Fri 28 May 2021, 17:00
Tottenham HotspurWith 58 games played in just 253 days, the 2020/21 campaign was one of our busiest on record.
From kicking-off the season back in September, 2020 as we welcomed Everton to N17 on the Premier League's opening weekend to last Sunday's 4-2 victory over Leicester City on matchday 38, it has certainly been a turbulent year.
Our campaign began with such promise as we rose to the summit of the Premier League table in the late Autumn, topped our group to qualify for the Europa League knockout stages and booked our place in the Carabao Cup Final. However, a difficult winter and early spring saw us slip away from the Champions League places, our European journey then came to an end at the round of 16 stage before we suffered defeat in the Carabao Cup Final. We finished strongly with Ryan Mason taking over as Interim Head Coach in late April, seeing us to four wins in his six league games in charge as we secured a European place for the 12th consecutive season. We even had the pleasure of welcoming fans back to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium earlier this month as 10,000 supporters - our biggest crowd since March, 2020 - were permitted to return, in line with the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, for our final home match of the campaign.
Here is an in-depth look at the numbers behind the season...
Appearances
53 - Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg was our most-used player of this season as he made 53 appearances for us in all competitions. Heung-Min Son (51) and Lucas Moura (50) were the only other two players to make a half-century of appearances for us this term.
58 – Joe Hart was involved in all 58 of our matchday squads this season. Lucas, meanwhile, missed out on just one of our squads – our 1-1 draw away at Wolves in December.
4,380 - Hugo Lloris played the most minutes for us this season in all competitions, clocking up a further 4,380 minutes in a Spurs shirt across the campaign. Pierre also played over 4,000 minutes for us, racking up 4,323 minutes on the pitch in his first season in north London.
38 - Hugo and Pierre also played in every single minute of our Premier League season - the 11th and 12th Spurs players to manage that feat in the competition.
298 - Our French goalkeeper meanwhile moved up to second this season in our all-time appearance makers in the Premier League. Our man between the sticks has now played 298 games for us in England’s top flight, just one short of Darren Anderton’s record of 299 Spurs appearances in the Premier League.
22 – Once again, as he did in the 2019/20 season, Erik Lamela was our most used substitute as he came off the bench 22 times. Lucas Moura was also substituted onto the field 22 times this term.
26 – Tanguy Ndombele was our most substituted player this season with the Frenchman exiting the pitch on 26 occasions.
63 – Hugo Lloris and Harry Kane moved up to 63 appearances each in European competitions for us this season. The pair are now just one European appearance away from equalling legendary former captain Steve Perryman’s long-standing Club record of 64 games in Europe.
Milestones
350 - Hugo Lloris (373) breached the 350-appearance milestone for us this season and moved into the top 20 of our all-time appearance makers - currently he is joint 17th with Alan Mullery.
300 - Harry Kane (336) passed the 300-appearance landmark for the Club this term.
250 - Heung-Min Son (280) Eric Dier (279), Erik Lamela (257) and Dele (251) all made their 250th appearances for the Club this season.
200 - Eric Dier became the 15th player to make 200 appearances for us in the Premier League. Toby Alderweireld also reached the 200 Premier League appearance mark this season, but his outings in the competition have come across both his time in a Spurs shirt as well as his spell at Southampton.
200 - Ben Davies (228) and Moussa Sissoko (202) both made their 200th appearances for the Club this season.
100 - Harry Winks (109) and Davinson Sanchez (101) made their 100th Premier League appearances for the Club.
100 - Serge Aurier (110) made his 100th Spurs appearance.
50 - Ben Davies reached his half-century for us in Europe this season, making his 50th appearance for us in European competition in our 4-0 round of 32 home win over Wolfsberger AC in February.
Goals
124 - We scored 124 goals across all competitions this year while we had 18 different goalscorers.
33 - Harry Kane finished as our top scorer for the seventh season in a row as he fired home 33 goals in 49 outings this season - his best goals return since scoring 41 in 2017/18. Heung-Min Son found the back of the net 22 times this campaign while Gareth Bale scored 16 and Carlos Vinicius also recorded doubles figures with 10.
20 - Harry has now scored at least 20 goals in each of our last seven seasons.
23 - Our number 10 collected his third Premier League Golden Boot of his career after scoring 23 goals in the competition this season.
200 - He also scored his 200th Spurs goal in November’s 3-1 Europa League win away at Ludogorets - he now sits on 221 goals for the Club. His goals this season have moved him up to second in our all-time top goalscorers chart. He is now 45 goals behind legendary forward Jimmy Greaves’ long-standing club record of 266.
150 - The England international also scored his 150th Premier League goal and moved into the competition’s all-time top 10 goalscorers with a match-winning header away at West Brom in November. He now sits seventh in the all-time list on 166 goals.
11 - He also became the north London derby’s all-time top goalscorer outright in December with his 11th in the famous fixture.
100 - Heung-Min Son scored his 100th Spurs goal in January’s 3-0 win over Leeds United.
50 - Gareth Bale (54) became the eighth Spurs player to hit 50-plus goals in the Premier League.
4 - Steven Bergwijn has now scored four goals for the Club - all of which have come at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
51 - Of ‘striking trios’ this season, our front three scored the most goals in the Premier League with Harry Kane (23), Heung-Min Son (17) and Gareth Bale (11) finding the back of the net on 51 occasions, nine more than the next best ‘striking trio’ - Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino (42).
4 - Gareth contributed to four goals after coming off the bench for us this season (three goals, one assist) - only Manchester United’s Edinson Cavani (seven - five goals, two assists) contributed to more in the competition than the Welshman.
4 - We scored four hat-tricks across the campaign (Heung-Min Son (4) v Southampton, Harry Kane v Maccabi Haifa, Carlos Vinicius v Marine and Gareth Bale v Sheffield United).
30 - We scored our 30th hat-trick in the FA Cup this season with Carlos Vinicius firing home a treble against non-league Marine in January. It was also our fifth hat-trick in the competition in just the last four seasons.
4 - Heung-Min Son became the sixth Spurs player to score at least four goals in a single Premier League game with his quadruple at Southampton in September joining Jurgen Klinsmann v Wimbledon in 1998, Dimitar Berbatov v Reading in 2007, Robbie Keane v Burnley in 2009, Jermain Defoe (5) v Wigan in 2009 and Harry Kane v Leicester in 2017.
11.6 - We enjoyed the best chance conversion rate (11.6 per cent) in the Premier League with 68 goals coming from our 584 shots.
61 - Only Manchester City (77) scored more non-penalty goals than us (61) in the Premier League this season.
9 - No Premier League player hit the woodwork more times in the season than Harry Kane (9).
Penalties
10 - We had 10 penalties awarded to us this season in all competitions with four different players taking the spot-kicks. All were dispatched at the first time of asking.
- Harry Kane (6/6)
- Dele (2/2)
- Heung-Min Son (1/1)
- Gareth Bale (1/1)
24 - Harry Kane’s six penalties this season saw him move into second position in our all-time penalty goalscorers in the top flight as he leapfrogged Glenn Hoddle (23) to move onto 24. He is now just three away from Jimmy Greaves’ long-standing club record of 27.
5-4 - We won our first penalty shootout in over two years back in September edging Chelsea 5-4 in our fourth round Carabao Cup tie at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. That ended a run of three shootouts without a win (versus Chelsea 2019 Carabao Cup semi-final, versus Colchester United, Carabao Cup third round in September, 2019 and versus Norwich City, FA Cup fifth round in March, 2020) since our Carabao Cup third round win over Watford in September, 2018.
12 - 12 penalties were awarded against us in all competitions with spot-kicks to Leicester making up 25 per cent of those (three - all dispatched by Jamie Vardy).
Assists
18 - We had 18 different assist providers across the season.
17 - Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son were our top assist providers in all competitions this season with 17 each.
14 - Harry took home the Premier League Playmaker award after providing a league-high 14 assists.
14 - Harry and Sonny combined for 14 goals this season in the Premier League to break the record for most goal combinations in a single season in the competition. The duo are currently on 34 Premier League goal combinations in the history of the competition, only second to Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba's record of 36.
40 - In terms of goals and assists, the duo contributed to 40 goals for us this season in the Premier, seven more than the next best ‘attacking duo’ (Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane 33)
10 - Harry became the fifth Spurs player in Premier League history to record at least 10 goals and 10 assists in a single season in the competition. Jurgen Klinsmann, Emmanuel Adebayor, Christian Eriksen and Heung-Min Son have also achieved the feat.
1 - Sonny meanwhile became the first Spurs player in Premier League history to record at least 10 goals and 10 assists in back-to-back seasons in the competition.
4 - Harry became the first player to assist the same player four times in a Premier League game when he played in Sonny for four of our goals in our 5-2 win over Southampton in September.
Passing
77 - Heung-Min Son played 77 key passes in the Premier League during the 2020/21 season - the fifth highest in the division.
235 - Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg played 235 passes into the final third - only two top flight players (Arsenal’s Granit Xhaka - 268 and Manchester City’s Rodri - 239) managed more.
2,765 - Only City’s Rodri (2,785) completed more passes in the Premier League this season than Pierre (2,765). The Dane completed 88.9 per cent of his passes. Joe Rodon had the second highest pass completion rate in our squad with 88.8 per cent.
Possession
3,259 - Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg had 3,259 touches of the ball in the Premier League this season - the fourth highest by any player in the competition.
8 - Only five players managed more nutmegs in the Premier League than Harry Kane’s eight this season.
85.7 - For players that attempted at least 10 dribbles in the Premier League season, Japhet Tanganga ranked highest in our squad in terms of success rate as he completed 12 out of his 14 dribbles (85.7 per cent).
97 - No player in our squad attempted more dribbles in the league than Tanguy Ndombele. The Frenchman attempted 97 and completed 70 of them (72.2 per cent success rate).
60 - In the top flight, Tanguy and Harry Kane also drew the most fouls in our squad - 60 each.
Defence
98 - Only two players made more tackles than Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (98) in the Premier League this season - Leeds United’s Luke Ayling (108) and Yves Bissouma of Brighton (104).
69 - No player committed more fouls in the top flight this season than Pierre though (69).
63.3 - Only Everton’s Ben Godfrey (64.1 per cent) had a better success rate in tackling dribblers than Davinson Sanchez (63.3 per cent) in the league this season.
100 - Hugo Lloris kept his 100th clean sheet in the Premier League this season to join an exclusive club of just 16 goalkeepers to have reached a century of shutouts in England’s to flight. He now has 104 clean sheets in the competition to his name.
12 - In total, Hugo kept 12 clean sheets this season - the fourth highest in the Premier League.
75.7 - The French stopper also recorded a save percentage of 75.7 per cent in the Premier League - only two goalkeepers enjoyed a better success rate.
Debuts
13 - We had 13 debutants this season.
Matt Doherty v Everton - Premier League, September, 2020
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg v Everton - Premier League - September, 2020
Joe Hart v KF Shkendija - Europa League Qualifying, third round - September, 2020
Sergio Reguilon v Chelsea - Carabao Cup, third round - September, 2020
Carlos Vinicius v LASK - Europa League group stage - October, 2020
Jack Clarke v LASK - Europa League group stage - October, 2020
Joe Rodon v Burnley - Premier League - October, 2020
Harvey White v Ludogorets - Europa League group stage - November, 2020
Alfie Whiteman v Ludogorets - Europa League group stage - November, 2020
Dane Scarlett v Ludogorets - Europa League group stage - November, 2020
Alfie Devine v Marine - FA Cup, third round - January, 2021
Marcel Lavinier v Wolfsberger AC - Europa League round of 32 second leg - February, 2021
Nile John v Wolfsberger AC - Europa League round of 32 second leg - February, 2021
16 - At 16 years, five months and nine days, Alfie Devine became our youngest-ever player and goalscorer when he came off the bench to strike against Marine on his Spurs debut back in our FA Cup third round meeting in January, 2020.
16 - At the age of 16 years, 10 months and 14 days, Dane Scarlett became our youngest-ever Premier League player in February when he came off the bench against West Brom.
10 - We have now had at least one academy graduate make their Premier League debut for us in each of the last 10 seasons.
3 - Three players scored their first Spurs goals this season - Carlos Vincius, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Alfie Devine.
Squad
24 - This season, only Leeds United (23) used less players than us (24) in the Premier League.
27.2 - The average age of our Premier League squad was 27.2 years old - the fourth oldest in the competition.
Captains
4 - Four different players wore the captain’s armband for us this season.
Hugo Lloris - 48 times
Ben Davies - 7 times
Harry Kane - twice
Toby Alderweireld - once
Home and away
33 - For the second season in a row, we enjoyed the third-best home form in the league as we took 33 points from our 19 matches at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - only Manchester City (41) and West Ham (34) took more points from their respective home games. It is the first time in the history of the Premier League that we have placed consecutively within the top three in terms of our home points tally.
35 - We also scored the third-most goals at home in the league with 35 - only Manchester City (43) and Manchester United (38) scored more than us on their own turf.
20 - We also conceded the third least number of goals at home in the division (20) - only Manchester City (17) and Chelsea (18) conceded less than us.
11 - By contrast, we placed 11th in the 'away table' as we picked up 29 points from our 19 games on the road. Last season, we finished in the same position in the 'away table', despite picking up nine less points (20).
Doubles
4 - We completed a Premier League double over four teams in the Premier League this season - Southampton, Sheffield United, West Brom and Burnley.
8 - We remained unbeaten against eight teams in the Premier League this term - Southampton, Sheffield United, West Brom, Burnley, Wolves, Newcastle United, Crystal Palace and Fulham.
1 - The only side we failed to take any points from this season was Liverpool.
3pm kick-offs
0 – For the first time in Premier League history, we did not kick-off a single match at the traditional time of 3pm on a Saturday afternoon.
