Tottenham Hotspur’s quest for success this season is not going to plan in the English Premier League, with Ange Postecoglou’s men wildly inconsistent and currently sitting in 10th place with seven wins from 16 for a points total of 23, despite a 5-0 challenge against Southampton on Sunday. Elsewhere, things are slightly rosier, with the EFL Cup quarter-final against Manchester United this Thursday and Spurs also on course for a place in the knockout stages of the UEFA Europa League – possibly even a direct round of 16 via a top-eight finishes depending on their two final results. With the FA Cup third round also looming in early 2025, another potential route to silverware could begin there, provided the Londoners don’t clash with potential giant-killers Tamworth of the National League.
What does Tottenham’s trophy cabinet actually look like?
Domestic titles
First Division (now EPL): 1950-51 and 1960-61 — Spurs are two-time top-flight winners, with these two titles being ten years apart, which is clearly a long time ago, but also intriguing as the 1951 success comes one season after one of the club’s two titles in the Second Division arrived.
Second Division (now EFL Championship): 1919-20 and 1949-50 — The Lilywhites first reached the top flight of English football in 1920, now more than 100 years ago, but their second return to the top flight came in 1950, which was immediately followed by a first victory in the first division.
FA Cup: 1900-01, 1920-21, 1960-61, 1961-62, 1966-67, 1980-81, 1981-82 and 1990-91 — Tottenham have won English football’s premier domestic cup competition eight times, the first of which victory came in 1901 and the most recent in 1991. The 1921 victory was in the season following promotion to the First Division, while 1961 was a double league and cup year and 1962 represented a successful domestic cup defence. The 1967 effort was a third FA Cup win in the same decade, while 1981 and 1982 were also consecutive victories, with 1921, 1961, 1981 and 1991 showing a pattern emerging of Spurs tending to win the title in the first season of a new decade.
League Cup (now EFL Cup): 1970-71, 1972-73, 1998-99 and 2007-08 — There is also another domestic cup history with four League Cup wins to their name starting in 1971 — continuing the aforementioned pattern of success. Tottenham missed defending that title in 1972 but won it in 1973, while 1999 brought a touch of silverware towards the end of the century, but 2008 does represent their most recent triumph, which partly explains why modern football fans don’t regard Spurs as consider the Spurs. a successful club.
FA Community Shield: 1921, 1951, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1981 and 1991 — For the record, the Lilywhites also boast seven separate FA Community Shield titles, starting with 1921 up to a success in 1991, and five of those seven have come after the first season of a series. new decade.
European
UEFA Cup (now UEL): 1971-72 and 1983-84 — Tottenham are two-time UEFA Cup (now UEFA Europa League) winners, having triumphed in both 1972 and 1984, so this season they could actually achieve three UEL titles, just over 40 years after most recent continental success.
UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup (now defunct): 1962-63 — Although its modern value is limited as it has not existed since 1999, Spurs also won this title, which was essentially a European competition for the winners of domestic cup competitions – hence the name – which was roughly the same position which the UEFA Conference League occupies today, albeit not related to domestic cups.