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Tottenham Hotspur Football Club

LC control no.n 50080325
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingTottenham Hotspur Football Club
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Variant(s)Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Club
Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Company
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (Soccer team)
Tottenham (Soccer team)
Lilywhites (Soccer team)
Spurs (Soccer team)
T.H.F.C. (Tottenham Hotspur Football Club)
Beginning date1884
Associated countryGreat Britain England
Associated placeLondon (England)
LocatedTottenham (London, England)
Field of activitySoccer
Found inFinn, R. L. Spurs again, 1971.
Spurs : a history of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, 1956.
T.H.F.C. minute book 1885-1896 (Third annual general meeting of the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, 29th April 1885)
Tottenham Hotspur FC : celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Club, 2009.
Official programme and record of the club, 1 September 1910: cover (Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Company, Ltd.; Spurs)
Its website, viewed 5 February 2020: contact page (Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, Lilywhite House, 782 High Road, London N17 0BX) news archive (Hotspur FC was formed in 1882 by boys from Hotspur cricket club and from the local grammar school; re-named Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Club in 1884; adopted professionalism in 1895; became a limited company in 1898)
Wikipedia, viewed 5 February 2020 (Tottenham Hotspur F.C.; Tottenham Hotspur Football Club; English professional football club in Tottenham, London; commonly referred to as Tottenham or Spurs; nickname: the Lilywhites; formed on 5 September 1882 as Hotspur Football Club; renamed Tottenham Hotspur Football Club in April 1884 to avoid confusion with another London club named Hotspur; club turned professional on 20 December 1895; moved to the White Hart Lane site in 1899)
Companies House Beta website, viewed 5 February 2020: under Company number 00057186 (incorporated on 2 May 1898 as The Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Company, Limited; name changed from The Tottenham Hotspur Football & Athletic Company, Limited to Tottenham Hotspur Football & Athletic Co. Ltd on 8 January 2002)
Associated languageeng