TOTTENHAM
HOTSPUR F.C.
RECORDS
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club commonly referred
to as Spurs, are an English Premier League association football club based in
Tottenham, North London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane. Founded in
1882, Tottenham won the FA Cup for the first time in 1901, making them the only
non-League club to do so since the formation of the Football League. 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. In 1967 they won the FA Cup
for a third time in the 1960s. In the 1970s they won the League Cup on two
occasions and were the inaugural winners of the UEFA Cup in 1972, becoming the
first British club to win two different major European trophies. In the 1980s
Spurs won several trophies: the FA Cup twice, FA Community Shield and the UEFA
Cup in 1984. In the 1990s they won the FA Cup and the League Cup. When they won
the League Cup once more in 2008, it meant that they had won a major trophy in
each of the last six decades – an achievement only matched by Manchester
United.The club's Latin motto is Audere est Facere (lit: "To Dare Is to Do"),
and its emblem is a cockerel standing upon a football. The club has a
long-standing rivalry with near neighbours Arsenal, and matches between the two
teams are known as the North London derby.
