Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Reserves and Academy

Tottenham Hotspur

Full name	Tottenham Hotspur
Nickname(s)	Spurs, Lilywhites
Founded	1882 as Hotspur F.C.
Ground	Matchroom Stadium Brisbane Road Leyton, London, England (Capacity: 7,920 (all seated))
Chairman	Daniel Levy
Manager	Clive Allen (reserves) Alex Inglethorpe (academy)
League	Premier Academy League U18 Group B
2010–11	Premier Academy League U18 Group B, 4th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

The Tottenham Hotspur Reserves consist of mainly young players under the age of 21 who are no longer eligible for the academy but are still trying to make the step up to the senior team. The reserve team is also often used to give senior squad players and senior players returning from injury the chance to play and keep or build up match fitness.

The team are currently managed by former player Clive Allen and play their matches at Leyton Orient's home ground Matchroom Stadium from the 2007–08 season onwards. They originally played at Broadhall Way, the home ground of Stevenage Borough. They have won one Premier Reserve League South title since the league's formation in 1999.

The club announced on 12 June 2009 that for the 2009–10 season it would not be entering a team in the Reserve League. Instead the reserve players would be loaned out for first team experience, and if necessary friendly matches would be arranged as required during the season to test out players returning from injury.

'A' team

In 1948 Tottenham entered an 'A' team into the Eastern Counties League. They won the League Cup in their first season and the league title and the East Anglian Cup in their second. In 1957–58 they again won both the league and East Anglian Cup and went onto win the League Cup the following season. They won three consecutive league titles in 1959–60, 1960–61 and 1961–62. In 1963 they left the ECL to join the Metropolitan League, which they won in 1966–67 as well as the League Cup in 1963–64 and the League Cup and Professional Cup in 1964–65. In 1969 they joined the South East Counties League, where they played until the formation of the Academy team in 1998, winning it three times between 1969 and 1973 and several times in the 1980s and 1990s.

During their time in the ECL the club played at White Hart Lane, as well as at Hoddesdon Town's Lowfield Ground (1950–51), the Hoddesdon Sports Arena (1951–52) and Brookfields Lane in Cheshunt (1952–1963)

The Academy

The Tottenham Hotspur Academy coaches young footballers from the ages of 8 to 18 involving approximately 150 young players, looked after by 30 full time and part time staff. The academy features a network of 35 scouts who are tasked with finding the best local, national and international talent.

Notable players to come through the Tottenham Hotspur Academy include Ledley King, Glenn Hoddle, Peter Crouch, Stephen Carr, Nick Barmby, Ian Walker and Sol Campbell all of whom have gone on to represent their country at international level.

The Academy Manager is John McDermott. The current Youth Team coach is Alex Inglethorpe who joined the club in 2006 after a two year spell as manager of Exeter City.

Seasons

2005/06 season

Clive Allen became the manager of the reserve team at the beginning of the season and led them to their first FA Premier Reserve League South title staying in 1st position from mid-December until the end of the season. They lost just three times during the league season. In the Barclays Premiership Reserve League Play-Off which is contested by the winners of the Southern and Northern Reserve League title winners Tottenham Reserves lost 2–0 to Manchester United Reserves at Old Trafford.

2006/07 season

The 2006/07 was less successful for the reserve team with them finishing mid-table in fifth place behind league winners Reading, Watford, Chelsea and Leicester City. The academy team have made a vast improvement over the previous season and finished the league in third position in their Under 18 Group behind Reading and Leicester City.

The end of the season coincided with the end of a Tottenham career for Charlie Lee and Rob Burch with both being released to further their careers elsewhere.

2008/09 season

On 1 July 2008, Tottenham Hotspur confirmed the permanent transfer of Joe Martin who had previously been on loan, to Blackpool. Spurs also loaned out Tomas Pekhart to Southampton, Troy Archibald-Henville to Norwich City, Simon Dawkins to Leyton Orient, David Button to Grays Athletic, Andrew Barcham, Leigh Mills and Charlie Daniels went on loan to Gillingham.

In 2009 Grays Athletic this time loaned Lee Butcher another goalkeeper for a month and Gillingham acquired Barcham permanently. Charlie Daniels was allowed to join Leyton Orient on a free transfer. Button this time went on loan to AFC Bournemouth, made his league debut for them and Archibald-Henville went to Exter City, while Yuri Berchiche and David Hutton both moved to Cheltenham Town.

Honours

• FA Premier Reserve League South Champions: 1
  • 2006

• FA Youth Cup: 3
  • 1970, 1974, 1990

• FA Youth Cup Runners-up: 2
  • 1981, 1995

• Eurofoot Tournament: 2
  • 2007, 2011

Players

As of 6 March 2012.

Reserve squad

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

No. Position Player 35 GK David Button 43 MF Ryan Fredericks 44 MF Cristian Ceballos 45 MF Massimo Luongo 47 MF Jake Nicholson 53 FW Cameron Lancaster 54 MF Alex Pritchard

No. Position Player 56 MF Jesse Waller-Lassen 57 GK Jordan Archer — GK Ben Alnwick — DF Nathan Byrne — DF Bruno Uvini (on loan from São Paulo) — MF Giancarlo Gallifuoco

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player 16 DF Kyle Naughton (at Norwich City until the end of the 2011–12 season) 27 MF Iago Falqué (at Southampton until the end of the 2011–12 season) 33 MF Ryan Mason (at Millwall until the end of the 2011–12 season) 34 FW Jonathan Obika (at Yeovil Town until the end of the 2011–12 season) 37 FW Harry Kane (at Millwall until the end of the 2011–12 season) 41 MF John Bostock (at Sheffield Wednesday until the end of the 2011–12 season) 46 MF Tom Carroll (at Derby County until the end of the 2011–12 season) 52 FW Kudus Oyenuga (at St. Johnstone until the end of the 2011–12 season) 58 MF Dean Parrett (at Yeovil Town until the end of the 2011–12 season) — GK Oscar Jansson (at Shamrock Rovers until June 2012) — GK Mirko Ranieri (at Esperia Viareggio until the end of the 2011–12 season) — DF Steven Caulker (at Swansea City until the end of the 2011–12 season)

Academy

Third years

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

No. Position Player — GK Jonathan Miles — MF Paul McBride

Second years

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

No. Position Player 59 DF Kevin Stewart 60 DF Jack Barthram — DF William Ekong — DF Ramil Sheriff

No. Position Player — DF James Yeboah — MF Lee Angol — MF Ronnie Hawkins — MF Jack Munns

First years

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

No. Position Player — GK Billy Granger — DF Thomas Gardiner — DF Darren McQueen — DF Alexander McQueen — DF Roman Michael-Percil — DF Oliver Modeste — DF Milos Veljkovic — MF Dominic Ball — MF Mason Bush

No. Position Player — MF Laste Dombaxe — MF Tomislav Gomelt — MF Ruben Lameiras — MF Kenneth McEvoy — MF Samuel Smith — MF Grant Ward — FW Souleymane Coulibaly — FW Shaquile Coulthirst — FW Victor Zapata-Caicedo

Academy management and support staff

Role	Name
Manager	John McDermott
Assistant manager Head of player development Under-16s coach	Bryan Klug
Head of recruitment	Richard Allen
Performance manager	Dean Rastrick
Under-18s coach	Alex Inglethorpe
Goalkeeping coach	Perry Suckling
Head physiotherapist	Aaron Harris
Physiotherapist	Janek Pearce

Reserve team manager history

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• Colin Calderwood (2001–2003)
• John McDermott (2005)
• Clive Allen

External links

• Barclays Premier Reserve League South
• Premier Academy League
• Official Tottenham Hotspur Reserve(Professionals)Team
• Official Tottenham Hotspur Academy page