Tottenham Hotspur FC

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly known as the Spurs, are an English professional football club from Tottenham, north London, who currently plays in the Premier League. The club's stadium White Hart Lane.

Tottenham Hotspur was the first club in the 20th century to the League and FA Cup Double, the attainment of both games in season 1960-61. In 1963 they became the first British club to a major European trophy case of the European Cup Winners' Cup win. In the year 1970, they won the League Cup twice and were the inaugural winners of the UEFA Cup in 1972 (he was the first British club to two major European trophies). In the 1980 Spurs won several awards: the FA Cup twice, FA Community Shield and UEFA Cup 1983/84. In 1990, they won the FA Cup and League Cup. In 2008 they won the League Cup once, which means that one trophy in each of the last six decades, an achievement matched only by Manchester United won.

The club's Latin motto Auder facer est (literally "dare to do"), and its emblem is a Gamecock standing on a football. The club has a long rivalry with the neighbors close to Arsenal and matches between the two teams are known as the North London derby.

Tottenham are currently seeking permission to build a bigger stadium. Originally it was thought that the team can move to a new site. One possibility for the club was the use of the area where the Olympic Stadium will be built after the 2012 London Olympics, but this would have been to move from Tottenham and the plan was dropped because the stadium will retain an athletics track .

The club said in 2007 that its preference in the first half of 2008 to announce, but this decision was postponed until the fall. In April 2008 it was revealed in the press that the investigation took place into the possible use of the adjacent industrial Wingate. If the building permit and the approval of today's companies have been granted 55-60.000 seat stadium would be built at the current White Hart Lane site.

In October 2008, the club announced that, if approved, the plan was to build the new stadium, just north of the existing stadium at White Hart Lane, the southern half of the pitch the new stadium is located on the northwest corner of the Lane. The unique design of the building, the new stadium adjacent to White Hart Lane to be built as the old facility is still used for the team. During the summer after two thirds of the new stadium was complete, the northern and western state would be demolished and a new pitch laid.

The rest of the stadium would be built in the years to follow. If built, club chairman Daniel Levy has stated that it was not called to White Hart Lane, but instead will be named after a sponsor. Tony Winterbottom, formerly of the London Development Agency, who worked on the development of Arsenal Emirates Stadium, is reportedly leading the development of plans for the new stadium. In December 2008, the design for the new stadium, by KSS Design Group and Buro Happold revealed. An expected date of completion was predicted on October 26, 2009, as the Spurs' chairman Daniel Levy has stated that Spurs would move to the partially built new stadium for the start of the 2012-13 season, the last 56 250-seat location ready for the next campaign.

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