season 2013-2014

 

 
 
RESULTS.

English Premier League
Finished :  6th

Date

Opponent

Venue

Result

Position

18.08.2013

Crystal Palace

Away

Won 1-0

5th

25.08.2013

Swansea City

Home

Won 1-0

8th

01.09.2013

Arsenal

Away

Lost 0-1

7th

14.09.2013

Norwich City

Home

Won 2-0

2nd

22.09.2013

Cardiff City

Away

Won 1-0

2nd

28.09.2013

Chelsea

Home

Drew 1-1

3rd

06.10.2013

West Ham United

Home

Lost 0-3

6th

20.10.2013

Aston Villa

Away

Won 2-0

5th

27.10.2013

Hull City

Home

Won 1-0

4th

03.11.2013

Everton

Away

Drew 0-0

4th

10.11.2013

Newcastle United

Home

Lost 0-1

7th

24.11.2013

Manchester City

Away

Lost 0-6

9th

01.12.2013

Manchester United

Home

Drew 2-2

9th

04.12.2013

Fulham

Away

Won 2-1

6th

07.12.2013

Sunderland

Away

Won 3-2

6th

15.12.2013

Liverpool

Home

Lost 0-5

7th

22.12.2013

Southampton

Away

Won 3-2

7th

26.12.2013

West Bromwich Albion

Home

Drew 1-1

8th

29.12.2013

Stoke City

Home

Won 3-0

7th

01.01.2014

Manchester United

Away

Won 2-1

6th

11.01.2014

Crystal Palace

Home

Won 1-0

5th

19.01.2014

Swansea City

Away

Won 2-1

5th

29.01.2014

Manchester City

Home

Lost 1-5

5th

01.02.2014

Hull City

Away

Drew 1-1

6th

09.02.2014

Everton

Home

Won 1-0

5th

12.02.2013

Newcastle United

Away

Won 4-0

5th

23.02.2014

Norwich City

Away

Lost 0-1

5th

02.03.2014

Cardiff City

Home

Won 1-0

5th

08.03.2014

Chelsea

Away

Lost 0-4

5th

16.03.2014

Arsenal

Home

Lost 0-1

5th

23.03.2014

Southampton

Home

Won 3-2

5th

30.03.2014

Liverpool

Away

Lost 0-4

7th

07.04.2014

Sunderland

Home

Won 5-1

6th

12.04.2014

West Bromwich Albion

Away

Drew 3-3

6th

19.04.2014

Fulham

Home

Won 3-1

6th

26.04.2014

Stoke City

Away

Won 1-0

6th

03.05.2014

West Ham United

Away

Lost 0-2

6th

11.05.2014

Aston Villa

Home

Won 3-0

6th

 

 
 
Played Won Drew Lost Goals for Goals against Goal diff. Points
38 21 6 11 55 51 +4 69

 

 
 
FA Cup
 
 
Third Round 04.01.2014 Arsenal Away Lost 0-2

 

 

 
 
League Cup
 
 
Round 4 30.10.2013 Hull City Home 2 - 2 (a.e.t.; won 8-7 on pens)
Round 5 18.12.2013 West Ham United Home Lost 1-2

 

 

 

 
Europa League
 
 
22.08.2013 Dinamo Tbilisi (Georgia) Play off first leg A 5-0 Townsend 5, Paulinho 13, Soldado 28, Rose 63, Soldado 78  
29.08.2013 Dinamo Tbilisi (Georgia) Play off second leg H 3-0 Defoe 40, Defoe 45+2, Holtby 69 Agg: 8-0
19.09.2013 Tromso IL (Norway) Group K H 3-0 Defoe 21, Defoe 29, Eriksen 86  
03.10.2013 FC Anzhi Makhachkala (Russia) Group K A 2-0 Defoe 34, Chadli 39  
24.10.2013 FC Sheriff (Moldova) Group K A 2-0 Vertonghen 12, Defoe 75  
07.11.2013 FC Sheriff  (Moldova) Group K H 2-1 Lamela 60, Defoe (p) 67  
28.11.2013 Tromso IL (Norway) Group K A 2-0 Causevic (o.g.) 64, Dembele 76  
12.12.2013 FC Anzhi Makhachkala (Russia) Group K H 4-1 Soldado 6, Soldado 15, Holtby 53, Soldado (p) 69  
13.03.2014 Benfica (Portugal) Round of 16 1L H 1-3 Eriksen 64  
20.02.2014 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) Round of 32 1L A 0-1 -  
27.02.2014 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) Round of 32 2L H 3-2 Eriksen 56, Adebayor 65, Adebayor 69 Agg: 3-2
20.03.2014 Benfica (Portugal) Round of 16 2L A 2-2 Chadli 78, Chadli 79 Agg: 3-5

 

 

 
 
REVIEW
 

This was a season when Spurs lost Gareth Bale, but used the world record transfer fee to bring in seven new players and then changed manager midway through to produce a disjointed campaign, with some good sequences of results, splattered with big defeats by the top four clubs under both Andre Villas-Boas and Tim Sherwood.

Bringing in Paulinho, Roberto Soldado and Erik Lamela for ever increasing club record transfer fees, they were joined by Nacer Chadli, Christian Eriksen, Etienne Capoue and

While the season started in decent form, with a run of four straight wins without conceding a goal, only to be halted by a 0-1 reverse at Arsenal, the next four games saw Tottenham run up four more wins without a goal going in their net until Chelsea stopped that run with a 1-1 draw at the Lane.

The team were not exactly the most free-flowing at the start of the season under AVB, but they were tight at the back and were winning matches, especially away from home, where Spurs had been weak so often in the past. Soldado was not hitting the net with the frequency Spurs had expected and his scoring was limited to penalties. Capoue was injured in the match against Arsenal and was out with an ankle injury for months. Erik Lamela’s introduction to the team was hampered by injury and Andros Townsend hitting a rich vein of form.

And then Spurs lost 0-3 at home to West Ham in the Premier League. This perhaps marked the watershed for Andre Villas-Boas. Spurs fans had become accustomed to beating the Irons, but this was a bolt from the blue and there was little credit in Tottenham’s performance in defeat.  Three clean sheet wins followed and a penalty shoot-out marathon win over Hull City in the League Cup, preceded a 0-0 away at Everton and qualification out of the group in the Europa League before another set-back in the shape of a 0-1 defeat by Newcastle United at home, despite Tim Krul having the game of his life and Spurs having a huge number of shots on target, with Newcastle scoring with one of their rare efforts on goal.

Such defeats suddenly became magnified by the expectation that had built at the beginning of the campaign. But what happened next did not help. A 0-6 defeat at Manchester City, including a goal after 14 seconds, was hard to take. Spurs were in it and even had a shot kicked off the line, as the team responded well. However, a second City goal in the 34th minute set the tone for a collapse that saw four more goals hit the Spurs net, but without response.

But a win in Tromso in the cold of the Arctic Circle was followed by a home draw with Manchester United, two 2-1 away wins at Fulham and Sunderland, showing the grit the team had developed and a 4-1 home win over Anzhi Makhachkala confirmed Spurs as group winners with a 100% record.

Liverpool arrived at White Hart Lane with a good record this season, with them going two goals up, but with Tottenham having lost Sandro to injury before coming back into the game, referee Jon Moss sent Paulinho off for a contact with Luis Suarez’s shoulder when stretching for the ball and not realising the Liverpool man was there. A squeal and slump by Suarez and the red card was out and any hope Spurs had of getting anything from the match evaporated. The team let their heads drop, ending in a 0-5 defeat and losing their manager, as Daniel Levy brought the Portuguese Head Coach’s reign to an end.

It was a strange decision, with the season approaching half way and Christmas coming, so the chances of getting a replacement worthy of the name were not high. The appointment of Tim Sherwood, the club’s Development manager, on an eighteen month contract was an odd one to say the least. But the bringing through of someone at the club was commendable.
The first match under Sherwood saw Spurs lose 1-2 in the League Cup at home, but he got the benefit of the doubt in taking control for the first time. His second was more successful, with Tottenham coming back from 0-1 down at Southampton to win 3-2, in an attacking style that Tim claimed would be his trademark.

The restoration of Emmanuel Adebayor to the first team, after an exile under AVB, was one strong claim by Sherwood as to his man-management skills being suitable for the job. Getting goals from Adebayor, when the service to Soldado wasn’t forthcoming, produced a run of results over Christmas to mid-January, including a 2-1 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford, but also had a 0-1 FA Cup Third Round defeat thrown in at Arsenal.

Then came the end of the honeymoon, with Manchester City thrashing Spurs 1-5 at the Lane, with Danny Rose sent off at 0-1 down. A draw at Hull proved a little fortunate, but wins over Everton and Newcastle without conceding steadied the ship before to goal-less games against Dnipro Dnipetrovsk and Norwich City. Going a goal down in the second leg against Dnipro did not please Spurs fans, but a come-back 3-1 win saw them through on aggregate, but the cracks were showing. Another game after a Europa week ended with Tottenham losing 0-4 at Chelsea, with another sending off (this time Kaboul) and another red card later rescinded. However, the defeat was self-inflicted with mistakes leading to all four goals.

Benfica’s 1-3 win at the Lane showed that the Spurs team were a long way behind their opponents, so, following this Europa League match, Tottenham lost 0-1 at home to Arsenal to a first minute strike and then fought back in Lisbon, but could not do enough to go through.

A last minute 3-2 win over Southampton at home after being 0-2 down (again), only papered over the cracks, as Spurs once more capitulated to a top four side in going down 0-4 at Anfield against Liverpool, with an insipid performance. But injuries had hit the side now, with Vertonghen limping off in the first half and Soldado being carried off at the end.
Bouncing back with a 5-1 home victory over bottom of the pile Sunderland, who looked like Championship material at that point, it looked as though Spurs still harboured a hope of challenging for the top four, but realistically, they had to win all their remaining games and hope others slipped up. Only it was Spurs who slipped up with a 0-3 score-line against them at West Bromwich Albion before hauling a point out of the match with a last minute Eriksen goal. Christian’s late season form was one high point for Tottenham supporters in a campaign of too many disappointments.

Tottenham’s run-in towards the end of the season was fairly straight-forward, but wins over Fulham and Stoke City were undone by yet another sending off (Kaboul for good this time) and another defeat by West Ham United to end any hope of Champions League and only a faint hope of Europa League, with Manchester United below them but not having played as many games. However, the opportunity to take advantage of United’s annus horribilis was missed, but Tottenham did deprive the Salford Reds of European football with a last day win over Aston Villa, who were poor allowing Sherwood to sign off with a victory to maintain his claim as the most successful Spurs manager ever (if you believe the stats).

But the stats don’t tell the whole story and that has been covered elsewhere, with Sherwood being removed from his post just two days after the end of the season.

A season of transition in more ways than one was of no novelty to Tottenham fans, but having lost their star performer in the summer, the replacements failed to sparkle for one reason or another. Eriksen and Paulinho to a degree did show they have something to offer, while the Head Coach at the start of the season gained results with clean sheets and the Head Coach at the end of the season without. The way they went about their tasks was very different, but they achieved the same in the end.

Only Daniel Levy will be able to change the course of last eleven years and hopefully set us on a journey to more consistent success, but the art of patience might be well applied in trying to achieve that goal.
 

 
 
RECORDS.
 

Tottenham started the season away at Crystal Palace ... this was the 16th time they had played the first game of the season away from home ... the most of any Premier League club.

19 points after nine Premier League games marked Tottenham's best start in the competition.

Tottenham's 22 games played on a Sunday was a new record for the Premier League.

In the Europa League, Mousa Dembele attempted more passes than any other player in the group stage (502), 85 more than anyone else.

Tottenham had 18 players who scored goals in the Premier League, more than any other club this season.

 

 
 
ODDITIES.
 

 

Tottenham's penalty in the opening day match at Palace was their first in the Premier League for over a season ... the last was given at Aston Villa on 6th May 2012.


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UNDER-21s.
 

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Premier Under-21 League
Finished : -th

 
Played Won Drew Lost Goals for Goals against Goal diff. Points
- - - - - - - -

 

 

 

 
ACADEMY/YOUTH.
 

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Premier Under-18 League Group -
Finished : -th

 
Played Won Drew Lost Goals for Goals against Goal diff. Points
- - - - - - - -

 

 

 

 
 
SQUAD.
 

HEAD COACH : -   Andre VILLAS-BOAS / Tim SHERWOOD
 

1.      Heurelho GOMES

2.      Kyle WALKER

 

3.      Danny ROSE

 

4.      Younes KABOUL

 

5.      Jan VERTONGHEN

 

6.      Vlad CHIRICHES  (12 for Europa League)

 

7.      Aaron LENNON

 

8.      PAULINHO

 

9.      Roberto SOLDADO

 

10.    Emmanuel ADEBAYOR

 

11.    Erik LAMELA  (33 for Europa League)

 

12.    -

 

13.    -

 

14.    Lewis HOLTBY

 

15.    Etienne CAPOUE

 

16.    Kyle NAUGHTON

 

17.    Andros TOWNSEND

 

18.    Jermain DEFOE

 

19.    Mousa DEMBELE

 

20.    Michael DAWSON

 

21.    Nacer CHADLI

 

22.    Gylfi SIGURDSSON

 

23.    Christian ERIKSEN
 

24.    Brad FRIEDEL
 

25.    Hugo LLORIS

 

26.    -

 

27.   Yago FALQUE

 

28.   Tom CARROLL

 

29.   Jake LIVERMORE

 

30.   SANDRO
 

31.   -

 

32.   Benoit ASSOU-EKOTTO

 

33.   -
 

34.    Ryan MASON

 

35.    Zeki FRYERS

 

36.    -

 

37.    Harry KANE

 

38.    -

 

39.    Alex PRITCHARD (originally Adam SMITH)

 

40.    -   

 

41.    Shaquile COULTHIRST


42.    Nabil BENTALEB

 

43.    Ryan FREDERICKS

 

44.    Cristian CEBALLOS
 

45.    Jonathan OBIKA
 

46.    Simon DAWKINS

 

47.    Kenneth McEVOY

 

48.    -

 

49.    -

 

50.    -

 

51.    Milos VELJKOVIC

 

52.    -

 

53.    Cameron LANCASTER

 

54.    Laste DOMBAXE

 

55.    -

 

56.    Jordan ARCHER

 

57.    Jonathan MILES

58.     -

 

59.    Kevin STEWART

 

60.   Joshua ONOMAH

 

61. 

 

62.  Harry WINKS

 

63.  Conor OGILVIE

 

64.  Dominic BALL

 

 

 

 
 
SCORERS.
 

 

LEAGUE

 

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FA CUP

 

 

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LEAGUE CUP

 

- - -          - -          -
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PLAYER TOTALS

  

Player League FA Cup League Cup Others Total
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           

 

 

 
 
APPEARANCES
(Subs appearances in brackets)

 
Player League FA Cup League Cup Others
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         

 

 

 

NEW PLAYERS
 
SUMMER
Player Fee From Date
PAULINHO (midfielder) £17,000,000 (cond.) Corinthians (Brazil) 31st July 2013
Roberto SOLDADO (forward) £26,000,000 Valencia (Spain) 5th August 2013
Nacer CHADLI (midfielder) £15,000,000 FC Twente Enschede (Holland) 27th July 2013
Etienne CAPOUE (defender/midfielder) £9,000,000 Toulouse (France) 15th August 2013
Christian ERIKSEN (midfielder) £- Ajax (Holland) Date
Vlad CHIRICHES (defender) £6,000,000 Steaua Bucharesti (Romania) Date
Erik LAMELA (forward) £30,000,000 (cond.) AS Roma (Italy) Date
       
 
WINTER
Player Fee From Date
- (goalkeeper/defender/midfielder/forward) £- From Date
-      

 

PLAYERS WHO LEFT IN THE SUMMER TRANSFER WINDOW BEFORE THE SEASON
 
Player Fee To Date
Steven CAULKER (defender)  £8,500,000 Swansea City 31st July 2013
Tom HUDDLESTONE (midfielder) £5,250,000 Hull City 14th August 2013
Clint DEMPSEY (forward)  £5,800,000 Seattle Sounders (USA) 3rd August 2013
John BOSTOCK (midfielder) Released Royal Antwerp (Belgium) June 2013
Nathan BYRNE (defender)  Nominal Swindon Town June 2013
Jack BARTHRAM (defender)  Released Swindon Town June 2013
Dean PARRETT (midfielder)  Released Stevenage June 2013
William GALLAS (defender)  Released Perth Glory (Australia) June 2013
David BENTLEY (midfielder) Released - June 2013
Jake NICHOLSON (midfielder) Released Morton June 2013
Jack MUNNS (midfielder) Released - June 2013
Massimo LUONGO (midfielder)  £400,000 Swindon Town 31st August 2013
- (goalkeeper/defender/midfielder/forward) £ To Date

 

PLAYERS WHO LEFT IN THE WINTER TRANSFER WINDOW
 
Player Fee To Date
Simon DAWKINS (forward)  £500,000 DERBY COUNTY 3rd January 2014
Adam SMITH (defender) £Undisclosed AFC Bournemouth 28th January 2014
- (goalkeeper/defender/midfielder/forward) £ To Date
- (goalkeeper/defender/midfielder/forward) £ To Date

 

PLAYERS WHO LEFT ON LOAN
 
Massimo LUONGO (Swindon Town)  Jonathan MILES (Whitehawk)
Alex PRITCHARD (Swindon Town)  Lawrence VIGOUROUX (Hyde)
Ryan MASON (Swindon Town)  Grant WARD (Chicago Fire - USA)
Grant HALL (Swindon Town)  Yago FALQUE (Rayo Vallecano - Spain)
Bongani KHUMALO (Doncaster Rovers) Cristian CEBALLOS (FC Arouca - Portugal)
Adam SMITH (Derby County) Jon OBIKA (Brighton & Hove Albion; Charlton Athletic)
Tomislav GOMELT (Royal Antwerp - Belgium)  Simon DAWKINS (Derby County)
Tom CARROLL (QPR) Jake LIVERMORE (Hull City)
Benoit ASSOU-EKOTTO (QPR) Shaquile COULTHIRST (Leyton Orient; Torquay United)
Ryan FREDERICKS (Millwall) Adam SMITH (Derby County)
Lewis HOLTBY (Fulham) -
- -

 

 

NEW FIRST YEAR ACADEMY PLAYERS
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NEW STAFF
- (-)
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE

- (Vice-Chairman)
- (Finance Director)
- (Football Director)

NON-EXECUTIVE

- (Chairman)
-
-
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CLUB STAFF
Company Secretary -
Club President -
Club Vice-Presidents -
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Vice-Presidents -
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-
-
-
-
 

 

CLUB MANAGEMENT
 
FIRST TEAM
Head Coach Andre VILLAS-BOAS
Assistant Coach Steffen FREUND
First Team Coach -
First Team Assistant Coach -
Fitness Coach -
Development Coach Tim SHERWOOD
Coaches -
 
ACADEMY
 
Academy Manager -
Academy Player Development -
Academy Head of Recruitment -
Academy Performance Manager -
Academy Education & Welfare Officer -
Academy Integration Manager -
Academy Coaches -
Academy Doctor -
Head Academy Physiotherapist -
Academy Physiotherapist -
Academy Fitness Coach -

 

 

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