YEAR BY YEAR
- 1880
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- 1882Club formed by boys from Hotspur cricket club and from the local grammar school. Pictured above is one of the oldest Spurs artifacts - the Hotspur Club book 1882.
- 1882Club formed by boys from Hotspur cricket club and from the local grammar school. The name 'Hotspur FC' was adopted by the Club.
- 1883Club reorganised under the presidency of John Ripsher. Club colours - navy blue. Matches are played on Tottenham marshes.
- 1885First competitive match versus St. Albans in the London Association Cup. Spurs winning 5-2. Colours changed to light blue and white halves. First credit balance nine shillings.
- 1882Club formed by boys from Hotspur cricket club and from the local grammar school. Pictured above is one of the oldest Spurs artifacts - the Hotspur Club book 1882.
- 1890
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- 1897
We reach our first Cup Final, losing 0-2 to hosts Wellingborough in the local Charity Cup competition.
- 1898The Club becomes a limited company and a match against Woolwich Arsenal attracts a record crowd of 14,000 spectators. Change of colours to white shirts and blue shorts.
- 1899The Club moves to present site, oiginally a market garden. Accommodation for 35,000. Ground almost named Gilpin Park but instead gradually became known as White Hart Lane. First match staged was a friendly versus Notts County with gross receipts of £115.
- 1899
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- 1897
- 1900
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- 1900Succes at last! Spurs become Champions of the Southern League.
- 1901
Spurs win the FA Challenge Cup to become the only non-League club, following the formation of the Football League in 1888, ever to achieve this honour. Picture shows the directors of Tottenham Hotspur.
- 1909Promotion to First Division at first attempt.
- 1909
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- 1920
- 1950
- 1960
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- 1961Football League Champions and winners of the FA Cup. The first club to complete the 'Double' since Preston North End and Aston Villa did so in 1889 and 1897 respectively.
- 1962Winners again of the FA Cup.
- 1963Winners of the European Cup-Winners' Cup. The first British club to win a major European competition. Jimmy Greaves becomes Spurs' highest League scorer in one season with 37 goals.
- 1967FA Cup winners for the fifth time.
- 1970
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- 1971Winners of the Football League Cup.
- 1972Winners of the UEFA Cup.
- 1973Winners of the Football League Cup. The first club to have won the trophy twice.
- 1974First English club to have played in three major European finals.
- 1977Colin Lee signs for Spurs.
- 1977Relegation to the Second Division.
- 1978Villa and Ardilles sign.
- 1978Promotion again secured at first attempt.
- 1980
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- 1980Old West Stand demolished to make way for new modern structure.
- 1981FA Cup winners for the sixth time. Steve Perryman sets a new Club record of League appearances by passing Pat Jennings' previous record total of 472.
- 1982New West Stand opened. FA Cup winners for the seventh time in the Club's Centenary year.
- 1983By finishing fourth in the League, qualified for the UEFA Cup for the first time since season 1973/74. First football club to float shares on the London Stock Exchange.
- 1984Winners of the UEFA Cup for the second time.
- 1985Playing strip changed to white shirts and white shorts.
- 1986Steve Perryman transferred to Oxford United after making a record 655 League appearances for Spurs.
- 1987Spurs reach eighth FA Cup Final. Clive Allen sets a new Club record with 49 goals in a single season. Kit returns to white shirts and navy shorts.
- 1988First million plus signing Paul Stewart from Manchester City for £1.5 million.
- 1989East Stand refurbished.
- 1990
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- 1991FA Cup winners for eighth time and back in European competition.
- 1991Alan Sugar becomes Chairman and steers club away from impending bankruptcy.
- 1992Founder members of the new FA Premier League.
- 1992Paul Gascoigne joins Lazio for £5.5 million - a Spurs record at the time.
- 1994Jurgen Klinsmann signs for Spurs. 'The Shelf' becomes an all-seater enclosure.
- 1995Record signing of Chris Armstrong from Crystal Palace for £4.5 million.
- 1995New South Stand completed.
- 1996Training Centre opened by Tony Blair. New Rights Issue raises £10.9 million to redevelop North Stand, complete hospitality areas in South Stand and reconstruct pitch.
- 1996John Scales signs for Spurs.
- 1996Steffen Iversen signs for Spurs.
- 1997Record signing, £6million for Les Ferdinand from Newcastle United.
- 1998George Graham becomes Manager. New North Stand completed. Increased capacity to 36,257.
- 1999Winners of the League Cup for the third time.
- 1991FA Cup winners for eighth time and back in European competition.
- 2000
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- 2000New record signing, £11million for Sergei Rebrov from Dynamo Kiev.
- 2001Glenn Hoddle took over as manager from George Graham. ENIC completed takeover, Daniel Levy became chairman. Teddy Sheringham rejoined the club from Manchester United and joined new arrivals Christian Ziege and Gus Poyet.
- 2002We reached the final of the Worthington Cup in Glenn Hoddle's first season as manager but lost out 2-1 to Blackburn Rovers at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. Jamie Redknapp signed in April before the £7m capture of Irish star striker Robbie Keane from Leeds United in August.
- 2003We finished 10th in the Premiership in 2002/2003, successfully toured South Africa, signed Helder Postiga and Bobby Zamora, Jamie Redknapp was named captain. We parted company with Glenn Hoddle in September. David Pleat took over in a caretaker capacity.
- 2004We finished 14th in the Premiership in 2003/2004. David Pleat departed in July 2004 as we formed a new, continental-style management structure. Frank Arnesen arrived from PSV as Sporting Director, Jacques Santini as Head Coach, Martin Jol as First Assistant and Dominique Cuperly as fitness coach. Santini left in November and Jol took over as Head Coach. In October, England started with three Spurs players (Defoe, Ledley King, Paul Robinson) for the first time since 1987.
- 2005We were in the running for European qualification in 2004/2005 via the Premier League until defeat at Middlesbrough in the penultimate game of the season. We ended up ninth.
- 2006A memorable year! With the likes of Aaron Lennon and Michael Dawson coming to the fore, we held on to fourth place for most of the 2005/2006 season until defeat at West Ham on the final day. However, our aim to return to Europe was achieved and we returned to UEFA Cup action at the start of the 2006/2007 season. Four of our players went to the World Cup with England with Jermain Defoe and Dawson on stand-by and just missing out. Going into the 2006/2007 season, we signed Bulgarian hitman Dimitar Berbatov, Ivory Coast midfielder Didier Zokora, left-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto from Lens, Pascal Chimbonda from Wigan and Steed Malbranque from Fulham. Michael Carrick moved to Manchester United.
- 2007
We matched our exploits of 2005/2006 with a fifth-placed league finish in 2006-07 and reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup. Going into the 2007/2008 season, new arrivals included Gareth Bale and Darren Bent but following a poor start, Martin Jol was asked to stand down alongside coach Chris Hughton. Highly-rated Juande Ramos was appointed Head Coach with coaching assistants Marcos Alvarez and former Spur Gus Poyet.
The year marked our 125 anniversary. - 2008A magnificent start to the year saw us first beat Arsenal 5-1 and then topple Chelsea 2-1 to lift the League Cup at Wembley Stadium. We finished the league campaign in 11th place. Summer arrivals included David Bentley, Heurelho Gomes, Luka Modric and Roman Pavlyuchenko.
- 2008Harry Redknapp took over from Juande Ramos in October, 2008.
- 2009Struggling early in the season, Harry Redknapp lifted us up to a final position of eighth and we reached the Carling Cup Final at Wembley for the second-successive year, this time losing on penalties to Manchester United.
- 2009January saw the arrival of Wilson Palacios and the return of both Robbie Keane and Jermain Defoe.
- 2009Summer arrivals included Sebastien Bassong, Peter Crouch and Niko Kranjcar and we made our best start to the Premier League and best start to a season since the double year.
- 2010
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- 2010What a year! We remained in the running for a place in the top four throughout the 2009/2010 season. Having lost the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, we then faced key back-to-back derbies against title-contenders Arsenal and Chelsea in the space of a week at the Lane. We won both. We went to Manchester City in the final week of the season knowing victory would secure fourth place and Champions League football. We produced the performance of the season to win 1-0 and take fourth. We approached 2011 in fifth place in the Premier League.
- 2010We needed to progress through the play-offs to reach the Champions League proper and found ourselves 3-0 down in the first half at Young Boys in Berne, Switzerland. Thankfully we reduced that to 3-2 before a convincing 4-0 win in the second leg took us into the group stages.
- 2010We were drawn against holders Inter Milan in the group and were 4-0 down at half-time at the San Siro and down to 10 men when Gareth Bale scored a memorable hat-trick to make 4-3. We then beat the Italian giants 3-1 at home on our way to topping our group.
- 2010We also came from 2-0 down to beat Arsenal 3-2 at the Emirates.
- 2010Summer arrivals included William Gallas and Rafael van der Vaart and both make a huge impact in that first half of the season.
- 2010Summer arrivals included William Gallas and Rafael van der Vaart and both make a huge impact in that first half of the season.
- 2011In February, the team achieved one of the great results in the club's history with a 1-0 win against AC Milan in the San Siro in the first leg of our last 16 tie in the Champions League. We eventually went out to Real Madrid in the quarter-finals.
- 2011We finished fifth in the Premier League after achieving a first win at Anfield in 17 years in May.
- 2011Jermain Defoe joined an elite band of players who scored 100 goals for the club.
- 2011Steven Pienaar arrived from Everton in the January and in the summer of 2011 saw the arrivals of goalkeeper Brad Friedel, midfielder Scott Parker and striker Emmanuel Adebayor, on a season-long loan from Manchester City.
- 2011After losing to City and United in the opening matches of the 2011-12 season, the team went on a run of 12 wins, three draws and just one defeat to sit third in the table at the turn of the year. This included a run of 11 matches unbeaten, equalling our record in the Premier League.
- 2010What a year! We remained in the running for a place in the top four throughout the 2009/2010 season. Having lost the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, we then faced key back-to-back derbies against title-contenders Arsenal and Chelsea in the space of a week at the Lane. We won both. We went to Manchester City in the final week of the season knowing victory would secure fourth place and Champions League football. We produced the performance of the season to win 1-0 and take fourth. We approached 2011 in fifth place in the Premier League.
