Tottenham Hotspur

Also written as Spurs.

Note on sourcing: tottenhamhotspur.com serves its front page but its news index and article paths returned 404s or navigation-only shells, so transfer dates and fees below come from Wikipedia, not club announcements, and are reported figures.

The club

Tottenham Hotspur were founded on 5 September 1882 and play at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which opened on 3 April 2019 and holds 62,850. The ground is in Tottenham, north London, on the site of the old White Hart Lane. The club are the Lilywhites, or simply Spurs, and have worn white shirts with navy blue shorts since 1898/99.

Recent seasons

Six Premier League seasons, and the shape of them is a collapse. Spurs were seventh in 2020/21 with 62 points, fourth in 2021/22 with 71, eighth in 2022/23 with 60 and fifth in 2023/24 with 66. Then 2024/25 under Ange Postecoglou: 17th with 38 points, the club's lowest top-flight finish in 48 years, salvaged entirely by winning the Europa League. That took them into the 2025/26 Champions League, where they reached the round of 16 and lost 7-5 on aggregate to Atlético Madrid, 5-2 away and 3-2 at home. Domestically 2025/26 was worse again in substance if not in table position: 17th with 41 points from 10 wins, 11 draws and 17 defeats, safe by two points from West Ham United and only on the final day, a 1-0 win over Everton. It was the first time in 111 years the club had finished that low in consecutive seasons. They went out of the FA Cup in the third round to Aston Villa and the EFL Cup in the fourth. As Europa League holders they contested the UEFA Super Cup at the Stadio Friuli in Udine on 13 August 2025, drawing 2-2 with Paris Saint-Germain and losing the shootout 4-3, Micky van de Ven and Pedro Porro missing. European qualification for 2026/27: none.

Honours and landmarks

Two league titles, 1950/51 and 1960/61. Eight FA Cups: 1901, 1921, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1981, 1982, 1991. Four League Cups: 1971, 1973, 1999, 2008. Seven Community Shields. In Europe, the Cup Winners' Cup of 1963 and three UEFA Cup/Europa League titles, 1972, 1984 and 2025. The 1960/61 side under Bill Nicholson took 66 points from 42 games, won 31 and scored 115, and became the third English club to do the Double, beating Leicester City 2-0 at Wembley on 6 May 1961. Two years later, on 15 May 1963 in Rotterdam, they beat Atlético Madrid 5-1 to become the first English club to win a UEFA trophy, Jimmy Greaves and Terry Dyson scoring twice each. Record attendance is 75,038 against Sunderland in the FA Cup at White Hart Lane on 5 March 1938; the record at the new stadium is 62,027 against Arsenal on 12 May 2022. Steve Perryman made 866 appearances between 1969 and 1986. Harry Kane is the leading scorer with 280 goals in 435 games, 2011 to 2023, and the record fee received, over £100m from Bayern Munich in 2023. Record fee paid is Sandro Tonali from Newcastle United in July 2026; Wikipedia's records page gives £92.5m plus add-ons, its 2026/27 transfer table £100m.

Notable scorelines

Record win: 13-2 against Crewe Alexandra in the FA Cup on 3 February 1960, also the record home win. Record league win: 9-0 against Bristol Rovers in Division Two on 22 October 1977, and 9-1 against Wigan Athletic on 22 November 2009 in the Premier League. Record defeat: 0-8 against 1. FC Köln in the Intertoto Cup on 22 July 1995. The match that defines the current squad's short history is the Europa League final of 21 May 2025 at San Mamés in Bilbao, a 1-0 win over Manchester United with a 42nd-minute Brennan Johnson goal, the club's first major trophy in 17 years.

Head-to-head notes

Against Arsenal the all-time record as published in February 2026 was 199 matches: Arsenal 86 wins, Tottenham 61, 52 draws. The most recent meeting was 22 February 2026, Tottenham 1-4 Arsenal at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Eze and Gyökeres both scoring twice and Kolo Muani replying. Against Chelsea, as of May 2026, 181 matches: Chelsea 83, Tottenham 55, 43 draws, Chelsea leading the league series 70-48. They last met on 19 May 2026, Chelsea 2-1. All-time records against the rest of the 2026/27 field are not established: no published head-to-head was found for the other seventeen clubs, including the London sides Crystal Palace, Fulham and Brentford, or for Manchester United, Liverpool, Manchester City and Newcastle United. 11v11.co.uk, which carries them, blocks automated access. One recent meeting a writer can use: the Newcastle game of February 2026, a 2-1 home defeat that got Thomas Frank sacked.

Right now (2026/27)

Roberto De Zerbi is the manager, appointed on 31 March 2026 on a five-year contract, having left Marseille on 11 February 2026. He is the club's third manager inside a year: Thomas Frank was appointed on 12 June 2025 from Brentford for £10m compensation and sacked on 11 February 2026 with a 26.9 per cent win rate, the worst of any Spurs manager in the Premier League era, and Igor Tudor was interim from 14 February to 29 March 2026. De Zerbi's record at the end of 2025/26 was seven games, three wins, two draws, two defeats; he called avoiding relegation the biggest achievement of his career. Daniel Levy had already resigned as executive chairman on 4 September 2025 after almost 25 years.

The summer has been heavy spending. In: Jan Paul van Hecke from Brighton for £52m on 18 June, Martin Dúbravka from Burnley on a free and Andy Robertson from Liverpool and Marcos Senesi from Bournemouth, all on 1 July with the latter two fees undisclosed, Mateus Fernandes from West Ham for £85m on 2 July, and Tonali on 6 July. Out: Alejo Véliz to Bahia for £7.8m on 1 July, Alfie Devine to Preston for £4.5m on 7 July, Luka Vusković to Brighton for £46m on 14 July, Tynan Thompson to Manchester United for £4m on 20 July and Will Lankshear to Middlesbrough for £10m on 22 July.

Pre-season has been in Australia and New Zealand: 1-0 at Milton Keynes Dons behind closed doors on 22 July, 2-0 against Auckland FC on 26 July, and 1-1 with Sydney FC on 29 July, lost 4-2 on penalties. Chelsea in Sydney follows on 1 August, then Getafe on 8 August and Hoffenheim on 15 August. The season starts on 21 August 2026 and Tottenham open away to Brentford, Frank's old club, at the Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday 22 August, 17:30 BST.

Sources

Researched and written for not4quarters. Where a fact could not be established from the sources read, this page says so rather than guessing.