Arsenal fans dissatisfied with the club’s direction may soon have an alternative to consider: Dial Square FC.



The Athletic understands that the new football club, which was incorporated earlier this month, aims to participate in next season’s Combined Counties Football League — the ninth tier of English football, and the same division where AFC Wimbledon entered upon being formed in 2002.



This new club will hope to emulate the successes of AFC Wimbledon and also FC United of Manchester, who since forming in 2005 have grown to have more than 2000 members.



“Dial Square” is a reference to the Arsenal Football Club’s original name, coined by the Woolwich munitions workers who founded the club in south-east London in 1886. They competed as Dial Square until 1893, when they were renamed as Woolwich Arsenal.



The initiative is led by lifelong Arsenal fan Stuart Morgan, one of many supporters who has grown disenchanted by...