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 they were beaten 4–1 by Everton.

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; some limited exceptions apply. 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

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. 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)

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. 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

Date	Pos	Name	From	Fee
1 July 1994	DF	Owen Coll	Enfield	Free
3 August 1994	FW	Jürgen Klinsmann	Monaco	£2,300,000
3 August 1994	FW	Ilie Dumitrescu	Steaua București	£2,600,000
12 August 1994	MF	Gheorghe Popescu	PSV Eindhoven	£2,900,000

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: £7,500,000

Transfers out: £3,265,000

Total spending: £4,235,000

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premier League		FA Cup		League Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
13	GK	ENG	Ian Walker	49	0	41	0	6	0	2	0
23	DF	ENG	Sol Campbell	36	0	29+1	0	3	0	3	0
5	DF	SCO	Colin Calderwood	43	2	35+1	2	6	0	1	0
6	DF	ENG	Gary Mabbutt	44	0	33+3	0	6	0	2	0
3	DF	ENG	Justin Edinburgh	37	0	29+2	0	4	0	2	0
9	MF	ENG	Darren Anderton	45	7	37	5	6	1	2	1
4	MF	ROU	Gheorghe Popescu	28	3	23	3	3	0	2	0
7	MF	ENG	Nick Barmby	46	11	37+1	9	6	1	2	1
15	MF	ENG	David Howells	34	1	26	1	6	0	1+1	0
10	FW	ENG	Teddy Sheringham	50	23	41+1	18	6	4	2	1
18	FW	GER	Jürgen Klinsmann	50	29	41	20	6	5	3	4
1	GK	NOR	Erik Thorstvedt	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
2	DF	ENG	Dean Austin	31	0	23+1	0	4+1	0	2	0
22	DF	ENG	David Kerslake	20	0	16+2	0	0	0	2	0
11	FW	ISR	Ronny Rosenthal	25	4	14+6	0	2+2	4	1	0
8	FW	ROU	Ilie Dumitrescu	15	5	11+2	4	0	0	2	1
14	DF	ENG	Stuart Nethercott	21	1	8+9	0	2+2	1	0	0
12	MF	ENG	Jason Dozzell	9	0	6+1	0	0	0	2	0
19	DF	ENG	Kevin Scott	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF	NIR	Gerry McMahon	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
20	MF	ENG	Darren Caskey	5	0	1+3	0	0+1	0	0	0
21	MF	ENG	Danny Hill	5	0	1+2	0	0	0	0+2	0
17	MF	IRL	Andy Turner	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Players transferred out during the season
16	MF	ENG	Micky Hazard	13	0	2+9	0	0	0	1+1	0

The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.

Rnk	Pos	No.	Player	Premier League	FA Cup	EFL Cup	Total
1	FW	18	Jürgen Klinsmann	20	5	4	29
2	FW	10	Teddy Sheringham	18	4	1	23
3	MF	7	Nick Barmby	9	1	1	11
4	MF	9	Darren Anderton	5	1	1	7
5	FW	8	Ilie Dumitrescu	4	0	1	5
6	FW	11	Ronny Rosenthal	0	4	0	4
7	MF	4	Gheorghe Popescu	3	0	0	3
8	DF	5	Colin Calderwood	2	0	0	2
9	DF	14	Stuart Nethercott	0	1	0	1
	MF	15	David Howells	1	0	0	1
TOTALS				62	16	8	86

Rnk	No.	Player	Premier League	FA Cup	EFL Cup	Total
1	1	Ian Walker	11	1	0	12
TOTALS			11	1	0	12