Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English professional football club based in Tottenham, London. Founded in 1882, the club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1901. 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. In 1963 they became the first British club to win a UEFA club competition – the European Cup Winners’ Cup. In total, Spurs have won two league titles, eight FA Cups, four League Cups, seven FA Community Shields, one European Cup winners’ Cup and two UEFA Cups.
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Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English professional football club based in Tottenham, London. Founded in 1882, the club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1901. 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. In 1963 they became the first British club to win a UEFA club competition – the European Cup Winners’ Cup. They were also the inaugural winners of the UEFA Cup in 1972. In total, Spurs have won two league titles, eight FA Cups, four League Cups, seven FA Community Shields, one European Cup winners’ Cup and two UEFA Cups. They have a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Arsenal, with whom they contest the North London derby. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has been the club’s home ground since April 2019, replacing their former home of White Hart Lane, which had been demolished to make way for the new stadium on the same site. Their training ground is on Hotspur Way in Bulls Cross in the London Borough of Enfield. The club’s emblem is a cockerel standing upon a football, with a Latin motto Audere est Facere. The club is owned by ENIC Group and plays in the Premier League, the top division of the English football league system. The first recorded match took place on 30 September 1882 against a local team named the Radicals, which Hotspur lost 2–0. The team entered their first cup competition in their first competitive match on 17 October 1885 against a company’s works team called St Albans.
Tottenham turned professional on 20 December 1895 and, in the summer of 1896, was admitted to Division One of the Southern League. On 2 March 1898 the club also became a limited company, the Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Company. In April 1884 the club was renamed \”T Tottenham Hotsur Football Club\” to avoid confusion with another London club named Hotspur, whose post had been mistakenly delivered to North London. Nicknames for the club include \”Spurs\” and \”the Lilywhites\”. The following year Spurs won the 1901 FA Cup by beating Sheffield United 3–1 in a replay of the final, after the first game ended in a 2–2 draw. In 1908, Spurs won promotion to the Football League and finished runners-up in the First Division in their season, and finished runner-up to Liverpool in the Second Division. In 1912, Peter McWilliam became Tottenham’s first manager; he guided the club to their first league finish in the league at the end of the 1914–15 season. On April 23, 1921, Spurs finished second to Liverpool to their second FA Cup Final win, beating Wolverhampton Wanderers 1–0 in the second season of the league. After the First World War, Spurs were relegated to the Second division but quickly returned to the First division after the resumption of football. In 1922, they won the Second League as Second Division champions of the 1919–20 season.
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