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Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, normally referred to as Tottenham ( ) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] or Spurs, is an english professional football baseball club based in Tottenham, London, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The team has played its dwelling matches in the 62,850-capacity Tottenham Hotspur Stadium since April 2019, replacing their former home of White Hart Lane, which had been demolished to make manner for the fresh stadium on the lapp site. Founded in 1882, Tottenham ‘s emblem is a cockerel standing upon a football, with the Latin motto Audere est Facere ( “ to dare is to do ” ). The club has traditionally worn white shirts and dark blue amobarbital sodium shorts base kit since the 1898–99 season. Their prepare anchor is on Hotspur Way in Bulls Cross in the London Borough of Enfield. After its origin, Tottenham won the FA Cup for the inaugural time in 1901, the entirely non-League club to do so since the geological formation of the Football League in 1888. Tottenham were the beginning clubhouse in the twentieth hundred to achieve the League and FA Cup Double, winning both competitions in the 1960–61 season. After successfully defending the FA Cup in 1962, in 1963 they became the first british club to win a UEFA club rival – the european Cup Winners ‘ Cup. [ 4 ] They were besides the inaugural address winners of the UEFA Cup in 1972, becoming the first british club to win two different major european trophies. They collected at least one major trophy in each of the six decades from the 1950s to 2000s – an accomplishment entirely matched by Manchester United. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In domestic football, Spurs have won two league titles, eight FA Cups, four League Cups, and seven FA Community Shields. In european football, they have won one european Cup Winners ‘ Cup and two UEFA Cups. Tottenham were besides runner-up in the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League. They have a long-standing competition with nearby club Arsenal, with whom they contest the North London bowler hat. Tottenham is owned by ENIC Group, which purchased the cabaret in 2001. The club was estimated to be deserving £1.67 billion ( $ 2.3 billion ) in 2021, and it was the ninth highest-earning football baseball club in the global, with an annual tax income of £390.9 million in 2020. [ 7 ] [ 8 ]

history

geological formation and early years ( 1882–1908 )

Spurs ‘ first and second gear teams in 1885. Club president John Ripsher top row second right, team captain Jack Jull in-between course one-fourth left, Bobby Buckle bottom quarrel moment left in the first place named Hotspur Football Club, the club was formed on 5 September 1882 by a group of schoolboys led by Bobby Buckle. They were members of the Hotspur Cricket Club and the football baseball club was formed to play sports during the winter months. A class late the boys sought help with the club from John Ripsher, the bible course teacher at All Hallows Church, who became the first president of the club and its treasurer. Ripsher helped and supported the boys through the cabaret ‘s formative years, reorganised and found premises for the club. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In April 1884 the baseball 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. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Nicknames for the club include “ Spurs ” and “ the Lilywhites ”. [ 15 ]
initially, the boys played games between themselves and friendly matches against other local clubs. The first recorded catch took target on 30 September 1882 against a local team named the Radicals, which Hotspur lost 2–0. [ 16 ] The team entered their first cup competition in the London Association Cup, and won 5–2 in their foremost competitive couple on 17 October 1885 against a company ‘s works team called St Albans. [ 17 ] The club ‘s fixtures began to attract the interest of the local community and attendances at its home matches increased. In 1892, they played for the first time in a league, the ephemeral southerly Alliance. The club turned professional on 20 December 1895 and, in the summer of 1896, was admitted to Division One of the Southern League. On 2 March 1898, the club besides became a limited ship’s company, the Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Company. soon after, Frank Brettell became the inaugural ever coach of Spurs, and he signed John Cameron, who took over as player-manager when Brettell left a year later. Cameron would have a significant impact on Spurs, helping the club win its beginning trophy, the Southern League title in the 1899–1900 temper. The pursue 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 string. In doing so they became the alone non-League cabaret to achieve the feat since the formation of The Football League in 1888. [ 20 ]

In 1908, the cabaret was elected into the Football League Second Division and won promotion to the First Division in their first base season, and finished runner-up in their first gear year in the league. In 1912, Peter McWilliam became director ; Tottenham finished bottom of the league at the end of the 1914–15 season when football was suspended due to the First World War. Spurs were relegated to the Second Division on the resumption of league football after the war, but promptly returned to the First Division as Second Division champions of the 1919–20 season. [ 21 ]
On 23 April 1921, McWilliam guided Spurs to their second FA Cup win, beating Wolverhampton Wanderers 1–0 in the Cup Final. Spurs finished second to Liverpool in the league in 1922, but would finish mid-table in the future five seasons. Spurs were relegated in the 1927–28 season after McWilliam left. For most of the 1930s and 40s, Spurs languished in the Second Division, apart from a brief retort to the top flight in the 1933–34 and 1934–35 seasons. former Spurs player Arthur Rowe became coach in 1949. Rowe developed a style of play, known as “ push and run “, that proved to be successful in his early years as director. He took the team rear to the First Division after finishing peak of the Second Division in the 1949–50 season. [ 23 ] In his second season in consign, Tottenham won their beginning ever top-tier league championship title when they finished top of the First Division for the 1950–51 season. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Rowe resigned in April 1955 due to a stress-induced illness from managing the club. [ 27 ] Before he left, he signed one of Spurs ‘ most celebrate players, Danny Blanchflower, who won the FWA Footballer of the Year doubly while at Tottenham. [ 28 ]

Bill Nicholson and the glory years ( 1958–1974 )

Bill Nicholson took over as director in October 1958. He became the club ‘s most successful director, guiding the team to major trophy success three seasons in a row in the early 1960s : the Double in 1961, the FA Cup in 1962 and the Cup Winners ‘ Cup in 1963. [ 29 ] Nicholson signed Dave Mackay and John White in 1959, two influential players of the Double-winning team, and Jimmy Greaves in 1961, the most fecund goal-scorer in the history of the top tier of English football. [ 30 ] 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. [ 32 ] The title was won on 17 April 1961 when they beat the eventual runner-up Sheffield Wednesday at home 2–1, with three more games still to play. The Double was achieved when Spurs won 2–0 against Leicester City in the final examination of the 1960–61 FA Cup. It was the first Double of the twentieth hundred, and the first since Aston Villa achieved the feat in 1897. [ 34 ] The adjacent year Spurs won their consecutive FA Cup after beating Burnley in the 1962 FA Cup Final. [ 35 ] On 15 May 1963, Tottenham became the first british team to win a european trophy by winning the 1962–63 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup when they beat Atlético Madrid 5–1 in the concluding. [ 36 ] Spurs besides became the first british team to win two different european trophies when they won the 1971–72 UEFA Cup with a rebuild team that included Martin Chivers, Pat Jennings, and Steve Perryman. They had besides won the FA Cup in 1967, [ 38 ] and two League Cups ( in 1971 and 1973 ). In sum, Nicholson won eight major trophies in his 16 years at the cabaret as director. [ 29 ]

Burkinshaw to Venables ( 1974–1992 )

Spurs went into a period of decline after the successes of the early 1970s, and Nicholson resigned after a poor people starting signal to the 1974–75 season. The team was then relegated at the conclusion of the 1976–77 season with Keith Burkinshaw as director. Burkinshaw promptly returned the club to the top flight, building a team that included Glenn Hoddle, american samoa well as two Argentinians, Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa, which was strange as players from outside the british Isles were rare at that fourth dimension. [ 40 ] The team that Burkinshaw rebuilt went on to win the FA Cup in 1981 and 1982 [ 41 ] and the UEFA Cup in 1984. [ 42 ] The 1980s was a menstruation of change that began with a newly phase of renovation at White Hart Lane, a well as a change of directors. Irving Scholar took over the club and moved it in a more commercial steering, the begin of the transformation of English football clubs into commercial enterprises. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Debt at the clubhouse would again lead to a change in the boardroom, and Terry Venables teamed up with businessman Alan Sugar in June 1991 to take control of Tottenham Hotspur plc. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] [ 47 ] Venables, who had become director in 1987, signed players such as Paul Gascoigne and Gary Lineker. Under Venables, Spurs won the 1990–91 FA Cup, making them the beginning clubhouse to win eight FA Cups. [ 48 ]

Tottenham was one of the five clubs that pushed for the initiation of the Premier League, created with the approval of The Football Association, replacing the Football League First Division as the highest division of English football. [ 49 ] 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. They won the League Cup in 1999 under George Graham, and again in 2008 under Juande Ramos. Performance improved under Harry Redknapp with players such as Gareth Bale and Luka Modrić, and the club finished in the top five in the early 2010s. [ 50 ] In February 2001, Sugar sold his contribution holding in Spurs to ENIC Sports plc, run by Joe Lewis and Daniel Levy, and stepped down as chair. [ 52 ] Lewis and Levy would finally own 85 % of the clubhouse, with Levy creditworthy for the run of the club. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] They appointed Mauricio Pochettino as head coach, who was in the function between 2014 and 2019. [ 55 ] Under Pochettino, Spurs finished second in the 2016–17 season, their highest league finish since the 1962–63 season, and advanced to the UEFA Champions League final in 2019, the golf club ‘s first UEFA Champions League final, ultimately losing the final to eventual champions Liverpool 2–0. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] [ 58 ] Pochettino was subsequently sacked after a inadequate start to the 2019–20 season, in November 2019, and was replaced by José Mourinho. [ 59 ] Mourinho ‘s tenure, however, lasted only 17 months ; he was sacked in April 2021 to be replaced by interim head bus Ryan Mason for the end of the 2020–21 season. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] Nuno Espírito Santo was appointed the new director for 2021–22 temper on 30 June 2021 [ 62 ] but was sacked after good 4 months in care, [ 63 ] and replaced by Antonio Conte. [ 64 ]

Stadia/playing grounds

early grounds

Spurs played their early matches on populace kingdom at the Park Lane end of Tottenham Marshes, where they had to mark out and prepare their own pitch. Occasionally fights broke out on the marshes in disputes with other teams over the consumption of the labor. [ 65 ] The inaugural Spurs game reported by the local press took place on Tottenham Marshes on 6 October 1883 against Brownlow Rovers, which Spurs won 9–0. It was at this ground that, in 1887, Spurs beginning played the team that would late become their arch rivals, Arsenal ( then known as Royal Arsenal ), leading 2–1 until the match was called off due to inadequate fall after the away team arrived late. [ 67 ]
Northumberland Park, 28 January 1899, Spurs vs Newton Heath ( by and by renamed Manchester United As they played on public park, the baseball club could not charge entree fees and, while the number of spectators grew to a few thousand, it yielded no gate receipts. In 1888, the club rented a pitch between numbers 69 and 75 Northumberland Park [ 68 ] at a cost of £17 per annum, where spectators were charged 3d a game, raised to 6d for cup ties. The first gear game at the Park was played on 13 October 1888, a reserve match that yielded gate receipts of 17 shillings. The first resist with precisely over 100 seats and changing rooms underneath was built at the ground for the 1894–95 season at a cost of £60. however, the rack was blown down a few weeks late and had to be repaired. In April 1898, 14,000 fans turned up to watch Spurs play Woolwich Arsenal. Spectators climbed on the ceiling of the refreshment stand for a better position of the peer. The stand collapsed, causing a few injuries. As Northumberland Park could no longer cope with the larger crowd, Spurs were forced to look for a larger ground and moved to the White Hart Lane site in 1899. [ 71 ]

White Hart Lane

first game at White Hart Lane, Spurs vs Notts County for the official opening on 4 September 1899 The White Hart Lane anchor was built on a disused plant nursery owned by the brewery Charringtons and located behind a public house named the White Hart on Tottenham High Road ( the road White Hart Lane actually lies a few hundred yards north of the main entrance ). The ground was initially leased from Charringtons, and the stands they used at Northumberland Park were moved here, giving shelter for 2,500 spectators. [ 72 ] Notts County were the foremost visitors to ‘the Lane ‘ in a friendly watched by 5,000 people and yielding £115 in receipts ; Spurs won 4–1. [ 73 ] Queens Park Rangers became the first competitive visitors to the crunch and 11,000 people saw them lose 1–0 to Tottenham. In 1905, Tottenham raised enough money to buy the freehold to the country, angstrom well as nation at the northern ( Paxton Road ) end. [ 72 ]
Since 1909, Tottenham have displayed the statue of a cockerel, first made in bronze by a former musician After Spurs were admitted to the Football League, the club started to build a new stadium, with stands designed by Archibald Leitch being constructed over the next two and a half decades. The West Stand was added in 1909, the East Stand was besides covered this year and extended further two years later. The profits from the 1921 FA Cup win were used to build a cover terrace at the Paxton Road end and the Park Lane end was built at a cost of over £3,000 some two years late. This increased the stadium ‘s capacitance to around 58,000, with board for 40,000 under cover. The East Stand ( Worcester Avenue ) was finished in 1934 and this increased capacity to around 80,000 spectators and monetary value £60,000. [ 72 ]
aerial persona of White Hart Lane. renovation of this stadium began in early 1980s and completed in the late 1990s. Starting in the early 1980s, the stadium undergo another major phase of renovation. The West Stand was replaced by an expensive new structure in 1982, and the East Stand was renovated in 1988. In 1992, following the Taylor Report ‘s recommendation that Premier League clubs eliminate standing areas, the lower terraces of the south and east base were converted to seating, with the North Stand becoming all-seater the adopt season. The South Stand renovation was completed in March 1995 and included the first giant Sony Jumbotron television filmdom for exist game coverage and aside equal screenings. [ 74 ] In the 1997–98 temper the Paxton Road stand received a newfangled upper tier and a second base Jumbotron filmdom. [ 74 ] minor amendments to the seat shape were made in 2006, bringing the capacity of the stadium to 36,310. [ 72 ] By the turn of the millennium, the capacity of White Hart Lane had become lower than other major Premier League clubs. Talks began over the future of the labor with a number of schemes considered, such as increasing the stadium capacity through renovation of the current web site, or using of the 2012 London Olympic Stadium in Stratford. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] finally the club settled on the Northumberland Development Project, whereby a new stadium would be built on a larger nibble of estate that incorporated the existing site. In 2016, the northeast corner of the stadium was removed to facilitate the construction of the new stadium. 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. [ 77 ] Domestic fixtures of the 2016–17 season continued to be played at the Lane, but demolition of the remainder of the stadium started the day after the last plot of the season, [ 78 ] and White Hart Lane was completely demolished by the end of July 2017. [ 79 ]

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium 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 southerly half of the new stadium ‘s lurch overlapping the northerly part of the Lane. [ 80 ] This proposal would become the Northumberland Development Project. The baseball club submitted a planning application in October 2009 but, following critical reactions to the plan, it was withdrawn in party favor of a well revised planning application for the stadium and early associate developments. The modern plan was resubmitted and approved by Haringey Council in September 2010, [ 81 ] and an agreement for the Northumberland Development Project was signed on 20 September 2011. [ 82 ]
After a long delay over the compulsory buy order of local businesses located on domain to the north of the stadium and a legal challenge against the club, [ 83 ] [ 84 ] resolved in early 2015, [ 85 ] plan lotion for another new blueprint was approved by Haringey Council on 17 December 2015. [ 86 ] Construction started in 2016, [ 87 ] and the new stadium was scheduled to open during the 2018–19 season. [ 88 ] [ 89 ] While it was under construction, all Tottenham home games in the 2017–18 season angstrom well as all but five in 2018–19 were played at Wembley Stadium. [ 90 ] After two successful trial events, Tottenham Hotspur officially moved into the new grate on 3 April 2019 [ 91 ] with a Premier League match against Crystal Palace which Spurs won 2–0. [ 92 ] The new stadium is called Tottenham Hotspur Stadium while a naming-rights agreement is reached. [ 93 ]

Training grounds

An early prepare ground used by Tottenham was located at Brookfield Lane in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. The baseball club bought the 11-acre ground used by Cheshunt F.C. in 1952 for £35,000. [ 95 ] It had three pitches, including a modest stadium with a belittled point of view used for matches by the junior team. [ 96 ] The ground was late sold for over 4 million, [ 97 ] and the club moved the train ground to the Spurs Lodge on Luxborough Lane, Chigwell in Essex, opened in September 1996 by Tony Blair. [ 98 ] The discipline ground and weigh center in Chigwell were used until 2014. [ 99 ] In 2007, Tottenham bought a site at Bulls Cross in Enfield, a few miles south of their former ground in Cheshunt. A new educate earth was constructed at the site for £45 million, which opened in 2012. [ 100 ] The 77-acre site has 15 pot pitches and one-and-a-half artificial pitches, ampere well as a cover artificial pitch in the main build up. [ 101 ] [ 102 ] The main building on Hotspur Way besides has hydropathy and naiant pools, gymnasium, medical facilities, dining and rest areas for players angstrom well as classrooms for academy and schoolboy players. A 45-bedroom players lodge with provide, treatment, rest and reclamation facilities was former added at Myddleton Farm next to the prepare site in 2018. [ 103 ] [ 104 ] The lodge is chiefly used by Tottenham ‘s beginning team and Academy players, but it has besides been used by national football teams – the first visitors to use the facilities at the site were the brazilian team in preparation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. [ 105 ]

peak

between 1956 and 2006, the club crest featured a heraldic carapace, displaying a number of local landmarks and associations Since the 1921 FA Cup Final the Tottenham Hotspur crest has featured a cockerel. Harry Hotspur, after whom the club is named, was said to have been given the dub Hotspur as he dug in his spur to make his knight go fast as he charged in battles, [ 106 ] and spurs are besides associated with fighting cocks. [ 107 ] The clubhouse used spurs as a symbol in 1900, which then evolved into a contend cock. [ 106 ] A erstwhile player named William James Scott made a bronze hurl of a cockerel standing on a football at a price of £35 ( equivalent to £3,730 in 2020 ), and this 9-foot-6-inch ( 2.90 m ) figure was then placed on top of the West Stand the end of the 1909–10 season. [ 106 ] Since then the cockerel and ball emblem has become a part of the club ‘s identity. [ 108 ] The clubhouse badge on the shirt used in 1921 featured a cockerel within a shield, but it was changed to a cockerel sitting on a ball in the recently 1960s. [ 107 ] between 1956 and 2006 Spurs used a fake heraldic harbor featuring a number of local landmarks and associations. The castle is Bruce Castle, 400 yards from the earth and the trees are the Seven Sisters. The arms featured the Latin motto Audere Est Facere ( to dare is to do ). [ 65 ] In 1983, to overcome unauthorized “ pirate ” trade, the golf club ‘s badge was altered by adding the two red heraldic lions to flank the carapace ( which came from the arms of the Northumberland family, of which Harry Hotspur was a extremity ), vitamin a well as the motto scroll. This device appeared on Spurs ‘ play kits for three seasons 1996–99. In 2006, in holy order to rebrand and modernise the club ‘s prototype, the club badge and coat of arms were replaced by a professionally designed logo/emblem. [ 109 ] This revamp displayed a satiny and more elegant cockerel standing on an old-time football. The club claimed that they dropped their cabaret diagnose and would be using the rebranded logo only on playing kits. [ 110 ] In November 2013, Tottenham forced non-league clubhouse Fleet Spurs to change their badge because its new design was “ excessively similar ” to the Tottenham crest. [ 111 ]

Kit

The foremost Tottenham kit out recorded in 1883 included a navy blue shirt with a letter H on a red harbor on the leave breast, and white breeches. In 1884 or 1885, the golf club changed to a “ quarter ” kit exchangeable to Blackburn Rovers after watching them win in the 1884 FA Cup Final. After they moved to Northumberland Park in 1888, they returned to the navy blasphemous shirts for the 1889–90 temper. Their kit out changed again to red shirt and blue shorts in 1890, and for a time the team were known as ‘the Tottenham Reds ‘. Five years later in 1895, the class they became a professional club, they switched to a cocoa and gold striped kit out. [ 65 ] In the 1898–99 season, their final year at Northumberland Park, the club switched colours to white shirts and blue shorts, lapp color choice as that for Preston North End. White and united states navy blue have remained as the baseball club ‘s basic color ever since, with the white shirts giving the team the nickname “ The Lilywhites ”. [ 116 ] In 1921, after they had won the FA Cup, the cockerel badge was added to the shirt. In 1939 numbers first appeared on shirt backs. In 1991, the clubhouse was the first to wear long-cut shorts, an initiation at a meter when football kits all featured shorts cut well above the stifle. [ 65 ] In the early days, the team played in kits sold by local outfitters. An early supplier of Spurs ‘ jerseys recorded was a fast on Seven Sisters Road, HR Brookes. In the 1920s, Bukta produced the jersey for the clubhouse. From the mid-1930s onwards, Umbro was the supplier for forty years until a cover was signed with Admiral in 1977 to supply the team their kits. Although Umbro kits in generic colours had been sold to football fans since 1959, it was with the Admiral cope that the market for replica shirts started to take off. Admiral changed the complain color of earlier strips to shirts with more complicate designs, which included manufacturer ‘s son, stripes down the arms and trims on the edges. Admiral was replaced by Le Coq Sportif in the summer of 1980. In 1985, Spurs entered into a occupation partnership with Hummel, who then supplied the strips. [ 119 ] however, the attempt by Tottenham to expand the business side of the club failed, and in 1991, they returned to Umbro. [ 120 ] This was followed by Pony in 1995, Adidas in 1999, Kappa in 2002, [ 65 ] [ 121 ] and a five-year softwood with Puma in 2006. [ 122 ] In March 2011, Under Armour announced a five-year deal to supply Spurs with shirts and other apparel from the start of 2012–13, [ 123 ] [ 124 ] with the home, away and the third kits revealed in July and August 2012. [ 125 ] [ 126 ] The shirts incorporate technology that can monitor the players ‘ heart rate and temperature and send the biometric data to the coach staff. [ 127 ] In June 2017, it was announced that Nike would be the new kits supplier, with the 2017–18 kit released on 30 June, featuring the Spurs ‘ crest encased in a shield, paying court to Spurs ‘ 1960–61 season, where they became the beginning post-war-club to win both the Football League First Division and the FA Cup. [ 128 ] In October 2018, Nike agreed a 15-year distribute reportedly worth £30 million a year with the clubhouse to supply their kits until 2033. [ 129 ] Shirt sponsorship in English football was beginning adopted by the non-league club Kettering Town F.C. in 1976 despite it being banned by the FA. [ 130 ] FA soon lifted the ban, and this practice dispersed to the major clubs when sponsored shirts were allowed on non-televised games in 1979, and on telecast games a well in 1983. [ 127 ] In December 1983, after the club was floated on the London Stock Exchange, Holsten became the first commercial patron logo to appear on a Spurs shirt. [ 132 ] When Thomson was chosen as kit patron in 2002 some Tottenham fans were dysphoric as the shirt-front logo was red, the color of their closest rivals, Arsenal. [ 133 ] In 2006, Tottenham secured a £34 million sponsorship deal with internet casino group Mansion.com. [ 134 ] In July 2010, Spurs announced a biennial shirt sponsorship contract with software infrastructure company Autonomy said to be worth £20 million. [ 135 ] A month late they unveiled a £5 million consider with leading specialist bank and asset management firm Investec as shirt patronize for the Champions League and domestic cup competitions for the future two years. [ 136 ] [ 137 ] Since 2014, AIA has been the main shirt presenter, initially in a deal deserving over £16 million annually, [ 138 ] [ 139 ] increased to a reported £40 to £45 million per year in 2019 in an eight-year deal that lasts until 2027. [ 140 ] [ 141 ]





1883–84 : first kit out


1884–86

1889–90




1890–96

1896–98

1 only appeared in the Premier League. Investec Bank appeared in the Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League. [ 137 ] [ 145 ] 2 Aurasma is a subsidiary company of the Autonomy Corporation. 3 Hewlett-Packard is the parent company of the Autonomy Corporation and merely appeared in the Premier League. AIA appeared in the FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League. [ 146 ]

ownership

Tottenham Hotspur F.C. became a limited party, the Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Company Ltd, on 2 March 1898 so as to raise funds for the club and limit the personal indebtedness of its members. 8,000 shares were issued at £1 each, although only 1,558 shares were taken up in the first class. [ 147 ] 4,892 shares were sold in entire by 1905. [ 148 ] A few families held significant shares ; they included the Wale family, who had association with the club since the 1930s, ampere good as the Richardson and the Bearman families. From 1943 to 1984, members of these families were chairmen of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. after Charles Robert who had been chair since 1898 died. [ 150 ] In the early 1980s, monetary value overruns in the construction of a new West Stand together with the cost of rebuilding the team in previous years led to accumulating debts. In November 1982, a fan of the cabaret Irving Scholar bought 25 % of Tottenham for £600,000, and together with Paul Bobroff gained control of the club. [ 47 ] In rate to bring in funds, Scholar floated Tottenham Hotspur plc, which wholly owns the football club, on the London Stock Exchange in 1983, the beginning european sports club to be listed in a stock commercialize, and became the first base sports party to go public. [ 43 ] [ 148 ] Fans and institutions alike can now freely buy and trade shares in the ship’s company ; a court rule in 1935 involving the club ( Berry and Stewart v Tottenham Hotspur FC Ltd ) had previously established a case law in company law that the directors of a ship’s company can refuse the transportation of shares from a stockholder to another person. [ 151 ] The share offspring was successful with 3.8 million shares cursorily sold. however, ill-considered business decisions under Scholar led to fiscal difficulties, [ 147 ] 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. sugar increased his stake to £8 million by December 1991 and became the dominant allele partner with effective operate of the golf club. In May 1993, Venables was sacked from the dining table after a challenge. By 2000, Sugar began to consider selling the golf club, [ 154 ] and in February 2001, he sold the major depart of his shareholding to ENIC International Ltd. [ 155 ] The majority stockholder, ENIC International Ltd, is an investment company established by the british billionaire Joe Lewis. Daniel Levy, Lewis ‘s collaborator at ENIC, is Executive Chairman of the golf club. They first acquired 29.9 % share of the club in 1991, of which 27 % was bought from Sugar for £22 million. [ 155 ] Shareholding by ENIC increased over the ten through the purchase of the remaining 12 % accommodate of Alan Sugar in 2007 for £25m, [ 156 ] [ 157 ] and the 9.9 % stake belonging to Stelios Haji-Ioannou through Hodram Inc. in 2009. On 21 August 2009 the clubhouse reported that they had issued a further 30 million shares to fund the initial exploitation costs of the fresh stadium project, and that 27.8 million of these new shares had been purchased by ENIC. [ 158 ] The Annual Report for 2010 indicated that ENIC had acquired 76 % of all Ordinary Shares and besides held 97 % of all convertible redeemable preference shares, equivalent to a prevail of 85 % of partake das kapital. [ 159 ] The remaining shares are held by over 30,000 individuals. [ 160 ] Between 2001 and 2011 shares in Tottenham Hotspur F.C. were listed on the Alternative Investment Market ( AIM exponent ). Following an announcement at the 2011 AGM, in January 2012 Tottenham Hotspur confirmed that the club had delisted its shares from the neckcloth marketplace, taking it into private ownership. [ 161 ]

digest

Tottenham has a big fanbase in the United Kingdom, draw largely from North London and the Home counties. The attendance figures for its home matches, however, have fluctuated over the years. Five times between 1950 and 1962, Tottenham had the highest average attendance in England. [ 162 ] [ 163 ] Tottenham was 9th in average attendances for the 2008–09 Premier League season, and 11th for all Premier League seasons. [ 164 ] In the 2017–18 season when Tottenham used Wembley as its home grind, it had the second highest attendance in the Premier League. [ 165 ] [ 166 ] Historical supporters of the cabaret have included such figures as philosopher A.J. Ayer. [ 167 ] [ 168 ] There are many official supporters ‘ clubs located around the global, [ 169 ] while an freelancer supporters club, the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters ‘ Trust, is officially recognised by the club as the representative body for Spurs supporters. [ 170 ] [ 171 ] historically, the baseball club had a significant jewish following from the jewish communities in east and union London, with around a third of its supporters estimated to be jewish in the 1930s. [ 172 ] due to this early support, all three chairmen of the club since 1984 have been jewish businessmen with anterior history of supporting the club. [ 172 ] The cabaret no long has a greater jewish contingent among its fans than other major London cabaret ( jewish supporters are estimated to form at most 5 % of its fanbase ), though it is however distillery identified as a jewish club by rival fans. anti-semitic chants directed at the club and its supporters by equal fans have been heard since the 1960s, with words such as “ Yids “ or “ Yiddos ” used against Tottenham supporters. [ 172 ] [ 174 ] [ 175 ] In reception to the abusive chants, Tottenham supporters, jewish and non-Jewish alike, began to chant back the insults and adopt the “ Yids ” or “ kike Army ” identity starting from around the late 1970s or early 1980s. [ 176 ] Some fans view adopting “ Yid ” as a badge of pride, helping defuse its power as an abuse. [ 177 ] The use of “ Yid ” as a self-identification, however, has been controversial ; some argued that the word is offensive and its use by Spurs fans “ legitimis [ einsteinium ] references to Jews in football ”, [ 178 ] and that such racist abuse should be stamped out in football. [ 179 ] Both the World Jewish Congress and the Board of Deputies of british Jews have denounced the use of the bible by fans. [ 180 ] Others, such as early Prime Minister David Cameron, argued that its use by the Spurs fans is not motivated by hate as it is not used pejoratively, and consequently can not be considered hate manner of speaking. [ 181 ] Attempts to prosecute Tottenham fans who chanted the words have failed, as the Crown Prosecution Service considered that the words as used by Tottenham fans could not be judged legally “ baleful, abusive or contemptuous ”. [ 182 ]

sports fan culture

There are a numeral of songs associated with the club and frequently sung by Spurs fans, such as “ Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur “. The birdcall originated in 1961 after Spurs completed the Double in 1960–61, and the club entered the european Cup for the first time. Their first opponents were Górnik Zabrze, the polish champions, and after a hard-fought match Spurs suffered a 4–2 change by reversal. Tottenham ‘s bully tackle prompted the polish imperativeness to describe them as “ they were no angels ”. These comments incensed a group of three fans and for the return couple at White Hart Lane they dressed as angels wearing blank sheets fashioned into toga, sandals, fake beards and carrying placards bearing biblical -type slogans. The angels were allowed on the margin of the pitch and their ardor whipped up the home fans who responded with a interpretation of “ Glory Glory Hallelujah “, which is still sung on terraces at White Hart Lane and other football grounds. [ 183 ] The Lilywhites besides responded to the atmosphere to win the connect 8–1. then director of Spurs, Bill Nicholson, wrote in his autobiography :

A fresh sound was heard in English football in the 1961–62 season. It was the hymn Glory, Glory Hallelujah being sung by 60,000 fans at White Hart Lane in our european Cup matches. I do n’t know how it started or who started it, but it took over the ground like a religious feel .Bill Nicholson[184]

There had been a number of incidents of vandalism involving Spurs fans, peculiarly in the 1970s and 1980s. significant events include the riot by Spurs fans in Rotterdam at the 1974 UEFA Cup Final against Feyenoord, and again during the 1983–84 UEFA Cup matches against Feyenoord in Rotterdam and Anderlecht in Brussels. [ 185 ] Although fan violence has since abated, the periodic incidences of vandalism continued to be reported. [ 186 ] [ 187 ]

Rivalries

Tottenham supporters have rivalries with respective clubs, chiefly within the London sphere. The fiercest of these is with north London rivals Arsenal. The competition began in 1913 when Arsenal moved from the Manor Ground, Plumstead to Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, and this competition intensified in 1919 when Arsenal were unexpectedly promoted to the First Division, taking a identify that Tottenham believed should have been theirs. Tottenham besides share noteworthy rivalries with companion London clubs Chelsea and West Ham United. [ 189 ] The competition with Chelsea is secondary in importance to the one with Arsenal [ 189 ] and began when Tottenham beat Chelsea in the 1967 FA Cup Final, the beginning ever all-London final. [ 190 ] West Ham fans view Tottenham as a biting rival, although the animosity is not reciprocated to the lapp extent by Tottenham fans. [ 191 ]

Social responsibility

The club through its Community Programme has, since 2006, been working with Haringey Council and the Metropolitan Housing Trust and the local anesthetic community on developing sports facilities and social programmes which have besides been financially supported by Barclays Spaces for Sport and the Football Foundation. [ 192 ] [ 193 ] The Tottenham Hotspur Foundation received high-level political patronize from the prime minister when it was launched at 10 Downing Street in February 2007. [ 194 ] In March 2007 the club announced a partnership with the charity SOS Children ‘s Villages UK. [ 195 ] Player fines will go towards this jacob’s ladder ‘s children ‘s greenwich village in Rustenburg, South Africa with the funds being used to cover the running costs arsenic well as in support of a variety of community development projects in and around Rustenburg. In the fiscal year 2006–07, Tottenham topped a league of Premier League charitable donations when viewed both in overall terms [ 196 ] and as a share of dollar volume by giving £4,545,889, including a one-off contribution of £4.5 million over four years, to set up the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation. [ 197 ] This compared to donations of £9,763 in 2005–06. [ 198 ] The football clubhouse is one of the highest profile participants in the 10:10 project which encourages individuals, businesses and organisations to take action on environmental issues. They joined in 2009 in a commitment to reducing their carbon paper footprint. To do this they upgraded their lights to more efficient models, they turned down their heat dials and took less short-haul flights among a host of other things. [ 199 ] After working with 10:10 for one year, they reported that they had reduced their carbon emissions by 14 %. [ 199 ] In contrast, they have successfully sought the decrease of section 106 plan obligations connected to the renovation of the stadium in the Northumberland Development Project. initially the growth would incorporate 50 % low-cost house, but this requirement was later waived, and a requital of £16m for community infrastructure was reduced to £0.5m. [ 200 ] This is controversial in an area which has suffered high levels of privation as Spurs had bought up properties for renovation, removing existing jobs and businesses for property development but not creating enough raw jobs for the area. [ 201 ] The club however argued that the plan, when completed, would support 3,500 jobs and inject an estimated £293 million into the local economy annually, [ 202 ] and that it would serve as the catalyst for a wider 20-year re-formation program for the Tottenham area. [ 203 ] [ 204 ] In other developments in North Tottenham, the club has built 256 low-cost homes and a 400-pupil basal school. [ 205 ] [ 206 ]

Tottenham Hotspur Women

Tottenham ‘s women ‘s team was founded in 1985 as Broxbourne Ladies. They started using the Tottenham Hotspur appoint for the 1991–92 season and played in the London and South East Women ‘s Regional Football League ( then fourthly tier of the game ). They won forwarding after topping the league in 2007–08. In the 2016–17 season they won the FA Women ‘s Premier League Southern Division and a subsequent playoff, gaining promotion to the FA Women ‘s Super League 2. [ 207 ] On 1 May 2019 Tottenham Hotspur Ladies won promotion to the FA Women ‘s Super League with a 1–1 trace at Aston Villa, which confirmed they would finish second in the Championship. [ 208 ] Tottenham Hotspur Ladies changed their name to Tottenham Hotspur Women in the 2019–20 season. [ 209 ] Tottenham Hotspur Women announced the sign of Cho So-hyun on 29 January 2021. With her korean men ‘s counterpart Son Heung-min already at the club it gave Spurs the rare eminence of having both the men ‘s and women ‘s korean National Team captains at one club. [ 210 ]

Honours

Sources:Tottenham Hotspur – History[211] (D) Next to the year indicates a Double winning year

major honours

domestic

League competitions
Cup competitions

Europe

Statistics and records

Chart of Tottenham ‘s performance since joining the Football League in 1908 Steve Perryman holds the appearance read for Spurs, having played 854 games for the club between 1969 and 1986, of which 655 were league matches. [ 213 ] [ 214 ] Jimmy Greaves holds the clubhouse finish score record with 266 goals in 380 league, cup and european appearances. [ 215 ] Tottenham ‘s criminal record league win is 9–0 against Bristol Rovers in the Second Division on 22 October 1977. [ 216 ] [ 217 ] The golf club ‘s record cup victory came on 3 February 1960 with a 13–2 gain over Crewe Alexandra in the FA Cup. [ 218 ] Spurs ‘ biggest top-flight victory came against Wigan Athletic on 22 November 2009, when they won 9–1 with Jermain Defoe scoring five goals. [ 217 ] [ 219 ] The club ‘s record get the better of is an 8–0 personnel casualty to 1. FC Köln in the Intertoto Cup on 22 July 1995. [ 220 ] The record home attendance at White Hart Lane was 75,038 on 5 March 1938 in a cup tie against Sunderland. [ 221 ] The highest record home attendances were at their impermanent base, Wembley Stadium, due to its higher capacitance – 85,512 spectators turned up on 2 November 2016 for the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League game against Bayer Leverkusen, [ 222 ] while 83,222 attended the North London bowler hat against Arsenal on 10 February 2018 which is the highest attendance recorded for any Premier League bet on. [ 223 ] The clubhouse is ranked No. 13 by the UEFA with a club coefficient of 85.0 points as of April 2020. [ 224 ]

Players

current team

As of 1 September 2021[225]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on lend

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

young person Academy

management and digest staff

Directors

Role Name[234][235]
Executive chairman Daniel Levy
Operations and finance director Matthew Collecott
Executive director Donna-Maria Cullen
Chief commercial officer Todd Kline[236]
Managing Director of Football Fabio Paratici[237]
Director of football administration and governance Rebecca Caplehorn
Technical performance director Steve Hitchen
Non-executive director Jonathan Turner
Non-executive director Ron Robson

Managers and players

Managers and head coaches in clubhouse ‘s history

  • Listed according to when they became managers for Tottenham Hotspur:[150]
  • (C) – Caretaker
  • (I) – Interim
  • (FTC) – First team coach

Club hallway of fame

The take after players are noted as “ greats ” for their contributions to the club or have been inducted into the golf club ‘s Hall of Fame : [ 238 ] [ 239 ] [ 240 ] The most late additions to the golf club ‘s Hall of Fame are Steve Perryman and Jimmy Greaves on 20 April 2016. [ 241 ]

player of the class

As voted by members and season ticket holders. (Calendar year until 2005–06 season)[242]

Affiliated clubs

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