1994–95 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season

During the 1994–95 English football season, Tottenham Hotspur F.C. competed in the FA Premier League.

Season summary

Tottenham Hotspur began the season coming to terms with arguably the heaviest punishment ever handed out to an English club. As punishment for financial irregularities committed under the club's previous owners during the 1980s, they were fined £600,000 and were docked 12 league points as well as being banned from the 1994-95 FA Cup. Manager Ossie Ardiles reacted defiantly by adopting an impressive new attacking formation, while chairman Alan Sugar challenged his club's sanctions in court. The fine was later increased to £1.5 million, but the points deduction and FA Cup ban were eventually revoked. (Swindon Town, who had won promotion under Ardiles to the top flight in the 1990 play-offs, were initially relegated to the Third Division for illegal payments to players, before being allowed to stay in the Second.)

On the field, the new ultra-attacking style of football was not bringing as much success as Ardiles might have liked, and in November he paid for these shortcomings with his job, following a 3-0 defeat in the League Cup to Notts County. QPR manager Gerry Francis was named as his successor, and guided Spurs to seventh in the final table - their highest finish for five years. He also took them to the semi-finals of the FA Cup, where their Wembley dream was crushed by Everton, who ran out 4-1 winners.

The close season saw 30-goal striker and FWA Player of the Year Jürgen Klinsmann return to his homeland in a £1.5million move to Bayern Munich, and in came Chris Armstrong from Crystal Palace as his replacement. At a club record fee of £4.5million, 24-year-old Armstrong was slammed as a "waste of money" by many supporters, who were sceptical of such a large sum of money being spent on a player who had scored just nine league goals (although his tally for 1994-95 reached 19 thanks to Palace's cup exploits), seen his old club relegated and failed a drugs test.

Gheorghe Popescu and Nick Barmby also moved on at the end of the season, leaving Francis to re-organise in midfield.

Final league table

Results summary

Results by round

Results

Tottenham Hotspur's score comes first^[1]

Squad

^[2] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Erik Thorstvedt 2 DF Dean Austin 3 DF Justin Edinburgh 4 MF Gheorghe Popescu 5 DF Colin Calderwood 6 DF Gary Mabbutt 7 MF Nick Barmby 8 FW Ilie Dumitrescu 9 MF Darren Anderton 10 FW Teddy Sheringham 11 FW Ronny Rosenthal 12 MF Jason Dozzell 13 GK Ian Walker 14 DF Stuart Nethercott 15 MF David Howells

No. Position Player 17 MF Andy Turner 18 FW Jürgen Klinsmann 19 DF Kevin Scott 20 MF Darren Caskey 21 MF Danny Hill 22 DF David Kerslake 23 DF Sol Campbell 24 FW Paul Mahorn 25 FW John Hendry 26 DF Jason Cundy 27 DF Stephen Carr 28 MF Gerry McMahon 30 GK Chris Day 31 FW Robert Simpson

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 16 MF Micky Hazard (retired)

No. Position Player 29 MF Steve Robinson (to Bournemouth)

Reserve squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player DF Jamie Clapham DF Owen Coll DF Leon Townley MF Garry Brady

No. Position Player MF Stephen Clemence MF Kevin Watson FW Steve Slade

Transfers

References