The club was founded in 1882 by young men from the cricket club Hotspur and the local high school to find out about the winter months in which there is no cricket was played, to keep fit.
Originally the club was known as Hotspur Football Club, on the 14th Century living Sir Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy was due.
According to legend, took place the meeting of the naming process is under a streetlight on the corner of Park Lane and Tottenham High Road, where is the current club headquarters.
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In order to distance itself from another team called London Hotspur, 1884, the club Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Club was renamed. The official founding date is the 5th September 1882 indicates the date on which the first members were registered.
But the team has at least one game played before that date, which they on 30 August against a team who watched ‘The Radicals’ called lost 2-0.
1887 Tottenham met in a friendly match for the first time in their later rivals Arsenal. It was a game at the registry of 2-1 to the Spurs on the desire of the players from Woolwich Arsenal, who were then still located in south London, was canceled due to nightfall 15 minutes before closing.
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