Arsenal F.C. Reserves

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Arsenal Reserves
Full name	Arsenal Football Club Reserves
Nickname(s)	The Gunners
Founded	1886
Ground	Underhill Stadium Barnet Greater London
Capacity	5,500
Chairman	Peter Hill-Wood
Head Coach	Neil Banfield
League	FA Premier Reserve League
2005-06	FAPRL Southern Division, 3rd
Home colours 　 Away colours

Arsenal Reserves are the reserve team of Arsenal Football Club.

They have been members of the FA Premier Reserve League Southern Division since its foundation in 1999. They play their home games at Underhill Stadium, which is also the home of Barnet FC. The team mainly consists of Under-21 players at the club, although senior players occasionally play in the reserve side, for instance when they are recovering from injury.

The reserves' head coach is Neil Banfield, who picks and manages the side, with Mike Salmon as his assistant. Arsenal's head of youth development Liam Brady and his assistant David Court oversee the development of the squad in general.

Contents 1 History 2 Current squad 3 Honours 4 External links 5 Footnotes

[edit] History

Arsenal have had a reserve team since their early days based in Plumstead as Royal Arsenal FC, with the reserve side winning the 1889-90 Kent Junior Cup. In 1895-96 Woolwich Arsenal (as they had been renamed in 1891) reserves joined the Kent League, winning the title the next season but leaving in 1900 or some time soon after.^[1] The club dropped the "Woolwich" from their name in 1913, and following the end of World War I, Arsenal Reserves entered the London Combination league and competed there until 1999, winning eighteen titles, as well as three Combination Cups. In 1999 they left the combination to become founder members of the FA Premier Reserve League; they have never won the competition, although they finished as runners-up in 2001-02.

[edit] Current squad

As of 2007-02-08. Squad numbers, where given, are the respective player's number in the first team, not the reserves.^[2]

No. Position Player 33 DF Matthew Connolly (captain) 34 DF Ryan Garry 36 GK Vito Mannone 37 MF Nacer Barazite 38 MF Giorgos Efrem 39 DF Gavin Hoyte 40 MF Henri Lansbury 41 DF Joe O'Cearuill (On loan at Brighton & Hove Albion) 42 MF Francisco Merida Perez 43 MF Mark Randall 44 MF Jay Simpson 45 DF Armand Traoré –– GK Lee Butcher –– DF Paul Rodgers

No. Position Player –– FW Shane Tracy –– FW Marc Elston –– FW Rene Steer –– DF Carl Parisio –– MF Vincent van den Berg –– DF Abu Ogogo –– MF Peggy Lokando –– MF Kieran Gibbs –– MF James Dunne –– GK Wojciech Szczęsny –– FW Rui Fonte –– DF Jay Thomas –– FW Rhys Murphy

[edit] Honours

Only reserve team honours are listed.^[3]

• Football Combination (formerly the London Combination): 18
  • 1922-23, 1926-27, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1936-37, 1937-38, 1938-39, 1946-47, 1950-51, 1962-63, 1968-69, 1969-70, 1983-84, 1989-90
• Football Combination Cup: 3
  • 1952-53, 1967-68, 1969-70
• London FA Challenge Cup: 7
  • 1933-34, 1935-36, 1953-54, 1954-55, 1957-58, 1962-63, 1969-70
• Kent League: 1
  • 1896-97
• West Kent League: 3
  • 1900-01, 1901-02, 1902-03
• London League First Division: 3
  • 1901-02, 1903-04, 1906-07
• Kent Junior Cup: 1
  • 1889-90

[edit] External links

• Official page on Arsenal.com
• Information about the reserves from Arseweb
• Arsenal Reserves at the Football Club History Database (incomplete)

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ Woolwich Arsenal Reserves. Football Club History Database.
2. ^ Reserves Squad 2006/2007. Arsenal.com. Retrieved on November 20, 2006.
3. ^ Kelly, Andy. Complete Honours List. Arsenal Pics. Archived from the original on 2003-04-08. Retrieved on December 3, 2006.

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