Tottenham Hotspur’s quest for success this season is not going to plan in the English Premier League, with Ange Postecoglou’s men maddeningly inconsistent and currently in 10th place with seven wins from 16 for a total of 23 points despite a rout 5-0 on the day away from Southampton. on Sunday. Things are a little better elsewhere, with the EFL Cup quarter-final against Manchester United this Thursday and Spurs also on course for a place in the UEFA Europa League knockout stage, possibly even a direct spot in round of 16 through a top eight. finish depending on your two final results. With the FA Cup third round also due to take place in early 2025, another potential route to silverware could begin there, provided the Londoners do not fall into trouble with potential National League giant-killers Tamworth.
So what is Tottenham’s trophy cabinet really like?
National titles
First Division (now EPL): 1950-51 and 1960-61: Spurs are two-time top-flight winners and those two titles came 10 years apart, which is obviously a long time ago, but is also intriguing because the 1951 success came a season after one of the club’s two Second Division titles. .
Second division (now EFL Championship): 1919-20 and 1949-50: The Lilywhites first reached the top table of English football in 1920, more than 100 years ago, but their second return to the top level came in 1950, which was immediately followed by their 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 main domestic cup competition eight times and the first triumph came in 1901 and the most recent in 1991. The victory of 1921 was in the season following promotion to the First Division, while 1961 was a double league and cup year and 1962 represented a successful defense of the national cup. The 1967 effort was a third FA Cup win in the same decade, while 1981 and 1982 were also back-to-back victories with a pattern emerging throughout 1921, 1961, 1981 and 1991 in which Spurs tend 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 more domestic cup pedigree with four League Cup wins to their names starting in 1971, continuing the aforementioned pattern of success. Tottenham failed to defend that title in 1972, but regained it in 1973, while 1999 brought a host of titles towards the end of the century, but 2008 represents their most recent triumph, which partly explains why modern football fans don’t They consider 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 from 1921 until a success in 1991, with five of those seven coming after the first season of a new decade.
European
UEFA Cup (now UEL): 1971-72 and 1983-84: Tottenham are two-time winners of the UEFA Cup (now UEFA Europa League), having triumphed in 1972 and 1984, so this season could see them achieve three UEL titles, just over 40 years after the greatest recent continental success.
UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup (now defunct): 1962-63: Although it has limited modern value because it has been defunct since 1999, Spurs also won this title, which was essentially a European competition for winners of domestic cups (hence the name), which were held around the same position as Today it occupies the UEFA Conference League, although without relation to the national cups.
