International Spurs

The following 234 players have represented their country at senior level during their time at Tottenham Hotspur.

BY NAME

BY COUNTRY 

 

ROMAN PAVLYUCHENKO
for Russia in a 2-1 victory against Wales on 10.09.2008; his debut for Tottenham was 15.09.2008 v Aston Villa

ALLAN NIELSEN
for Denmark in a 2-0 win against Slovenia on 01.09.1996; his Spurs debut was against Wimbledon was on 04.09.1996

NICO KRANJCAR
for Croatia in a 1-0 win over Belarus on 05.09.2009; his Spurs debut was not until 26.09.2009 against Burnley.

JAN VERTONGHEN
for Belgium v Netherlands in a 4-2 win in Brussels on 15.08.2012; his Spurs debut was against West Bromwich Albion 25.08.2009.

CLINT DEMPSEY
for USA v Jamaica in a 1-2 defeat in Kingston on 08.09.2012.  Clint made his first appearance for Spurs on 16.09.2012 at Reading.

CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN
for Denmark v Malta (away) in a 2-1 World Cup Qualifying match win on 07.09.2013; his Spurs debut was 14.09.2013.

VLAD CHIRICHES
for Romania in a 3-0 World Cup qualifying victory v Hungary in Bucharest on 06.09.2013 before his Spurs debut v Aston Villa on 24.09.2013.

HEUNG-MIN SON
for South Korea hitting a hat-trick in the 8-0 World Cup qualifying match against Laos on 03.09.2015.  His debut for Spurs came against Sunderland on 13.09.2015.

 

These players played for their countries before making their debut for Tottenham

SERGE AURIER
for Ivory Coast in a 3-0 World Cup qualifying away victory v Gabon on 02.09.2017.

DAVINSON SANCHEZ
for Colombia in a World Cup qualifying match v Brazil on 05.09.2017.

MATT DOHERTY
for Republic of Ireland against Bulgaria (away) in a 1-1 Nations League draw on 03.09.2020.

PIERRE-EMILE HOJBJERG
for Denmark against Belgium (home) in a 0-2 defeat in the Nations League on 05.09.2020

BRENNAN JOHNSON
for Wales against South Korea (home) in a 0-0 draw in a friendly on 07.09.2023

 

JOHNNY BROOKS
14th November 1956 v Wales in a Home Nations Championship match

STEVEN CAULKER
a close range header in Stockholm against Sweden in a 2-4 friendly defeat on 14th November 2012.

GLENN HODDLE
against Bulgaria in a European Championship qualifier at Wembley on 22nd November 1979.

HARRY KANE
against Lithuania in a European Championship qualifier at Wembley on 27th March 2015 (18 seconds after coming on as a substitute).

BILL NICHOLSON
a penalty in the 19th second of the game against Portugal on 10th September 1951

BOBBY SMITH
against Northern Ireland in Belfast on 8th October 1960 in a 5-2 win.

ANDROS TOWNSEND
hitting a 25 yard strike against Montenegro in a Wembley World Cup qualifier on 11th October 2013.

VIVIAN WOODWARD
one of two against Ireland on 14th February 1903 in a Home Nations Championship match.

 

16.03.1908  Vivian Woodward 3 v Wales (Wrexham) won 7-1

08.06.1908  Vivian Woodward 3 v Austria (Vienna) won 11-1

31.05.1909  Vivian Woodward 4 v Hungary (Budapest) won 8-2

01.06.1909  Vivian Woodward 3 v Austria (Vienna) won 8-1

26.05.1910  Frank Osborne 3 v Belgium (Antwerp) won 5-3

16.11.1938  Willie Hall 5 v Ireland (Old Trafford) won 7-0

20.05.1962  Jimmy Greaves 3 v Peru (Lima) won 4-0

03.04.1963  Cliff Jones 3 v Northern Ireland (Belfast) won 4-1

20.11.1963  Jimmy Greaves 4 v Northern Ireland (Wembley) won 8-3

03.10.1964  Jimmy Greaves 3 v Northern Ireland (Belfast) won 4-3

29.06.1966  Jimmy Greaves 4 v Norway (Oslo) won 6-1

14.10.1986  Nico Claesen 3 v Luxembourg (Luxembourg) won 6-0

01.04.1987  Nico Claesen 3 v Scotland (Brussels) won 4-1

12.06.1991  Gary Lineker 4 v Malaysia (Kuala Lumpar) won 4-2

15.11.2006  Robbie Keane 3 v San Marino (Dublin) won 5-0

03.09.2010  Jermain Defoe 3 v Bulgaria (Wembley) won 4-0

04.06.2011  Roman Pavlyuchenko 3 v Armenia (Moscow) won 3-1

03.09.2015  Heung-Min Son 3 v Laos (Hwaseong) won 8-0

24.06.2018  Harry Kane 3 v Panama (Nizhny Novograd)  won 6-1

07.09.2019  Harry Kane 3 v Bulgaria (Wembley)  won 4-0

14.11.2019  Harry Kane 3 v Montenegro (Wembley)  won 7-0

 

OTHER SPURS INTERNATIONAL TRIVIA

Spurs provided three England players in the England side for the first time since 1987 on 8th September 2004, when Paul Robinson, Jermain Defoe and Ledley King for the match v Poland (Chorzow). 

Alan Mullery played for Rest of UK v Wales, in a specially arranged game for the Coronation of the Prince of Wales. Pat Jennings was on the same side, with Mike England playing for the Welsh.

A match to commemorate the entry of three new nations (UK, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland) into the Common Market (European Union) which consisted of the Six existing members took place at Wembley on 3rd January 1973.  Alf Ramsey managed “The Three”, which featured Tottenham’s Pat Jennings, against The Six.  The game ended The Three two, The Six nil.

Tottenham may have provided England with their tallest and shortest internationals !  Fanny Walden at 5′ 2⅛” was arguably the shortest when he played in 1914 and 1921, while Peter Crouch stood 6′ 7″ during his England days.