Spurs Trophies & Honours

Tottenham Hotspur’s honours list pulls in two directions at once. There are two league titles from before colour television reached most front rooms, eight FA Cups and three UEFA Cup/Europa League wins, plus the distinction of being the first British club to lift a European trophy back in 1963. Then there is the other side of it, which shows no Premier League title, no Champions League and long stretches where north London has had to make do with near misses instead of silverware (unless you were to look to the other team in that part of town).

Nothing sums up that relationship with trophies better than the mess that followed the club’s most recent night of excitement. Ange Postecoglou ended a 17-year wait for a trophy by beating Manchester United in the 2025 Europa League final, then was sacked 16 days later. Spurs then got through two more head coaches in a single season, so that by the time Roberto De Zerbi arrived in the spring of 2026, the reigning European champions were fighting to stay in the Premier League. Although they did so, it was a perfect demonstration of that duopoly.

League Titles

• First Division Titles: 2
  • Seasons: 1950-1951, 1960-1961

Premier League

Spurs have never won the Premier League. Their best finish came in the 2016-2017 campaign, when Mauricio Pochettino’s side collected 86 points and finished second, seven points behind champions Chelsea but, for the first time in 22 years, above Arsenal. It remains the closest the club has come since the competition’s 1992 rebrand, with the fuller story of that campaign, and the other near misses, belonging on the Premier League page.

Before the Premier League

Believe it or not, there really was a time before the Premier League began to be the elite competition at the top of the English game that everyone wanted to win. Here is a quick look at the two wins that Spurs got under their belts:

The first title, in 1950-1951, came under Arthur Rowe, whose ‘push and run’ side won the Second Division and then the First Division in successive seasons, playing a short-passing, quick-movement style that was well ahead of its time in English football. It was sealed with a 1-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday on the 28th of April 1951.

The second title that Tottenham Hotspur won came exactly a decade later, in 1960-1961. It is the one Spurs supporters still mention first, even if it wasn’t that chronologically. Bill Nicholson’s side won the league by eight points and then beat Leicester City 2-0 in the FA Cup final on the sixth of May 1961, thanks to goals from Bobby Smith and Terry Dyson. That ensured that they completed the League and FA Cup double, which made Spurs the first club of the 20th century to do it.

Cup Wins

• FA Cup Wins: 8
• League Cup Wins: 4
• UEFA Cup/Europa League Wins: 3
• European Cup Winners’ Cup Wins: 1

Spurs’ cup record is lopsided in an interesting way, in that they have won nothing at all in the Champions League, enjoyed a decent FA Cup return and boast a European pedigree in the UEFA Cup and Europa League that few English clubs outside the Big Six can match. Here is a look at their record in each competition:

Champions League

Spurs have never won the Champions League and have reached only one final. That came in 2018-2019, when Mauricio Pochettino’s side beat Ajax on away goals after an extraordinary comeback, with Lucas Moura completing a hat-trick deep into stoppage time in Amsterdam to secure their place in the final. That was against Liverpool in Madrid on the first of June 2019 and swung Liverpool’s way inside two minutes when Mohamed Salah converted an early penalty. Divock Origi’s late second made it 2-0. It remains the closest Tottenham have come to the trophy.

FA Cup

• FA Cup Wins: 8
  • Seasons: 1900-1901, 1920-1921, 1960-1961, 1961-1962, 1966-1967, 1980-1981, 1981-1982, 1990-1991

Eight wins puts Spurs level with Chelsea and Liverpool on the FA Cup’s all-time list, behind only Arsenal and Manchester United. The first two came well before the Second World War, beating Sheffield United in a replay in 1901 and Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 in 1921, with the victories being separated by two decades but still cited as the foundation of the club’s cup pedigree.

The 1960s brought two more FA Cups to White Hart Lane. Jimmy Greaves put Spurs ahead early in the 1962 final and Danny Blanchflower’s penalty completed a 3-1 win over Burnley that retained the trophy won as part of the Double the year before. Goals from Jimmy Robertson and Frank Saul then helped Tottenham to beat their London rivals Chelsea 2-1 in 1967’s first all-London final, with Bobby Tambling’s late consolation goal not enough to spoil the occasion.

Keith Burkinshaw’s side won back-to-back finals in the early 1980s. Ricky Villa’s mazy solo goal won a thrilling replay against Manchester City 3-2 in 1981, after the first match had finished 1-1. Villa opened the scoring in the replay too, before City hit back to lead 2-1 and Garth Crooks levelled prior to Villa’s second settling it. It is a goal that is still shown before FA Cup finals nearly every year. Glenn Hoddle’s early penalty then helped the club to beat Queens Park Rangers 1-0 in the following year’s replay, after the first match was also drawn 1-1.

The most recent FA Cup win for Spurs came in 1991. It is remembered as much for what went wrong as what went right. Paul Gascoigne was carried off injured after just 13 minutes following a reckless early tackle, before Stuart Pearce’s free kick put Nottingham Forest ahead soon after. Paul Stewart equalised before Des Walker’s own goal, deep into extra-time, won it 2-1 and gave Tottenham their eighth FA Cup.

On this day: We won the FA Cup with a 2-1 victory against Nottingham Forest after extra time back in 1991. pic.twitter.com/UtqEpjLFeW

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) May 18, 2014

League Cup

• League Cup Wins: 4
  • Seasons: 1970-1971, 1972-1973, 1998-1999, 2007-2008

Four League Cup wins are a modest return next to the FA Cup tally, but Spurs were amongst the competition’s earliest specialists. Martin Chivers scored twice in a 2-0 win over Aston Villa in 1971, and Ralph Coates settled a tighter final against Norwich City 1-0 two years later.

The trophy then went missing for over two decades as far as Tottenham were concerned. George Graham’s Spurs beat Leicester City 1-0 through Allan Nielsen’s last-minute winner in 1999, then Juande Ramos added a fourth in 2008 when Spurs came from behind to beat Chelsea 2-1. None have followed since, which makes it the joint-longest of Tottenham’s trophy droughts, matched only by the Premier League itself.

European Trophies

• UEFA Cup/Europa League Wins: 3
  • Seasons: 1971-1972, 1983-1984, 2024-2025
• European Cup Winners’ Cup Wins: 1
  • Season: 1962-1963

This is where Spurs’ European story really lives. Tottenham became the first British club to win a major European trophy on the 15th of May 1963, beating Atlético Madrid 5-1 in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final in Rotterdam, Jimmy Greaves scoring twice.

The UEFA Cup followed twice, firstly under Bill Nicholson and then thanks to Keith Burkinshaw. In 1972, Martin Chivers’ brace won the first-leg 2-1 at Wolverhampton Wanderers, before a 1-1 draw at White Hart Lane completed a 3-2 aggregate win in the first UEFA Cup final contested by two English clubs. In 1984, Tottenham needed penalties to see off Anderlecht after two 1-1 draws, with substitute goalkeeper Tony Parks saving Arnór Guðjohnsen’s decisive spot kick on the 23rd of May.

The wait for a third trophy took 41 years and a rebranding of the competition. Ange Postecoglou’s Spurs beat Manchester United 1-0 in Bilbao on the 21st of May 2025, with Brennan Johnson’s strike in the 42nd minute being enough to end a 17-year wait for any silverware at all. It made for an odd twist the following season, when the reigning European champions spent the winter fighting relegation instead, which is about as ‘Spursy’ as trophies get.