1999–2000 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season

Tottenham Hotspur

1999–2000 season
Chairman	Alan Sugar
Manager	George Graham
Stadium	White Hart Lane
Premiership	10th
FA Cup	Third round
League Cup	Fourth round
UEFA Cup	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Armstrong/Iversen (14) All: Iversen (17)
Average home league attendance	34,902
← 1998–99 2000–01 →

During the 1999–2000 season, Tottenham Hotspur participated in the FA Premier League.

Season summary

Tottenham Hotspur failed to make much of an impact on their return to Europe after an eight-year exile, nor were their cup exploits particularly impressive. Tenth place in the final table was a long way short of the top-five finishes attained by local rivals Arsenal and Chelsea, and manager George Graham bolstered his ranks for the 2000-01 season by paying a club record fee for Ukrainian striker Sergi Rebrov.

Final league table

Main article: 1999–2000 FA Premier League

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Manchester United (C)	38	28	7	3	97	45	+52	91	2000–01 UEFA Champions League First group stage
2	Arsenal	38	22	7	9	73	43	+30	73
3	Leeds United	38	21	6	11	58	43	+15	69	2000–01 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4	Liverpool	38	19	10	9	51	30	+21	67	2000–01 UEFA Cup First round 1
5	Chelsea	38	18	11	9	53	34	+19	65
6	Aston Villa	38	15	13	10	46	35	+11	58	2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
7	Sunderland	38	16	10	12	57	56	+1	58
8	Leicester City	38	16	7	15	55	55	0	55	2000–01 UEFA Cup First round 2
9	West Ham United	38	15	10	13	52	53	−1	55
10	Tottenham Hotspur	38	15	8	15	57	49	+8	53
11	Newcastle United	38	14	10	14	63	54	+9	52
12	Middlesbrough	38	14	10	14	46	52	−6	52
13	Everton	38	12	14	12	59	49	+10	50
14	Coventry City	38	12	8	18	47	54	−7	44
15	Southampton	38	12	8	18	45	62	−17	44
16	Derby County	38	9	11	18	44	57	−13	38
17	Bradford City	38	9	9	20	38	68	−30	36	2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round
18	Wimbledon (R)	38	7	12	19	46	74	−28	33	Relegation to 2000–01 Football League First Division
19	Sheffield Wednesday (R)	38	8	7	23	38	70	−32	31
20	Watford (R)	38	6	6	26	35	77	−42	24

Updated to games played on 14 May 2000.
Source: Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Chelsea qualified for the UEFA Cup as FA Cup winners

² Leicester City qualified for the UEFA Cup as League Cup winners.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results Summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	15	8	15	57	49	+8	53	10	3	6	40	26	+14	5	5	9	17	23	−6

Source: 1999-2000 FA Premier League table

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H
Result	L	W	W	W	L	D	W	D	L	W	W	L	W	W	L	D	L	W	D	W	L	D	L	L	L	W	D	W	L	D	L	L	L	W	W	D	L	W
Position	16	2	4	1	7	10	9	7	10	7	5	7	6	6	7	7	7	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	8	9	8	6	7	8	10	11	12	10	10	9	10	10

Source: 11v11.com: 1999-2000 Tottenham Hotspur results
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Results

Tottenham Hotspur's score comes first

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

FA Premier League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
7 August 1999	West Ham United	A	0-1	26,010
9 August 1999	Newcastle United	H	3-1	28,701	Iversen, Ferdinand, Sherwood
14 August 1999	Everton	H	3-2	34,539	Sherwood, Leonhardsen, Iversen
21 August 1999	Sheffield Wednesday	A	2-1	24,027	Ferdinand, Leonhardsen
28 August 1999	Leeds United	H	1-2	36,012	Sherwood
12 September 1999	Bradford City	A	1-1	18,143	Perry
19 September 1999	Coventry City	H	3-2	35,224	Iversen, Armstrong, Leonhardsen
26 September 1999	Wimbledon	A	1-1	17,368	Carr
3 October 1999	Leicester City	H	2-3	35,591	Iversen (2)
16 October 1999	Derby County	A	1-0	29,815	Armstrong
23 October 1999	Manchester United	H	3-1	36,072	Iversen, Scholes (own goal), Carr
31 October 1999	Sunderland	A	1-2	41,904	Iversen
7 November 1999	Arsenal	H	2-1	36,085	Iversen, Sherwood
20 November 1999	Southampton	A	1-0	15,248	Leonhardsen
28 November 1999	Newcastle United	A	1-2	36,460	Armstrong
6 December 1999	West Ham United	H	0-0	36,233
18 December 1999	Middlesbrough	A	1-2	33,129	Vega
26 December 1999	Watford	H	4-0	36,089	Ginola, Iversen, Sherwood (2)
29 December 1999	Aston Villa	A	1-1	39,217	Sherwood
3 January 2000	Liverpool	H	1-0	36,044	Armstrong
12 January 2000	Chelsea	A	0-1	34,969
15 January 2000	Everton	A	2-2	36,144	Armstrong, Ginola
22 January 2000	Sheffield Wednesday	H	0-1	35,897
5 February 2000	Chelsea	H	0-1	36,041
12 February 2000	Leeds United	A	0-1	40,127
26 February 2000	Coventry City	A	1-0	23,077	Armstrong
4 March 2000	Bradford City	H	1-1	35,472	Iversen
11 March 2000	Southampton	H	7-2	36,024	Richards (own goal), Anderton, Armstrong (2), Iversen (3)
19 March 2000	Arsenal	A	1-2	38,131	Armstrong
25 March 2000	Watford	A	1-1	20,050	Armstrong
3 April 2000	Middlesbrough	H	2-3	31,796	Armstrong, Ginola
9 April 2000	Liverpool	A	0-2	44,536
15 April 2000	Aston Villa	H	2-4	35,304	Iversen, Armstrong
19 April 2000	Leicester City	A	1-0	19,764	Ginola
22 April 2000	Wimbledon	H	2-0	33,086	Armstrong, Anderton
29 April 2000	Derby County	H	1-1	33,044	Clemence
6 May 2000	Manchester United	A	1-3	61,629	Armstrong
14 May 2000	Sunderland	H	3-1	36,070	Anderton (pen), Sherwood, Carr

FA Cup

Main article: 1999–2000 FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	12 December 1999	Newcastle United	H	1-1	33,116	Iversen
R3R	22 December 1999	Newcastle United	A	1-6	35,415	Ginola

League Cup

Main article: 1999–2000 Football League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	13 October 1999	Crewe Alexandra	H	3-1	25,486	Leonhardsen, Ginola, Sherwood
R4	1 December 1999	Fulham	A	1-3	18,134	Iversen

UEFA Cup

Main article: 1999–2000 UEFA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1 1st leg	16 September 1999	FC Zimbru Chişinău	H	3-0	32,660	Leonhardsen, Perry, Sherwood
R1 2nd leg	30 September 1999	FC Zimbru Chişinău	A	0-0 (won 3-0 on agg)	7,000
R2 1st leg	28 October 1999	Kaiserslautern	H	1-0	35,486	Iversen (pen)
R2 2nd leg	4 November 1999	Kaiserslautern	A	0-2 (lost 1-2 on agg)	32,000

Squad

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Ian Walker 2 DF Stephen Carr 3 DF Mauricio Taricco 4 MF Steffen Freund 5 DF Sol Campbell 6 DF Chris Perry 7 MF Darren Anderton 8 MF Tim Sherwood 9 FW Les Ferdinand 10 FW Steffen Iversen 11 MF Willem Korsten 12 DF Gary Doherty 13 GK Espen Baardsen 14 MF David Ginola 15 DF Ramon Vega 16 FW Chris Armstrong

No. Position Player 17 MF Øyvind Leonhardsen 18 MF Ruel Fox 19 DF John Scales 20 FW José Dominguez 21 DF Luke Young 22 MF Allan Nielsen 23 FW Dave McEwen 25 MF Stephen Clemence 26 DF Ledley King 27 DF Mark Gower 28 MF Matthew Etherington 29 MF Simon Davies 30 DF Anthony Gardner 32 FW John Piercy 35 DF Alton Thelwell 40 GK Hans Segers

Left club during season

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

No. Position Player 12 DF Justin Edinburgh (to Portsmouth) 31 FW Paul McVeigh (to Norwich City) - DF Paolo Tramezzani (to Pistoiese)

No. Position Player - MF Moussa Saïb (to Al Nassr) - DF Simon Webb (to Leyton Orient)

Reserve squad

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

No. Position Player - GK Gavin Kelly - DF Terry Adams - DF Clayton Fortune - DF Neil Lacy - DF Jon Jönsson - MF Andrew Burke - MF Ian Hillier

No. Position Player - MF Johnnie Jackson - MF David Lee - MF Stuart Thurgood - MF Ciarán Toner - FW Peter Crouch - FW Neale Fenn - FW Yannick Kamanan

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
3 July 1999	DF	Chris Perry	Wimbledon	£4,000,000
1 August 1999	FW	Yannick Kamanan	Le Mans Union Club 72	Trainee
6 August 1999	MF	Øyvind Leonhardsen	Liverpool	£3,000,000
31 December 1999	MF	Matthew Etherington	Peterborough United	£500,000
31 December 1999	MF	Simon Davies	Peterborough United	£700,000
17 January 2000	FW	Dave McEwen	Dulwich Hamlet	Free transfer
24 January 2000	DF	Anthony Gardner	Port Vale	£1,000,000
25 January 2000	DF	Jon Jönsson	IFK Hässleholm	£250,000
27 March 2000	DF	Gary Doherty	Luton Town	£1,000,000
28 May 2000	GK	Neil Sullivan	Wimbledon	Free transfer

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
30 June 1999	DF	Roger Nilsen	Grazer AK	Free transfer
6 July 1999	MF	Andy Sinton	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Free transfer
15 July 1999	FW	Rory Allen	Portsmouth	£1,000,000
20 July 1999	GK	Simon Brown	Colchester United	Free transfer
28 July 1999	DF	Clive Wilson	Cambridge United	Free transfer
5 August 1999	GK	Alan Marriott	Lincoln City	Free transfer
8 October 1999	DF	Simon Webb	Leyton Orient	Signed
1 January 2000	MF	Moussa Saïb	Al Nassr	£640,000
4 February 2000	DF	Paolo Tramezzani	Pistoiese	Free transfer
10 March 2000	DF	Justin Edinburgh	Portsmouth	£175,000
23 March 2000	FW	Paul McVeigh	Norwich City	Nominal

Transfers in: £10,450,000

Transfers out: £1,815,000

Total spending: £8,635,000