Club football competition in London, England

Satellite map of north London show locations of Arsenal ‘s old Highbury Stadium ( Red ) and Tottenham ‘s old White Hart Lane ground ( White ) The North London derby is the association football local competition in England between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, both of which are based in North London. Fans of both clubs consider the other to be their independent rivals, and the bowler hat is considered by many to be one of the most celebrated and fiercest derbies in the global. [ 3 ] Although the two teams beginning played each other in 1887, the competition did not begin until 1913 when Arsenal moved their ground to north London. As of 26 September 2021, 190 games have been played between the two teams since their first game in the Football League in 1909, with 79 wins for Arsenal, 60 wins for Tottenham and 51 games drawn. When games played before both joined the Football League are included, 204 games have been played, with Arsenal winning 84, Tottenham 66, and 54 draw. [ 4 ]

noteworthy matches of the North London bowler hat include the games in which Arsenal won the league at White Hart Lane in 1971 and their invincible political campaign in 2004, [ 5 ] Tottenham beating arsenal 5–0 at home plate in 1983 and Arsenal winning by the same score away in 1978, and Tottenham beating armory 3–1 at the semi-final of the 1990–91 FA Cup, which they went on to win. [ 6 ] The highest-scoring game in the North London bowler hat is the 5–4 gain by Arsenal at White Hart Lane in November 2004. [ 7 ] As of 14 March 2021, the clear scorer in the North London bowler hat is Harry Kane with 11 goals, overtaking Bobby Smith and Emmanuel Adebayor with 10 goals each. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Arsenal play their home games at the Emirates Stadium in Islington, while Tottenham Hotspur are based at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the neighbor borough of Haringey. The two stadiums are 4 miles ( 6.4 kilometer ) apart. Until 2006, Arsenal played their base games at the Highbury Stadium and until 2017, Tottenham used White Hart Lane before relocating temporarily to Wembley Stadium. In 2019, Tottenham returned home to their newly constructed Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, built on the grind of the former White Hart Lane .

history [edit ]

early matches [edit ]

The first meeting between the two teams was a friendly on 19 November 1887, when Arsenal were located in Plumstead ( then part of Kent but now in Greater London ), and known as Royal Arsenal. The match, played at the then Spurs land at Tottenham Marshes, was abandoned 15 minutes before it was due to end “ owing to darkness ” with Spurs leading 2–1. [ 10 ] The beginning completed match between the two teams was held the following February in Plumstead ; Tottenham could alone field nine players, and were therefore beaten 6–2. [ 11 ] Another celebrated match was in 1898 dally at the Spurs ground at Northumberland Park. The match with the then Woolwich Arsenal was attended by a record crowd of 15,000, and the refreshment point of view collapsed when spectators climbed up onto its roof in the overcrowd ground, resulting in some injuries and prompting Spurs to start looking for a new reason. The next year the baseball club moved a abruptly distance to what would become known as the White Hart Lane grind. [ 12 ] The first League couple between the club was in the First Division, on 4 December 1909 ; Arsenal won 1–0. [ 13 ]

Beginning of competition [edit ]

The traditional first kits of Arsenal ( left ) and Tottenham Hotspur ( right ). however, a proper competition between the two teams did not begin until 1913, when Arsenal moved from the Manor Ground, Plumstead to Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, precisely four miles from Tottenham ‘s White Hart Lane, a be active resented and opposed by Tottenham as they considered Highbury their territory. [ 14 ] The motion made Arsenal Tottenham ‘s nearest neighbours and frankincense began a natural local competition. The two teams first faced each other as north London rivals in a War Relief Fund friendly on 22 August 1914 at White Hart Lane. Although Arsenal were in the Second Division and Tottenham in the First, Arsenal won 5–1. [ 15 ] They would go on to meet regularly during World War I in the London Combination, the regional wartime competition of the time. The competition escalated in 1919 when, after World War I, the First Division was to be expanded by two teams, and the League held a meeting of the clubs to decide the two clubs by means of a vote. 19th-placed Chelsea, who would otherwise have been relegated, were allowed to stay and thus they took the first of the two spots. The second spot could have been awarded to 20th-placed Tottenham, or Barnsley, who had finished third in the Second Division, but Arsenal ( along with four other clubs ) besides wish for the place, despite finishing sixth in Division Two, although an error in the calculation of finish average meant Arsenal had actually finished fifth, which was corrected by the Football League in 1980. [ 16 ] After an endorsement by League president and president of Liverpool John McKenna on account of their longer membership of the League, Arsenal won the vote by eighteen votes to Spurs ‘ eight ( Barnsley got five, Wolves four, Nottingham Forest three, Birmingham two and Hull City one ) and were therefore elected to the First Division. [ 17 ] The decision infuriated Tottenham and their supporters. It has been frequently alleged that Arsenal president Sir Henry Norris used sneaky dealings in order to bring this about, although nothing has been proven. [ 18 ] Tottenham themselves had been elected to join the Football League Second Division eleven years prior after finishing 7th in the 1907–08 Southern League, but it involved wholly separate leagues that did not have automatic pistol right to move between them. [ 19 ] Tottenham were initially unsuccessful in their try to join the Football League, and only narrowly north korean won election to the Second Division after Stoke resigned from the league for fiscal reasons. [ 20 ] Despite the reverse, Tottenham were soon promoted back into the top flight after taking the 1919–20 Second Division title, [ 21 ] and the bowler hat began to be regularly contested. The foremost fully competitive derby equal after Arsenal ‘s 1913 motivate to north London was a first Division couple that finished 2–1 to Tottenham, on 15 January 1921 at White Hart Lane. The early matches between the two were noted for their resentment – a particularly condemnable match in September 1922 led to both clubs being censured by the Football Association and threatened with being forced to play buttocks close doors. [ 17 ] [ 22 ] Tottenham played in the Second Division between the periods of 1928 and 1933, ampere well as 1935 to 1950, [ 21 ] which naturally led to a drop in the phone number of matches between the two clubs in this period and a cool of passions. In 1935 Arsenal registered its highest ever win over Spurs in a 6-0 rout away at White Hart Lane. This 6-0 result remains the biggest gain by any team wherein the bowler hat. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Relations between the two clubs improved slightly after the second World War, after Tottenham allowed Arsenal to play their home matches at White Hart Lane while Highbury was requisitioned as an ARP station and subsequently bombed. The two sides met in the FA Cup for the first gear time in the 1948–49 season, when Arsenal won a third round off tie 3–0. [ 4 ]
Kick-off for the second half at the north London bowler hat, 20 November 2010. Arsenal were 2–0 up at this point, but were beaten 3–2. Since 1950, there has alone been one season ( that of 1977–78 [ 21 ] ) where Tottenham and Arsenal have not been in the same division, meaning fixtures between the two are even. This has maintained the competition to the portray day and there have been many luminary matches. several times the course of a title or the travel to a cup final has relied upon the result of a bowler hat match. As with any major football competition, gloating and kid between the two sets of fans, many of whom work and evening live together, is platitude. Players who transfer between the two teams receive a bad reception from their former fans ; an case was defender Sol Campbell, [ 23 ] who was nicknamed “ Judas “ by Tottenham fans after he crossed the watershed in 2001 .
Arsenal ‘s Theo Walcott and William Gallas of Tottenham in the North London Derby of November 2012 which the Gunners won 5–2. Arsenal ‘s Theo Walcott, after picking up a knee injury in the 83rd moment of a FA Cup third round tie against Tottenham in January 2014, was pelted with a hail of coins and credit card bottles whilst coming off the field on a stretcher by Tottenham fans at the Emirates Stadium. Walcott subsequently made a gesticulate on the capstone to the Tottenham fans which reflected, at that point in time, the 2-0 scoreline of the bet on which it finished as finally. An probe was finally made with regard to the perpetrators of the incident by the authorities. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] On 30 April 2017, Tottenham beat arsenal 2-0 in the concluding North London Derby at White Hart Lane. [ 26 ] This solution guaranteed Tottenham finishing above Arsenal in the league for the first time in 22 seasons. [ 27 ] arsenal fans have a celebration day related to the north London competition called St. Totteringham ‘s Day, which is the day in the season when Tottenham can not mathematically finish above Arsenal on the league table. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Tottenham fans had long earlier declared 14 April to be St. Hotspur day in honor of Tottenham ‘s 3–1 succeed over Arsenal in the 1991 FA Cup semi-final. St. Hotspur Day was besides celebrated on 14 April 2010, when Tottenham beat arsenal 2–1. [ 30 ]

Fans [edit ]

Both Arsenal ‘s and Tottenham ‘s sports fan bases are multiethnic, due to the racial diverseness in London. In 2002, Arsenal had 7.7 % of their fans calling themselves colored british, rising to 14 % in 2008, the highest in the league in these fans surveys. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] about 9 % of Tottenham fans were colored in 2008. [ 32 ] Both clubs besides have extensive sports fan bases throughout the UK and the remainder of the populace. arsenal fans call themselves “ Gooners “, a term that is derived from the club ‘s nickname “ Gunners “, which is itself a reference to Arsenal ‘s origins as a munitions factory team. [ 33 ] Tottenham fans call themselves “ yids “. Due to the diachronic accompaniment from the jewish communities in North and East London, Tottenham once had a significant number of jewish fans ; it was estimated that around 10,000 or a third of the club ‘s fans in the 1930s were jewish. due to this diachronic association, fans of many other clubs from the 1960s onwards have directed anti-semitic chants at Spurs fans. [ 34 ] Tottenham no long has a greater numeral of jewish fans than other major London clubs such as Arsenal ( jewish support for Arsenal started to increase in the 1930s ) ; an estimate put the phone number of jewish fans at Tottenham as at most 5 %, about the like number as Arsenal, but the anti-semitic chants against Tottenham fans persisted. [ 34 ] In an try to draw the sting from these chants, Tottenham fans ( whether Jewish or not ) adopted the words “ yid ” and “ yiddo ” for themselves and thereby turned a dyslogistic into a term of pride and belong to. There is, however, calm some controversy over the use of “ kike ” or “ yiddo ”. [ 35 ] A 2003 on-line surveil found that Arsenal supporters most dislike Tottenham, and that Tottenham fans see Arsenal as their main rival. [ 36 ]

Results [edit ]

Premier League [edit ]

Arsenal five Tottenham Hotspur [edit ]

Tottenham Hotspur vs Arsenal [edit ]

Fixture top scorers in the bowler hat ( Premier League era ) [edit ]

Players in bold represent those who are presently playing for Arsenal or Tottenham. [ 37 ] [ 38 ]

Cup semi-finals and title deciders [edit ]

Although Arsenal and Tottenham have never met in a major cup final, there have been North London bowler hat matches that have significantly contributed to one of the two clubs winning a trophy, such as semi-finals and title deciders. These include :

Statistics and records [edit ]

Side-by-side comparison of Arsenal ‘s and Tottenham Hotspur ‘s final league positions 1894 to the present As of 14 March 2021, there have been 189 competitive excellent meetings between the two teams since the beginning league suffer in 1909, of which Arsenal have won 78 and Tottenham 60. [ 45 ] The most goals in one game were scored in the close contested 5–4 Arsenal victory at White Hart Lane on 13 November 2004. The biggest winning margin was a 6–0 away win by Arsenal on 6 March 1935. Tottenham have twice won 5–0 ( 25 December 1911 and 4 April 1983 ) and Arsenal once ( 23 December 1978 ), with all three fixtures taking place at White Hart Lane. Arsenal besides won by 5–2 margins both in February and November 2012 family at the Emirates. [ 13 ] [ 4 ] Tottenham ‘s record for goals scored against Arsenal is 11 goals by Harry Kane, with Bobby Smith [ 8 ] scoring 10 goals followed by Billy Minter with nine goals. [ 46 ] Arsenal ‘s commemorate is held jointly by Emmanuel Adebayor, Alan Sunderland and Robert Pires, with eight goals each. [ 1 ] Adebayor besides once shared the record for most goals by a actor in the North London bowler hat with ten-spot : eight scored for Arsenal and two for Tottenham. Arsenal ‘s long-time defender David O’Leary holds the record for most north London derbies played with 35, while Gary Mabbutt and Steve Perryman shared the corresponding record for Spurs, with 31. [ 1 ] Terry Dyson is the only Spurs actor to score a hat-trick in a excellent bowler hat game, having done so on 26 August 1961 in a 4–3 winnings for Spurs. [ 47 ] The Arsenal players to have done indeed are Ted Drake ( 20 October 1934 ) and Alan Sunderland ( 23 December 1978 ). [ 48 ]

Summary of results [edit ]

As of 26 September 2021 (count starting 1909)[4]
Competition Matches played Arsenal wins Draws Spurs wins Arsenal goals Spurs goals
League 169 68 47 54 260 228
FA Cup 6 4 0 2 9 5
League Cup 14 7 3 4 21 19
Community Shield 1 0 1 0 0 0
Total 190 79 51 60 290 252

Crossing the watershed [edit ]

due to the competition between the clubs, relatively few players have played for both Arsenal and Tottenham since 1913. The first player to have played for both clubs, however, predated the beginning of the competition ; Bill Julian joined Royal Arsenal in 1889 and Tottenham in 1894. [ 49 ] Many other players played for both clubs before the depart of the competition, including Charles Ambler, Arthur Elliott, Thomas Fitchie, Tom Pratt, Peter Kyle, and George Payne. A number of players had joined both clubs in the twentieth hundred, but it was alone in the 1960s that Laurie Brown became the first musician to have played in the North London Derby for both clubs. [ 50 ] The players who have played for both since 1919 when the competition escalated are listed below. [ 46 ] [ 48 ]

Arsenal, then Tottenham [edit ]

Name Pos Arsenal Tottenham
Career Apps Goals Career Apps Goals
Jimmy Brain FW 1924–31 232 139 1931–35 34 10
Laurie Brown DF 1961–64 109 2 1964–66 65 3
David Jenkins MF 1966–68 25 9 1968–70 17 2
Rohan Ricketts MF 2001–02 1 0 2002–05 36 2
David Bentley MF 1997–2006 8 1 2008–11 41 3
William Gallas DF 2006–10 101 12 2010–13 61 1
Emmanuel Adebayor FW 2006–09 143 62 2011–15 106 41

Former Arsenal winger Joe Hulme managed Tottenham Hotspur between 1945 and 1949. George Graham was first an Arsenal player, then managed the Gunners between 1986 and 1994, before belated taking up the reins at White Hart Lane between 1998 and 2001. clive Allen played three matches in Arsenal ‘s 1980–81 pre-season friendly crusade, although never played a competitive league match for them. Jamie O’Hara was a young person musician at Arsenal before joining Tottenham. however, he did not play a one crippled for Arsenal. [ 51 ] Ron Piper was an amateur at Arsenal without playing a senior match before joining Tottenham in October 1960 .

Tottenham, then Arsenal [edit ]

[ 52 ] [ 53 ] [ 54 ] [ 55 ] [ 56 ] In addition, erstwhile Spurs player Herbert Chapman subsequently managed Arsenal from 1925 to 1934. [ 57 ] Forward Billy Lane of whom first played for Tottenham during 1922 and again from 1924 in a biennial stint at the clubhouse started in 1963 to feature as a scout for Arsenal. [ 58 ] While former Gunner Terry Neill was Spurs ‘s director from 1974 to 1976, before he crossed back to manage Arsenal between 1976 and 1983. [ 59 ] Pat Holland was a reserve and youth team passenger car at Spurs from 1988 to 1995 and from 1997 to 2005 in a second spell with the golf club. [ 60 ] Holland went on to take up the character of a coach at Arsenal ‘s Academy in 2012. [ 61 ] Holland left the role after less than two months due to personal reasons, but has continued to feature for Arsenal as a scout. [ 62 ] [ 63 ]

Played for both teams in North London bowler hat [edit ]

The following players have played in at least one North London bowler hat for both teams : [ 64 ]

Clubs ‘ honours [edit ]

As of 24 May 2021, these are the football honor of Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur : [ 65 ] [ 66 ] [ 67 ]
In its confront format, Arsenal have, as of 2021–22, qualified to play in the UEFA Champions League on 19 occasions and Tottenham five, although Tottenham did achieve a fourth-place polish in the 2011–12 Premier League season but were denied a place in the Champions League ascribable to Chelsea winning the Champions League. Arsenal were runner-up in the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League rival, [ 68 ] as were Tottenham in the 2018–19 Champions League. [ 69 ] Prior to this, Arsenal qualified for the former european Cup on three occasions, while Tottenham did so once. Arsenal were unable to compete in the 1989–90 competition owing to a banish on English clubs following the Heysel Stadium Disaster. [ 70 ] While the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup is recognised as the predecessor to the UEFA Cup, it was not organised by UEFA. consequently, UEFA do not consider clubs ‘ records in the Fairs Cup to be partially of their european record. however, FIFA does view the competition as a major honor. [ 71 ]

Highest attendances [edit ]

See besides [edit ]

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