Tottenham Hotspur

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The club was initially known as Hotspur Football Club it was established on the 5th of September, 1882 by schoolboys led by Bobby Buckle. They were part of the Hotspur Cricket Club and the football club was established to play sports during winter months. The players sought assistance with this club's formation from John Ripsher the Bible instructor of the All Hallows Church who was elected its first president as well as its treasurer. Ripsher was a great help and mentor to the youngsters throughout the beginning of the club's existence as well as reorganised the club and found a new home that could accommodate the group. The club was founded in April 1884. was changed to "Tottenham Hotspur Football Club" to avoid confusion with a London club called Hotspur which was delivered incorrectly by mistake to North London. The club's nicknames are "Spurs" as well as "the Lilywhites".

In the beginning they North London team had games among themselves as well as games of friendship against local clubs. The first match that was recorded was played on the 30th of September 1882, against a local team known as the Radicals that Hotspur was defeated by 2 to 0. The team competed in the first competition for cup participation, the London Association Cup, and took home a 5-2 win in their first game of the season on October 17th 1885 against a work team known as St Albans. The team's matches began to catch the attention of the local population and attendances at home games were increasing. They participated their first league called the one-year-old Southern Alliance.

The club was officially established on the 20th of December, 1895. The club during the spring of 1896 was included in Division One of the Southern League. The 2nd March of 1898 marked the day that the club was also transformed into an unincorporated company, which was known as the Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Company. The following day, Frank Brettell became the first manager of Spurs and was appointed John Cameron, who became the manager of the team after Brettell quit a year later. Cameron would make a huge influence on Spurs as he helped the club achieve its first prize that was that of the Southern League title during the 1899-1900 season. The following year Spurs won the 1901 FA Cup by beating Sheffield United defeated 3-1 in replay in the last following the conclusion of the first match with a draw of 2-2. They became the first club outside of the League club to accomplish this feat since the creation in The Football League in 1888.

The club was formed in 1908. team was admitted to the Football League Second Division and was promoted into the First Division in their debut season. They finished runners-up. After 1912, Peter McWilliam was appointed manager. Tottenham ended up at the last in the league by the conclusion season 1914-15 season, when football was shut down because of the First World War. Spurs were dropped into the Second Division on the resumption of league football following an outbreak of war. They they quickly was reinstated in first division in the First Division as Second Division champions in the 1919-20 season..

On 23 April 1921, McWilliam guided Spurs to their second FA Cup win, beating Wolverhampton Wanderers defeated 1-0 at the Cup Final. Spurs finished second to Liverpool were in the league as of 1922, but they would end up finishing in mid-table for the following five seasons. Spurs were dropped during 1927-28. 1927-28 campaign following the departure of McWilliam quit. Through the 1930s and 40s Spurs stagnated within the Second Division, apart from briefly returning to the top league during their 1934-34 as well as the 1934-35 seasons.

The former Spurs teammate Arthur Rowe became manager in 1949. Rowe came up with a particular style of play, referred to as " push and run" which proved effective in his first few years as manager. The team was relegated into the First Division after finishing top of the Second Division in the 1949-50 season. In his second season under his the club, Tottenham won their first ever league championship of the top tier as they finished at the top of the First Division for the 1950-51 season. Rowe was forced to quit in April 1955 after suffering from a stress-related illness that prevented him from running the club. Before his departure the club, he signed one Spurs most renowned athletes, Danny Blanchflower who was named his FWA Footballer of the Year award twice during his time at Tottenham.

Bill Nicholson took the reins as manager in October of 1958. The coach with the most success, leading the team to significant trophy successes three years in a row during the 1960s early on: The double in 1961 as well as the FA Cup in 1962 and the Cup Winners Cup in 1963. Nicholson hired Dave Mackay and John White in 1959, two of the most influential players from the team that won the Double, and Jimmy Greaves in 1961, who was the greatest goal-scorer of all time in the elite level in English soccer.

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. 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 at the end of 1960/61 FA Cup. It was the first Double of the 20th century, and the first since Aston Villa won the trophy in 1897 when they made the feat. The next year Spurs won their consecutive FA Cup after beating Burnley in 1962 in the FA Cup Final.

On May 15th 1963, Tottenham were the very first British team to take home an European trophy when they won 1962-63 European Cup Winners' Cup after they defeated Atletico Madrid by 5-1 during the final.[3636 Spurs were also their first British team to be awarded two European trophy when they took home in 1971 and 1972 the UEFA Cup with a rebuilt team of Martin Chivers, Pat Jennings as well as Steve Perryman. They also won their first FA Cup in 1967, two League Cups (in 1971 and 1973) in addition to finishing second in the league (1962-63) as well as runners-up in 1974-73 UEFA Cup. Overall, Nicholson won eight major trophy during his 16 years as the manager of the club.

Spurs entered a phase that was a decline after the achievements in the early 1970s and Nicholson was fired following a poor beginning in this 1974-1975 campaign. The team was then demoted at the close of the 1976-77 season with Keith Burkinshaw as manager. Burkinshaw quickly brought the team back to the top league and reconstructed the team with Glenn Hoddle, as well as two Argentinians, Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa, which was uncommon because players from outside of those from the British Isles were rare at the time. The team Burkinshaw rebuilt was able to win the FA Cup in 1981 and 1982 as well as winning the UEFA Cup in 1984..

The 1980s were a time of change, which began with a fresh phase of renovations of White Hart Lane, as also a change of directors. Irving Scholar took control of the club and took the club in an increasingly commercial direction, the first step in the change into English soccer clubs to commercial entities. The club's debts led to changes in the boardroom. Terry Venables teamed together with the businessman Alan Sugar in June 1991 to assume control of Tottenham Hotspur plc. Venables was appointed manager in 1987 signed players like Paul Gascoigne and Gary Lineker. under Venables, Spurs won the 1990-91 FA Cup, making the club the first to have won 8 FA Cups.

Tottenham was among the five clubs who pushed for the creation of the Premier League, which was created with the consent by The Football Association which replaced it with the Football League First Division as the highest level of English football. There were a variety of players and managers such as Teddy Sheringham, Jurgen Klinsmann and David Ginola, for a period of time, during the Premier League until the late 2000s, Spurs finished mid-table most seasons, with only a few trophy wins. They were the winners of the League Cup in 1999 under George Graham, and then again in the year 2008 in the hands of Juande Ramos. The team's performance increased with the help of the leadership of Harry Redknapp with players like Gareth Bale and Luka Modric The club placed in the top five positions in the beginning of 2010.

On February 1, 2001 Sugar traded his stake of Spurs for ENIC Sports plc managed by Joe Lewis and Daniel Levy, and resigned as chairman. Lewis and Levy would later own the majority of the club as well as Levy in charge of the operation of the team. They hired Mauricio Pochettino as the head coach, and he was in the role from 2014 until the year 2019. 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 club's first UEFA Champions League final, ultimately losing the final to eventual champions Liverpool 2-0. Pochettino was later dismissed following an unsatisfactory beginning towards his year 2019-20 in November of the year 2019 and was replaced with Jose Mourinho. His tenure was short-lived, lasting just 17 months. He was dismissed in April 2021 and substituted by the interim manager Ryan Mason for the remaining season of 2020-21. Nuno Espirito Santo was named the new manager for the 2021-22 season on the 30th of June in 2021, but was dismissed after just four months as manager, and succeeded with Antonio Conte. In the 21-22 season, Conte guided Spurs to fourth and then returning to the Champions League place for the first time in the span of two seasons.

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Spurs played their initial matches on the public land at their Park Lane end of Tottenham Marshes in which they were required to outline and construct their own field. There were times when fights broke out in the marshes as a result of disagreements with other teams about the usage of the pitch. The first Spurs match that was reported by local media took place at Tottenham Marshes on the 6th of October 1883, when they played Brownlow Rovers, which Spurs beat 9-0. It was at this ground that, in 1887, Spurs first played the team that would later become their arch rivals,Arsenal (then was known in the past as Royal Arsenal), leading in the score 2-1 before the game was abandoned because of poor lighting. the team from away arrived late.

Since they played in public parks it was not possible for the club to charge admission fees , and even though the number of spectators was increased to about a thousand, it did not result in gate receipts. The club in 1888 hired an area between the number 69-75 Northumberland Park at a cost of $117 per year and spectators were paid 3d for a game. This was increased by 6d in cup tie. The first game played at the Park was held on 13 October 1888. This was an emergency game that earned gate revenues in the amount of 17 shillings. The first stand , with more than 100 seats as well as changing rooms below was constructed in the stadium in 1894-95, for a price of P60. The stand was destroyed a couple of weeks later and needed to be rebuilt. The stand was damaged in April of 1898. a crowd of 14,000 attended to see Spurs play at Woolwich Arsenal. The fans climbed the top of the refreshment stand to get a better perspective of the game. The stand began to collapse which resulted in several injuries. Because Northumberland Park could no longer handle the large numbers of fans, Spurs were forced to search for a bigger venue and relocated into their current White Hart Lane site in the year 1899.

It was the White Hart Lane ground was constructed on an abandoned plants nursery which was owned by the Brewery Charringtons as well as was located behind the municipal house known as The White Hart on Tottenham High Road (the road White Hart Lane actually lies only a few hundred yards to the north to the front entrance). The site was initially leased to Charringtons as were the stadiums they had located at Northumberland Park were moved here and provided an area for 2,500 spectators. Notts County was the very first to visit "the Lane at a casual game attracted by 5,000 fans and earning PS115 in receipts; Spurs won 4-1. Queens Park Rangers were the first team to play competitively at the ground , and 11,000 spectators were watching them lose 1-0 against Tottenham. in 1905 Tottenham was able to raise enough cash to purchase their freehold of the land along with an area at the north (Paxton Road) the northern end.

Following the time that Spurs joined the Football League, the club began to construct an entirely new stadium. The stadium was built featuring stands created in 1909 by archibald leitch that were built over the subsequent two and a-half decades. In 1909 the West Stand was added in 1909, while the East Stand was also covered in 1909 and was extended two years after. The proceeds of winning the 1921 FA Cup win were used to construct a covered terrace located at Paxton Road. Paxton Road end and the Park Lane end was built with a price of PS3,000 two years after. The stadium's capacity was increased to approximately 58,000 spectators, with a capacity of 40,000 under the cover. The East Stand (Worcester Avenue) was completed in 1934, and the capacity was increased to 80,000 spectators. The cost was the city of Portsmouth a total of PS60,000.

In the 1980s, when the stadium was in its early stages the stadium went through another significant phase of renovation. Its West Stand was replaced by an expensive new structure in 1982 while it was the East Stand was renovated in 1988. In 1992, as a result of the Taylor Report's recommendation that Premier League clubs eliminate standing areas The lower terraces of the east and south stands were converted into seating areas, as was The North Stand becoming all-seater the following season. This South Stand redevelopment was completed in March 1995, and featured the world's largest Sony Jumbotron television screen to provide live game coverage as well as away match broadcasts. In 1997-98, The Paxton Road stand received a higher tier that was redesigned and another Jumbotron screen. Minor adjustments to the seating arrangement were implemented in 2006, which increased to the maximum capacity the venue up to 36,310.

At the beginning of the millennium at the time, White Hart Lane's capacity had declined. White Hart Lane had become smaller than that of other Premier League clubs. The discussions began regarding how to improve the venue and a variety of options were being considered, including growing the capacity of the stadium via renovation of the existing site, or utilizing it as the Olympic Stadium in 2012 London Olympic Stadium located in Stratford. The club eventually agreed to an option called the Northumberland Development Project and the stadium will be constructed on a larger area of land which included the current site. In 2016 the northeast part in the arena was removed in order to facilitate development of the proposed stadium. Since this cut the stadium's capacity to a lower level than what was needed to host European matches, Tottenham Hotspur played every European home match of 2017 on Wembley Stadium. The 2016-17 domestic fixture seasons continued in the Lane but the demolishment of the remainder of the stadium began on the day following the final match of the year as well. White Hart Lane was completely removed by July 2017.

The club in October of 2008 unveiled the idea of building an additional stadium right to north of the current White Hart Lane stadium, with the southern part of the new stadium's field covering the northern section of the Lane. The plan would be referred to as known as the Northumberland Development Project. The club filed plans in October 2009 , but after a number of negative reactions to plans, they were removed in favor of a significantly updated plan for the stadium and related developments. The revised plan was submitted and was approved by Haringey Council in September 2010. An agreement on Northumberland Development Project Northumberland Development Project was signed on September 20, 2011.

Following a lengthy delay on the compulsory purchase order for local businesses situated on land adjacent to the stadium and a court dispute against the purchase order, which was resolved in the beginning of 2015, a plan application to an alternative style was approved through Haringey Council on 17 December 2015. The construction began in 2016 The new venue was set to be completed by the season of 2018-19. While it was being constructed it was the venue for all Tottenham home matches in the 2017-18 season and the majority of games in the 2018-19 season was played in Wembley Stadium. After two successful test events, Tottenham Hotspur officially moved into the new ground on 3 April 2019 with a Premier League match against Crystal Palace, in which Spurs beat with a 2-0. The new stadium is named Tottenham Hotspur Stadium while a Naming-Rights Agreement is signed.

The first training ground that was used by Tottenham was situated on Brookfield Lane in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. The club bought the 11-acre ground used by Cheshunt F.C. In 1952, the club was purchased, for a cost of P35,000. It was home to three pitches which included a small stadium and a small stand for games by teams of juniors. The stadium was later purchased for over 4 million dollars, and the club then moved its training grounds to Spurs Lodge located on Luxborough Lane, Chigwell in Essex and was officially which was inaugurated the following September in the name of Tony Blair. The Chigwell training ground and press centre located in Chigwell were used up to 2014.

In 2007 Tottenham purchased a property located at Bulls Cross in Enfield located just a few miles to the south of their previous field in Cheshunt. A new training facility was built on the site at PS45 million. It began operations in 2012. The 77-acre site features 15 grass pitches, one-and-a-half artificial pitches as well being a covered artificial pitch inside The main structure. The main building located on Hotspur Way also has hydrotherapy and swimming pools gymnasiums, gyms and medical facilities, as well as eating and rest areas for players, as in addition to classes for schoolboy and academy players. A 45-bedroom player's lodge that includes food as well as treatment, rest as well as rehabilitation services was built at Myddleton Farm next to the training facility in the year 2018. The lodge is used primarily by Tottenham's first-team and Academy players. However, it also has been utilized by national teams. The first team to the facilities on the location was players from the Brazilian group as they prepared for their participation in the the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

From in the 1921 FA Cup Final the Tottenham Hotspur crest has been adorned with the image of a cockerel. Harry Hotspur who is the name that the club's name is derived is believed to have received the name Hotspur when he was digging in his spurs in order to make his horse move faster when the battles raged on and spurs are connected to combat cocks. The club used spurs to represent symbolism in the year 1900, and later evolved into the cockfight. A former player William James Scott made a bronze sculpture of a cockerel seated on a football for the cost in the region of PS35 (equivalent to the price of PS3,880 in 2021) and the 9 foot 6 inches (2.90 m) statue was then erected over the West Stand the at the end of the 1909-10 season. Since then, the cockerel as well as ball logo has become element of the identity of the club. The badge that was worn on the shirt of 1921 included a cockerel inside an shield. However, it was replaced with the cockerel sitting on a ball during the latter half of the 1960s.

Between 1956 between 1956 and Between 1956 and Spurs employed a fake heraldic shield with a variety locations and local associations. Castle is Bruce Castle, about 400 yards away from the ground, and the forests are called known as the Seven Sisters. The arms were decorated with their Latin slogan Audere est facere (to do is dare). take on).

In 1983, to combat illegal "pirate" merchandising the club's emblem was modified by adding Two red heraldic Lions to the shield's flanks (which was derived out of the arms belonging to the Northumberland family that Harry Hotspur was a member) and the motto scroll. The device was featured on Spurs their kits for three seasons from 1996 to 1999.

In 2006, to revamp and modernize the image of the club The club's badge as well as coat of arms of the club were changed to an emblema designed by a professional. This new design showed a more sleek and more refined cockerel on an old-fashioned football. The club claimed they would no longer use their own name and will use the new logo only on their playing kits. In November 2013, Tottenham forced non-league club Fleet Spurs are changing their badge due to the fact that their new logo appeared "too too similar" with the Tottenham crest.

In 2017 Spurs added a shield to the logo of the cockerel on shirt, similar to the badge from the 1950s, however with a cockerel in modern style.

The initial Tottenham kit that was listed in 1883 featured an emerald-blue shirt that had the letter H on a red shield on left breast and white Breeches. In 1884 or 1885, the club changed to a "quartered" kit similar to Blackburn Rovers after seeing them win their 1884 FA Cup Final. After moving into Northumberland Park in 1888, they switched back to navy blue shirts of their period 1889-1990. The team's uniform changed to a blue shorts with a red shirt in 1890. For it, they were named the Tottenham Reds'. Five years later , in 1895 when they were made an official club and changed their kit to a gold and chocolate stripe kit.

In the 1898-99 season, their final year at Northumberland Park, the club switched colours to white shirts and blue shorts, same colour choice as that for Preston North End. Navy blue and white have been the team's primary colours since and white shirts earning the club the name "The Lilywhites". In 1921, when they took home the FA Cup, the cockerel badge was added to the shirt in the final. The club's crest has been featured on the shirt ever since, and Spurs were the first major team to feature its logo on the shirt of the players every game, excluding the wartime years. The first time numbers were used was in 1939. on the back of the shirt.

In the beginning of the club, players wore jerseys that were that were sold locally by outfitters. One of the first suppliers of Spurs jerseys was a company located on Seven Sisters Road HR Brookes. The 1920s saw Bukta created the jerseys used by the club. From the mid-1930s onwards Umbro were the main supplier for over forty years. in 1959 the V neck shirt took over the collared shirts from the past. Then, in 1963 the crew neck shirt was introduced (the design has changed since). The year 1961 was the first time Bill Nicholson sent Spurs players out in white, not navy shorts to participate in their European campaign. It's a tradition that continues until today in European games.

The year 1977 saw a contract was struck together with Admiral for the purpose of provide the team with kits. While Umbro kits with generic colors had been offered to fans of football in the past, it was after the Admiral agreement that the market for replica shirts began to flourish. Admiral changed the basic shades of previous strips to shirts that had more elaborate designs. These included logos of the manufacturer and stripes on the arms and trims around the edges. Admiral's replacement was Le Coq Sportif in the summer of 1980. The year 1985 was the first time Spurs formed a partnership in business along with Hummel and then provided the strips. But the plan to Tottenham to grow the business aspects of the club did not succeed and, in the year 1991, the club returned to Umbro. In 1991 the club was among the first to wear shorts with a long cut which was a first at an era when football kits were all shorts that were cut above the knee. Umbro was later followed by Pony in 1995, Adidas in 1999, Kappa in 2002, and then a five-year agreement in 2006 with Puma that was signed in the year 2006. In March of 2011, Under Armour announced a five-year contract to provide Spurs with the shirts and other gear beginning in 2012-13. The home, away, and third kit being announced in July and August of 2012. The shirts feature technology that will monitor the player's heart rate and temperature , and transmit the biometric information to the coaches. In June 2017, it was announced that Nike would be the new kit supplier for the 2017-18 season. The 2017-18 kit was being released on June 30 and featuring the Spurs' crest , which is enclosed in a shield. The shield pays tribute to Spurs 1960-61, in which they became the first post-war club to be crowned the Football League First Division and the FA Cup. In October, Nike agreed a 15-year agreement that is believed to be with a value of PS30 million per year with the club to provide their kit until 2033.

Shirt sponsorship in English football was first adopted by the non-league club Kettering Town F.C. in 1976, despite being prohibited from the FA. FA eventually lifted the ban and the practice was then extended to other major clubs after sponsored shirts were permitted on games that were not telecast in 1979 and also on telecast games also in 1983. When the season ended in December, when the club's listing onto the London Stock Exchange, Holsten was the first commercial logo to be featured on the Spurs shirt. 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. Since 2006, Tottenham signed an PS34 million sponsorship agreement with online casino company Mansion.com. In July of 2010, Spurs announced a two-year shirt sponsorship agreement with the software infrastructure company Autonomy estimated that it would cost PS20 million. The following month, they announced the PS5 million agreement with the world's leading specialist bank and asset management company Investec to be the the shirt sponsorship for the Champions League and domestic cup tournaments for the following two years. From 2014 onwards, AIA has been the main sponsor of the shirt for the competition, starting with a deal which was worth PS16 million per year, but it was increasing to PS40 up to PS45 million annually in the year 2019 under an eight-year agreement which runs until 2027.

1 Only appeared in the Premier League. Investec Bank appeared in the Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League.

2 Aurasma is a subsidiary of the Autonomy Corporation.

3 Hewlett-Packard is the parent company of the Autonomy Corporation and only appeared in the Premier League. AIA appeared in the FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League.

Tottenham has a significant following in Tottenham has a large fan base in United Kingdom, drawn largely from North London and the Home counties. The numbers of attendance for home matcheshowever have fluctuated throughout the years. Between 1950 between 1950 and 1962 Tottenham was the club with the most attendance average in England. Tottenham was ranked 9th in average attendances during in the 2009-2010 Premier League season, and 11th overall for Premier League seasons. The 2017-18 season was the last time Tottenham utilized Wembley to be its primary home stadium It had the second-highest number of fans for the Premier League. Also, it holds the attendance record of the Premier League, with 83,222 people attending in the North London derby on the 10th of February in 2018. The club's supporters from the past include figures such including philosopher A.J. Ayer. There are numerous official clubs for supporters across the globe, and an independent club for supporters called the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust is officially recognized by Spurs as the official representative organization that represents Spurs supporters.

The club historically had an impressive Jewish supporter base of the Jewish communities of the north and east of London and north London, with about three-quarters of its members thought as Jewish throughout the 1930s. Due to this support in the beginning the three chairman of the club, since 1984, are Jewish businessmen, with a previous involvement with the club. The club does not have an increased Jewish percentage of its supporters than the other significant London club (Jewish supporters are believed to make up at least 5 percent of its fans) However, it is still regarded as an Jewish club by fans who are not a part of it. antisemitic chants directed towards the club and its supporters from other fans are commonplace in the 1960s, using the words " Yids" or "Yiddos" employed against Tottenham supporters. To counter the savage slogans, Tottenham supporters, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, began protest and adopted their "Yids" (or "Yid Army" identity starting in the mid 1970s or the in the early 1980s. Some fans see the adoption of "Yid" to be a symbol of pride, thereby reducing the power of it to be viewed as an insult. The usage of "Yid" to identify themselves however, is not without controversy. Some have argued that the term is offensive and that its usage by Spurs supporters "legitimis[esthe use of the use of Jews on the field" and that racism should be taken out of football. The World Jewish Congress as well as the Board of Deputies of British Jews have denounced the usage of the word by the fans. Others, including former Premier David Cameron, have argued that the use of the term by Spurs supporters isn't motivated by hatred, since it's not a slur and thus could not be considered to be hate speech. Prosecutions against Tottenham supporters who used the slogans have not succeeded because they were not able to prove that the Crown Prosecution Service believed that the words used by Tottenham fans cannot be considered legal "threatening and abusive, or offensive".

There are many songs that are associated to the club that are frequently performed by Spurs supporters, for example " Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur". The song first came out in the year 1961, after Spurs finished their double in the years 1960-61 and they were able to participate in into the European Cup for the first time. The first team they faced included Gornik Zabrze who were the Polish champions. After an intense game Spurs lost 4-2. Tottenham's savage tackling led the Polish media to declare that "they were not angels". The comment riled up three of the fans and during the game in White Hart Lane they dressed as angels in white sheets that were transformed to togas and sandals, wearing false beards and carrying placards that carried the biblical-type slogans. Angels were allowed to roam the field's perimeter and their enthusiasm enthralled the fans at home who were able to respond with a rendition of " Glory Glory Hallelujah" The song can still be heard on the terraces at White Hart Lane and other football stadiums. The Lilywhites also reacted to the atmosphere and won the match 8-1. The then manager at Spurs, Bill Nicholson, wrote in his autobiography:

A new tune that was played in English football during 1961 and 1962. It was the song Glory, Glory Hallelujah being sang by 60,000 supporters in White Hart Lane in our European Cup matches. I'm not sure how it got started or who was the person who first started the song, but it went over the stadium as a spiritual emotion.

-- Bill Nicholson

There were a variety of instances in the form of hooliganism that involved Spurs fans, particularly during the 1970s and the 1980s. The most significant events were the riots erupted by Spurs supporters in Rotterdam during the 1974 UEFA Cup Final against Feyenoord as well as the rioting that occurred in 1983 and 1984 during UEFA Cup matches against Feyenoord in Rotterdam and Anderlecht in Brussels. While violence from fans has been reduced, instances of hooliganism that occurred occasionally continued to be recorded.

Tottenham supporters are a part of many clubs, mostly within the London region. The most fierce of these rivalries is the one with North London opponents Arsenal. The rivalry was first fought in 1913, when Arsenal relocated to the Manor Ground, Plumstead to Arsenal Stadium, Highbury and the rivalry grew in 1919 , when Arsenal were unexpectedly elevated into the First Division, taking a position that Tottenham thought should have been theirs.

Tottenham also share notable rivalries with fellow London clubs Chelsea with West Ham United. The rivalry with Chelsea is of lesser importance to Arsenal and started with the time Tottenham defeated Chelsea during the 1967 FA Cup Final, the first all-London final. West Ham fans view Tottenham as a bitter rival but the resentment is not shared by Tottenham supporters.

Tottenham Hotspur F.C. was transformed into an restricted company that was named called the Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Company Ltd on March 2, 1898, in order to raise money for the club, and to limit any personal responsibility of players. The club issued 8,000 shares at PS1 each. However, the shares only numbered 1,558 were picked into account in the initial year. 4,892 shares were sold the year 1905 in total. Some families held significant shares, including members of the Wale family, which had an been associated with the club since the 1930s, along with the Richardson and Bearman families. From 1943 until 1984, family members from these families were the chairmen from Tottenham Hotspur F.C. following the death of Charles Robert who had been chairman since 1898.

In the beginning of the 1980s, costs overruns when building of a brand new West Stand together with the expense of building the team in the earlier years resulted in the accumulation of debts. On November 22, 1982, supporter of the team Irving Scholar purchased 25 percent of Tottenham for the sum of 600,000 and along alongside Paul Bobroff gained control of the club. To raise money the Scholar was able to list Tottenham Hotspur plc which is wholly owned by the club in the London Stock Exchange in 1983. This was being the very first European sports club to be listed on an exchange for stocks, and was the first sports business to become public. Institutions and fans alike can now buy and sell shares in the company. A court ruling in 1935 regarding Tottenham Hotspur FC ( Berry and Stewart v Tottenham Hotspur FC Ltd) had established the precedent in company law , which stated that directors of a corporation are able to block the transfer of shares of a shareholder to another individual. The share sale was a success which resulted in 3.8 million shares being sold. However, poor business decisions made under Scholar caused financial problems and, in June of 1991, Terry Venables teamed up with businessman Alan Sugar to buy the club initially as an equal partners with each of them investing PS3.25 million. Sugar added his share by PS8 million by the end of 1991, and was the majority partner, with complete control over the club. On May 23, 1993 Venables had his board removed following a disagreement. In the year 2000 Sugar was considering selling the team. And on February 1, 2001, Sugar transferred the bulk of his stake in the company ENIC International Ltd.

The largest shareholders, ENIC International Ltd, is an investment corporation founded by British billionaire Joe Lewis. Daniel Levy, Lewis's partner at ENIC is the executive chairman of the club. The club first bought 29.9 percent stake in the club in the year 1991, from which 27% were purchased by Alan Sugar in exchange for PS22 million. Shareholdings by ENIC was increased throughout the decade following the purchase from the remaining 12 percent stake by Alan Sugar in 2007 for PS25m and also the 9.9 percent stake held by Stelios Haji-Ioannou through Hodram Inc. in 2009. On the 21st August 2009, the club announced the issue of another 30 million shares to help fund the initial costs for development of the new stadium and that 27.8 million of the new shares were bought by ENIC. In the Annual Report for 2010 indicated that ENIC had purchased 76% of the ordinary Shares and also had 97% of all convertible preferred shares that could be redeemed which is equivalent to a stake that was 85% share capital. The rest of the shares are owned by more than 30000 individuals. From 2001 to 2011,, shares of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. had been traded in the Alternative Investment Market (AIM index). Following an announcement made at the 2011 AGM in January 2012, Tottenham Hotspur confirmed that the club had removed their shares on the stock exchange which put it under private ownership.

The club , through its Community Programme has, since 2006, collaborated together with Haringey Council and the Metropolitan Housing Trust as well as the local community in the development of facilities for sport as well as social programs that are also financially assisted with the help of Barclays Spaces for Sport and the Football Foundation. It is worth noting that the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation received high-level political backing by The Prime Minister at the time of its launch on the 10th Downing Street in February 2007.

In March 2007, the club announced an alliance in conjunction with charity SOS Children's Villages UK. Fines for players will be used to support the children's village of this charity that is located in Rustenburg, South Africa with the money used to pay for the operating expenses as well as the support of various community-based projects within and surrounding Rustenburg. In 2006-07, the fiscal year, Tottenham topped a league of Premier League charitable donations when assessed both as a whole and as an amount of turnover. They did this by making PS4,545,889 in addition to an unrestricted contribution to PS4.5 million over the course of four years to establish the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation. The figure is in comparison to PS9,763 in the 2005-06 season.

The club is among of the most prominent members of the 10:10 project that encourages individuals as well as businesses and organizations to be proactive regarding environmental issues. The club joined the project in 2009 with the hope of reducing the carbon footprint of their business. In order to do this, they changed their lighting to more efficient ones as well as lowered their heating dials , and took shorter flights, among various other things. After using 10:10 for a year, they announced that they had cut down on emission of carbon by fourteen percent.

They have succeeded in obtaining a elimination of the section 106 plan obligations related to the reconstruction of the stadium within the Northumberland Development Project. Initially , the project would include affordable housing at 50%, however, this was later canceled as well as a cost of PS16m to support community infrastructure was decreased to PS0.5m. This is a controversial decision in an area that has experienced high levels of poverty as Spurs have bought properties to redevelop, taking away the existing employment and businesses to allow to build new properties, however, they were not able to create enough jobs for the region. However, the club argued that the development, once completed, would create 3500 jobs and bring the equivalent of PS293 million into the local economy every year and act as a basis for a larger 20-year rehabilitation plan for the Tottenham region. Other developments have been made located in North Tottenham, the club has constructed 256 affordable homes and a primary school with a capacity of 400 pupils.

The women's Tottenham team was established in 1985, and was formerly known as Broxbourne Ladies. They began using their Tottenham Hotspur name for the 1991-92 season. They played in the London and South East Women's Regional Football League (then fourth stage of football). They received promotion following their top finish in this league for the 2007-08 season. The 2016-17 season was when they took home they won the South Division of the FA Women's League and a playoff, and were promoted to FA Women's Super League 2.

1 May 2019, Tottenham Hotspur Ladies won promotion to the FA Women's Super League with a draw of 1-1 against Aston Villa, which confirmed they will finish 2nd on the table in the Championship. Tottenham Hotspur Ladies changed their name to Tottenham Hotspur Women in the 2019-20 season.

Tottenham Hotspur Women announced the signing of Cho So-hyun on January 29, 2021. With her Korean male partner Son Heung-min already in the club this provided Spurs the unique privilege of having both women's and men's Korean National Team the captains at the same time.

Major Honours as below mentioned.

League competitions

• First Division / Premier League (Level 1)
  • Winners (2): 1950–51, 1960–61 (D)
• Second Division / Championship (Level 2)
  • Winners (2): 1919–20, 1949–50

Cup competitions

• FA Cup:
  • Winners (8): 1900–01, 1920–21, 1960–61 (D), 1961–62, 1966–67, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1990–91
• League Cup / EFL Cup:
  • Winners (4): 1970–71, 1972–73, 1998–99, 2007–08
• FA Charity Shield / FA Community Shield:
  • Winners (7): 1921, 1951, 1961, 1962, 1967*, 1981*, 1991* (*shared)

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1962–63
• UEFA Cup / Europa League:
  • Winners (2): 1971–72, 1983–84

Steve Perryman holds the record for appearances for Spurs with 854 matches for the club between 1969 between 1969 and 1986, 655 of which were league games. Jimmy Greaves holds the record for club goals scored with 266 goals from the club's 380 cup, league as well as European appearances.

Tottenham's record league win is 9-0 against Bristol Rovers were in The club was in the Second Division on 22 October 1977. The club's record cup victory came on 3 February 1960 with a 13-2 win over Crewe Alexandra at an appearance in the FA Cup. Spurs' biggest top-flight victory came against Wigan Athletic on the 22nd of November 2009, when they beat 9-1, with Jermain Defoe scoring five times. The record loss for the club was an 8-0 defeat to 1. FC Koln in the Intertoto Cup on 22 July 1995.

The record home attendance at White Hart Lane was 75,038 on 5 March 1938 in a cup tie against Sunderland. The biggest attendances recorded at home were at their temporary stadium, Wembley Stadium because of its greater capacity. 85,512 people were in attendance on November 2nd, 2016 to watch their 2017 UEFA Champions League game against Bayer Leverkusen as well as 83,222 who attended in the North London derby against Arsenal on February 10, 2018 this was the biggest attendance ever recorded for a Premier League game.

This club has been ranked as No. 13 by UEFA with a coefficient of 85.0 points at the time of April 2020.

As of 8 June 2022.

As of 8 June 2022

As per below mentioned.

• Listed according to when they became managers for Tottenham Hotspur:[155]

• (C) – Caretaker
• (I) – Interim
• (FTC) – First team coach

• 1898  Frank Brettell
• 1899  John Cameron
• 1907  Fred Kirkham
• 1912  Peter McWilliam
• 1927  Billy Minter
• 1930  Percy Smith
• 1935  Wally Hardinge (C)
• 1935  Jack Tresadern
• 1938  Peter McWilliam
• 1942  Arthur Turner
• 1946  Joe Hulme
• 1949  Arthur Rowe
• 1955  Jimmy Anderson
• 1958  Bill Nicholson
• 1974  Terry Neill
• 1976  Keith Burkinshaw
• 1984  Peter Shreeves
• 1986  David Pleat
• 1987  Trevor Hartley (C)
• 1987  Doug Livermore (C)
• 1987  Terry Venables
• 1991  Peter Shreeves
• 1992  Doug Livermore
  •  Ray Clemence (FTC)
• 1993  Osvaldo Ardiles
• 1994  Steve Perryman (C)
• 1994  Gerry Francis
• 1997  Chris Hughton (C)
• 1997  Christian Gross
• 1998  David Pleat (C)
• 1998  George Graham
• 2001  David Pleat (C)
• 2001  Glenn Hoddle
• 2003  David Pleat (C)
• 2004  Jacques Santini
• 2004  Martin Jol
• 2007  Clive Allen (C)
• 2007  Juande Ramos
• 2008  Harry Redknapp
• 2012  André Villas-Boas
• 2013  Tim Sherwood
• 2014  Mauricio Pochettino
• 2019  José Mourinho
• 2021  Ryan Mason (C)
• 2021  Nuno Espírito Santo
• 2021  Antonio Conte

The following players are noted as "greats" for their contributions to the club or have been inducted into the club's Hall of Fame: The most recent additions to the club's Hall of Fame are Steve Perryman and Jimmy Greaves on 20 April 2016.

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

• 1987  Gary Mabbutt
• 1988  Chris Waddle
• 1989  Erik Thorstvedt
• 1990  Paul Gascoigne
• 1991  Paul Allen
• 1992  Gary Lineker
• 1993  Darren Anderton
• 1994  Jürgen Klinsmann
• 1995  Teddy Sheringham
• 1996  Sol Campbell
• 1997  Sol Campbell
• 1998  David Ginola
• 1999  Stephen Carr
• 2000  Stephen Carr
• 2001  Neil Sullivan
• 2002  Simon Davies
• 2003  Robbie Keane
• 2004  Jermain Defoe
• 2005–06  Robbie Keane
• 2006–07  Dimitar Berbatov
• 2007–08  Robbie Keane
• 2008–09  Aaron Lennon
• 2009–10  Michael Dawson
• 2010–11  Luka Modrić
• 2011–12  Scott Parker
• 2012–13  Gareth Bale
• 2013–14  Christian Eriksen
• 2014–15  Harry Kane
• 2015–16  Toby Alderweireld
• 2016–17  Christian Eriksen
• 2017–18  Jan Vertonghen
• 2018–19  Son Heung-min
• 2019–20  Son Heung-min
• 2020–21  Harry Kane
• 2021–22  Son Heung-min

•  Internacional
•  San Jose Earthquakes
•  South China AA
•  Supersport United