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（The team was founded at the end of 1886 by the workers of an arms factory in the south-east London suburb of Woolwich, headed by Denskin, and consisted of fifteen members, each of whom gave six pence (about £0.025), the currency of the time, to create the team. 0.025 pounds) in the currency of the day, when they named it Dial Square after the factory.
Funny thing, according to
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The information written on the official website states that these 15 people bought a soccer ball at the time, which was meant to be simply a sport as a social activity, and probably didn't even realize at the time that they were going to start a soccer team history.
Dale Square's first match was on December 11, 1886, when they beat Eastern Wanderers 6-0.On Christmas Day, December 25, 1886, the players met at Woolwich
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The team met at the Royal Oak pub next to the station (Woolwich Arsenal Station) and the team name was changed to Royal
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(Royal Arsenal), 1893, Royal
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Change of name to Woolwich
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(Woolwich Arsenal), the team also became a professional team, competing in the Second Division, and they were the league's first team from the south.
The team did not have a fixed ground in the early days of the team's existence, at first they used the Manor Ground, and in the following year they went to the Invicta Ground, which had stands and changing rooms, but with the rise in the rent of the ground they moved back to the Manor Ground, and increased the number of stands, and in 1913 they moved to their new home, the Highbury Ground, which is better known as Highbury in modern times. is better known in recent times as Highbury Ground-Highbury, and the team's name at this time dropped Woolwich to what is now known as the
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present .
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The team's logo has a cannon on top with white lettering on a red background in a style that hasn't changed since 2002, and the
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The earliest team crests already featured cannons, but at the time they were three cannons with lion faces and muzzles facing upwards, a clear reference to the Woolwich City crest. The initial crests were monotonous and plain in color, this was due to the fact that in the early days the crest was not the most necessary element in the make-up of a team, and the early team jerseys were mostly plain and were only used in conjunction with particularly memorable matches, such as the FA Cup Final. The logo only appeared in official promotional documents and brochures for special matches, such as the FA Cup Final.
1921-22 season
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The crest first featured a single cannon with the muzzle facing west, in 1922-23 the crest turned east and for the first time the word Gunners appeared, in 1925 the cannon faced west again and this style of crest was used until 1949, when a new crest appeared in red for the first time, with the word Arsenal in Gothic script, and a Latin text Victoria Concordia Crescit, meaning Unity brings Victory, at the bottom. At the bottom was the Latin phrase Victoria Concordia Crescit, meaning Unity brings victory.
The logo was used for 52 years, briefly appearing in yellow on a red background during the 2001-02 season, but overall not much has changed from the 1949 version.In 2002 as the team continued to make a name for itself in the
England Premier Soccer League
and European tournaments to challenge, a new stadium, Emirates Stadium, was also under construction, and the club saw the need for a new crest, which was seen in 2002 as we see it now
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The logo, which had a different version in 2011 for the 125th anniversary of the team's founding, remains the same, but has an additional 15 laurel leaves on the left side to commemorate the 15 founding members of the team, which the official website explains symbolizes strength, and 15 oak leaves on the right side to commemorate the time when they met in the Oak Tree Bar and were named Arsenal.
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From the very beginning it was a red shirt, and when the team was first formed there wasn't much of a budget, with three of the members, Beardsley, Parr and Bates, having previously been Nottingham Forest players so
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The decision was made to use the same color scheme as Forest to complete the team kit in the least expensive way possible, with three buttons on dark red long sleeves with white shorts, a color scheme of dark blue shorts has also appeared in subsequent years.
In 1933 team manager Chapman first put the
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The top of his shirt was changed to white sleeves, and there are two sources for the story, one being that he saw a spectator on the sidelines wearing a white T with a red sleeveless tunic, and the other being that the other was wearing it when he was playing golf with cartoonist Tom Webster, but the real reason for this is no longer known, in short, after this
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The jersey then becomes red with white sleeves.
Also, slightly more seasoned fans should remember the 2005-06 season of the
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They were then breaking into the team's only ever
European crown
The final, when the jersey was dark red, was in honor of the team's stadium at Highbury, which they had been using since 1913, and they were moving to the new Emirates Stadium after that season, so the team chose to wear the dark red jerseys from their time at Highbury this season, and then changed the tops back to a lighter red with white sleeves when they arrived at the Emirates Stadium the next season.
