1891–92 Royal Arsenal F.C. season

English football club season April 2022 Royal Arsenal F.C. 1891–92 Invicta Ground 1890–91 1892–93 During the late 1880s and early 90s, Royal Arsenal started to win local trophies, winning both the Kent Senior Cup and London Charity Cup in 1889–90 and the London Senior Cup in 1890–91; they also entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1889–90.https://www.fchd.info/ROYAL-AR.HTM Royal Arsenal Football Club History Database Richard Rundle 19 March 2012 However, the gulf between Arsenal and the professional sides from the North soon became apparent, and Arsenal faced the threat of their amateur players being lured away by the money professional sides could offer; after Derby County had played Arsenal in an FA Cup tie in 1891, they attempted to sign two of Arsenal's amateur players on professional contracts.Soar & Tyler 2005 The Official Illustrated History of Arsenal 25 Royal Arsenal's move to professionalism in 1891 was frowned upon by many of the amateur southern clubs, and they were banned from participating in local competitions by the London Football Association.Soar & Tyler 2005 The Official Illustrated History of Arsenal 26 With friendlies and the FA Cup the only matches available for Royal Arsenal, they attempted to set up a southern equivalent of The Football League, but the move failed. The club changed its name to Woolwich Arsenal in 1893 when it formed a limited liability company to raise capital to purchase the Manor Ground. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.kelly/arsenal/record/namechange.htm Royal Arsenal becomes Woolwich Arsenal Andy Kelly's Arsenal Resource Website 13 October 2010 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120301045418/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.kelly/arsenal/record/namechange.htm 1 March 2012 dmy-all Woolwich Arsenal's future looked bleak until the Football League came to their rescue by inviting them to join in 1893. Arsenal were the first Southern club to enter the League, initially joining the Second Division; in response, some of the club's amateur players who rejected professionalism and wanted a workers' team to represent just the Royal Arsenal, broke away to form a short-lived alternative side, Royal Ordnance Factories.Roper, Alan The Real Arsenal Story: In the Days of Gog Wherry 2004 0-9546259-1-9 106 Results DateOpponentGroundComp.ScoreGoalscorer(s)Attendance16 January 1892Small HeathAFAC1–5Davie 4,000 References 1891-92 Category:English football clubs 1891–92 season