Arsenal F.C. Academy
| Full name | Arsenal Football Club Academy |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | The Gunners |
| Founded | 1954 |
| Ground | Hale End |
| Chairman | Sir Chips Keswick |
| League |
Professional Development League (South Division) |
Arsenal Football Club Academy is the youth team setup of Arsenal Football Club based in Hale End, London, England. They currently play in the Professional Development League, the highest level of youth football in England. The club also features within the FA Youth Cup and the UEFA Youth League as well. The academy enters Under-18 and Under-16 teams in these tourneys, in all operating the academy for boys from the ages of nine years old upwards. The Netherland's Andries Jonker was in prior at the helm of the Arsenal's academy at Hale End.
Arsenal's Academy is one of the most successful within England winning seven FA Youth Cups together with six Premier Academy League titles as well.
Arsenal have occasionally operated a youth team as far back as 1893–94, and there had been an established third team known as Arsenal 'A' for young players from 1929 to 1969.
The club have played in the FA Youth Cup since the 1954–55 season and they entered the South Eastern Counties League that was renamed the South East Counties League the following season and the associated South East Counties League Cup from 1955 to 1998 with the exclusion of the seasons being 1968 and 1969. Arsenal's Academy won the Counties League in 1956, 1965, 1972 and 1991 altogether. Arsenal's youths also played in the London Minor FA Challenge Cup from 1955 to 1956 as well as 1960 in towards 1967 and the Southern Junior Floodlit Cup which they won in 1956, 1972, 1975 and 1999.
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