1998–99_Tottenham_Hotspur_F.C._season

Tottenham Hotspur
1998–99 season
Chairman	Alan Sugar
Manager	Christian Gross (until 5 September); Chris Hughton (caretaker from 5–24 September) ; George Graham (from 24 September)
Stadium	White Hart Lane
Premiership	11th
FA Cup	Semi-finals
League Cup	Winners
Top goalscorer	League: Iversen (9); All: Iversen (13)
Highest home attendance	36,125 (vs. Liverpool, 5 December)
Lowest home attendance	22,980 (vs. Brentford, 23 September)
Average home league attendance	34,149
Home colours	Away colours
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1998–99 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season

1998–99 season of Tottenham Hotspur

During the 1998–99 season, Tottenham Hotspur participated in the English Premier League.

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[table_note_res_TOT0.82543111677534-4] Tottenham Hotspur qualified for the UEFA Cup as League Cup winners.

[table_note_res_NEW0.82543111677534-5] As Manchester United qualified for the Champions League, their UEFA Cup place as FA Cup winners defaulted to Newcastle United, the runners-up.

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
9	Middlesbrough	38	12	15	11	48	54	−6	51
10	Leicester City	38	12	13	13	40	46	−6	49
11	Tottenham Hotspur	38	11	14	13	47	50	−3	47	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round^{[lower-alpha 1]}
12	Sheffield Wednesday	38	13	7	18	41	42	−1	46
13	Newcastle United	38	11	13	14	48	54	−6	46	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round^{[lower-alpha 2]}

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	11	14	13	47	50	−3	47	7	7	5	28	26	+2	4	7	8	19	24	−5

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
15 August 1998	Wimbledon	A	1–3	23,031	Fox
22 August 1998	Sheffield Wednesday	H	0–3	32,129
29 August 1998	Everton	A	1–0	39,378	Ferdinand
9 September 1998	Blackburn Rovers	H	2–1	28,331	Nielsen, Ferdinand
13 September 1998	Middlesbrough	H	0–3	30,345
19 September 1998	Southampton	A	1–1	15,204	Fox
26 September 1998	Leeds United	H	3–3	35,535	Vega, Iversen, Campbell
3 October 1998	Derby County	A	1–0	30,083	Campbell
19 October 1998	Leicester City	A	1–2	20,787	Ferdinand
24 October 1998	Newcastle United	H	2–0	36,047	Iversen (2)
2 November 1998	Charlton Athletic	H	2–2	32,202	Nielsen, Armstrong
7 November 1998	Aston Villa	A	2–3	39,241	Anderton (pen), Vega
14 November 1998	Arsenal	A	0–0	38,278
21 November 1998	Nottingham Forest	H	2–0	35,832	Nielsen, Armstrong
28 November 1998	West Ham United	A	1–2	26,044	Armstrong
5 December 1998	Liverpool	H	2–1	36,125	Fox, Carragher (own goal)
12 December 1998	Manchester United	H	2–2	36,097	Campbell (2)
19 December 1998	Chelsea	A	0–2	34,881
26 December 1998	Coventry City	A	1–1	23,098	Campbell
28 December 1998	Everton	H	4–1	36,053	Ferdinand, Armstrong (3)
9 January 1999	Sheffield Wednesday	A	0–0	28,204
16 January 1999	Wimbledon	H	0–0	32,422
30 January 1999	Blackburn Rovers	A	1–1	29,643	Iversen
6 February 1999	Coventry City	H	0–0	34,376
20 February 1999	Middlesbrough	A	0–0	34,687
27 February 1999	Derby County	H	1–1	35,392	Sherwood
2 March 1999	Southampton	H	3–0	28,580	Armstrong, Iversen, Dominguez
10 March 1999	Leeds United	A	0–2	34,521
13 March 1999	Aston Villa	H	1–0	35,963	Sherwood
3 April 1999	Leicester City	H	0–2	35,415
5 April 1999	Newcastle United	A	1–1	36,655	Anderton (pen)
17 April 1999	Nottingham Forest	A	1–0	25,181	Iversen
20 April 1999	Charlton Athletic	A	4–1	20,043	Iversen, Campbell, Dominguez, Ginola
24 April 1999	West Ham United	H	1–2	36,089	Ginola
1 May 1999	Liverpool	A	2–3	44,007	Carragher (own goal), Iversen
5 May 1999	Arsenal	H	1–3	36,019	Anderton
10 May 1999	Chelsea	H	2–2	35,878	Iversen, Ginola
16 May 1999	Manchester United	A	1–2	55,189	Ferdinand

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	2 January 1999	Watford	H	5–2	36,022	Iversen (2), Anderton (pen), Nielsen, Fox
R4	23 January 1999	Wimbledon	A	1–1	22,229	Ginola
R4R	2 February 1999	Wimbledon	H	3–0	24,049	Sinton, Nielsen (2)
R5	13 February 1999	Leeds United	A	1–1	39,696	Sherwood
R5R	24 February 1999	Leeds United	H	2–0	32,307	Anderton, Ginola
QF	16 March 1999	Barnsley	A	1–0	18,793	Ginola
SF	11 April 1999	Newcastle United	N	0–2	53,609

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R2 1st Leg	15 September 1998	Brentford	A	3–2	11,831	Carr, Vega, Dominguez
R2 2nd Leg	23 September 1998	Brentford	H	3–2 (won 6–4 on agg)	22,980	Campbell, Nielsen, Armstrong
R3	27 October 1998	Northampton Town	A	3–1	7,422	Armstrong (2), Campbell
R4	10 November 1998	Liverpool	A	3–1	20,772	Iversen, Scales, Nielsen
QF	2 December 1998	Manchester United	H	3–1	35,702	Armstrong (2), Ginola
SF 1st Leg	27 January 1999	Wimbledon	H	0–0	35,997
SF 2nd Leg	16 February 1999	Wimbledon	A	1–0 (won 1–0 on agg)	25,204	Iversen
F	21 March 1999	Leicester City	N	1–0	77,892	Nielsen

1998–99_Tottenham_Hotspur_F.C._season

1998–99 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season

Season summary

Final league table

Results

Legend

FA Premier League

FA Cup

League Cup

First-team squad

Left club during season

Reserve squad

Statistics

Appearances and goals

Goal scorers

Clean sheets

Transfers

In

Out

References

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Match	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	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	H	A
Result	L	L	W	W	L	D	D	W	L	W	D	L	D	W	L	W	D	L	D	W	D	D	D	D	D	D	W	L	W	L	D	W	W	L	L	L	D	L
Position	20	19	14	8	12	12	13	11	14	8	9	12	14	10	12	11	10	13	13	12	12	11	11	11	13	12	10	11	10	12	12	10	9	10	10	10	11	11

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premier League		FA Cup		League Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	ENG	Ian Walker	36	0	25	0	7	0	4	0
13	GK	NOR	Espen Baardsen	15	0	12	0	0	0	3	0
30	GK	NED	Hans Segers	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Defenders
2	DF	IRL	Stephen Carr	52	1	37	0	7	0	8	1
3	DF	ITA	Paolo Tramezzani	7	0	6	0	0	0	1	0
5	DF	NOR	Roger Nilsen	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
12	DF	ENG	Justin Edinburgh	26	0	14+2	0	4+1	0	5	0
15	DF	SUI	Ramon Vega	25	3	13+3	2	4	0	5	1
16	DF	ENG	Clive Wilson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0+1	0
17	DF	ENG	John Scales	9	1	7	0	0	0	2	1
19	DF	ARG	Mauricio Taricco	16	0	12+1	0	2+1	0	0	0
23	DF	ENG	Sol Campbell	52	8	37	6	7	0	8	2
26	DF	ENG	Ledley King	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
32	DF	ENG	Luke Young	22	0	14+1	0	3+2	0	1+1	0
Midfielders
4	MF	GER	Steffen Freund	26	0	17	0	6	0	3	0
6	MF	DEN	Allan Nielsen	40	9	25+4	3	2+2	3	7	3
7	MF	MSR	Ruel Fox	25	4	17+3	3	2	1	1+2	0
8	MF	ALG	Moussa Saib	4	0	0+4	0	0	0	0	0
9	MF	ENG	Darren Anderton	46	5	31+1	3	7	2	7	0
14	MF	FRA	David Ginola	44	7	30	3	6	3	8	1
20	MF	POR	José Dominguez	15	3	2+11	2	0	0	0+2	1
22	MF	ENG	Andy Sinton	34	1	12+10	0	2+4	1	3+3	0
24	MF	ENG	Tim Sherwood	18	3	12+2	2	4	1	0	0
25	MF	ENG	Stephen Clemence	21	0	9+8	0	0+1	0	2+1	0
33	MF	ENG	Mark Gower	2	0	0	0	0	0	0+2	0
Forwards
10	FW	ENG	Les Ferdinand	35	5	22+2	5	6+1	0	2+2	0
11	FW	ENG	Chris Armstrong	44	12	24+10	7	3+2	0	5	5
18	FW	NOR	Steffen Iversen	40	13	22+5	9	5+2	2	6	2
21	FW	ENG	Rory Allen	7	0	0+4	0	0	0	1+2	0
Players transferred out during the season
4	MF	ITA	Nicola Berti	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
5	DF	SCO	Colin Calderwood	17	0	11+1	0	0	0	5	0

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
29 June 1998	DF	Paolo Tramezzani	Piacenza	£1,350,000
9 November 1998	DF	Mauricio Taricco	Ipswich Town	£1,775,000
24 December 1998	MF	Steffen Freund	Borussia Dortmund	£750,000
4 February 1999	MF	Tim Sherwood	Blackburn Rovers	£4,000,000
25 March 1999	DF	Roger Nilsen	Sheffield United	Free transfer
17 May 1999	MF	Willem Korsten	Vitesse Arnhem	£1,500,000

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
14 June 1998	MF	David Howells	Southampton	Free transfer
17 June 1998	MF	Danny Hill	Oxford United	Free transfer
1 July 1998	DF	Dean Austin	Crystal Palace	Free transfer
7 July 1998	MF	Garry Brady	Newcastle United	Free transfer
20 November 1998	DF	Mark Arber	Barnet	£75,000
31 December 1998	MF	Nicola Berti	Alavés	Free transfer
23 March 1999	DF	Colin Calderwood	Aston Villa	£225,000
25 March 1999	MF	Peter Gain	Lincoln City	£15,000
18 May 1999	MF	Ross Fitzsimon	Norwich City	Free transfer