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Arsenal Football Club is a professional English
Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful
clubs in English football, they have won 13 First Division and Premier League
titles and 10 FA Cups. They hold the record for the longest uninterrupted period
in the English top flight and are the only side to have completed a Premier
League season unbeaten.Arsenal was founded in 1886 in Woolwich and in 1893
became the first club from the south of England to join the Football League. In
1913, they moved north across the city to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury. In the
1930s they won five League Championship titles and two FA Cups. After a lean
period in the post-war years they won the League and FA Cup Double, in the
1970?71 season, and in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century won two
more Doubles and reached the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final.Arsenal have a
long-standing rivalry with neighbours Tottenham Hotspur, with whom they
regularly contest the North London derby. Arsenal are also the third most
valuable Association football club in the world as of 2010, valued at $1.2
billion. Arsenal were originally based in the Borough of Woolwich in South
London before moving to Highbury in 1913. The Emirates Stadium was opened in
July 2006 and is the 3rd largest Stadium in the Premiership. Arsenal moved their
from previous home Highbury, which is only 500 yards down the
road.
