Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
association football club in London, England
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tottenham ( TOT-ən-əm) or Spurs, is a professional football club based in Tottenham, North London, England. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Since 2019, the team have played their home matches in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. It was built on the same site as their previous home, White Hart Lane, which was demolished.
Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur's emblem is a cockerel standing upon a football, with the Latin motto Audere est Facere ("to dare is to do"). The team have traditionally worn white shirts and navy blue shorts as their home kit since the 1898–99 season. Their training ground is on Hotspur Way in Bulls Cross, Enfield. After its inception, 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 was 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.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18741. VIAF identifies the subject as 265491259. The Library of Congress control number is n50080325. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2019, 1882, 1898 and 1901.
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