TheTottenham Hotspur/Spurs

TheTottenham Hotspur/Spurs

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is a football club in north London. They are also known as Spurs, The Spurs and Tottenham, while their fans gave them the name of the Lilywhites because their traditional uniform of white.

The club enjoyed a strong rivalry and lasted a long time with its closest neighbors Arsenal. Both teams faced each other twice a year in a game known as the North London derby. Their other rivals are West Ham United, Chelsea and Millwall.
 

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DATE

Full name: Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
Nickname: Spurs, Lilywhites
Founded: 1882
Stadium: White Hart Lane, London (capacity 36,240)
Costume: White-Blue (cage), Blue-Yellow-Blue (Kit)
Club chairman Daniel Levy
Manager: Harry Redknapp


PLAYERS

goalkeeper:
1 Heurelho Gomes
13 Jimmy Walker
23 Carlo Cudicini
27 Ben Alnwick

defender:
2 Alan Hutton
3 Gareth Bale
16 Kyle Naughton
19 Sébastien Bassong
20 Michael Dawson
22 Vedran Corluka
26 Ledley King (captain)
30 Dorian Dervite
32 Benoît Assou-Ekotto
39 Jonathan Woodgate

midfielder:
5 David Bentley
6 Tom Huddlestone
7 Aaron Lennon
8 Jermaine Jenas
12 Wilson Palacios
14 Luka Modric
21 Niko Kranjcar
25 Danny Rose

attacker:
9 Roman Pavlyuchenko
10 Robbie Keane
15 Peter Crouch
18 Jermain Defoe


ACHIEVEMENT

First Division / Premier League (2 times): 1950-51, 1960-61

Second Division (2 times): 1919-20, 1949-50

FA Cup: 1900-01, 1920-21, 1960-61, 1961-62, 1966-67, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1990-91

League Cup (3 times): 1970-1, 1972-3, 1998-99

FA Community Shield (7 times): 1920-21, 1951-52, 1961-62, 1962-63, 1967-68, 1981-82, 1991-92

Southern League: 1899-1900

West League: 1903-04

Football League South (2 times): 1943-44, 1944-45

UEFA Cup (2 times): 1971-72, 1983-84

Cup Winners: 1962-63

Anglo-Italian League Cup: 1971-72

FA Junior Cup (3 times): 1970, 1974, 1990

Peace Cup: 2005