History of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
Tottenham Hotspur, originally named Hotspur Football Club, was founded by a group of grammatical students from the Bible school at All Hallows Church church in 1882. The name Hotspur is allegedly given in the name of Sir Henry Percy, also nicknamed Harry Hotspur in William Shakespeare's Henry IV first.
Sir Henry owns land in the club's founding grounds, thus affecting the selection of club names by students from the grammar school. In 1884, the club changed its name to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and Atheltic Club in order to prevent name similarity with another club, London Hotspur.
The club switched to professional status in 1895 and then followed the Southern League. In the beginning the color of the team's shirts is navy blue, then change again to light blue-white, red-blue and brown-gold. Finally in the 1899-1900 season, they just changed the color of the team into a white T-shirt-blue pants, as a tribute to the club Preston North End, the most successful English club at the time.
And until now the white shirt became the main shirt of Tottenham so they got the nickname The Liliwhite which means 'Holy' because their main uniforms are white. The club logo is a chicken that stands on the ball because Sir Henry has a lot of chickens that have angry complaints. But the club logo has been changing until now.
In 1888, Tottenham moved his cage from Tottenham Marshes to Northumberland Park where the club had started to put on tickets on the spectators. In 1892, after being persuaded by Royal Arsenal (later to become Arsenal), they attempted to enter into the Southern League membership. However rejected when they became the only one among 23 teams of applicants who did not get voting votes.
They then switched to professional status before Christmas 1895 and attempted to re-apply for entry into the Southern League. This second attempt finally succeeded. In 1898 Charles Roberts became chairman of the club which he later occupied until 1943. In 1899, Spurs built his new headquarters near the High Road, Tottenham.
The stadium was later named 'White Hart Lane', the Spurs stadium to date Tottenham's achievements were never encouraging before finally for the first time winning the First Division 1950/51 season. The Spurs players at the time were Alf Ramsey, Ronnie Burgess, Ted Ditchburn, Lee Duquemin, Sonny Walters, and Bill Nicholson. The "push and run" style introduced by manager Arthur Rowe makes Tottenham a revered opponent and makes the team count for the decade.
However, the second league title of the new Spurs won exactly ten seasons later. One of the contributing factors to that success, is said to be due to the poor conditions of the White Hart Lane field, even for the size of the moment. In 1958, Bill Nicholson became manager and started one of the club's golden period. For 16 years on the engineering bench, Nicholson won eight major titles.
When Nicholson retired, Spurs lost their nails in the Premier League. Spurs degraded in the 1976/77 season after 27 years of competing in top tier. This bad fact followed by the sale of goalkeeper Pat Jennings to their eternal rivals, Arsenal, who are strongly opposed by the fans.
In the 1980s to 2000s, the power of Spurs remained in the Premier League. But, they just limited to a surprise club that has not really able to dominate the competition as a team with a mental champion. Tottenham Hotspur was the first United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) to win the European Championship Cup Winners 1963 after a 5-1 win over Atletico Madrid in the Final.
STADIUM TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Tottenham Hotspur officially moved from White Hart Lane in the 2017-18 season. The Lilywhites will be headquartered at Wembley Stadium while waiting for the new stadium to be. White Hart Lane Stadium occupied by Spurs since 1899, will be dismantled.
The North London team is preparing instead with a more magnificent stadium with a total development cost of around 800 million pounds. Spurs have actually been based at Wembley while playing in European competition this season. But for local tournaments, they are still at White Hart Lane.
Sir Henry owns land in the club's founding grounds, thus affecting the selection of club names by students from the grammar school. In 1884, the club changed its name to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and Atheltic Club in order to prevent name similarity with another club, London Hotspur.
The club switched to professional status in 1895 and then followed the Southern League. In the beginning the color of the team's shirts is navy blue, then change again to light blue-white, red-blue and brown-gold. Finally in the 1899-1900 season, they just changed the color of the team into a white T-shirt-blue pants, as a tribute to the club Preston North End, the most successful English club at the time.
And until now the white shirt became the main shirt of Tottenham so they got the nickname The Liliwhite which means 'Holy' because their main uniforms are white. The club logo is a chicken that stands on the ball because Sir Henry has a lot of chickens that have angry complaints. But the club logo has been changing until now.
In 1888, Tottenham moved his cage from Tottenham Marshes to Northumberland Park where the club had started to put on tickets on the spectators. In 1892, after being persuaded by Royal Arsenal (later to become Arsenal), they attempted to enter into the Southern League membership. However rejected when they became the only one among 23 teams of applicants who did not get voting votes.
They then switched to professional status before Christmas 1895 and attempted to re-apply for entry into the Southern League. This second attempt finally succeeded. In 1898 Charles Roberts became chairman of the club which he later occupied until 1943. In 1899, Spurs built his new headquarters near the High Road, Tottenham.
The stadium was later named 'White Hart Lane', the Spurs stadium to date Tottenham's achievements were never encouraging before finally for the first time winning the First Division 1950/51 season. The Spurs players at the time were Alf Ramsey, Ronnie Burgess, Ted Ditchburn, Lee Duquemin, Sonny Walters, and Bill Nicholson. The "push and run" style introduced by manager Arthur Rowe makes Tottenham a revered opponent and makes the team count for the decade.
However, the second league title of the new Spurs won exactly ten seasons later. One of the contributing factors to that success, is said to be due to the poor conditions of the White Hart Lane field, even for the size of the moment. In 1958, Bill Nicholson became manager and started one of the club's golden period. For 16 years on the engineering bench, Nicholson won eight major titles.
When Nicholson retired, Spurs lost their nails in the Premier League. Spurs degraded in the 1976/77 season after 27 years of competing in top tier. This bad fact followed by the sale of goalkeeper Pat Jennings to their eternal rivals, Arsenal, who are strongly opposed by the fans.
In the 1980s to 2000s, the power of Spurs remained in the Premier League. But, they just limited to a surprise club that has not really able to dominate the competition as a team with a mental champion. Tottenham Hotspur was the first United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) to win the European Championship Cup Winners 1963 after a 5-1 win over Atletico Madrid in the Final.
STADIUM TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
The North London team is preparing instead with a more magnificent stadium with a total development cost of around 800 million pounds. Spurs have actually been based at Wembley while playing in European competition this season. But for local tournaments, they are still at White Hart Lane.
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