N5 / ABOUT
More than a shirt.
Arsenal shirts. Arsenal stories.
N5 is an Arsenal store and journal built around the shirts, seasons and details that make up the club’s history.
We’ve grown up with Arsenal shirts. Wearing them, collecting them, remembering the players who wore them and the moments that became attached to them.
N5 is a place for all of that.
The shop matters, but The N5 Journal comes first.
It is where we document the stories behind the shirts: the players who wore them, the seasons they belonged to, the details that changed from one campaign to the next, and the moments that made them memorable.
The store sits alongside that work — a place to find the shirts, namesets, patches and printing connected to those stories.
THE N5 JOURNAL
Start with the story.
The N5 Journal is the heart of N5.
It is our home for Arsenal shirt history, seasons, players, design details, competitions and the wider culture around the club.
Some pieces begin with a shirt. Others with a match, a player, a sponsor, a badge or simply a season we want to revisit.
The aim is to build an archive of Arsenal through the things we wore.
Stories worth reading, details worth remembering, and shirts worth understanding.
THE IDEA
Every shirt has a season.
A shirt makes more sense when you know what happened around it.
Who wore it. Where we finished. Which competitions mattered. Who scored the goals. Which nameset belonged on the back. Which patch belonged on the sleeve.
Those details are part of what makes collecting Arsenal shirts interesting.
Wherever possible, our shirt pages put that context alongside the shirt itself — connecting what you are looking at with the team, season and football that gave it meaning.
The shop and the journal naturally meet there.
Read the story. Find the shirt. Finish it properly.
WHAT YOU’LL FIND
01 / THE N5 JOURNAL
Arsenal, documented.
Long-form features, shirt history, season stories and the details behind the products in the store.
The big moments are part of it, of course. But so are the things that are easily forgotten: a particular shirt variation, an unusual piece of printing, a competition patch, a player or a season that deserves another look.
There is a lot of Arsenal history to document.
We’re in no hurry.
02 / SHIRTS
Shirts with context.
New, pre-owned and vintage Arsenal shirts, from familiar classics to less common versions and the small variations collectors look for.
We aim to describe condition clearly, identify exactly what we can, and give each shirt the information that places it properly in Arsenal history.
Because knowing which shirt it is is only part of the story.
03 / PRINTING
Finish the shirt.
Official namesets, sleeve patches and shirt printing across different Arsenal eras and competitions.
Whether you are restoring an older shirt, recreating one worn by a particular player or completing a newer one, getting the details right matters.
The right player. The right font. The right competition. The right season.
And, sometimes, the right few millimetres.
WHY N5?
Details matter.
There is a lot contained in an Arsenal shirt.
A season. A player. A competition. A memory.
And then there are the smaller things.
A Premier League patch rather than a European one. Player-spec printing rather than the replica version. A sponsor variation. A nameset that only appeared for a particular period. Tiny differences that can place a shirt at a very specific point in the club’s history.
We like those details.
N5 gives us somewhere to record them properly — through the Journal, the shirts we sell and the information that sits alongside them.
We won't always know everything. But where we do know the detail, we think it's worth including.
ARSENAL
Our club. Our shirts.
N5 is Arsenal.
These are the shirts we grew up wearing, the players we watched and the seasons we remember.
Some shirts bring back trophies and great teams. Others bring back a particular player, a favourite away day, a goal, a missed chance or a season that was perhaps better left in the wardrobe.
That is part of collecting them.
More than a century of Arsenal gives us an extraordinary history to explore — and every new season adds another shirt, another set of details and, eventually, another story.
There will always be more to find.
NORTH LONDON
The N5 bit.
The name doesn't need too much explaining.
N5 is part of Arsenal's home.
Highbury. The streets around it. The old ground and the walk towards the new one. A small part of North London that means rather more to Arsenal supporters than its postcode suggests.
It felt like the right name for a place about Arsenal shirts and the stories attached to them.
Just N5.
N5 is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Arsenal Football Club.
THE PRINCIPLE
Read the story.
Wear the shirt.
The shirt might be what brought you here.
The story is why it matters.
N5 / ARSENAL, DOCUMENTED