Coaching Staff
Current technical staff
- As of February 2012.
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| Manager | Arsène Wenger |
| Assistant manager | Pat Rice |
| First team coach | Boro Primorac |
| Reserve team coach | Neil Banfield |
| Youth team coach | Steve Bould |
| Goalkeeping coach | Gerry Peyton |
| Fitness coach | Tony Colbert |
| Physiotherapist | Colin Lewin |
| Assistant physiotherapists | David Wales Simon Harland |
| Club doctor | Gary O'Driscoll |
| Kit manager | Vic Akers |
| Chief scout | Steve Rowley |
| Head of youth development | Liam Brady |
Managers
Main article: List of Arsenal F.C. managers
There have been eighteen permanent and five caretaker managers of Arsenal since the appointment of the club's first professional manager, Thomas Mitchell in 1897. The club's longest-serving manager as of 2009, in terms of both length of tenure and number of games overseen, is Arsène Wenger, who was appointed in 1996.Wenger is also Arsenal's only manager from outside the United Kingdom. Two Arsenal managers have died in the job – Herbert Chapman and Tom Whittaker.
