1994–95 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season

Tottenham Hotspur

1994-95 season
Chairman	Alan Sugar
Manager	Osvaldo Ardiles (until 1 November) Steve Perryman (caretaker from 1-15 November) Gerry Francis (from 15 November)
Stadium	White Hart Lane
Premiership	7th
FA Cup	Semi-finals
League Cup	Third round
Top goalscorer	League: Klinsmann (21) All: Klinsmann (30)
Highest home attendance	33,040 vs Leeds United (14 May 1995, Premier League)
Lowest home attendance	17,798 vs Watford (4 Oct 1994, League Cup)
Average home league attendance	27,259
← 1993-94 1995-96 →

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Blackburn Rovers (C)	42	27	8	7	80	39	+41	89	1995–96 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Manchester United	42	26	10	6	77	28	+49	88	1995–96 UEFA Cup First round
3	Nottingham Forest	42	22	11	9	72	43	+29	77
4	Liverpool	42	21	11	10	65	37	+28	74
5	Leeds United	42	20	13	9	59	38	+21	73
6	Newcastle United	42	20	12	10	67	47	+20	72
7	Tottenham Hotspur	42	16	14	12	66	58	+8	62
8	Queens Park Rangers	42	17	9	16	61	59	+2	60
9	Wimbledon	42	15	11	16	48	65	−17	56
10	Southampton	42	12	18	12	61	63	−2	54
11	Chelsea	42	13	15	14	50	55	−5	54
12	Arsenal	42	13	12	17	52	49	+3	51
13	Sheffield Wednesday	42	13	12	17	49	57	−8	51
14	West Ham United	42	13	11	18	44	48	−4	50
15	Everton	42	11	17	14	44	51	−7	50	1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round ^1
16	Coventry City	42	12	14	16	44	62	−18	50
17	Manchester City	42	12	13	17	53	64	−11	49
18	Aston Villa	42	11	15	16	51	56	−5	48
19	Crystal Palace (R)	42	11	12	19	34	49	−15	45	Relegation to 1995–96 Football League First Division
20	Norwich City (R)	42	10	13	19	37	54	−17	43
21	Leicester City (R)	42	6	11	25	45	80	−35	29
22	Ipswich Town (R)	42	7	6	29	36	93	−57	27

Updated to games played on 14 May 1995.
Source: Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Everton qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as FA Cup winners.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results Summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
42	16	14	12	66	58	+8	62	10	5	6	32	25	+7	6	9	6	34	33	+1

Source: Statto

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42
Ground	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	H
Result	W	W	L	W	L	L	L	W	D	D	L	W	L	L	D	D	W	W	D	W	D	W	W	W	L	W	D	L	D	W	D	W	D	L	W	D	W	D	D	L	L	D
Position	5	2	7	3	9	9	12	10	10	12	13	11	13	15	14	14	11	10	10	8	8	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7

Source: Statto.com
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Results

Tottenham Hotspur's score comes first^[1]

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

FA Premier League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
20 August 1994	Sheffield Wednesday	A	4-3	34,051	Sheringham, Anderton, Barmby, Klinsmann
24 August 1994	Everton	H	2-1	24,553	Klinsmann (2)
27 August 1994	Manchester United	H	0-1	24,502
30 August 1994	Ipswich Town	A	3-1	22,559	Klinsmann (2), Dumitrescu
12 September 1994	Southampton	H	1-2	22,387	Klinsmann
17 September 1994	Leicester City	A	1-3	21,300	Klinsmann
24 September 1994	Nottingham Forest	H	1-4	24,558	Dumitrescu
1 October 1994	Wimbledon	A	2-1	16,802	Sheringham, Popescu
8 October 1994	Queens Park Rangers	H	1-1	25,799	Barmby
15 October 1994	Leeds United	A	1-1	39,362	Sheringham
22 October 1994	Manchester City	A	2-5	25,473	Dumitrescu (2, 1 pen)
29 October 1994	West Ham United	H	3-1	26,271	Klinsmann, Sheringham, Barmby
5 November 1994	Blackburn Rovers	A	0-2	26,933
19 November 1994	Aston Villa	H	3-4	26,889	Sheringham, Klinsmann, Bosnich (own goal)
23 November 1994	Chelsea	H	0-0	27,037
26 November 1994	Liverpool	A	1-1	35,007	Ruddock (own goal)
3 December 1994	Newcastle United	H	4-2	28,002	Sheringham (3), Popescu
10 December 1994	Sheffield Wednesday	H	3-1	25,912	Barmby, Klinsmann, Calderwood
17 December 1994	Everton	A	0-0	32,813
26 December 1994	Norwich City	A	2-0	21,814	Barmby, Sheringham
27 December 1994	Crystal Palace	H	0-0	27,730
31 December 1994	Coventry City	A	4-0	25,659	Darby (own goal), Barmby, Anderton, Sheringham
2 January 1995	Arsenal	H	1-0	28,747	Popescu
14 January 1995	West Ham United	A	2-1	24,578	Sheringham, Klinsmann
25 January 1995	Aston Villa	A	0-1	40,017
5 February 1995	Blackburn Rovers	H	3-1	28,124	Klinsmann, Anderton, Barmby
11 February 1995	Chelsea	A	1-1	30,812	Sheringham
25 February 1995	Wimbledon	H	1-2	27,258	Klinsmann
4 March 1995	Nottingham Forest	A	2-2	28,711	Sheringham, Calderwood
8 March 1995	Ipswich Town	H	3-0	24,930	Klinsmann, Barmby, Youds (own goal)
15 March 1995	Manchester United	A	0-0	43,802
18 March 1995	Leicester City	H	1-0	30,851	Klinsmann
22 March 1995	Liverpool	H	0-0	31,988
2 April 1995	Southampton	A	3-4	15,105	Sheringham (2), Klinsmann
11 April 1995	Manchester City	H	2-1	27,410	Howells, Klinsmann
14 April 1995	Crystal Palace	A	1-1	18,068	Klinsmann
17 April 1995	Norwich City	H	1-0	32,304	Sheringham
29 April 1995	Arsenal	A	1-1	38,377	Klinsmann
3 May 1995	Newcastle United	A	3-3	35,603	Barmby, Klinsmann, Anderton
6 May 1995	Queens Park Rangers	A	1-2	18,637	Sheringham
9 May 1995	Coventry City	H	1-3	24,930	Anderton
14 May 1995	Leeds United	H	1-1	33,040	Sheringham

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	7 January 1995	Altrincham	H	3-0	25,057	Sheringham, Rosenthal, Nethercott
R4	29 January 1995	Sunderland	A	3-1	21,135	Klinsmann (2, 1 pen), Sheringham, Melville (own goal)
R5	18 February 1995	Southampton	H	1-1	28,091	Klinsmann
R5R	1 March 1995	Southampton	A	6-2 (a.e.t.)	15,172	Rosenthal (3), Sheringham, Barmby, Anderton
QF	11 March 1995	Liverpool	A	2-1	39,582	Sheringham, Klinsmann
SF	9 April 1995	Everton	N	1-4	38,226	Klinsmann (pen)

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R2 1st Leg	21 September 1994	Watford	A	6-3	13,659	Anderton, Klinsmann (3), Sheringham, Dumitrescu
R2 2nd Leg	4 October 1994	Watford	H	2-3 (won 8-6 on agg)	17,798	Barmby, Klinsmann
R3	26 October 1994	Notts County	A	0-3	13,952

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

In

Date	Pos	Name	From	Fee
1 July 1994	DF	Owen Coll	Enfield	Signed
3 August 1994	FW	Ilie Dumitrescu	Steaua București	£2,600,000
12 August 1994	MF	Gheorghe Popescu	PSV Eindhoven	£2,900,000

Out

Date	Pos	Name	To	Fee
31 May 1994	MF	Lee Hodges	Barnet	Free transfer
31 May 1994	MF	Andy Gray	CA Marbella	Signed
15 June 1994	MF	Steve Sedgley	Ipswich Town	£1,000,000
12 July 1994	GK	Andy Quy	Derby County	Free transfer
13 July 1994	FW	Glynn Hurst	Barnsley	Free transfer
13 July 1994	MF	Neil Le Bihan	Peterborough United	Free transfer
25 July 1994	MF	Jeff Minton	Brighton & Hove Albion	Free transfer
2 August 1994	DF	Ijah Anderson	Southend United	Free transfer
2 August 1994	MF	Vinny Samways	Everton	£2,200,000
12 September 1994	FW	Peter Beadle	Watford	Signed
11 October 1994	DF	Neil Young	Bournemouth	Free transfer
20 October 1994	MF	Steve Robinson	Bournemouth	Free transfer
21 March 1995	DF	Guðni Bergsson	Bolton Wanderers	£65,000

Transfers in: £5,500,000

Transfers out: £3,265,000

Total spending: £2,235,000

References

1. http://www.statto.com/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/1994-1995/results
2. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/1994-1995/faprem/tottenha.htm