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Seven players have opened their Premier League goalscoring account for us against Fulham - six of them registering at Craven Cottage!

In fact, none of the seven were in N17 - Lucas Moura's debut Premier League strike was against Fulham at Wembley, our temporary home between August, 2018 and April, 2019.

Fulham were promoted back into the top flight for the first time since 1968 for the 2001/02 campaign. Six seasons later, Pascal Chimbonda bagged the first of his three Premier League goals for us in a 1-1 draw at the Cottage on 20 January, 2007.

It wasn't long before Gareth Bale and Younes Kaboul did the same, then Fraizer Campbell - his first-ever Premier League goal - and then Vlad Chiriches and Lewis Holtby, like Bale and Kaboul, in the same match. Finally - for the time being - Lucas was the most recent Spur to open his Premier League account for us against the Cottagers, this time in a 3-1 win at Wembley in August, 2018.

As we prepare for Sunday's trip to the Cottage, we look back at the seven debut goals...

Pascal Chimbonda

Fulham 1-1 Spurs - 20 January, 2007

Paul Robinson pulled out all the stops to keep us in this encounter - but it still needed Pascal's late, late equaliser to salvage a point after we looked to have soaked up the home pressure and Fulham went down to 10 men. Robbo denied Heidar Helguson and Brian McBride from close range before the contest appeared to tilt in our favour following Helguson's sending off for two yellow cards on 53 minutes. However, the Cottagers grabbed the lead with only six minutes remaining through Vincenzo Montella's penalty. We kept going through and were rewarded in thr 88th minute when 'Chim' fired home from close range. The popular full-back - still attached to our Legends team - made 103 appearances, 2006-2009.

Gareth Bale, Younes Kaboul

Fulham 3-3 Spurs - 1 September, 2007

A game remembered for Gareth's first goal in Lilywhite - the start of an era, if you like - but this was a cracking contest in SW6. It was a trademark clinical finish from the Welsh star- 18 at the time - after running onto Robbie Keane’s pass. However, it would be mixed feelings for the legend in the making. His goal put us 3-1 up on the hour mark after earlier goals from Younes - his first in the Premier League, pouncing on a loose ball from Bale's corner - and Dimitar Berbatov, but the Cottagers hit back through an own goal and a late leveller from Diomansy Kamara for 3-3. Gareth went on to score 71 goals in 237 appearances for us over two spells, 2007-2013 and 2020/21, while Younes was named captain in 2014 by Mauricio Pochettino on his way to 140 appearances for us also in two spells, 2007/2008 then 2010-2015.

Fraizer Campbell

Fulham 2-1 Spurs - 15 November, 2008

This may have been Harry Redknapp's first defeat as Spurs manager, but it was a special afternoon on the banks of the River Thames for Fraizer. Just 21 at the time, the young striker scored his first-ever Premier League goal and only league goal for us at the Cottage as we tried to haul ourselves back against Roy Hodgson's team. Trailing 2-0 - with ex-Spur Simon Davies opening the scoring - Fraizer gave us a late lifeline when he buried Jermaine Jenas' cross on 81 minutes. It wasn't to be - but this was during Fraizer's best spell in Lilywhite. On loan from United, he scored twice in a 4-2 win against Liverpool in the League Cup just three days earlier. Those were his three goals in 22 appearances in all competitions that season.

Vlad Chiriches, Lewis Holtby

Fulham 1-2 Spurs - 4 December, 2013

Two absolute belters were worthy of winning any game - and turned around another cracker in SW6. It was back and forth throughout with chances created and missed by both sides - Hugo Lloris in fine form, Dimitar Berbatov a threat up front for Fulham - and the deadlock was finally broken on 56 minutes when Berbatov set up Ashkan Dejagah to finish. We found a way back via centre-back Vlad with a stunning half-volley, a clean low strike first-time from 35 yards after Kyle Walker's corner was cleared out to him. With eight minutes left, another worldy, this time Lewis with a screamer into the top corner from 25 yards, sparking scenes of jubilation in front of our fans in the Putney End. Lewis went on to score three goals in 42 appearances while Vlad scored two in 43.

Lucas Moura

Spurs 3-1 Fulham - 18 August, 2018

The sun was out for our first Premier League game at Wembley, English football was still buzzing after reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup - and this game gave an indication of what was to follow in 2018/19. Lucas Moura, signed in January, 2018, would write his name in club history nine months later, but this was also a big moment for the Brazil star, his first Premier League goal - and a beauty, a curler into the top corner to open the scoring. Aleksandar Mitrovic levelled at the start of the second half before Kieran Trippier - who scored a free-kick in England World Cup semi-final against Croatia weeks earlier - repeated the trick for 2-1. It was then left to Harry Kane to secure victory. Moura's never-to-be-forgotten moment arrived in May, 2019 with a hat-trick against Ajax to take us through the the Champions League Final. He departed at the end of the 2022/23 season with 38 goals in 221 appearances.

Live Coverage: Spurs on international duty this March  Tottenham Hotspur

It’s the first international break of 2026, with a number of our players set to represent their countries over the next couple of weeks.

The Women’s Asian Cup gets underway next month and we have three of our players involved in the tournament – Clare Hunt for Australia while Tōko Koga and Maika Hamano will be representing Japan.

As for our European players, meanwhile, the journey begins for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup as the qualifying stages gets underway next month, with Hanna Wijk, Matilda Vinberg and Amanda Nildén all earning a recall to the Sweden senior squad for their qualifiers against Italy and Sweden.

We have two Academy players that are set to be in action including Under-19s forward Eloise Summers-Mee, who has earned her first call-up to the Scotland Under-19s squad for their training camp followed with friendlies against Belgium.

Here’s a run-down of when and where our players will be playing over the course of the international break (all kick-off times are UK)...

Saturday 28 February

Sophie Jackson – England Under-20s international friendly against Spain – 11am

Eloise Summers-Mee – Scotland Under-19s international friendly against Belgium – 3pm

Sunday 1 March

Clare Hunt – Australia Group A match against Philippines – 9am

Monday 2 March

Lenna Gunning-Williams – England Under-23s WU23 European League away fixture against France – 12pm

Matilda Nilden – Sweden Under-23s WU23 European League fixture against Belgium – 5pm

Tuesday 3 March

Eloise Summers-Mee – Scotland Under-19s international friendly against Belgium – 10am

Sophie Jackson – England Under-20s international friendly against Spain – 2pm

Signe Gaupset and Julie Blakstad – Norway away FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifier against Austria – 5pm

Lize Kop – Netherlands away FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifier against Poland – 5pm

Olivia Holdt – Denmark home FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifier against Serbia – 5pm

Matilda Vinberg, Amanda Nilden and Hanna Wijk – Sweden away FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifier against Italy – 5.15pm

Anna Csiki – Hungary away FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifier against Andorra – 6pm

Eveliina Summanen and Olga Ahtinen – Finland away FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifier against Portugal – 6.45pm

Wednesday 4 March

Toko Koga and Maika Hamano – Japan Group C match against Chinese Taipei – 5am UK

Thursday 5 March

Clare Hunt – Australia Group A match against Iran – 9am UK

Friday 6 March

Sophie Jackson – England Under-20s international friendly against Spain – 11am

Matilda Nilden – Sweden Under-23s international friendly against Romania – 2pm

Lenna Gunning-Williams – England Under-23s WU23 European League home fixture against Netherlands – 7pm

Saturday 7 March

Toko Koga and Maika Hamano – Japan Group C match against India – 11am UK

Eveliina Summanen and Olga Ahtinen – Finland home FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifier against Lativa – 12.30pm

Anna Csiki – Hungary home FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifier against Azerbaijan – 1.30pm

Signe Gaupset and Julie Blakstad – Norway home FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifier against Germany – 5pm

Matilda Vinberg, Amanda Nilden and Hanna Wijk – Sweden away FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifier against Serbia – 5.15pm

Olivia Holdt – Denmark away FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifier against Italy – 5.15pm

Lize Kop – Netherlands home FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifiers against Republic of Ireland – 7.45pm

Sunday 8 March

Clare Hunt – Australia Group A match against South Korea – 9am UK

Tuesday 10 March

Toko Koga and Maika Hamano – Japan Group C match against Vietnam – 9am UK

Lize Kop was once again at the heart of a penalty shootout success in Monday night’s victory over London City Lionesses in the fifth round of the Adobe Women’s FA Cup.

An action-packed encounter at Hayes Lane ended 2-2 after extra time and penalties were needed to determine who would progress to the quarter-finals with holders Chelsea waiting for the winners.

Our shot stopper had already enjoyed success in a shootout earlier in the campaign – producing the heroics in our 7-6 win on penalties against Aston Villa in the Women’s League Cup – and Lize was very much at her best again in Bromley.

Having showed confidence and composure to fire home our sixth penalty of the evening, the Netherlands international then produced the key save on the 18th spot-kick, getting down low to keep out Wassa Sangare and cue the brilliant celebrations at the end.

“You're looking at the clock and then it's full-time, so you know the penalty shootout is coming. I was at a certain point, because I was so close a few times, I was like in my head, I'm going to save this one. I was feeling like ‘I'm going to go for it’, so, in the end, when you can score one and save a penalty, it's been great – but it's such a team effort.

Asked about her confidence to step up for a penalty so early in the shootout, she added: “I feel like I've got a good kick and I don't know, I just love to score. If I get the opportunity to score, like I'm a goalkeeper, when do you get the chance to score?

“Eventually, I know my job is to save the penalties. I think it gave me confidence that I could score one because I take them in training and I'm happy Chris [Williams] trusted me to give me a penalty.

The normal 90 minutes of action had pretty much everything – London City turning the game on its head with two goals in two minutes to cancel out Matilda Vinberg’s early opener, before Bethany England slotted home from the spot with virtually the last kick of the game to take the tie into extra time.

Reflecting on the whole evening and progression in the FA Cup, Lize said: “Bethany scoring the penalty at the end of the game and all the substitutes, they came in and worked so hard to be able to get into the penalty shootout.

“It's great. Today was not an easy game. It's so special to go through and this is a tournament where you want to stay in and we want to go to Wembley eventually, so what we did today was the first step to that.”

Join us in N17

We're back in Barclays Women's Super League action on Sunday 15 March (11.55am kick-off) as we take on Everton at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Grab your seats now and join us back in N17 next month!

Reiss Elliott-Parris scored on his international debut in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but it wasn’t enough for his Guyana Under-20 side to avoid defeat against Curaçao.

With the host nation leading 3-1 in Willemstad, the 18-year-old forward peeled away at the back post to get to a deep free-kick and convert from close range in the 90th minute, pulling it back to 3-2.

Unfortunately for Reiss, there wasn’t enough time for his side to find an equaliser and that’s how it finished in what was Guyana’s opening 2026 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship qualifier.

The tournament will identify six qualifying nations for the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship later this year.

Atletico Madrid beat Club Brugge 4-1 on Tuesday night to take their place in Round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League and a potential tie with ourselves or Liverpool.

Norway international striker Alexander Sorloth led the way with his first Champions League hat-trick as the Rojiblancos secured a 7-4 aggregate victory in the play-off.

We will now meet either Atletico Madrid, Galatasaray or Juventus in the Round of 16. Galatasaray and Juve meet in their second leg at the Serie A side's Allianz Stadium on Wednesday evening with the Turkish Super Lig champions 5-2 up from the first leg in Istanbul.

The winners of that tie will enter Friday's draw in Switzerland (11am UK) where we will find out who we will face in the Round of 16.

Level at 3-3 after the first leg in Belgium, Sorloth fired Atletico Madrid ahead in the second leg, only for Joel Ordonez to level for Club Brugge. Johnny Cardoso drilled home from 20 yards three minutes into the second half to make it 2-1 on the night, 5-4 on aggregate, before Sorloth completed his treble to see the La Liga side home.

Lize Kop has claimed the HSBC Player of the Match award after her penalty shootout heroics earned us victory over London City Lionesses on Monday night and secured our spot in the quarter-final of the Adobe Women’s FA Cup.

No stranger to producing stunning saves in a shootout, having done so earlier in the campaign in our Women’s League Cup tie with Aston Villa, our number one was once again the hero as we edged London City 9-8 win on penalties which saw her take your votes to claim our Player of the Match poll for the second time this season.

After 17 incredibly composed spot-kicks into the shootout, it came down to a moment of brilliance from Lize to earn us victory as she got down to her right to save Wassa Sangare’s penalty, sparking delirium on the pitch from our players and in the stands from our fans.

Watch | Key highlights from our FA Cup success at London City Lionesses

While all the attention will be on her heroic save at the end, the Netherlands international also voluntarily stepped up to take our sixth spot-kick, the first of the sudden death, and calmly sent Elene Lete the wrong way, slotting into the bottom corner.

She was also influential through the 90 minutes of normal time, producing six saves in total, including a brilliant point-blank save from Nikita Parris’ header to help us end the first half with a one-goal advantage.

With us later 2-1 down, in the final minute of the four indicated for stoppage time, Lize joined the attack for one last corner and, while she was not directly involved in the penalty incident, she certainly caused chaos inside the Lionesses’ box as we were awarded a late spot kick. Bethany England then duly slotted home to force the game into extra time.

Late drama and penalty shootout success at London City Lionesses on Monday evening booked our spot in the quarter-final of the Adobe Women’s FA Cup.

Matilda Vinberg handed us the lead after just seven minutes in the tie in Bromley but two goals in two minutes – from Danielle van de Donk and Jana Fernandez – turned the game into the hosts’ favour on the hour mark.

It looked like our journey in the competition was coming to an end until the fifth minute of stoppage time when we were awarded a penalty from Teyah Goldie’s handball, which saw Bethany England calmly slot away to send the game into extra time.

As both sides failed to be separated after an additional 30 minutes, a penalty shootout followed and after 17 well-taken spot-kicks, Lize Kop produced the heroics to deny Wassa Sangare and earn us a 9-8 win, sparking jubilant celebrations at the end.

London City Lionesses vs Spurs Women | Extended Highlights | 2025/26  Tottenham Hotspur

Hard work is the continued theme for Igor Tudor this week with preparations well underway for another big test at Fulham on Sunday (2pm UK).

Asked what he wanted to see from the players in training after a north London derby loss in his first game in charge at the weekend, Igor told us: "More of everything. Our goal is to become a team, a serious team, with responsibility to each of the players. That's the goal."

Speaking in his post-match press conference, Igor reiterated: "I speak from day one at the club, I come here to resolve the problems. You believe that in three/four trainings you will do your best but when the game starts you don’t know what will happen, because it is like this.

"But as I said before, Tuesday I come in, everyone there. Stay humble - that is the key of each of us and trying to become, what I said before, a team, a squad, a hard-working team. That is the only goal we have now in this moment.

"I said to the players, stay quiet, they come on Tuesday and restart after these three or four training sessions to work harder than we did until now. To change our habits, to change the state of mind which is now as a team. It is the only way to work."