The entrance of The Emirates
Stadium.
Arsenal Football Club have used
persistent squad numbers
since 1993, and team numbers since 1928.
Arsenal
were founded as Dial Square in 1886 by workers at the
Royal
Arsenal
in Woolwich
, but were
renamed Royal Arsenal shortly afterwards. They
renamed themselves again to
Woolwich Arsenal after turning
professional in
1891. The
club made their debut in the
FA Cup in
1889 and joined
The Football League in
1893.
They were renamed
Arsenal in 1914, a year after their move across London to
Arsenal
Stadium
, Highbury
.
They
currently play at The Emirates Stadium
in Holloway.
History
The first time numbers were used in association football was 25
August 1928, when
Arsenal and
Chelsea played in numbered shirts. Numbers were
traditionally assigned based on a player's position on the field,
with the starting 11 players wearing 1-11, (starting numerically
with the
goalkeeper wearing number 1),
and the substitutes wearing higher numbers.
In 1993
The Football
Association (FA) switched to persistent squad numbers,
abandoning the mandatory use of 1–11 for the starting line-up. The
first league event to feature this was the
1993 Football League Cup
Final between
Arsenal and
Sheffield Wednesday in April, and
then again in the
1993 FA Cup
Final at the tail end of the 1992–93 season. Persistent squad
numbering became standard in the
Premier
League at the start of the 1993–94 season in August, along with
names printed above the numbers. Most European top leagues adopted
the system over the next five years. During this time
English clubs continued to
use the mandatory 1–11 for European matches.
Style
Initially, all clubs were supplied with name and number sets by
their
kit supplier. In
the
1992–93 and
1993–94 seasons,
Arsenal wore
Adidas, and wore numbers with
the early nineties "Adidas Equipment" logo. The
font for both letters and numbers were identical to all
other
Premier League clubs that wore
Adidas.
Starting
in the 1994–95 season Arsenal wore Nike
and, for
three seasons 1994–95, 1995–96 and 1996–97, wore numbers that
sometimes featured the Nike swoosh, and
sometimes did not. Again, the font was identical to all
other Premier League clubs that wore Nike.
Before the start of the
1997–98 season, the
Premier League introduced a standard font. These names and numbers
were designed by Chris Kay and featured the Premier League's lion
logo within the number. Matches not bound by the FA, such as
pre-season friendlies or European
matches, used the same Chris Kay numbers without the Premier League
logo.
In 2007, in an effort to combat
counterfeit replica kits the Premier League
refreshed their standard font with a new Chris Kay design and
introduced it, along with a new Premier League logo, for the
2007–08 season.
Starting in the
2005-06
season Arsenal abandoned the standard Chris Kay font for European
matches and began experimenting with different styles. These
included numbers with the Arsenal crest during
2007–08, and lowercase
letters with numbers incorporating the
Champions League logo, similar to that
used by
Chelsea, during
2008–09
Image:Limpar_15.gif|1993–94 Adidas away
shirt.Image:Smith_9.gif|1994-96 Nike home shirt, with Nike Swoosh.Image:Vieira_4.gif|1996–97 Nike away shirt,
without Nike Swoosh.Image:Petit_17.gif|1996-98 Nike home shirt,
from 1997–98, with Premier League
logo.Image:Grimandi_18.gif|1999–2000 Nike away shirt, without
Premier League logo.Image:Henry 14.jpg|2006–07 Nike away shirt,
European matches.Image:Hleb 13.jpg|2007-08 Nike third shirt,
European matches.Image:Vela_12.jpg|2008-10 Nike home shirt, new
Premier League style.
1990s
2000s
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