Arsenal women football club, was founded as Arsenal ladies in 1987 (33 years ago). It is an English professional women's football club affiliated with Arsenal.
They play in the Women's Super league, the topflight of English women's football (a league of 12 teams) and their home ground is located at Meadow park, Borehamwood with 4,502 capacity(1,700 seated).
Arsenal were limited to sparse and nomadic cup appearances for the first four years of their existence, and didn't turn professional until 2002 due to the overall decline interest in women's football in England.
Arsenal ladies have won more trophies than any other club in English women's football, and have won the most titles in each domestic competitions they have played in so far.
The Gunners ladies won their first major title in 1992, since then they have won 49 major titles and 58 trophies in total.
In the 2006/07 season, the club became the first in the history of women's football to achieved the continental European sextuple (winning 6 trophies in a season).
Hence, in English football history Arsenal ladies have won the most doubles, trebles and also completed a record seven unbeaten league seasons, setting a number of English records for longest topflight unbeaten run, for goals scored and points won.
Honours
1 UEFA Women's Champions League title (2006/07).
3-times FA Women's Super League champions (2011, 2012, and 2019).
12 FA Women's Premier League titles (1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2004 - 2010).
5 FA WSL Continental Cup Winner titles (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2018).
14 FA Women's Cup Winners (1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006 to 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2016).
10 FA Women's Premier League Cup Winners (1992, 1993, 1994, 1998 to 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2009).
5 FA Women's Community Shield Winners (2001/02, 2005/06, 2006/07 & 2007/08) including 1 shared with Charlton Athletic after a 1-1 draw in 1999/2000
10 London County FA Women's Cup Winners titles (1995, 1996, 1997, 2000 - 2004 and 2007 - 2011).
Managers of the Team
Vic Akers
He was part of the formation of this club and also the first manager as he guided Arsenal to continued success until he retired in 2009 after 22 years at the helm.
Records
Under Aker's stewardship, Arsenal claimed 11 league titles.
9 FA Women's cup titles.
10 FA Women's premier league cup titles.
5 FA Women's community shields.
Including seven consecutive league wins from 2003/04 to 2008/09 season.
Akers also led the team unbeaten run from October 2003 to March 2009, marking 108 games without defeat (51 league games wins in a row between November 2005 to April 2008).
Tony Gervaise
He is the successor of the legendary Akers, but in February 2010 after just 8-months in charge Gervaise resigned because of outside interference on his activities with the team, and he became the reserve team coach.
Laura Harvey
She was promoted from the reserve team to be the first team manager, which marked the club's first female coach in any capacity.
She won domestic double, FA Cup and Women's Super league and she left in the summer of 2013, after 3 seasons in charge.
Shelley Kerr
Kerr took over in 2013 summer and left in 2014, he had a successful stint with back-to-back FA Women's Cup win.
Pedro Losa
Losa replaced Kerr in 2014 summer, with little success to show as a manager in debut season.
Losa only managed to win FA Women Super League Cup (2015) and FA women's cup (2016).
Joe Montemurro
He joined in the summer of 2017 and he won 2018/19 Women's Super League title with a game to spare which marked their first title since 2011
and marked the club's return to the UEFA Women's Champions League after 5 years absence.
Can these ladies dominant Europe in years to come?
Fabiyi Ridwan
Sports Writer and Analyst
