[100] The club used spurs as a symbol in 1900, which then evolved into a fighting cock. [155][156] Tottenham was 9th in average attendances for the 2008–09 Premier League season, and 11th for all Premier League seasons. [190] After working with 10:10 for one year, they reported that they had reduced their carbon emissions by 14%. With her Korean Men's counterpart Son Heung-Min already at the club it gave Spurs the rare distinction of having both the Men's and Women's Korean National Team Captains at one club. Their training ground is on Hotspur Way in Bulls Cross in the London Borough of Enfield. [139], Tottenham Hotspur F.C. 1,923 likes. Logan Tottenham - The 4 Balances updated their phone number. [201], Sources:Tottenham Hotspur – History[202] [19], On 23 April 1921, McWilliam guided Spurs to their second FA Cup win, beating Wolverhampton Wanderers 1–0 in the Cup Final. [58] The first Spurs game reported by the local press took place on Tottenham Marshes on 6 October 1883 against Brownlow Rovers, which Spurs won 9–0. The first stand with just over 100 seats and changing rooms underneath was built at the ground for the 1894–95 season at a cost of £60. [182], The club through its Community Programme has, since 2006, been working with Haringey Council and the Metropolitan Housing Trust and the local community on developing sports facilities and social programmes which have also been financially supported by Barclays Spaces for Sport and the Football Foundation. The following players are noted as "greats" for their contributions to the club or have been inducted into the club's Hall of Fame:[231][232][233] The most recent additions to the club's Hall of Fame are Steve Perryman and Jimmy Greaves on 20 April 2016. – Hall of Fame inductees, Tottenham Hotspur F.C. [188] This compared to donations of £9,763 in 2005–06. In 1892, they played for the first time in a league, the short-lived Southern Alliance. [169] Some fans view adopting "Yid" as a badge of pride, helping defuse its power as an insult. Sergio Reguilon (Community — 4.0): It’s incredible how important Sergio’s directness, width and pace are to Tottenham’s attack. They collected at least one major trophy in each of the six decades from the 1950s to 2000s – an achievement only matched by Manchester United. That's the verdict of former Spurs striker Dimitar Berbatov, who has outlined what he thinks success would be for Tottenham this season. [154], Tottenham has a large fanbase in the United Kingdom, drawn largely from North London and the Home counties. [173] Others, such as former Prime Minister David Cameron, argued that its use by the Spurs fans is not motivated by hate as it is not used pejoratively, and therefore cannot be considered hate speech. Tottenham 4-0 Burnley: Spurs' quality outshined Burnley - Dyche. [66] Queens Park Rangers became the first competitive visitors to the ground and 11,000 people saw them lose 1–0 to Tottenham. The rivalry began in 1913 when Arsenal moved from the Manor Ground, Plumstead to Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, and this rivalry intensified in 1919 when Arsenal were unexpectedly promoted to the First Division, taking a place that Tottenham believed should have been theirs. In November 1982, a fan of the club Irving Scholar bought 25% of Tottenham for £600,000, and together with Paul Bobroff gained control of the club. [208][210] The club's record defeat is an 8–0 loss to 1. The West Stand was added in 1909, the East Stand was also covered this year and extended further two years later. [145] However, ill-judged business decisions under Scholar led to financial difficulties,[140] and in June 1991 Terry Venables teamed up with businessman Alan Sugar to buy the club, initially as equal partner with each investing £3.25 million. [191] This is controversial in an area which has suffered high levels of deprivation as Spurs had bought up properties for redevelopment, removing existing jobs and businesses for property development but not creating enough new jobs for the area. The song originated in 1961 after Spurs completed the Double in 1960–61, and the club entered the European Cup for the first time. Their kit changed again to red shirt and blue shorts in 1890, and for a time the team were known as 'the Tottenham Reds'. [115] In March 2011, Under Armour announced a five-year deal to supply Spurs with shirts and other apparel from the start of 2012–13,[116][117] with the home, away and the third kits revealed in July and August 2012. A mere 13 years on and Tottenham are once again preparing for a final, and there are several parallels to draw between the eras. [18], In 1908, the club was elected into the Football League Second Division and won promotion to the First Division in their first season, and finished runners-up in their first year in the league. Following an announcement at the 2011 AGM, in January 2012 Tottenham Hotspur confirmed that the club had delisted its shares from the stock market, taking it into private ownership. [60], As they played on public parkland, the club could not charge admission fees and, while the number of spectators grew to a few thousand, it yielded no gate receipts. On this day in 2008, Tottenham beat Chelsea 2-1 to win the League Cup. To do this they upgraded their lights to more efficient models, they turned down their heating dials and took less short-haul flights among a host of other things. After successfully defending the FA Cup in 1962, in 1963 they became the first British club to win a UEFA club competition – the European Cup Winners' Cup. Under-23s and Academy § Honours, List of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. On 2 March 1898, the club also became a limited company, the Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Company. [125] When Thomson was chosen as kit sponsor in 2002 some Tottenham fans were unhappy as the shirt-front logo was red, the colour of their closest rivals, Arsenal. The club submitted a planning application in October 2009 but, following critical reactions to the plan, it was withdrawn in favour of a substantially revised planning application for the stadium and other associated developments. The club claimed that they dropped their club name and would be using the rebranded logo only on playing kits. In 2016, the northeast corner of the stadium was removed to facilitate the construction of the new stadium. ... 7 Great Players Who Won A SHOCKINGLY Low Number … José Mourinho’s preference since coming to Tottenham Hotspur has been for a 4-2-3-1 formation as we discussed earlier this season. [165] Due to this early support, all three chairmen of the club since 1984 have been Jewish businessmen with prior history of supporting the club. [21] In his second season in charge, Tottenham won their first ever top-tier league championship title when they finished top of the First Division for the 1950–51 season. [165][167][168] In response to the abusive chants, Tottenham supporters, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, began to chant back the insults and adopt the "Yids" or "Yid Army" identity starting from around the late 1970s or early 1980s. They have a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Arsenal, with whom they contest the North London derby. [211], The record home attendance at White Hart Lane was 75,038 on 5 March 1938 in a cup tie against Sunderland. [143], In the early 1980s, cost overruns in the construction of a new West Stand together with the cost of rebuilding the team in previous years led to accumulating debts. Ripsher helped and supported the boys through the club's formative years, reorganised and found premises for the club. [75], After a long delay over the compulsory purchase order of local businesses located on land to the north of the stadium and a legal challenge against the order,[76][77] resolved in early 2015,[78] planning application for another new design was approved by Haringey Council on 17 December 2015. [14] The team entered their first cup competition in the London Association Cup, and won 5–2 in their first competitive match on 17 October 1885 against a company's works team called St Albans. The angels were allowed on the perimeter of the pitch and their fervour whipped up the home fans who responded with a rendition of "Glory Glory Hallelujah", which is still sung on terraces at White Hart Lane and other football grounds. [7] Occasionally fights broke out on the marshes in disputes with other teams over the use of the ground. [204][205] Jimmy Greaves holds the club goal scoring record with 266 goals in 380 league, cup and European appearances. [28][29], The 1960–61 season started with a run of 11 wins, followed by a draw and another four wins, at that time the best ever start by any club in the top flight of English football. [108] White and navy blue have remained as the club's basic colours ever since, with the white shirts giving the team the nickname "The Lilywhites". Gareth Bale has scored six goals in his last six games in all competitions for Spurs. Spurs are in the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City in April, but following the 5-4 defeat against Everton in the FA Cup last night, Mourinho's men now have just three competitions to play in. [8][9][10] In April 1884 the club was renamed "Tottenham Hotspur Football Club" to avoid confusion with another London club named Hotspur, whose post had been mistakenly delivered to North London. [194][195] In other developments in North Tottenham, the club has built 256 affordable homes and a 400-pupil primary school. However, the stand was blown down a few weeks later and had to be repaired. after Charles Robert who had been chairman since 1898 died. 26, Average age: Five times between 1950 and 1962, Tottenham had the highest average attendance in England. [32] The next year Spurs won their consecutive FA Cup after beating Burnley in the 1962 FA Cup Final. [72], In October 2008, the club announced a plan to build a new stadium immediately to the north of the existing White Hart Lane stadium, with the southern half of the new stadium's pitch overlapping the northern part of the Lane. [79] Construction started in 2016,[80] and the new stadium was scheduled to open during the 2018–19 season. Accessibility English Search site [214], The club is ranked No. [65], By the turn of the millennium, the capacity of White Hart Lane had become lower than other major Premier League clubs. [17] The following year Spurs won the 1901 FA Cup by beating Sheffield United 3–1 in a replay of the final, after the first game ended in a 2–2 draw. [45] In order to bring in funds, Scholar floated Tottenham Hotspur plc, which wholly owns the football club, on the London Stock Exchange in 1983, the first European sports club to be listed in a stock market, and became the first sports company to go public. The profits from the 1921 FA Cup win were used to build a covered terrace at the Paxton Road end and the Park Lane end was built at a cost of over £3,000 some two years later. Tottenham Hotspur F.C. [4] They were also the inaugural winners of the UEFA Cup in 1972, becoming the first British club to win two different major European trophies. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has been the club's home ground since April 2019, replacing their former home of White Hart Lane, which had been demolished to make way for the new stadium on the same site. [16] Soon after, Frank Brettell became the first ever manager of Spurs, and he signed John Cameron, who took over as player-manager when Brettell left a year later. For the women's football club, see, Early decades in the Football League (1908–1958), Bill Nicholson and the glory years (1958–1974), Managers and head coaches in club's history. Daniel Levy, Lewis's partner at ENIC, is Executive Chairman of the club. [16], The club turned professional on 20 December 1895 and, in the summer of 1896, was admitted to Division One of the Southern League. records and statistics, Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Tottenham's tough tackling prompted the Polish press to describe them as "they were no angels". Average age: 27.4. [158][159] Historical supporters of the club have included such figures as philosopher A.J. As this reduced the stadium capacity below that required for European games, Tottenham Hotspur played every European home game in 2016–17 at Wembley Stadium. [186] Player fines will go towards this charity's children's village in Rustenburg, South Africa with the funds being used to cover the running costs as well as in support of a variety of community development projects in and around Rustenburg. [63] In April 1898, 14,000 fans turned up to watch Spurs play Woolwich Arsenal. [47] Despite a succession of managers and players such as Teddy Sheringham, Jürgen Klinsmann and David Ginola, for a long period in the Premier League until the late 2000s, Spurs finished mid-table most seasons with few trophies won. Tottenham were also the runners-up in the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League. [157] In the 2017–18 season when Tottenham used Wembley as its home ground, it had the second highest attendance in the Premier League. [11][12] Nicknames for the club include "Spurs" and "the Lilywhites". This increased the stadium's capacity to around 58,000, with room for 40,000 under cover. [24][25] Before he left, he signed one of Spurs' most celebrated players, Danny Blanchflower, who won the FWA Footballer of the Year twice while at Tottenham. In May 1993, Venables was sacked from the board after a dispute. They started using the Tottenham Hotspur name for the 1991–92 season and played in the London and South East Women's Regional Football League (then fourth tier of the game). Leicester, England. [152] The remaining shares are held by over 30,000 individuals. Tottenham 4-1 Crystal Palace: player ratings to the theme of crystal palaces Cartilage Free Captain (Weblog) 20:26 9-Mar-21 PL strugglers enter the race for Championship star linked with Tottenham To the Lane and Back (Weblog) 20:22 9-Mar-21 rivalry, London and South East Women's Regional Football League, FA Women's Premier League Southern Division, Tottenham Hotspur F.C. [102] This revamp displayed a sleeker and more elegant cockerel standing on an old-time football. [181] They also share notable rivalries with fellow London clubs Chelsea and West Ham United. [58], In the early days, the team played in kits sold by local outfitters. [106] After they moved to Northumberland Park in 1888, they returned to the navy blue shirts for the 1889–90 season. Their first opponents were Górnik Zabrze, the Polish champions, and after a hard-fought match Spurs suffered a 4–2 reverse. [37] The team was then relegated at the end of the 1976–77 season with Keith Burkinshaw as manager. For most of the 1930s and 40s, Spurs languished in the Second Division, apart from a brief return to the top flight in the 1933–34 and 1934–35 seasons. Sugar increased his stake to £8 million by December 1991 and became the dominant partner with effective control of the club. [81][82] While it was under construction, all Tottenham home games in the 2017–18 season as well as all but five in 2018–19 were played at Wembley Stadium. Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg could not hide his admiration for teammates Harry Kane and Son Heung-min. [183][184] The Tottenham Hotspur Foundation received high-level political support from the prime minister when it was launched at 10 Downing Street in February 2007. [148] Shareholding by ENIC increased over the decade through the purchase of the remaining 12% holding of Alan Sugar in 2007 for £25m,[149][150] and the 9.9% stake belonging to Stelios Haji-Ioannou through Hodram Inc. in 2009. Talks began over the future of the ground with a number of schemes considered, such as increasing the stadium capacity through redevelopment of the current site, or using of the 2012 London Olympic Stadium in Stratford. Logan Tottenham - The 4 Balances, Auckland, New Zealand. [120][124] In December 1983, after the club was floated on the London Stock Exchange, Holsten became the first commercial sponsor logo to appear on a Spurs shirt. View Tottenham Hotspur FC squad and player information on the official website of the Premier League. In total, Nicholson won eight major trophies in his 16 years at the club as manager. In agreeing to wear no.14, Rodon appears to have missed out on his dream shirt number. [133][134], 1 Only appeared in the Premier League. [110] Admiral changed the plain colours of earlier strips to shirts with more elaborate designs, which included manufacturer's logos, stripes down the arms and trims on the edges. [121] In October 2018, Nike agreed a 15-year deal reportedly worth £30 million a year with the club to supply their kits until 2033. Last season and in the opening weeks of the current campaign Rodon wore the number 4 shirt at Swansea after switching from number 6 last summer. [41][141] Fans and institutions alike can now freely buy and trade shares in the company; a court ruling in 1935 involving the club (Berry and Stewart v Tottenham Hotspur FC Ltd) had previously established a precedent in company law that the directors of a company can refuse the transfer of shares from a shareholder to another person. Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 Crystal Palace: Gareth Bale and Harry Kane both score twice for Spurs in comfortable win. [123] FA soon lifted the ban, and this practice spread to the major clubs when sponsored shirts were allowed on non-televised games in 1979, and on televised games as well in 1983. Check out the first team players and squad for Tottenham Hotspur, find out who is playing in what position and more facts about the players. 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The East Stand (Worcester Avenue) was finished in 1934 and this increased capacity to around 80,000 spectators and cost £60,000. At Spurs, the incumbent no.4 is Toby Alderweireld. [103] In November 2013, Tottenham forced non-league club Fleet Spurs to change their badge because its new design was "too similar" to the Tottenham crest. [127] In July 2010, Spurs announced a two-year shirt sponsorship contract with software infrastructure company Autonomy said to be worth £20 million. It was the first Double of the 20th century, and the first since Aston Villa achieved the feat in 1897. Up until 1992, the top division of English football was the Football League First Division; since then, it has been the FA Premier League. 10. [176] The Lilywhites also responded to the atmosphere to win the tie 8–1. [140] 4,892 shares were sold in total by 1905. In the financial year 2006–07, Tottenham topped a league of Premier League charitable donations when viewed both in overall terms[187] and as a percentage of turnover by giving £4,545,889, including a one-off contribution of £4.5 million over four years, to set up the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation. Tottenham Hotspur have lost 5 of their last 8 matches in Premier League.Tottenham Hotspur have conceded an average of 1.08 goals per game since the beginning of the season in the English Premier League. FC Köln in the Intertoto Cup on 22 July 1995. Seoul, South Korea. [234], This article is about the men's football club. The arms featured the Latin motto Audere Est Facere (to dare is to do).[58]. They won promotion after topping the league in 2007–08. in 1976 despite it being banned by the FA. 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[112] However, the attempt by Tottenham to expand the business side of the club failed, and in 1991, they returned to Umbro. [178] Although fan violence has since abated, the occasional incidences of hooliganism continued to be reported. At the same time, the Second Division was renamed the First Division, and the Third Division was renamed the Second Division. [196][197], Tottenham's women's team was founded in 1985 as Broxbourne Ladies. Publisher: Tribal Football Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 4:37 UTC Lucas Moura: I'm so proud to be part of this Spurs team [144] The share issue was successful with 3.8 million shares quickly sold. [190], In contrast, they have successfully sought the reduction of section 106 planning obligations connected to the redevelopment of the stadium in the Northumberland Development Project. Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Tottenham (/ˈtɒtənəm/)[2][3] or Spurs, is an English professional football club in Tottenham, London, that competes in the Premier League. [7] A year later the boys sought help with the club from John Ripsher, the Bible class teacher at All Hallows Church, who became the first president of the club and its treasurer. Occasionally fights broke out on the marshes in disputes with other teams over the use of the ground. [129][130] Since 2014, AIA has been the main shirt sponsor, initially in a deal worth over £16 million annually,[131][132] increased to a reported £40 to £45 million per year in 2019 in an eight-year deal that lasts until 2027. It was the hymn Glory, Glory Hallelujah being sung by 60,000 fans at White Hart Lane in our European Cup matches. [185], In March 2007 the club announced a partnership with the charity SOS Children's Villages UK. [48][49], In February 2001, Sugar sold his share holding in Spurs to ENIC Sports plc, run by Joe Lewis and Daniel Levy, and stepped down as chairman.