1994–95 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season

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.

Results summary

Results by matchday

Tottenham Hotspur's score comes first[1]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  NOR Erik Thorstvedt 2 DF  ENG Dean Austin 3 DF  ENG Justin Edinburgh 4 MF  ROU Gheorghe Popescu 5 DF  SCO Colin Calderwood 6 DF  ENG Gary Mabbutt 7 MF  ENG Nick Barmby 8 FW  ROU Ilie Dumitrescu 9 MF  ENG Darren Anderton 10 FW  ENG Teddy Sheringham 11 FW  ISR Ronny Rosenthal 12 MF  ENG Jason Dozzell 13 GK  ENG Ian Walker 14 DF  ENG Stuart Nethercott 15 MF  ENG David Howells

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  IRL Andy Turner 18 FW  GER Jürgen Klinsmann 19 DF  ENG Kevin Scott 20 MF  ENG Darren Caskey 21 MF  ENG Danny Hill 22 DF  ENG David Kerslake 23 DF  ENG Sol Campbell 24 FW  ENG Paul Mahorn 25 FW  SCO John Hendry 26 DF  ENG Jason Cundy 27 DF  IRL Stephen Carr 28 MF  NIR Gerry McMahon 30 GK  ENG Chris Day 31 FW  ENG 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. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  ENG Micky Hazard (retired)

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 MF  NIR 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. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ENG Jamie Clapham — DF  IRL Owen Coll — DF  ENG Leon Townley — MF  SCO Garry Brady

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ENG Stephen Clemence — MF  ENG Kevin Watson — FW  ENG Steve Slade