Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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This article is about the men's football club. For the women's football club, see
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Women.
Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur.svg
Full name Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
Nickname(s) The Lilywhites
Short name Spurs
Founded 5 September 1882; 137 years ago, as Hotspur F.C.
Ground Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Capacity 62,214[1]
Owner ENIC International Ltd. (85.55%)
Chairman Daniel Levy
Head coach Jose Mourinho
League Premier League
2018�19 Premier League, 4th of 20
Website Club website

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours
Current season
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Tottenham (/?t?t?n?m/)[2]
[3] or Spurs, is an English professional football club in Tottenham, London, that
competes in the Premier League. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has been the club's home
ground since April 2019, replacing their former home of White Hart Lane, which had
been demolished to make way for the new stadium on the same site. Their training
ground is on Hotspur Way in Bulls Cross in the London Borough of Enfield. The club
is owned by ENIC Group. Tottenham have played in a first (home) strip of white
shirts and navy blue shorts since the 1898�99 season. The club's emblem is a
cockerel standing upon a football, with a Latin motto Audere est Facere ("To Dare
Is to Do").

Founded in 1882, Tottenham won the FA Cup for the first time in 1901, the only non-
League club to do so since the formation of the Football League in 1888. Tottenham
were the first club in the 20th century to achieve the League and FA Cup Double,
winning both competitions in the 1960�61 season. After successfully defending the
FA Cup in 1962, in 1963 they became the first British club to win a UEFA club
competition � the European Cup Winners' Cup.[4] They were also the inaugural
winners of the UEFA Cup in 1972, becoming the first British club to win two
different major European trophies. They have collected at least one major trophy in
each of the six decades from the 1950s to 2000s � an achievement only matched by
Manchester United.[5][6] In total, Spurs have won two league titles, eight FA Cups,
four League Cups, seven FA Community Shields, one European Cup Winners' Cup and two
UEFA Cups. Tottenham were also the runners-up of the 2018�19 UEFA Champions League
competition. The club has a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Arsenal, with
head-to-head fixtures known as the North London derby.