I think we have covered every day of the year in this chart – except rather obviously 1 January. But we do have an article for that day and it will be published on 1st January. Meanwhile here are the rest of the tales
January
- 1 January 1988: Tony Adams became Arsenal captain for a day
- 2 January: When the Arsenal manager was found guilty in court
- 3 January 1953: the start of the journey to winning the league on the final day
- 4 January: History don’t mean nothing
- 5 January 2002: Doing ok, until we just keep on winning and winning and…
- 6 January: commemorating the passing of the man remembered in the Emirates statue
- 7 January 2018: the end of the glory
- 8 January 1927: for Arsenal it was the start of it all
- 9 January 2007: Putting six past Liverpool
- 10 January 1925: Arsenal manager drugs his own team
- 11 January 1915: Launching the Footballers’ Battalion
- 12 January: Arsenal fans at the House of Commons
- 13 January 1919: Arsenal in the days of the pandemic
- 14 January 2006: Thierry Henry and Cliff Bastin
- 15 January 1921: The first north London derby in the League and what happened
- 16 January 1946: when extra time meant playing on until someone scored
- 17 January 1976: relegation is a real possibility for Arsenal
- 18 January 2015: the Arsenal revival and beating Manchester City on tactics
- 19 January 1991: another unbeaten run takes its final bow
- 20 January 2001: The time is up for Wenger, Henry, Bergkamp, Ljunberg, and Parlour
- 21 January 1893: The end of Royal Arsenal in the FA Cup
- 22 January 1910: when Arsenal were on the very edge of going out of business
- 23 January 2013: Arsenal 5 West Ham United 1. The video, the memory
- 24 January 1998: Ten years on from eight league games without a win.
- 25 January 1890: Arsenal’s first ever trophy
- 26 January 1895: Arsenal first club to have ground closed because of crowd behaviour
- 27 January 1934: Alex Wilson’s first game for Arsenal. AFC 7 Palace 0
- 28 January 2004: Jose Antonio Reyes transferred to Arsenal
- 29 January 1896: Arsenal’s general meeting calls for the appointment of a manager
- 30 January 1987: Arsenal sell Tommy Caton to Oxford.
- 31 January 2003 Guillaume Warmuz purchased – one of many on this day
February
- 1 February 1921: Herbert Chapman returns to football
- 2 February 2002: there’s no way Arsenal can win the league
- 3 February 2018: media predict a rout and got it, but not the rout they predicted
- 4 February 1922: The Duke visits Arsenal, and asks for a cup of tea
- 5 February 1931: Leicester City 2 Arsenal 7
- 6 February 1909: Millwall 1 Arsenal 1, FA Cup 2nd round; Crowd: 32,000
- 7 February 1988: Everton 0 Arsenal 1. Book now for Wembley.
- 8 February 1987: Arsenal lose at Tottenham, but the announcer is premature
- 9 February 1957: 18 goals across two games!
- 10 February 1979: Arsenal rise to second in the league. Double incoming?
- 11 February 1888: Arsenal play Millwall at the Sportsman’s Grounds.
- 12 February 1966: Joe Baker played his last game for Arsenal.
- 13 February 1892: Anniversary of the first Arsenal song sung by the crowd
- 14 February 1925: Arsenal volunteer to try out next season’s new offside law
- 15 February 2015: 85 years after beating Middlesbrough in the cup Arsenal did it again
- 16 February 1886: the birth of Arsenal’s first great superstar
- 17 February 1999: when a draw feels like a win
- 18 February 1978: Arsenal v Walsall
- 19 February 1916: Arsenal’s player tragically dies during a game
- 20 February 1933: Arsenal given permission to have white collars and sleeves
- 21 February 2006: beating Real Madrid away
- 22 February 1913: Arsenal’s new home announced
- 23 February 1913: Tottenham demand that Arsenal stay put in Plumstead
- 24 February 1964: William Garbutt – Arsenal’s original Herbert Chapman
- 25 February 1899: The Arsenal manager who never was
- 26 February 1977: Arsenal so bad you couldn’t make it up
- 27 February 2010: An eternal stain on the good name of football
- 28 February 1959: Beating Man U to go top of the league
March
- 1 March 1924: Arsenal’s first Ramsey
- 2 March 1971: A 0-3 thrashing of Wolves and the great Arsenal revival begins
- 3 March 1993: 12 consecutive one-goal games
- 4 March 1914: Arsenal get permission to build new stadium – 7 months after it opened
- 5 March 1892: the Southern Alliance formed, leading to Arsenal joining the Football League
- 6 March 1935: Arsenal beat Tottenham 6-0 away
- 7 March 1927: with the cup final pending – West Ham United 7 Arsenal 0
- 8 March 2003 & 8 March 2013: Arsenal and Jeffers
- 9 March: the earliest St Totteringham Day ever
- 10 March 1905: Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and the battle of the grounds
- 11 March 1972; Newcastle United 2 Arsenal 0
- 12 March: Commemorating Arsenal’s biggest win
- 13 March: George Frederick Allison died on this day in 1957 aged 73.
- 14 March 1908: Arsenal fans set fire to stadium
- 15 March 1884: the birth of Arsenal’s worst historian (and second worst manager!)
- 16 March 1962. Arsenal appoint a novice manager – with disastrous results
- 17 March: Pat Rice’s birthday
- 18 March 1910: Arsenal call the liquidators in
- 19 March 1992: the memory of Jack Kelsey
- 20 March 1937:Bob John plays his last game for Arsenal
- 21 March 1966: Martin Hayes, season top scorer, was born
- 22 March 1976: Bertie Mee finally agrees to leave the club
- 23 March 1910: When Tottenham Hotspur tried to buy Arsenal
- 24 March 1951: Dave Bowen makes his first team debut.
- 25 March 1932: 3 games in 4 days, second in the league, into the FA Cup final
- 26 March 1927: Arsenal start the journey to being the most successful FA Cup team
- 27 March 1910. The Arsenal player who simply walked out and moved elsewhere.
- 28 March 1896: the 18th Arsenal local derby!
- 29 March: Marc Overmars’ birthday
- 30 March 1915: Norris complains that some clubs were working against the war effort
- 31 March 1919: how an Arsenal v Fulham match changed the face of London football
April
- 1 April 1935: Bernard Joy, the man who miswrote Arsenal’s history, makes his debut
- 2 April 1915: English Football’s greatest match fixing scandal of all time
- 3 April 1926: The start of a 172 consecutive game run.
- 4 April 1913: When Islington Council voted Arsenal out of the borough
- 5 April 1987: Arsenal end the most boring commentary in football history
- 6 April 1926: Newcastle United 6 Arsenal 1. When it all went wrong for Chapman
- 7 April 1994: the Arsenal player who was a government minister
- 8 April 1970: Arsenal 3 Ajax 0: Fairs Cup semi final first leg.
- 9 April 1943: Remembering Jimmy Ashcroft – Arsenal’s first great goalkeeper
- 10 April 1948: Arsenal win the league for the sixth time
- 11 April 1977: Arsenal beat Tottenham – Tottenham get relegated.
- 12 April 1913, 2014, 2018: Arsenal’s memorable day throughout history
- 13 April 1895: the first ever Arsenal player to get representative honours
- 14 April 1914: The Times gets Arsenal’s name wrong
- 15 April 1921: Arsenal contemplate getting to an away game during the rail strike
- 16 April 1977: It’s Freddie’s birthday
- 17 April 1926: Chapman new beats Chapman old!
- 18 April 1998: Arsenal 5 Wimbledon 0
- 19 April 1975: On this day in history – QPR 0 Arsenal 0; Arsenal 17th in the league
- 20 April 2018:Arsène Wenger announced his departure from Arsenal.
- 21 April 1930: Leicester 6 Arsenal 6
- 22 April 2018: Our Arsenal banner makes Match of the Day
- 23 April 1997: Arsenal player Dennis Compton CBE died on this day
- 24 April 1989: making it 11 goals in two games across six days
- 25 April 2004: Arsenal win the league at WHL – for the second time!
- 26 April 1975: Watch Arsenal beat Tottenham in a relegation battle
- 27 April 2004: Henry is, of course, player of the year
- 28 April 1934: Remembering the wonderful Joe Shaw
- 29 April 1950: Arsenal win the FA Cup
- 30 April 1908: The end of the craziest Arsenal tour ever!
May
- 1 May 1953: Arsenal win the league on goal average
- 2 May 1891: Arsenal vote to become the first professional club in the south
- 3 May: the day of three incredible events in the history of Arsenal
- 4 May 1976: Bertie Mee leaves Arsenal
- 5 May 1966: just 4,554 turn up for an Arsenal home league game
- 6 May 1991, 1998, 2018. Winning the league before kick off and saying goodbye
- 7 May 2006: the last match at Highbury and the battle for fourth
- 8 May: the double, the cup, the unbeaten season, and a wartime trophy
- 9 May 1891: Arsenal vote to become the first professional team in the south
- 10 May 1941: Arsenal draw in the wartime cup final at Wembley
- 11 May 1925: Arsenal advertise for a new manager
- 12 May: Arsenal discuss merging with Tottenham Hotspur
- 13 May 2018: Arsene Wenger’s last match and how the managers compare
- 14 May 1938: Arsenal players forced to give Nazi salute
- 15 May 2016: Tottenham lose and miss St Totteringham’s Revenge
- 16 May 1998: Arsenal 2 Newcastle 0. FA Cup final. Video and report
- 17 May 2014: Arsenal win the FA Cup yet again, this time beating Hull
- 18 May 1910: Arsenal allowed to continue despite debts
- 19 May 2001: not a good time to predict what would happen next…
- 20 May: Winning the Cup Final at the second attempt
- 21 May 2005: winning the FA Cup on penalties (with 10 men)
- 22 May: remembering one of Arsenal’s greatest ever goalscorers, now sadly forgotten.
- 23 May 1891: Arsenal kicked out of football… or not?
- 24 May 1919 when friendship broke out between Arsenal and Tottenham
- 25 May 1949: Bryn Jones suffers career ending assault by a policeman
- 26 May 1989: Arsenal win the league at Liverpool
- 27 May 2017: Arsenal win the FA Cup for a record number of times.
- 28 May 1934: George Allison becomes manager of Arsenal
- 29 May 1968 Sammy Nelson’s first team debut in a 4-0 victory over Japan
- 30 May 2015: Arsenal win the Cup and break the records
- 31 May 1893: Woolwich Arsenal FC elected to Division II of the Football League.
June
- 1 June: An Arsenal man captains Brazil
- 2 June 1936: Arsenal fined for putting out a weakened team.
- 3 June 2008: The only man to play in the entire unbeaten season left Arsenal.
- 4 June: Chapman returns to England to talk about the vacancy at Arsenal
- 5 June: Arsenal release their own record signing
- 6 June: Arsenal supporters agree not to hand over money to the club
- 7 June: The Arsenal man who left football behind
- 8 June: Amidst Arsenal upheaval the offside rule changed
- 9 June: Arsenal legend told he’s not good enough to play for Arsenal.
- 10 June: Supporters given the chance to buy Arsenal
- 11 June: Herbert Chapman joins
- 12 June: The strangest Arsenal transfer ever.
- 13 June: The deadline day for Arsenal
- 14 June: Sir Chips Keswick announced as Arsenal’s new chairman
- 15 June: Arsenal buy Highbury
- 16 June: Arsenal create football’s first feeder club
- 17 June: Arsenal sign utter genius player from Barry Town
- 18 June: Paul Davis signs for Arsenal
- 19 June: Thomas Vermaelen signs
- 20 June: Bertie Mee Takes Over
- 21 June: Bergkamp arrives from Inter
- 22 June: The day Herbert Chapman took over at Arsenal
- 23 June: It’s Patrick Vieira’s birthday
- 24 June: The unluckiest day to move to or from Arsenal
- 25 June: Arsenal return to top two form
- 26 June Frank Stapleton signed
- 27 June: Stuart Taylor sold to Villa, just before Vito Mannone arrived.
- 28 June: Arsenal gain possession of their new ground 10 weeks before the first match
- 29 June: Don Howe left Arsenal having helped guide the club to the Double as first team coach.
- 30 June: the only player to go 42 games in the top division unbeaten, retired
July
- 1 July 2020: a thumping win in the club’s first-ever July league game.
- 2 July 1975: Charlie George sold to Derby
- 3 July 2000: Edu joins Arsenal for the first time.
- 4 July: Hector Bellerin signs a long term contract
- 5 July 1939: The Football League agreed to allow numbered shirts.
- 6 July 1959: David Bowen sold to Northampton Town for £5,000.
- 7 July 1997: Merson transferred to Middlesbrough
- 8 July 1975 David O’Leary became a professional at Arsenal.
- 9 July: Starting the Arsenal season with six goals
- 10 July: Arsenal sign Alexis and get the best goalscoring of his career
- 11 July 2003: Peterborough 1 Arsenal 0 – the prelude to greatness
- 12 July: How far a club can go in three years
- 13 July: Phil Kelso becomes Arsenal’s 6th manager
- 14 July 1894: The first “Woolwich Arsenal Football Day Excursion” to Hastings
- 15 July: two Arsenal victories; two Arsenal videos
- 16 July 1962: Joe Baker signed for Arsenal.
- 17 July: Mesut Ozil vs Bayern Munich on this day 2019: the video (& 7 in Vietnam)
- 18 July: Arsenal reach cup final for record 21st time
- 19 July: Barnet 1 Arsenal 2 (Simpson, Barazite)
- 20 July: Malcolm Macdonald retired from football.
- 21 July: the birthday of Arsenal’s fourth longest serving manager
- 22 July: Arsenal sign Bolton’s Player of the Year Rob Holding for £2m.
- 23 July: the birthday of the founder of the modern Arsenal FC
- 24 July: Arsenal’s pre-season starts on a ploughed field.
- 25 July: Beating Watford 2-0
- 26 July: Arsenal History Society suggest three statues around the Emirates Stadium.
- 27 July: the first ever unbeaten pre-season
- 28 July: Scoring four in a pre-season friendly and “Profitable transfer day”
- 29 July: Malcolm MacDonald signed from Newcastle
- 30 July, the Invincible Jose Antonio Reyes, left Arsenal.
- 31 July: Speculation mounts concerning Arsenal sacking its manager
August
- 1 August: Liam Brady transferred to Juventus for £514,000
- 2 August: Šuker arrived from Real Madrid and Anelka goes the other way
- 3 August: Benik Afobe loaned to Bolton
- 4 August. David Danskin: Arsenal friend or Arsenal enemy?
- 5 August 2009. Everton 1 Arsenal 6.
- 6 August: Pat Jennings signed for £45,000.
- 7 August: Gilberto Silva joined Arsenal from Atlético Mineiro
- 8 August 1923: The wonderful Jimmy Brain was signed.
- 9 August: Arsenal beat Man U 3-0 to win Charity Shield
- 10 August: when Arsenal returned Community Shield tickets for lack of interest
- 11 August: losing and winning to Liverpool in the Charity Shield
- 12 August 2007: Arsenal continue their 27 match unbeaten run.
- 13 August 1988: Arsenal 4 Tottenham 0, and what came after
- 14 August 1996. Arsenal sign Patrick Vieira for £3.5m
- 15 August: The anniversary of the start of the first double season
- 16 August: Arsenal buy Highbury, Arsenal start the Unbeaten Season.
- 17 August: when the start of the season tells you nothing
- 18 August 2001 – Middlesbrough 0 Arsenal 4: the great away games run begins
- 19 August 1989: What happened after winning the league at Anfield?
- 20 August 1960: Alan Skirton plays his first game for Arsenal.
- 21 August 2001: Arsenal lose at home to Leeds and why this game was so special
- 22 August: Tottenham 1 Arsenal 5
- 23 August – George Swindin’s first match as manager: Preston 2 Arsenal 1.
- 24 August 1971: Arsenal 0 Sheffield United 1
- 25 August: Arsenal chairman warns players to lay off the whisky before a game.
- 26 August: the Arsenal player who was tricked into signing when drunk
- 27 August: Arsenal start their run of 3 consecutive league titles
- 28 August: the double winners defeated three times in opening games.
- 29 August: Chapman’s first game as manager of Arsenal
- 30 August: Gerrit Keyser makes his debut – but what happened to him?
- 31 August 1959 Dr James Paterson, war hero and Arsenal player passed away.
- 1 September 1923: Arsenal lose their 3rd match in a row at the start of the season.
- 2 September: Arsenal’s first ever league match
- 3 September: Arsenal lose their third consecutive game at start of season
- 4 September: Final Arsenal match for Don Roper
- 5 September: After 3 straight defeats at the start of the season, Arsenal win.
- 6 September. The first match at Highbury. Read the programme
- 7 September: The first United League match for Woolwich Arsenal and crowd trouble
- 8 September 1914: there might be war, but football continues
- 9 September: Arsenal played Tottenham at Highbury, in a home match for Tottenham
- 10 September: Tottenham 2 Arsenal 3. “A surreal free for all” and the video
- 11 September: Arsenal’s first league win and most humiliating defeat
- 12 September: Arsenal bottom of the League
- 13 September: Ian Wright broke Cliff Bastin’s goalscoring record
- 14 September 1974: the end of football as we know it
- 15 September: Arsenal slip to bottom of the league
- 16 September: Lazio 2 Arsenal 2, and the fight in the restaurant
- 17 September 1934: even the 1930s could have surprise defeats
- 18 September 1999: Thierry Henry came on as a sub scored his first goal for Arsenal
- 19 September: Remembering Geoff Strong
- 20 September 2002: Arsène Wenger said, “Arsenal can go unbeaten all season.”
- 21 September: The Battle of Old Trafford
- 22 September: the day of the most curious games involving Arsenal.
- 23 September: Tottenham 1 Arsenal 2. When swearing was a crime, but hitting a player was ok
- 24 September: birth of Eddie Hapgood, one of our greatest ever players
- 25 September: Arsenal select an injured keeper with disastrous consequences
- 26 September: Herbert Chapman banned for life from football.
- 27 September: Remembering the glory of Gilberto Silva
- 28 September: When Arsenal broke two scoring records at once
- 29 September: Wenger says if given £100m for transfers, he would hand it all back.
- 30 September: Arsene Wenger appointed Arsenal manager.
October
- 2 October: One rule for Arsenal another for the rest
- 3 October: the Arsenal defeat that revolutionised football.
- 4 October 2018: FK Qarabağ Agdam 0 Arsenal 3. Europa League group stage.
- 5 October: Arsenal summoned to FA headquarters
- 6 October: Changing the facts to fit the prejudice
- 7 October: Arsenal purchase a music hall star as a player!
- 8 October: Arsenal’s first trophy winning captain makes final appearance
- 9 October: Arsenal under Chapman slip down to 14th
- 10 October: Even in the golden era Arsenal can slip down to 17th.
- 11 October 1986: How one victory turned Arsenal’s fortunes around for years to come
- 12 October: Arsene Wenger takes control of his first match.
- 13 October: Arsenal smash the world transfer record
- 14 October: the player with the shortest ever Arsenal career
- 15 October: George Male’s first appearance at right back and why that’s so important
- 16 October: Arsenal heading for relegation
- 17 October: Arsenal hammer Everton 4-0 as things start to look interesting
- 18 October. Arsenal were top of the league. But then…
- 19 October: Tottenham and Arsenal the bottom two in the league!
- 20 October: Man U 0 Arsenal 1 – Arsenal deducted two points.
- 21 October: Arsenal 3 points off the bottom and 3 points off the top!!!
- 22 October: It’s Arsène Wenger’s birthday
- 23 October: Freddie Ljungberg started his senior footballing career
- 24 October: Arsenal open their new stand
- 25 October Sammy Nelson makes his debut
- 26 October: A forgotten but staggering Henry goal from 26 October
- 27 October: Tom Whittaker joined Arsenal from the army.
- 28 October: Beating Clapton in the war
- 29 October: beating Leicester 8-2
- 30 October: the 12 goal game that Arsenal won
- 31 October: Cesc scores the ultimate goal against Tottenham
November
- 1 November 2003: the first reference to Arsenal being unbeaten “so far”
- 2 November: Arsenal heading for relegation.
- 3 November: It’s Ian Wright’s birthday
- 4 November: Arsenal’s day of catastrophe
- 5 November: How Arsenal’s most famous back four was created.
- 6 November: When Arsenal (13th in the league) were London’s top club
- 7 November: Arsenal in 11 goal thriller!
- 8 November: Arsenal beat Tottenham in the unbeaten season
- 9 November 1914: Arsenal in wartime
- 10 November: happy birthday Jens Lehmann
- 11 November: Arsenal and the Mask of Terror
- 12 November: When Arsenal played a team of referees!
- 13 November: Arsenal fighting relegation
- 14 November: Arsenal get their first ever fixture
- 15 November: the Compton’s – brothers in Arsenal
- 16 November: Arsenal lose in court and are reminded of the limit of their power
- 17 November: Geroge Curtis – an extraordinary Arsenal man who lived an extraordinary life
- 18 November in Arsenal’s history: Eastham, Rioch and beating QPR
- 19 November in Arsenal’s history: celebrating a 3-5 defeat
- 20 November 1971: The double champions slip towards the lower parts of the table
- 21 November 1914: The Times reports the Arsenal game that never was
- 22 November: Arsenal’s infamous slump that preceded the second double
- Arsenal on 23 November: no one would have expected this!
- 24 November: the start of Wenger’s incredible run against Tottenham
- 25 November: The video of Arsenal’s greatest ever away win!
- 26 November 2020, remembering winning all group matches in Europe
- 27 November: the birth of one of our most eccentric players ever!
- 28 November: the Arsenal man playing cricket and football for England!
- 29 November: unveiling the lies of the Arsenal manager!!!
- 30 November: Arsenal top of the league for the first time ever
- 1 December 1992: On the way to the first ever cup double.
- 2 December: Pat Rice makes his debut
- 3 December 1949 When the media claimed Arsenal players came onto the pitch smoking
- 4 December 1926: Henry Norris takes on the FA over its total lack of morals
- 5 December 1921 & 1960: women’s football banned, and the London Cup final
- 6 December 1997: the day when no one even contemplated a second double.
- 7 December: marking the anniversary of the death of Arsenal’s most prolific goalscorer
- 8 December, 10th in the league. And by the end of the season…
- 9 December: the first mention of the drilled back four who move up together
- 10 December: The Arsenal Archives. Signing a superhero from 113 years ago
- 11 December 1886 Arsenal’s birthday, and the birth of a famous early player
- 12 December: Arsenal sign a 35 year old who became a goalscoring sensation
- 13 December 2012: Stewart Robson denounces Wenger on Sky
- 14 December: when Arsenal were ordered to play two first team games at once
- 15 December 1934: 62 goals in 19 games but not top of the league!
- 16 December 1991: Thomas leaves Arsenal for Liverpool
- 17 December 1969: when we started to wake up that something was happening.
- 18 December: The passing of Arsenal’s founding father – Jack Humble
- 19 December: Arsenal second in the league but no one seems to notice.
- 20 December 1913: Enter the Hill-Woods
- 21 December 1956: Jack Crayston takes over as Arsenal manager
- 22 December 1973: the strike, the chaos, the win…
- 23 December 1978: Brady scores the wonder goal, Tottenham smashed, father happy.
- 24 December 1932 – the most extraordinary Arsenal Christmas ever
- 26 December 1992: Remembering Jack Crayston
- 27 December 1915: How Arsenal helped expose Liverpool and Man U match fixing
- 28 December 1997: Arsenal going nowhere… except…
- 29 December 2012: Media ignores Arsenal’s sensational seven goal triumph
- 30 December 1893: Arsenal’s first ever away victory in the league!
- 31 December 1994: on this day John Jensen scores
