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The Diamond Club Bar The Emirtates Stadium which opened in July 2006, is located on Asburton Grove in North London and is the home of Arsenal Football Club. It has an all-seater capacity of 60,432 making it the second largest stadium in the English Premiership after Old Trafford and the third-largest stadium of any kind in London after Wembley and Twickenham. It was informally known as Ashburton Grove before a naming rights deal with Emirtaes Airlines was announced in 2004. Arsenal were founded as 'Dial Square' in 1886 by workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich but were renamed Royal Arsenal shortly afterwards. The club turned professional in 1891, joined the Football League in 1893 and won promotion from the Second Division to the First in 1904. Te club moved across the Thames to Highbury, North London, in 1913. Over the course of their long history, Arsenal Football Club (The Gunners) have won 13 First Division/Premier League titles, ten FA Cups and in 2006 became the first London clup to reach the UEFA Champions League final. Arsenal are members of the G-14 group of leading European Football Clubs. The stadium, which cost £390 million, was designed by HOK Sport (who also designed the Telstra Stadium, the new Wembley Stadium and the Estådi da Luz); and was constructed by Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd. The Diamond Club, designed by retail designers 20/20, is an exclusive, members-only club located within the middle main tier of the stadium. It is a stylish evocation of the old stadium's art-deco glories, situated in a prime viewing position straddling the halfway line. It features richly coloured parquet flooring, elaborately carved wood-panelled or lavishly wallpapered walls, and at its heart, a bar of back-lit honey coloured onyx by Artifex.
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