Statistics don’t lie and Arsenal – with 52 major honours since our inception 35 years ago – are by a huge margin England’s most successful women’s football team. In fact, no professional women’s football club in world football can match our tally.
The club was founded in 1987 by Vic Akers, who during a 22-year stint as manager led us to 33 major trophies and revolutionised the women’s game in this country. We won our first trophy – the Premier League Cup – in 1992, and followed that up with the treble the following year. Akers’ total haul included three domestic trebles, 12 Premier League titles, 10 FA Cups and 10 League Cups.
We won nine league titles in a row between 2004 and 2012, losing just five games in that entire run and went four complete seasons, between 2004/05 and 2007/08, undefeated in the league. Within that run was a historic campaign in 2006/07 in which we won the quadruple, becoming the first and so far only British team to win the Champions League. We won all 22 league games, scoring 119 goals and conceding just 10, swept all before us in the cups and were crowned European champions after beating Swedish side Umea 1-0. Our overall record that season was P44 W42 D2 L0.
Going back to the subject of statistics, we hold just about every record there is in the women’s game. The club went 108 consecutive league games without defeat, from October 2003 to March 2009, and within that time racked up an English record 51 straight league wins between November 2005 and April 2008. Our total trophy haul is 63, having won the Premier League South in 1991/92 and a record 10 London County FA Cups - full list of honours.
Between 2003 and 2016 the club won at least one trophy every season, and under Joe Montemurro we lifted the Women's League Cup in 2018 before winning the WSL title again in 2018/19.
Under Jonas Eidevall's tenure, highlights included lifting the Women's League Cup twice and beating European champions Lyon 5-1 on our way to a sold-out Champions League semi final at Emirates Stadium in 2023. Last season we revolutionized the game again by setting three WSL attendance records at Emirates Stadium – which this season becomes our primary home as we look to win major honours again.
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