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Where is Tottenham from? Football club from Londres, Inglaterra. Home stadium: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Honors: 26 official titles, crest & history on DataFútbol.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club (Premier League)

Where is Tottenham from? It is a football club based in the city of Londres (Inglaterra). Home matches are played at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Founded in 1882 by pupils from the local secondary school and members of the Hotspur Cricket Club, it is a club that represents North London. Known as the ‘Spurs’, they were the first team in the 20th century to win the League and FA Cup double in the 1960–61 season. They played their home matches at White Hart Lane from 1899 until 2017, when they opened their current stadium.

General Information & Facts

Founded: 5 de septiembre de 1882
Nickname: Spurs, The Lilywhites
Stadium: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - Capacity: 62850 spectators

Historical Records

All-time top scorer: Harry Kane (280 goles)
Most appearances: Steve Perryman (866 partidos)
Biggest win: 13-2 a Crewe Alexandra (Febrero 1960)

Honours & Official Titles

2x First Division (Inglaterra)
8x FA Cup
4x EFL Cup (League Cup)
7x FA Community Shield
2x UEFA Europa League / UEFA Cup
1x Recopa de Europa UEFA
2x EFL Championship / Segunda División

Historical Timeline

Year - 1882: The school was founded under the guidance of Harry Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur was founded on 5 September 1882 as the humble ‘Hotspur Football Club’ by a group of young grammar school pupils from All Hallows Church who were members of the local cricket club. They decided to form the football club to keep the group together during the winter, heroically naming the club in clear, purist homage to the brave and temperamental medieval English warrior Sir Henry Percy (‘Harry Hotspur’), famous for his lethal combat spurs.

Year - 1901: The unique and seemingly impossible feat of a lower-league club

Tottenham made their first major mark on history in 1901 by becoming, in spectacular and astonishing fashion, the only non-league club (at the time independent members of the semi-amateur Southern League) to win the hallowed, historic and coveted FA Cup in the 20th century, defeating the powerful, professional Sheffield United in an epic and unexpected victory in the replay final, and forever linking their name to the historic colours of the trophy.

Year - 1960–1961: Bill Nicholson’s epic and masterful first ‘Double’ of the century

The club’s most legendary and unforgettable era (‘The Tottenham Way’) emerged under the immense tactical intelligence and elegant precision of the masterful manager Bill Nicholson. Promoting a style of play that was astonishingly attractive, fluid, tactical and fast-paced (‘push and run’), the lethal Tottenham side led by Danny Blanchflower heroically and spectacularly achieved in 1961 what had seemed logistically insurmountable: winning both the League and the FA Cup in the same season, securing England’s first modern ‘Double’.

Year - 1970s–1980s: A stronghold in European and domestic cup competitions

With the glorious DNA of unyielding, polished attacking football, the club established itself fiercely and magnificently as a formidable, lethal force, relentlessly feared in short tournaments. Led by Ardiles, Villa and Hoddle, and under the shrewd and fierce tactical guidance of Keith Burkinshaw, the team from north of the Thames amassed an immense and colossal trophy haul, winning the glorious UEFA Cup (1972, 1984) and a spectacular, heroic and magical back-to-back FA Cup double in the early 1980s.

Year - 2000s–present: The huge stadium and the protracted trophy drought

Under the dynamic leadership of Daniel Levy, the club consolidated its structure by opening the ultra-modern and colossal Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and reached a glorious and historic competitive high by making it to the stunning 2019 Champions League final under Argentine manager Mauricio Pochettino. However, all this massive modernisation clashes astonishingly, fiercely and tragically, and without ceasing, with an infamous, long and suffocating drought of official titles and honours that has persistently lingered since 2008.