In late 1886, a gaggle of workers from the Woolwich Arsenal Armament Factory decided to form a football team. They called themselves Dial Square after a workshop within the Arsenal, and on December 11 ...

Dial Square won 6-0 and met in the Royal Oak pub, next to Woolwich Arsenal station, on Christmas Day 1886. And as they sat in the Royal Oak, the founding fathers chose a new name - their place of work ...

Founded as Dial Square, named after one of the workshops at the Arsenal munitions factory in Woolwich, south-east London, in 1886, they soon became Royal Arsenal and then Woolwich Arsenal in 1891.

Originally known as Dial Square FC, the club were founded by munitions workers. Shortly after, the club became known as Royal Arsenal, and later when joining the Football League in 1893, the moniker ...

Woolwich Arsenal, as they were called until 1914, registered their first top-flight win in September 1904 when they beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-0 at home at the Manor Ground in south-east ...