What is Considered a Good Season for Tottenham?

Will winning any championship be good enough for Tottenham?

At the end of the day, football clubs are going to be judged by winning championships. Unfortunately, in the sport of football it isn’t easy to win one even with the amount of trophies that can be won in the Premier League as well as in Europe. In Tottenham’s case, a club who has had their fair share of silverware in all competitions, it’s been a long time since they’ve won the Premier League title. In general, it’s been almost 8 years since winning a championship, last winning the Football League Cup in 2008 during the 2007-2008 Premier League season.

MAJOR HONORS:
– Football League Champions: (x2) 1950-1951, 1960-1961
– FA Cup Winners: (x8) 1900-1901, 1920-1921, 1960-1961, 1961-1962, 1966-1967, 1980-1981, 1981-1982, 1990-1991
– Football League Cup Winners: (x4) 1970-1971, 1972-1973, 1998-1999, 2007-2008
– European Cup-Winners Cup Winners: (x1) 1962-1963
– UEFA Cup Winners: (x2) 1971-1972, 1983-1984
– Football League Division Two Champions: (x2) 1919-1920, 1949-1950
– FA Charity Shield Winners: (x7) 1920-1921, 1951-1952, 1961-1962, 1962-1963, 1967-1968 (joint), 1981-1982 (joint), 1991-1992 (joint)

OTHER HONORS:
– Southern League Champions: (x1) 1899-1900
– Western League Champions: (x1) 1903-1904
– London League Premier Division Champions: (x1) 1902-1903
– Football League South ‘C’ Division Champions: (x1) 1939-1940
– Football League South Champions: (x2) 1943-1944, 1944-1945
– Southern District Charity Cup Winners: (x3) 1901-1902, 1904-1905 (joint), 1906-1907
– Dewar Shield Winners: (x3) 1901-1902, 1933-1934, 1934-1935
– London Challenge Cup Winners: (x2) 1910-1911, 1928-1929
– Anglo-Italian League Cup-Winners Cup Winners: (x1) 1971/1972
– Norwich Charity Cup Winners: (x1) 1919-1920
– Norwich Hospital Charity Cup Winners: (x2) 1946-1947, 1949-1950 (joint)
– Ipswich Hospital Charity Cup Winners: (x1) 1951-1952 (joint)
– Costa Del Sol Tournament Winners: (x2) 1965, 1966
– Nolia Cup (Sweden) Winners: (x1) 1977
– Japan Cup Winners: (x2) 1979
– Sun International Challenge Trophy (Swaziland) Winners: (x1) 1983
– Peace Cup (Korea) Winners: (x1) 2005
– Vodacom Challenge (South Africa) Winners: (x1) 2007
– Feyenoord Jubileum Tournament (Holland) Winners: (x1) 2008
– Barclays Asia Trophy (China) Winners: (x1) 2009

*All honors were taken from Tottenham’s official site*

While a majority of Tottenham’s championships seem to be of the minor variety, Spurs are still a club with a rich history of winning even if that doesn’t seem to be the case nowadays. With that said, what will actually be considered a good season for Tottenham whether it’s this year or a few years from now?

If a good season has to be capped off by winning a trophy, there’s none bigger than the UEFA Champions League for every single football club, with a domestic championship — in this case winning the Premier League — as the second most important and every other major honor falling into third place. However with how things are set up now in the present, winning the Champions League or the Premier League is going to be hard. Not impossible, but definitely hard.

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With Mauricio Pochettino now in his second season as Tottenham’s manager, and the season already in rapid progress (it’s October now), the Argentine coach can push his team to its limits in hopes of winning another championship, but there will be teams that are more suited for lifting up a trophy in England and throughout Europe. Should everyone’s expectations be lowered due to how Tottenham and how the Premier League is structured?

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Spurs, under Daniel Levy’s guidance has shifted from a winning club to more of a money making club. As in, selling players to make a profit and doing enough to qualify for the Europa League to get some extra pocket money. If this is the case, will qualifying for a Champions League spot by any means — a top four finish or winning the Europa League — be considered a good season? There are no trophies won by finishing fourth, but there is a championship won by winning Europe’s secondary elite competition. That should be enough right?

At the end of the day, championships are important and a measuring stick to separate clubs from one another. But when the game has changed so much and more importance is placed on winning a European competition rather than a domestic title and adding into how money is being valued. Winning, or “a good season”, is looking more and more classified as reaching the Champions League on a yearly basis than actually lifting up a domestic championship. This looks to be no different for Tottenham and something that the club wants to achieve once again like they did at the end of 2009-2010, finishing 4th and ultimately reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League the following season.

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