Tottenham ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE

Foundation:1882
Address:748, High Road London N17 0AP
Telephone:(0181) 365 55 000
Fax:(0181) 365 55 005
E-Mail:website@tottenhamhotspur.com
Web Site:http://www.spurs.co.uk/
Chairman:Daniel Levy
History:
Tottenham came within a win of qualifying for the Champions League last season. In the event arch-rivals Arsenal pipped them to fourth place on the final day of the campaign, but despite that disappointment they were back in Europe, in the Uefa Cup, and the improvement in the club's fortunes under Martin Jol was confirmed after more than a decade of under-achievement made all the more frustrating for Spurs fans by the consistent success of those hated neighbours just up the road. It has been a reversal of fortunes from the 1960s, when Tottenham were all-powerful and Arsenal were mired in mediocrity. The advent of the Premiership has seen Tottenham's status as one of England's elite clubs seriously eroded; even within the capital they have been eclipsed not only by Arsenal but latterly also by Chelsea. However, Jol has patiently built a strong and talented squad at White Hart Lane, backed by the sound financial management of Daniel Levy and his board, and Spurs fans are daring to dream about a return to the glory, glory days. The club's finest era coincided with Bill Nicholson's management from 1958 to 1974, but Spurs boast an illustrious history that dates back to 1882. That was when the Hotspur Football Club was formed from an older cricket club. Most of the founders were ex-pupils of either St John's Presbyterian School or Tottenham Grammar School, and according to legend the impoverished committee had to meet under a lamp-post in Tottenham High Road, while the team made their own blue and white striped goalposts which were stored at Northumberland Park railway station and carried by the players across the Great Eastern railway line to Tottenham Marshes for matches. In 1885, Hotspur FC adopted the prefix Tottenham and by 1899 they had moved to their White Hart Lane ground. In 1901 Spurs, as a non-league club, won the FA Cup and in 1908 were elected to Division Two of the Football League. In the early 1920s Spurs won another FA Cup and were runners-up in the League, but it was Arthur Rowe's "push-and-run" team of the late 1940s and early 1950s that caught the public's imagination. they won the Second Division and First Division titles in successive years. However, when a wing-half from that side, Bill Nicholson, became manager in 1958, he set about creating one of the finest English club sides of all time. The likes of Bill Brown, captain Danny Blanchflower, Dave Mackay, Cliff Jones, John White and Bobby Smith were members of a team that achieved what, at the time, was thought impossible. They won the elusive double in 1960-61, becoming the first side to do so in the 20th century and setting a host of records along the way. The following season, with Jimmy Greaves added to the attack, Spurs retained the FA Cup and in 1963 they became the first English side to win a European trophy when thrashing Atletico Madrid 5-1 in Rotterdam to lift the Cup Winners' Cup. Nicholson built new teams and won more trophies - the FA Cup in 1967, League Cup in 1971 and 1973, and Uefa Cup in 1972. Another Yorkshireman, Keith Burkinshaw, led the club to successive FA Cups in 1981 and 1982, as well as the Uefa Cup again in 1984; but since then success has proved more elusive, with just one FA Cup (1991 under Terry Venables) and one League Cup (1999 with George Graham) added to the trophy cabinet. Managers such as Peter Shreeves, Ossie Ardiles, Gerry Francis, Christian Gross, favourite son Glenn Hoddle, David Pleat and Jacques Santini all failed to find the right chemistry. The signs are that Jol will be more successful, though whether he can deliver the club's third League title - and first since 1961 - is debatable. At least though he has the famous cockerel looking proud and purposeful again.
Team Trophies Football League Division 1: Champions: 1950-51, 1960-61. (Runners-Up: 1921-22, 1951-52, 1956-57, 1962-63). Division 2: Champions: 1919-20, 1949-50. (Runners-Up: 1908-09, 1932-33). (Promoted: 1977-78 [3rd]). FA Cup Winners: 1901, 1921, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1981, 1982, 1991. (Runners-Up: 1987). Football League Cup: Winners: 1971, 1973, 1979. (Runners-Up: 1982, 2002). European Cup Winners' Cup: Winners: 1962-63. Uefa Cup: Winners: 1971-72, 1983-84. (Runners-Up: 1973-74)