Season 1892/93
Tottenham Hotspur faced difficulties in its early years. Repetitive friendlies
were not attracting large crowds and were often canceled or rearranged at short
notice when teams found themselves engaged in the latter part of cup competitions.
At the same time, the lack of organised fixtures and the varying crowd sizes
meant that Tottenham were unable to attract the very best players to the club,
who went to the northern clubs playing in the professional Football League.
They solved this, albeit only for a season, by joining the newly founded Southern
Alliance and recorded only 3 loses all season.
Results
17 Sep H Paddington W 10-0 | 26 Dec H Edmonton *
24 Sep SAll A Polytechnic W 2-1 | 14 Jan SAll A Erith L 1-2
1 Oct H Royal Arsenal W 3-0 | 21 Jan SAll A Slough D 3-3
8 Oct H Coldstrm Gds W 6-0 | 28 Jan LnC H Casuals L 0-1
15 Oct SAll A Old St Stphns W 3-0 | 4 Feb SAll H Slough W 5-2
22 Oct H Coldstrm Gds W 3-2 | 11 Feb SAll H Polytechnic D 2-2
29 Oct H 2nd Scts Gds L 2-4 | 18 Feb H London Welsh D 2-2
5 Nov SAll A Windsor W 2-1 | 25 Feb SAll H Upton Pk W 1-0
12 Nov H Clapton L 1-2 | 4 Mar SAll H Windsor W 5-2
19 Nov SAll H Erith W 3-2 | 11 Mar H QPR W 1-0
26 Nov H Calednian Ath W 5-0 | 25 Mar SAll H Old St Stphns L 1-2
3 Dec LnC A Polytechnic D 2-2 | 1 Apr H City Ramblers W 1-0
10 Dec H Hampstead D 1-1 | 8 Apr SAll A Upton Pk L 1-4
17 Dec LnCr H Polytechnic W 3-0 | 15 Apr WDC † Smethwick L 0-2
24 Dec H Coldstrm Gds * | 22 Apr H London Welsh W 4-1
† Played at Wolverton
The Herald gives Spurs full first team record for the season as played 31,
won 17, drawn 6, for 79 goals and against 46. They fail to record the
results of five of these matches, however.
* Result not available
LnC London Cup
SAll Southern Alliance League
WDC Wolverton and District Charity Cup
Southern Alliance 1892-93
Pl W D L GF GA Pt
1 Old St Stphns 12 10 1 1 44 15 21
2 Erith 11 8 1 2 29 14 17
3 Tottenham 12 7 2 3 29 21 16
4 Polytechnic 8 4 0 4 18 12 8
5 Slough 11 2 2 7 21 33 6
6 Windsor/Eton 10 2 1 7 14 37 5
7 Upton Pk 10 1 0 9 7 36 2
Only two other fixtures were known to
have been played - Slough v Upton
Park on 29 April and Windsor v
Polytechnic on 23 April. The results
of these games are not recorded and,
as far as known, the league was left
incomplete.
The Southern Alliance was disbanded
at the end of this season.
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