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Mehak Khanna made her debut for Scotland Under-17s as she featured in their double-header against Finland as part of their preparations for next month’s European Championship qualifiers.

The young forward, who made her first appearance for our Under-19s last month in their Professional Game Academy League clash against London City Lionesses, earned her first call-up to Michael Tuohy’s side and she came off the bench in their first game against Finland last Friday to mark her first appearance at that level.

Coming on as a second half substitute, Mehak completed 27 minutes as the young Scots suffered a 1-0 defeat to Finland in the opening game.

Then, on Monday (15 September), Scotland earned a 5-3 win in the second game of the double-header against Finland, with Mehak once again a second half substitute as she featured in the final quarter-of-an-hour of the contest.

These two games against Finland provided a useful test before heading out to Poland next month for round one of their European Qualifiers against England, Montenegro and Poland.

We can confirm the starting line-ups and substitutes for our UEFA Champions League Phase opener with Villarreal (kick-off 8pm UK).

As Thomas Frank makes his managerial debut in the competition, he makes two changes to the side that defeated West Ham 3-0 on Saturday.

With no changes to our defence, Rodrigo Bentancur comes back into the starting XI with Palhinha making way - he starts on the bench.

Meanwhile, Mathys Tel is not eligible for this competition, so drops out. Richarlison comes in to lead the line.

The team also sees four Champions League debutants with Guglielmo Vicario, Micky van de Ven, Djed Spence and Lucas Bergvall all set to make their bow in the competition.

Our full line-up is as follows...

Starting XI: Vicario, Pedro Porro, Romero (c), van de Ven, Spence, Bergvall, Bentancur, Sarr, Xavi, Richarlison, Kudus.

Substitutes: Kinsky, Austin, Danso, Palhinha, Udogie, Gray, Johnson, Odobert, Davies, Kolo Muani, Scarlett, Byfield.

The Fan Advisory Board (FAB) held its latest meeting on Tuesday 9 September at Lilywhite House, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

This was the first FAB meeting of the 2025/26 season, chaired by supporter representative Chair Chris Paouros, with the Club’s CEO Vinai Venkatesham in attendance.

Vinai provided updates on a range of activity, including recent changes to the Club’s leadership structure, the latest from the men’s and women’s teams, and the Club’s ongoing work and commitments to supporter engagement.

Following Vinai’s video update to supporters on Monday 8 September, he also reaffirmed to the FAB that the Lewis family are committed to the Club long-term and are ambitious for the future.

Supporter representatives welcomed the Club’s approach to provide more regular communication from the Board and senior management staff and were pleased with the recent updates provided to supporters across Club channels.

The agenda focused on items raised by supporter representatives, which included the ideas and initiatives proposed by the FAB to the Club’s Board of Directors, in February 2025.

The Club is fully committed to working with the FAB on these initiatives and provided updates of the ongoing work across the following areas during the meeting:

Providing more regular communications from the Board and senior staff at key points during the season

Creating behind-the-scenes content, giving supporters even greater insight into the vision, focus and day-to-day work of the men’s and women’s teams

Making atmosphere a strategic priority, working with supporters’ groups such as THFC Flags and the FAB atmosphere subgroup

Honouring the Club’s history & heritage, with the recent return of the Bill Nicholson Gates, plans for a revamped Hall of Fame and discussions on further opportunities at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Rewarding and recognising supporters, through the One Hotspur Moments programme and spotlighting our amazing supporters and their inspiring stories

Creating even more ways to engage with supporters, including our younger generation of fans and Official Supporters’ Clubs

Providing a greater profile for the FAB’s supporter representatives, ensuring that the fanbase know how to contact them

Holding further discussions on ticketing policies, including Ticket Share and concessions

Ensuring meaningful consultation with the FAB and THST on topics that matter most to our supporters

The Club will continue to update the FAB on progress at key intervals across the season, including through the established FAB subgroups, who meet on specialist topics such as ticketing, atmosphere & matchday experience, the women’s team supporter experience, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Two focus groups have also been created for One Hotspur Members and junior supporters aged 11-15.

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The meetings of the latest meeting can be found here...

How to get involved or contact your supporter representatives

There are a variety of ways for supporters to get in touch with the Club, all of which are detailed in our Fan Engagement Plan.

Lucas Bergvall has been named the Premier League's Player of the Matchweek after he bagged a goal and an assist in our 3-0 win over West Ham on Saturday.

Back in the starting XI for the trip to the London Stadium, the midfielder was imperious in the number 10 role, buzzing about, using his energy and physicality to drag us up the field.

And his efforts were later rewarded in the game as, on 57 minutes, he popped up to head home his first ever Premier League goal, becoming our 178th different goalscorer in the competition - a record for a single club in the Premier League.

And now our Swedish midfielder has been honoured for his efforts in east London - and it is all thanks to your votes!

Yesterday, we put a call out to you the Spurs faithful to support Lucas and cast a vote for him to become the Premier League's Player of the matchweek - and that is exactly what you did.

Having already named him your HSBC Player of the Match, you voted for the midfielder in your droves to a point where he ultimately won the contest by more than two per cent.

Lucas took home 27% of the vote, edging Arsenal's (25%) and Manchester City's Erling Haaland (23%).

And it now means we have won three of the four iterations of the prize with Richarlison having scooped the honour in its first week before Joao Palhinha picked up the prize the following week.

Congratulations, Lucas!

Watch Lucas' match reaction at the London Stadium

Our Academy emerged victorious from an eight-goal thriller against Villarreal as we returned to UEFA Youth League action in impressive fashion on Tuesday lunchtime.

Back in the Under-19 competition – where the fixtures mirror those of the senior side in the UEFA Champions League – for the first time since 2022/23, we produced a free-scoring performance at Hotspur Way and in truth could have scored more, particularly in the first half.

Tynan Thompson, Reiss Elliott-Parris and James Rowswell all hit the target but, to their credit, Villarreal kept coming back and equalised three times.

However, when Luca Williams-Barnett’s low drive was turned into his own net by defender Pedro Luque Gimeno and the England youth international swiftly added a fifth for us, there was no way back for the visitors as we opened our new European campaign with a deserved win.

The Spanish side had a couple of near misses early on but it was us who broke the deadlock after a quarter-of-an-hour. Williams-Barnett, whose angled drive had been parried by goalkeeper Carlos Lopez Colon moments earlier, played a cute ball down the left for Thompson to latch onto and he cut inside before firing inside the far post on his right foot. Thompson got in again shortly afterwards following an excellent ball down the left flank by Harry Byrne but this time saw his shot zip wide off a defender.

Pressing high and pinching the ball deep in the opponents’ half was an early feature of our game and that was on show again as Williams-Barnett latched onto a loose pass out from the back by Colon, but the midfielder inexplicably missed the target with the goal at his mercy.

Villarreal equalised with a bolt from the blue mid-way through the first half as Sergio Martin ran onto a pass from deep and sent a delightful shot over the advancing Sam Archer from distance but we remained a threat and after chances for Oli Irow and Williams-Barnett, it was Elliott-Parris who fired us back in front, picking out the top corner with a pinpoint strike after Leo Black had tackled defender Iker Abad Baranano in the visitors’ box with six minutes to go until half-time.

We’d seemed in control at the interval, but the visitors struck back once more four minutes into the second period when we gave away possession cheaply and Seydou Llopis Gandia cut back for Iker Adelantado Mateos to drill home as he arrived at the edge of the area.

Six minutes later, though, we were ahead again as Rowswell powered home a header from Byrne’s free-kick and Williams-Barnett would have added a fourth on the break with a low shot towards the far bottom corner had it not been for a fine low save by Colon. Baranano got his side back on level terms again on 63 minutes, heading home from a corner, but yet again we forged in front, this time with Williams-Barnett seeing his low drive across from the right accidentally turned into his own net by Luque Gimeno.

We finally put the game out of Villarreal’s reach eight minutes from time when Miracle Adewole’s shot was saved but he collected the rebound and set up Williams-Barnett to take a touch inside the box and slide the ball home. The visitors had a couple of attempts from distance in the closing moments, but our 5-3 lead was unassailable at that point as we enjoyed a winning start to our latest European quest.

Olga Ahtinen is determined to keep building on the positive start to the Barclays Women’s Super League campaign.

Following our opening day win over local rivals West Ham United – a 1-0 victory at Brisbane Road – we followed that up with an impressive 2-0 showing over Everton at Goodison Park on Sunday afternoon.

Olga, who was making her first start of the campaign, was at the heart of our excellent display on Merseyside.

Starting out on the left-hand side, an unfamiliar position for the Finland international, she opened the scoring in the first half with a composed finish into the bottom corner before Cathinka Tandberg doubled our advantage with a 40-yard strike early into the second period.

A strong defensive performance saw us preserve back-to-back clean sheets in the league and make it six points out of six so far, with Manchester City next up at Brisbane Road on Friday night – tickets available here.

Speaking to us afterwards, Olga said: “It’s really nice to continue that winning run, but also not to have conceded gives us further confidence on the things that work, the defending we did and the hard work we put in. It was a really good team effort.

“I know that’s what we want [three points] early in the season but, as a group, we want to build on the momentum and continue the positive displays from pre-season.

“We want to show we’re taking steps forward as a group and I think that’s what has been the most pleasing about the start to the season.

When asked about the stunner from her team-mate, ‘Tinka’, she added: “I have played with Tinka before, we know each other quite well having played in the same team in Sweden.

“So, for her to score something like that or even see that as an option, it does not surprise me at all. I just know those are the kind of things you can expect from her.”

Watch | Ahtinen slots home the opener

Lucas Bergvall can remember listening to the UEFA Champions League anthem as a little boy back home in Sweden - now he’ll be pitchside as it plays out live for the first time in his career.

The all-action midfielder enjoyed a first at West Ham at the weekend when he scored a superb looping header, the second goal in our 3-0 win – his first goal in the Premier League.

Now he’s after another as we take on La Liga side Villarreal in MD1 of the UCL league phase at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (8pm).

You can imagine just how much it will mean to the 19-year-old who agonisingly missed the UEFA Europa League Final triumph against United last season with an ankle injury sustained in late April having been an ever present up that point – 12/12 appearances, 10 starts – only to have to sit out the semi-finals and that glory, glory night in Bilbao in May.

Now it’s time for another new chapter for the Sweden international - whose performances saw him sweep the board at our Player of the Season awards in 2024/25.

“It’s been a dream since I was a little boy to play (in the Champions League) so I’m really looking forward to it,” he told us. “I don’t know how I’ll feel when I hear the anthem, just like a kid, watching the Champions League, always wanting to play.

“Tuesday is the first game, so, looking forward to it so much. It’s one of the biggest things you can accomplish in football, to play Champions League, the highest level so, yes, it will be emotional for me.”

Lucas said it felt ‘unbelievable’ to score his first Premier League goal in such an important game and victory at the London Stadium on Saturday. “I’m so proud, for my family as well,” he said. “I saw the goalkeeper coming out and thought, ‘this is my chance’. It was a great finish, great pass from Cuti. Perfect timing.”

Another thing catching the eye in Stratford was Lucas’ long throws, a real threat, as we were throughout from set plays. However, it appears he’s a way from emulating our long throw master – Kevin Danso. “Kevin is next level, I have to practice a bit more,” he beamed. “Maybe I have to ask him for a few tips!”

Tottenham Hotspur is the Club for animal-lovers and we use our platform to raise awareness of animal welfare and the importance of preserving nature.

For the 2025-26 season we are continuing to feature a ‘Dog of the Match’ at every home game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Members of Tottenham Hotspaw – our first-ever Official Supporters’ Club for dog lovers – have been posting pictures of their beloved pets on the group’s Facebook page for a chance for them to be featured on the stadium big screens ahead of kick-off and in the matchday programme.

This evening’s ‘Dog of the Match’ is Coys – an aptly named labrador from Växjö in Sweden. Coys lives with a family of five lifelong supporters, including mum Emelinda. When he’s not cheering on the team, Coys loves long walks, playing catch and taking a bath in the lake when he’s not supposed to!

Alongside our ‘Dog of the Match’, we also profile rescue dogs currently up for adoption with All Dogs Matter – the fantastic charity partner of Tottenham Hotspaw – giving fans the chance to provide a forever home so badly needed.

Today, we are featuring Khan – a handsome boy who came to charity after sadly being found as a stray. Khan is incredibly friendly and loves being around people – he also enjoys meeting other dogs on his walks. He would like a home with owners that are around for a large portion of the day and who have a garden of their own where he can stretch his legs.