Today the competition is a part of the country's third division and is called the FA Women's National League South.[ citation needed ]
  3. The 2000 FA Women's Charity Shield was shared with Charlton Athletic

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