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Tottenham Hotspur Foundation is generating £24 million of social value for residents of Haringey, Enfield and surrounding London boroughs.

This is the key finding of a new impact report that was officially launched during a celebration of the Foundation’s work at the House of Commons on Monday night – it equates to £10.38 of social value for every £1 invested.

Social value is a way of measuring the impact created by an organisation, as part of its everyday output – the Foundation inspires, empowers and transforms the lives of local people through a range of one-to-one and group sessions spanning football and multi-sports, educational enrichment, health and wellbeing, and employability.

This calculation is based on an accepted national formula, considering not only the monetary value offered by the Foundation’s free programmes, but the benefit to society through its direct impact on people’s lives, the economy and the environment.

The Foundation is fully inclusive and engages a wide cross-section of society, including vulnerable groups such as children in care, those leaving the criminal justice system, students at risk of exclusion and residents recovering from serious illness.

Marc Leckie, Foundation chief executive, said: “We’re proud to have supported over 13,000 local residents with more than 10,500 hours of targeted support throughout the last season, making a tangible difference to people’s lives.

“Our commitment to inspiring and empowering individuals, regardless of their background or circumstance, is at the heart of everything we do.

“The impact we’ve made is a testament to the dedication of our team and the support of our partners, and we’re now excitedly looking ahead to our 20th anniversary year, when our vital work to create positive lasting change across north London will continue to grow.”

David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, who hosted Monday’s event in Parliament, said: “I’ve been well aware of the real and lasting difference the Foundation makes in my constituency for many years now and it’s exciting to see the Foundation’s developing and continuing to support communities in our north London home.

“We know all about the power of sport to unite and inspire, but what’s even more powerful is using that very platform, along with the considerable opportunities created by the Foundation and the Stadium, to change lives, break down barriers and build a more inclusive society.”

Among the 13,000-plus people to have benefited from Foundation support is Sharday Reid, who has taken part in its Shape Up with Spurs fitness programme, Spurred 2 Coach coaching programme, Level Up Network employability programme and Start Something entrepreneurship programme. She is currently doing an International Sports Convention scholarship, having been supported onto it by the Foundation last year.

Sharday, 25, from Haringey, explained: “For many years before finding the Foundation, I wasn’t in the best of places, I didn’t have much of a direction in life, I was involved with the wrong crowds and I didn’t want more for myself.

“However, the inclusivity of the Foundation opened many doors for me. It’s awakened my passion and what I can do for the community – my friend and I are planning to provide health workshops. Before the Foundation, I didn’t have any of these aspirations because I just never thought it was possible.”

The Foundation is Tottenham Hotspur’s official charitable body and sits within one of the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England, with some surrounding local authority wards amongst the 5% most deprived.

Average weekly pay in the area was 17% lower than the national average in 2020. Unemployment, child poverty and crime are all above the London average, particularly in Tottenham itself.

The impact report was carried out by research and technology company Substance.

Tim Crabbe, Substance chief executive, said: “Tottenham Hotspur Foundation consistently displays progress and positive change. Expected returns for future years are likely to push over £30 million of social value and beyond if the same level of participant progress is achieved, accompanied with new exciting projects and programmes.”

The Foundation is only able to carry out its work thanks to the support of funders including the Club, Premier League Charitable Fund and People’s Postcode Lottery.

Find out more about how you can support it to continue making a positive impact at www.tottenhamhotspur.com/the-club/foundation/support-us.

We can confirm that Maite Oroz has suffered a ruptured Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) in her right knee.

The 27-year-old midfielder suffered the injury during the second half of our Subway League Cup tie against Birmingham City on Sunday.

Maite will undergo surgery in the coming weeks and, following that, will begin her rehabilitation with our medical team.

Everyone at Tottenham Hotspur wishes Maite a full and speedy recovery. She will be have our love and support every step of the way.

One of the voices of European football on talkSPORT and Sky Sports, well known for The Football Ramble podcast, an author and writer for The Guardian - and a regular contributor here at Spurs for almost 10 years - Andy Brassell will give his view on our UEFA Champions League opponents as part of our '60 seconds on...' pre-match feature this season.

Next up, it's MD3 and a trip to Monte Carlo to take on Ligue 1 side AS Monaco at Stade Louis II on Wednesday evening (8pm UK).

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Hutter out, Pocognoli in

Andy: “AS Monaco have just changed coaches. Adi Hutter generally did an okay job but, at Monaco, pressure is significant. If you think of the amount of money that goes into the club, it's a club that don't get big crowds, but there is big pressure behind the scenes to get it right. Hutter has been replaced by Sebastien Pocognoli, who did a great job at Union Saint-Gilloise in Belgium. He’s royalty there for winning the title last season for the first time in well over half a century - and getting a team like Union to win the Belgian league is an amazing achievement. Now he's gone over to Monaco and he’s not got a massive amount of top-level experience outside Union, because he's still quite a young guy and, as we said before, there's a lot of pressure to get things right at Monaco. So, he needs to make a good fist of things in the Champions League - this game against Tottenham is absolutely a big deal.”

So far this season…

Andy: “It's been tricky in Ligue 1 so far for Monaco. There is expectation because they're well-funded, because they are a team that's always at the top, and particularly with the current situation in France where only PSG and, to a lesser extent, Marseille, went out and spent some money this season. They're expected to make it into the Champions League, and they're expected to make a dent in the Champions League. Of course, last season they beat Barcelona in the first game, even though Barcelona went down to 10 men after 10 minutes. A lot is expected of them.”

Experience in…

Andy: “Now, what Monaco did this summer was to bring in some experienced guys, I guess, to try and help the younger players who they're trying to develop. Eric Dier - who obviously is absolutely heartbreakingly injured and won't be able to play in this game - Paul Pogba, who's still not fit after his long absence to play and Ansu Fati, who's had a lot of injury problems, a younger player but a player of status. It was a risk, I think, going out and getting those players who were either a bit older or had fitness or absence issues recently. It's felt that Pogba has been quite hit off the pitch. He's been good at being in the dressing room more and passing on his experience to younger players. Ansu Fati has started better than many expected, five goals already, although three of those are penalties and he would be expected to play in this game. He's the only forward player who's been scoring in any sort of volume. Dier, who has been a huge hit - they've loved him on and off the pitch - unfortunately, he'll be absent for this game, but obviously I don't think that should be taken necessarily as a sign of his success or not.”

Front and back...

Andy: “As I mentioned, Fati is leading scorer and Monaco have bought some expensive forwards in recent years, two who used to be attached to Arsenal, of course, including Folarin Balogun, who scored at the weekend in a 1-1 draw Angers, and he had a lot of fitness issues, particularly with his shoulder, last season. He is now back, scored a good goal at the weekend and maybe he will start instead of Mika Biereth, who started brilliantly when he arrived mid-season from Sturm Graz last year, but he's really struggled at the start of the season, one goal in seven starts in the league so far, which isn't great, even though his game is about a little bit more than that. In terms of the goalkeeper, they had a lot of problems switching between two goalkeepers last season. You've got Lukas Hradecky from Leverkusen, and he's been injured for the last couple of weeks. So, they've had to bring Philipp Köhn back in goal, who didn't have unanimous approval, it's fair to say, last season and was replaced as first choice a bit into last season. There's talent in this Monaco team. It's not as solid as some of the best or even some of the recent teams, so it's difficult to know what you're really going to get from them. They're going to lean a lot on Fati for goals. As we said, he's had a pretty good start in pure statistical terms. Maghnes Akliouche on the right-hand side, cuts in onto his left, he was of interest to PSG, but they weren't prepared to go the full way for him because Monaco wanted £70 million-odd for him in the summer. So, that couldn't really happen. I guess the current state of the transfer market has enabled them to hang on to Akliouche, which is a bonus for them.”

Tough start for Monaco at Stade Louis II...

Andy: “I think it's tough for Monaco that the fixture computer has ended up with them playing Manchester City and Tottenham in back-to-back home games, two very difficult home games to get something out of, even though, obviously, they got a draw against Manchester City. Having said that, Monaco are very much second favourites in this, for me. It's difficult to know what to predict because they went to one of the weakest teams in the league over the weekend, Angers, and had a bad first half, seemed as if they got it out of their system and took the lead through Balogun and then gave it up in the end. There are a lot of question marks for Pocognoli and a lot of pressure on him to get things right immediately, even though he's relatively inexperienced and relatively young. As I said, the result of this one, for Monaco, is a big deal.”

Last time we met - 2016

It was a night of firsts when we took on AS Monaco in the UEFA Europa League back in December, 2015.

Erik Lamela shone in the rain at the Lane with his first hat-trick for the Club in an impressive 4-1 win in the group stage with Academy graduate Tom Carroll also on target with his first goal.

Both teams took off the following season, 2016/17 - we enjoyed our best season in the Premier League, finishing second, unbeaten at home while Monaco took the Champions League by storm - a team including superstar in the making Kylian Mbappe, future Premier League title winners Fabinho (Liverpol) and Bernardo Silva (City) plus the likes of Radamel Falcao and Joao Moutinho reached the semi-finals, having beaten City and Borussia Dortmund, before losing out to Juventus.

Signing for us from AS Roma back in August, 2013, Erik went on to make 257 appearances in a Spurs shirt, scoring 37 goals along the way. Tom featured 56 times for us before moving to Swansea in 2017.

Utilising the England Men's Under-18 side for the tournament, Jun'ai and Luca are both regulars in England's Under-17 and Under-18s squads, with the former having twice captained the side at this level, including last month against Canada - a game in which he also scored.

Luca, proud holder of Legacy Number 900 for the Club having made his first team debut for us last month at the age of just 16 years old as we ran out 3-0 winners over Doncaster Rovers in the Carabao Cup, also scored in that win over Canada, adding to an effort against Uzbekistan earlier in the month.

Coincidentally, the forward's goal against Canada was set up by his good friend and Spurs team-mate Tynan Thompson, who only made his first international appearance for England in September but made such an impact that he has also earned his place in the World Cup squad.

This year's tournament is a 48-team competition with England's campaign kicking-off on Tuesday 4 November as they take on their first of three group stage games.

Drawn into Group E, the Young Lions begin with the test of Venezuela before the challenge of Haiti (7 November) and Egypt (10 November). All games are taking place in the Aspire Zone in Al Rayyan.

The top two finishers in the group will progress to the knockout stages, beginning with the round of 32, as will the eight best third place finishers.

In total, 104 games will be played across the 25 days with the Final taking place on 27 November at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha.

England last won this tournament in 2017 with two of our Academy graduates part of the squad - Timothy Eyoma (831) and Tashan Oakley-Boothe (823).

Current Development Squad midfielder Reiss Russell-Denny represented England at the 2023 edition of the tournament while 2015 saw Marcus Edwards (814), Alfie Whiteman (847) and Kazaiah Sterling (826) involved and 2007 saw Danny Rose (751) as our sole representative.

Best of luck, lads!

We are delighted to announce that Dan Lewindon has been appointed as the Club’s new Performance Director.

Dan will join from City Football Group, where he is currently serving his notice period, and will have responsibility for medical, sports science, nutrition and psychology across our Men’s, Women’s and Academy teams.

Having qualified as a physiotherapist from Nottingham University, Dan worked in the NHS before moving into sport, firstly as Lead Physio at Northampton Saints rugby team, followed by seven years as Senior Physio for England Rugby.

He then moved to the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), spending six years as Head of High Performance Science and Medicine, and joined City Football Group in August 2022 as Director of Player Health and Performance, working across their network of global clubs.

Commenting on the appointment, Johan Lange, Sporting Director, said: “We are delighted that Dan will be joining us as Performance Director.

“He was the standout candidate and brings a wealth of experience across a wide range of team and individual sports, working in high-performance environments with elite athletes.

“Dan also has a strong academic background and his expertise will be hugely beneficial to us as we drive this area of the Club with innovative thinking. We look forward to Dan starting.”

Live Coverage: Spurs on international duty this October  Tottenham Hotspur

Alejo Veliz scored again to hand loan club Rosario Central a 1-0 home victory over Platense on Sunday evening.

The striker headed home six minutes into the second period to settle the contest in the Argentine top flight.

It was the second game in a row in which Alejo has hit the target, after also scoring his side’s first goal in a 2-1 win at Velez Sarsfield the weekend prior.

He’s now netted four goals in his last five games and has five goals overall since returning to his old club in the summer.

It’s the first international break of the 2025/26 campaign, with many of our players jetting off to represent their countries over the next fortnight.

UEFA Nations League fixtures are on the agenda for some of our European players, with Amanda Nilden’s Sweden contesting in the final stages of the competition as they take on Spain across two legs in the semi-final.

Elsewhere, in the play-offs for the Nations League, Eveliina Summanen and Olga Ahtinen set to collide with Olivia Holdt as Finland take on Denmark in one of the promotion/relegation ties in the competition.

Another all-Spurs clash could happen over the next two weeks when Toko Koga’s Japan faces Cathinka Tandberg’s Norway in an international friendly.

Meanwhile, among the younger age groups, Academy goalkeeper Sophie Jackson received her maiden call-up to the England Under-19s squad as the Young Lionesses begin their qualifying campaign for the 2025/26 UEFA European Women’s Under-19 Championship.

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

Wednesday 22 October

Sophie Jackson – England Women Under-19 European Championship qualifier against Estonia – kick-off 3pm

Thursday 23 October

Lenna Gunning-Williams – England Women Under-23 European Competition away fixture against Germany – kick-off 5.15pm

Friday 24 October

Olivia Holdt – Denmark UEFA Nations League away fixture against Finland – kick-off 5pm

Eveliina Summanen and Olga Ahtinen – Finland UEFA Nations League home fixture against Denmark – kick-off 5pm

Lize Kop – Netherlands away friendly against Poland – kick-off 5pm

Toko Koga – Japan away friendly against Italy – kick-off 5.15pm

Amanda Nilden – Sweden UEFA Nations League semi-final away fixture against Spain – kick-off 7pm

Martha Thomas – Scotland away friendly against Morocco – kick-off 7.30pm

Saturday 25 October

Sophie Jackson – England Women Under-19 European Championship qualifier against Greece – kick-off 11am

Charlotte Grant and Clare Hunt – Australia away friendly against Wales – kick-off 2pm

Monday 27 October

Lenna Gunning-Williams – England Women Under-23 European Competition home fixture against Portugal – kick-off 7pm

Tuesday 28 October

Sophie Jackson – England Women Under-19 European Championship qualifier against Austria – kick-off 11am

Olivia Holdt – Denmark UEFA Nations League home fixture against Finland – kick-off 5pm

Eveliina Summanen and Olga Ahtinen – Finland UEFA Nations League away fixture against Denmark – kick-off 5pm

Cathinka Tandberg – Norway friendly against Japan in Spain – kick-off 5pm

Toko Koga – Japan friendly against Norway in Spain – kick-off 5pm

Amanda Nilden – Sweden UEFA Nations League semi-final home fixture against Spain – kick-off 6pm

Charlotte Grant and Clare Hunt – Australia away friendly against England – kick-off 7pm

Martha Thomas – Scotland home friendly against Switzerland – kick-off 7.30pm

Lize Kop – Netherlands home friendly against Canada – kick-off 7.45pm

Olivia Holdt has been named your HSBC Player of the Match after she bagged a brace and assist in our 3-0 victory over Birmingham City in the Subway Women’s League Cup on Sunday.

Having already claimed the award this term following our 2-1 win over Leicester City last month, ‘Olli’ was once again at her very best and inspirational to pick up our first three points in the competition.

Back in the starting XI, the exciting midfielder was at the heart of our three goals at Brisbane Road to overcome the Women’s Super League 2 side.

After some nice build-up play in midfield between Maite Oroz and Matilda Vinberg, the latter played Oliva through into the box and she showed complete composure, scooping the ball over Lucy Thomas and into the back of the net.

She then played a crucial role in our second goal eight minutes into the second period as, after some lovely footwork on the edge of the box, she picked out Amanda Nilden inside the box who curled home with her right-foot to double our advantage.

Then, with just over a quarter left to play in the contest, the Denmark international sealed up our win with her second of the game and, once again, she showed calmness inside the box, taking the ball round Thomas before slotting home into the empty net.