Arsenal FC

George Graham led Arsenal into the modern era after his appointment in 1986. He won the league title in this third season as manager before winning his second league title in 1990-91. However, success in the league escaped him in the later part of his reign at Arsenal although the club dominated the cup competitions. Graham was fired over misconduct in his transfer dealings in 1995.

Wenger has since remained in charge of Arsenal. Although the first part of his managerial tenure brought great success for the Gunners, Arsenal have struggled to win the league in the last decade.

Wenger has been credited with making some important cultural changes in the club and that worked in his favour. He also brought in some fantastic players into the club such as Patrick Vieira, Nicolas Anelka, Emmanuel Petit and Marc Overmars who combined with those at the club to help the Gunners win the league and FA Cup double in 1997-98.

Thereafter, Arsenal repeated the feat in 2001-02 with Thierry Henry and Denis Bergkamp leading the attack for the Gunners. Wenger became the first manager to retain the FA Cup a year later when Arsenal won the trophy in 2002-03 as well.

The following year, Wenger guided Arsenal to their third league title under him in what proved to be an unbeaten season for Arsenal in the league. It was only the second time that a club managed to achieve the feat in English football.

In 2006, Wenger helped Arsenal to the Champions League final, where they were beaten by FC Barcelona. The club’s next trophy came at the end of the 2013-14 season when they won the FA Cup. The team repeated the feat the following season as Wenger became the most successful manager in the history of the competition alongside George Ramsay.

Thierry Henry is the club’s all-time leading goal-scorer with 228 goals from 377 appearances for the club between 1999 and 2007. With 722 appearances in all competitions between 1975 and 1993, David O’Leary has featured for the Gunners the most number of times. Defender Tony Adams, one of Arsenal’s best captains, is the second man on the list with 669 first team appearances between 1983 and 2002.

At 38.2 million GBP, Mesut Ozil has been their most expensive transfer. The German was bought from Real Madrid on transfer deadline day in September 2013.

Some of the club’s achievements include:

First Division or Premier League:1930–31, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1934–35, 1937–38, 1947–48, 1952–53, 1970–71, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2003–04

FA Cup:1929–30, 1935–36, 1949–50, 1970–71, 1978–79, 1992–93, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2013-14

League Cup:1986–87, 1992–93

European Cup Winners’ Cup:1993–94