The 1994-95 season was the 113th season in the history of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, their 17th consecutive season in the top flight of English football and their third season in the FA Premier League. The club also participated in the FA Cup and the Football League Cup.

Season summary 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.

Final league table

Results summary

Results by matchday

Results Tottenham Hotspur's score comes first

Legend WinDrawLoss

FA Premier League DateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceScorers 20 August 1994 Sheffield WednesdayA4–334,051Sheringham, Anderton, Barmby, Klinsmann 24 August 1994 EvertonH2–124,553Klinsmann (2) 27 August 1994 Manchester UnitedH0–124,502 30 August 1994 Ipswich TownA3–122,559Klinsmann (2), Dumitrescu 12 September 1994 SouthamptonH1–222,387Klinsmann 17 September 1994 Leicester CityA1–321,300Klinsmann 24 September 1994 Nottingham ForestH1–424,558Dumitrescu 1 October 1994 WimbledonA2–116,802Sheringham, Popescu 8 October 1994 Queens Park RangersH1–125,799Barmby 15 October 1994 Leeds UnitedA1–139,362Sheringham 22 October 1994 Manchester CityA2–525,473Dumitrescu (2, 1 pen) 29 October 1994 West Ham UnitedH3–126,271Klinsmann, Sheringham, Barmby 5 November 1994 Blackburn RoversA0–226,933 19 November 1994 Aston VillaH3–426,889Sheringham, Klinsmann, Bosnich (own goal) 23 November 1994 ChelseaH0–027,037 26 November 1994 LiverpoolA1–135,007Ruddock (own goal) 3 December 1994 Newcastle UnitedH4–228,002Sheringham (3), Popescu 10 December 1994 Sheffield WednesdayH3–125,912Barmby, Klinsmann, Calderwood 17 December 1994 EvertonA0–032,813 26 December 1994 Norwich CityA2–021,814Barmby, Sheringham 27 December 1994 Crystal PalaceH0–027,730 31 December 1994 Coventry CityA4–025,659Darby (own goal), Barmby, Anderton, Sheringham 2 January 1995 ArsenalH1–028,747Popescu 14 January 1995 West Ham UnitedA2–124,578Sheringham, Klinsmann 25 January 1995 Aston VillaA0–140,017 5 February 1995 Blackburn RoversH3–128,124Klinsmann, Anderton, Barmby 11 February 1995 ChelseaA1–130,812Sheringham 25 February 1995 WimbledonH1–227,258Klinsmann 4 March 1995 Nottingham ForestA2–228,711Sheringham, Calderwood 8 March 1995 Ipswich TownH3–024,930Klinsmann, Barmby, Youds (own goal) 15 March 1995 Manchester UnitedA0–043,802 18 March 1995 Leicester CityH1–030,851Klinsmann 22 March 1995 LiverpoolH0–031,988 2 April 1995 SouthamptonA3–415,105Sheringham (2), Klinsmann 11 April 1995 Manchester CityH2–127,410Howells, Klinsmann 14 April 1995 Crystal PalaceA1–118,068Klinsmann 17 April 1995 Norwich CityH1–032,304Sheringham 29 April 1995 ArsenalA1–138,377Klinsmann 3 May 1995 Newcastle UnitedA3–335,603Barmby, Klinsmann, Anderton 6 May 1995 Queens Park RangersA1–218,637Sheringham 9 May 1995 Coventry CityH1–324,930Anderton 14 May 1995 Leeds UnitedH1–133,040Sheringham

FA Cup

+RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorersR37 January 1995 AltrinchamH3–025,057Sheringham, Rosenthal, NethercottR429 January 1995 SunderlandA4–121,135Klinsmann (2, 1 pen), Sheringham, Melville (own goal)R518 February 1995 SouthamptonH1–128,091KlinsmannR5R1 March 1995 SouthamptonA6–2 15,172Rosenthal (3), Sheringham, Barmby, AndertonQF11 March 1995 LiverpoolA2–139,582Sheringham, KlinsmannSF9 April 1995 EvertonN1–438,226Klinsmann (pen)

League Cup

+RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorersR2 1st Leg 21 September 1994 WatfordA6–313,659Anderton, Klinsmann (3), Sheringham, DumitrescuR2 2nd Leg 4 October 1994 WatfordH2–3 (won 8–6 on agg)17,798Barmby, KlinsmannR326 October 1994 Notts CountyA0–313,952

Squad

Left club during season

Reserve squad

Transfers

In DatePosNameFromFee1 July 1994DF Owen Coll EnfieldFree3 August 1994FW Jürgen Klinsmann Monaco£2,300,0003 August 1994FW Ilie Dumitrescu Steaua București£2,600,00012 August 1994MF Gheorghe Popescu PSV Eindhoven£2,900,000

Out DatePosNameToFee31 May 1994MF Lee Hodges BarnetFree transfer31 May 1994MF Andy Gray CA MarbellaSigned15 June 1994MF Steve Sedgley Ipswich Town£1,000,00012 July 1994GK Andy Quy Derby CountyFree transfer13 July 1994FW Glynn Hurst BarnsleyFree transfer13 July 1994MF Neil Le Bihan Peterborough UnitedFree transfer25 July 1994MF Jeff Minton Brighton & Hove AlbionFree transfer2 August 1994DF Ijah Anderson Southend UnitedFree transfer2 August 1994MF Vinny Samways Everton£2,200,00012 September 1994FW Peter Beadle WatfordSigned11 October 1994DF Neil Young BournemouthFree transfer20 October 1994MF Steve Robinson BournemouthFree transfer21 March 1995DF Guðni Bergsson Bolton Wanderers£65,000

Transfers in: £7,500,000 Transfers out: £3,265,000 Total spending: £4,235,000

Statistics Appearances and goals

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Goal scorers

The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal. Player Premier League FA Cup EFL Cup Total1 FW 18 Jürgen Klinsmann 20 5 4 292 FW 10 Teddy Sheringham 18 4 1 233 MF 7 Nick Barmby 9 1 1 114 MF 9 Darren Anderton 5 1 1 75 FW 8 Ilie Dumitrescu 4 0 1 56 FW 11 Ronny Rosenthal 0 4 0 47 MF 4 Gheorghe Popescu 3 0 0 38 DF 5 Colin Calderwood 2 0 0 29 DF 14 Stuart Nethercott 0 1 0 1 MF 15 David Howells 1 0 0 1TOTALS6216886

Clean sheets

PlayerPremier LeagueFA CupEFL CupTotal1 1 Ian Walker 11 1 0 12TOTALS111012

References