[96] Spurs also shared White Hart Lane with Arsenal when Highbury was requisitioned by the government and used as an Air Raid Precautions centre. There used to be a football club over there. [307] The removal of part of the stand reduced the capacity of the stadium, and European matches were held at Wembley Stadium for the 2016–17 season to comply with the ticketing requirement for European games. [26] Instead, the club played in the short-lived Southern Alliance for the 1892–93 season. The 1987 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Coventry City and Tottenham Hotspur on 16 May 1987 at Wembley Stadium in London, England to determine the winner of the 1986–87 FA Cup. [197] In the final against Nottingham Forest, Gascoigne suffered serious cruciate ligament damage in his knee when he made a reckless tackle on opponent Gary Charles. [78], In the first season after the war McWilliam took Tottenham straight back to Division One when they became Division Two Champions of the 1919–20 season. Carabao Cup. [8] Ripsher found new premises for the club when the boys were evicted in 1884 after a YMCA council member was accidentally hit by a soot-covered football: first at 1 Dorset Villa, a church-owned property on Northumberland Park where they stayed for two years, then to the Red House on High Road around 1885–86 after they were again asked to leave, this time for playing cards in church. [220][221], Christian Gross, coach of Swiss champions Grasshoppers, was chosen as the successor to Francis. [262] Tottenham made their worst start to a season in the club's history in 2008–09, their failure to register a win in eight League games leaving them bottom of the Premier League. [48], Tottenham first took part in the FA Cup in the 1894–95 season, but never got beyond the third round proper in six years. [320], Tottenham started the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League poorly, gaining only one point in the first three games of the group stage. Nicholson resigned after a poor start to the 1974–75 season and a 4–0 loss to Middlesbrough in the League Cup, but his tenure ended on a sour note. Harper was a prolific goalscorer in the few years he was at the club; his 36 league goals scored in a season in 1930–31 remained a record until 1963, when it was broken by Jimmy Greaves. [50] The game ended in a 2–2 draw, with both of Spurs' goals coming from Sandy Brown, and a disputed goal from Sheffield. [54], Following the 1901 Cup win, Spurs failed to repeat the success in the next few seasons but they were runners-up in the Southern League twice, and won the London League in the 1902–03 season as well as the Western League in the 1903–04 season. [318] After some delay, the new stadium, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, was completed and opened on 3 April 2019. [62] As Spurs had no manager following Kirkham's departure, the directors took on the role of choosing the team, while the club secretary Arthur Turner was tasked with overseeing the team's affairs. UEFA Cup Winners: 1971/1972, 1983/1984. [114], The stress of managing the team had affected Rowe's health, and he suffered a breakdown in 1954; he resigned after falling ill again the following year. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom. [127] It remained the best ever start by any club in the top flight of English football until it was surpassed by Manchester City in 2017. [34], With an increasing number of teams to play against, the quality of Spurs' opposition also improved. [83][84] Thirty-seven Spurs players, nine of whom became internationals, started their playing career at Northfleet. [134], A month later Spurs won the FA Cup again after beating Burnley in the 1962 FA Cup Final. [3] Some of the early members such as Buckle, Sam Casey, John Thompson and Jack Jull stayed with the club for many years as players, committee members or directors; for example Jull played until 1896, while Buckle served in various roles on the club committee and was on the first board of directors of Tottenham formed in 1898 until he left in 1900. While Chelsea delivered against Wolverhampton on the last day of the Premier League season, they failed to come through in the last match of the year losing 2-1 to Arsenal in the FA Cup Final. The club then severed all ties with a £10,000 payoff, even though Nicholson had wanted to stay on as an advisor, and refused him a testimonial (Nicholson was later brought back as advisor by Keith Burkinshaw and was only given a testimonial in 1983 under a different chairman). [41] The White Hart Lane site, actually located behind Tottenham High Road, was a nursery owned by the brewery chain Charringtons. Martin Peters also arrived from West Ham United for a record fee of £200,000 in 1970 in part-exchange for a reluctant Greaves,[144][145] while Ralph Coates was signed in the summer of 1971 for £192,000 from Burnley. [214], Ardiles was replaced by Gerry Francis, who alleviated relegation fears and oversaw the club's climb to seventh place in the league, just missing out on a 1995–96 UEFA Cup place. [150][151] With this victory, Spurs became the first British team to win two different European trophies. Jol was sacked, learning of his removal just before a Uefa Cup game on 25 October 2007. Success at last - Spurs become Champions of the Southern League. Andros Townsend's past two FA Cup goals have been penalties scored in the fourth round - in 2014-15 for Tottenham against Leicester and in this game against Spurs. FA Cup. It is nothing of the kind. Although they were also in contention for three other trophies that season, they finished fourth in the First Division, lost to Liverpool in the League Cup final in extra time, while Barcelona won at home in the Cup Winners' Cup semi-final after a 1–1 draw at White Hart Lane. That was Tottenham's first ever League title. Spurs were fined £600,000, had twelve league points deducted for the 1994–95 season and were banned from the 1994–95 FA Cup. [155][156], In Burkinshaw's first year as manager in the 1976–77 season, Tottenham slipped out of the First Division after 27 years in the top flight. [165][166] Scholar bought up 25% of the club for £600,000, and with the help of Paul Bobroff who had bought 15% of shares from the family of previous chairman Bearman, took control in December 1982. They (eleven London clubs and five other clubs from the south) were temporarily expelled from the Football League; after paying a £10 fine they were readmitted, but they played in the Football League South in the way the London clubs had suggested. After the match the Polish press described Spurs players as "no angels"; in response, in the return leg at White Hart Lane, some Spurs fans dressed up as angels holding placards with slogans such as "Glory be to shining White Hart Lane", and other fans joined in by singing the refrains of "Glory Glory Hallelujah". Spurs played some encouraging football in the opening months of his management, but they ended the 2001–02 season in ninth place. Spurs remained there until 2017. Tottenham FA Cup Records includes all of Spurs FA Cup games, opponents, scores and goals. [86] Billy Minter, who first joined the club as a player in 1907 and became the first player to score 100 goals for the club in 1919,[87] took over as manager. [94] Peter McWilliam was brought back as manager, and he tried to rebuild the team by promoting young players from Northfleet including Nicholson, Burgess and Ditchburn, but his second stint at the club was again interrupted by world war. Cost overruns on the project, which rose from £3.5 million to £6 million, as well as the cost of rebuilding the team in the return to Division One resulted in financial difficulties for the club. [285], At the beginning of the 2013–14 season, Bale moved to Real Madrid for what was then a world record transfer fee of €100.8 million (£85.1 million). Following their FA Cup victory in 1921, Spurs players started to wear the cockerel emblem on their shirts. [302] This is their highest ranking in 54 years since the 1962–63 season under Bill Nicholson,[303] and the team also achieved their first unbeaten home run in 52 years since the 1964–65 season. [42], After losing two of the first three games of the 1998–99 season, Gross was sacked, and former Arsenal manager George Graham was hired to take over. [38], Soon after the club became a limited company, on 14 March 1898, Frank Brettell was appointed the first manager of Spurs. European Cup-Winners Cup Winners: 1962/1963. The last quarter-final to go to a replay was Manchester United vs West Ham United in the 2015–16 FA Cup. [316] They nevertheless had their best start in the Premier League in the 2018–19 season,[317] ended by a home defeat against Manchester City. [42] A bronze cockerel was placed on top of the West Stand in 1909. Shortly after his appointment, the club pipped Liverpool for the signature of Swansea City midfielder Gylfi Sigurðsson. In the 1956–57 season, under the guidance of Bill Nicholson as coach, the creative pairing of Blanchflower and Harmer, and the scoring prowess of Bobby Smith, the club experienced a revival and finished in second place, albeit eight points behind the winners, the "Busby Babes" of Manchester United. [289][291], Mauricio Pochettino was appointed Tottenham manager on 27 May 2014, on a five-year contract. They include Bill Nicholson, Ron Burgess, Taffy O'Callaghan, Vic Buckingham and Ted Ditchburn. Tottenham reached their first ever Champions League final. The match was attended by 400 spectators, and Spurs won 5–2. [92] Spurs only managed to stay in Division One for two seasons; injuries (especially to Rowe and Hall) left the team weakened and at the bottom of the table in the 1934–35 season by April 1935. The showpiece match of the Football Association Challenge Cup, English football's primary cup competition, the 1987 final was the 106th since the competition's inauguration. In the 1993–94 season, Sheringham's injury in October 1993 impacted on Spurs' performance, and relegation became a real possibility. [312][313][314] Tottenham failed to make any new signings in the summer transfer window of 2018, the first club not to do so in the Premier League. They also beat Crewe Alexandra 13–2 in the 1959–60 FA Cup with five goals coming from Les Allen. When the FA Cup ban was lifted, Spurs reached the FA Cup semi-final where they were defeated 4–1 by eventual winners Everton. Mostly aged 13 to 14, the boys were members of the Hotspur Cricket Club formed two years earlier. [206], The departure of Venables saw Tottenham return to a conventional management setup after two seasons of a two-tier structure. The stand collapsed under their weight causing a few injuries, which prompted the club to start looking for a new ground. [237] ENIC, owned by Joe Lewis and Daniel Levy with the latter responsible for the running of the club, would eventually acquire 85% of Tottenham. [164], The club began a new phase of redevelopment at White Hart Lane in 1980, starting with the rebuilding of the West Stand initiated by a new chairman Arthur Richardson. Kirkham was disliked by players and fans alike, and he left on 20 July 1908 after a year as manager. [126] The winning run was interrupted by a 1–1 draw against Manchester City, followed by another four wins before the unbeaten streak was broken by a loss to Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough in November. [109] Rowe credited McWilliam for learning to play a quick passing game,[110] which he developed into a style involving players playing in triangles, quickly laying the ball off to a teammate and running past the marking tackler to collect the return pass. In the following 2003–04 season, Spurs started the season poorly, gaining only four points out of six games. Chelsea's last five FA Cup 2021: Runners-up 2020: Runners-up 2019: Maurizio Sorri 2018: Champions 2017: Runners-up [275][276] Earlier in the season they won at the Emirates with goals from van der Vaart and Bale, their first win at Arsenal in 17 years. Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is a football club based in Tottenham, north London, England. He inherited a Spurs side that was struggling in the league with a quarter of the 1987–88 season played. [247] The 2002–03 season started well, with Tottenham top of the league after three successive wins, and Hoddle voted manager of the month in the division for August. The Football League offered one of the additional places to 19th-placed Chelsea, who would otherwise have been relegated with Spurs for the 1915–16 season, and the other, controversially, to Arsenal, who had finished only sixth in Division Two the previous season. Tottenham Hotspur legend and BBC Sport pundit Gary Lineker says Spurs paid Wycombe the biggest compliment in last night’s FA Cup fourth round clash. Tottenham Hotspur win 5-4 on penalties. Their initial application was unsuccessful, but after the resignation of Stoke from the league for financial reasons, Tottenham won election to the Second Division of the Football League for the 1908–09 season to replace them. Several weeks before this victory, Burkinshaw announced that he would be leaving at the end of that season after disagreements with the directors and becoming disenchanted with the club. It remains the highest scoring FA Cup tie of the 20th century and is still the club's record win. With a free-scoring attack force, the team won the Second Division convincingly with six games yet to play. [178][181] The close season of 1987 saw the sale of Glenn Hoddle to Monaco after a decade as the driving force in Tottenham's midfield. [245][246], The only significant outlay before the following campaign was the £7 million signing of Robbie Keane, who joined from Leeds United. The first recorded match took place on 30 September 1882 against a local team named the Radicals, a game Hotspur lost 2–0. [146] Gilzean recreated the goal-scoring partnership with Chivers that he had with Greaves, this time aided by the blindside runs of Peters. [95], On 3 September 1939 Neville Chamberlain declared war, and league football was abandoned with only three games played. A Romance of Football: The History of the Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Tottenham was a founding member of the Premier League in 1992; they finished in mid-table most seasons, but now rank as one of the top six clubs. [96] McWilliam went back to the North during the war and the team was managed by Arthur Turner; under him Spurs won the regional league twice. [82] McWilliam left for Middlesbrough in February 1927 when Middlesbrough offered him significantly better pay while the Tottenham board refused his request for a smaller increase. [52] The club also inadvertently introduced the tradition of tying ribbons in the colours of the winning team on the FA Cup when the wife of a Spurs director tied blue and white ribbons to the handles of the cup. 19:45. To compete against better teams, the club committee, led by the second club president John Oliver, agreed that the club should turn professional. In June 2005, when Arnesen moved to Chelsea, Spurs appointed Damien Comolli as sporting director. [148], The 1971 Cup win and a third-place finish in the 1970–71 season earned Spurs a place in the inaugural UEFA Cup. 1901. [153][154], Terry Neill was appointed manager by the board, and Spurs narrowly avoided relegation at the end of the 1974–75 season. Even Leicester City has won the league after fighting relegation the season before. Several days later, the club also resolved the protracted transfer saga surrounding Ajax defender Jan Vertonghen. [69] The first significant signing by McWilliam was winger Fanny Walden, who was signed for a record £1,700 in April 1913,[70] later signings included goalkeeper Bill Jaques and right-back Tommy Clay. Spurs last won a trophy on 24th February 2008 where they beat Chelsea 2-1 at Wembley Stadium to win the League Cup. Sheringham left in the summer of 1997 for Manchester United while Les Ferdinand joined the team for a record £6 million and David Ginola for £2.5 million from Newcastle. The team had begun to deteriorate, and new signings Jack Elkes and Frank Osborne could not overcome weaknesses in other positions. Fulham then complained to the London Football Association that Tottenham had poached their player, and accused them of professionalism breaching amateur rules. [46] With an effective attacking triangle of Jones, Kirwan and Copeland, Tottenham won 11 games in their first 13 games in the 1908–09 season. Pochettino was sacked on 19 November 2019, to be replaced by José Mourinho as coach the following day. Football League Division Two Champions: 1919/1920, 1949/1950. [42] The stadium remained in this form bar some minor changes until 2016. In the following 1959–60 season, Spurs improved to third place in the league, two points behind the champions Burnley. 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In the 1927–28 season, his first full season in charge, Spurs were unexpectedly relegated despite finishing with 38 points, only 6 points behind 4th-placed Derby County. The North and South stands were then built in the early 1920s, with the East Stand completed in 1934, bringing the capacity of the finished stadium to almost 80,000. By the summer of 1992, his knee had recovered and he completed his move to Lazio for £5.5 million, reduced from the £7.9 million fees agreed before his injury. [140] Nicholson rebuilt the team with new players, most of them imports, including Alan Mullery, Pat Jennings, Cyril Knowles, Mike England, Terry Venables, Jimmy Robertson, Phil Beal, Joe Kinnear, and Alan Gilzean who formed a goal-scoring partnership with Greaves. [171][172], In 1984, Tottenham reached the final of the UEFA Cup. [186] Spurs made a shaky start to the 1988–89 season; incomplete refurbishment of the East Stand caused the postponement of the opening game against Coventry just a few hours before kickoff, which earned the club a two-point deduction (later replaced by a £15,000 fine), and this was followed by a string of losses in October. [22] In the early days Spurs were essentially a schoolboy team, sometimes playing against adults, but older players later joined, and the squad strengthened as they absorbed players from other local clubs. (1921)[1], The Hotspur Football Club was formed in 1882 by a group of schoolboys from Saint John's Middle Class School and Tottenham Grammar School. [53] The win started a trend for Spurs' success in years ending in a one, with further FA Cup wins in 1921, 1961, 1981 and 1991, the League Cup in 1971, the league in 1951, and in 1961, which is the double winning year. [159], In the summer of 1978, Burkinshaw caused a stir by signing for £750,000 two Argentinian internationals Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa—players from beyond the British Isles in English football were rare at the time. The team, aided by the goal-scoring exploits of Hunt, were nicknamed the "Greyhounds" in the 1932–33 season as they raced up the Second Division from near the bottom of the table, and won promotion after finishing second to Stoke City. Keeping to Rowe's maxim of "make it simple, make it quick", this method proved an effective way of moving the ball at pace with players' positions and responsibilities being totally fluid. T he FA Cup (Football Association Challenge Cup) is the oldest existing football competition. Hopefully Everton can stop them doing so again this year. [138], By 1964 the Double-winning side was beginning to break up owing to age, injuries and transfers. 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