. Last season's game - Spurs 2 Brighton 1, 10.02.24
. This season's away game - Brighton 3 Spurs 2, 06.10.24
. Premier League Matchday 38 - last year
. See the current injury list for all Premier League Teams
. All the Spurs Stats you could hope for here! THFC6061 Sports Stats
Full League Record of Spurs -v- Brighton
Prem Pl W D L For- Ag Pts
Home 7 6 0 1 11 - 5 18
Away 8 3 1 4 10 - 13 10
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Total(Prem) 15 9 1 5 21 - 18 28 1.86 Pts per game
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Football Lge
Home(Div 1) 4 2 1 1 6 - 4 6
Away(Div 1) 4 3 0 1 8 - 3 7
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Total(Div 1) 8 5 1 2 14 - 7 13
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Football Lge
Home(Div 2) 1 0 1 0 0 - 0 1
Away(Div 2) 1 0 0 1 1 - 3 0
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Total(Div 2) 2 0 1 1 1 - 3 1
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Total(Prem) 15 9 1 5 21 - 18 28
Total(Div 1) 8 5 1 2 14 - 7 13
Total(Div 2) 2 0 1 1 1 - 3 1
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Grand Total 25 14 3 8 36 - 28 42
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Last Six Premier League results:-
Spurs - LLLDLL
Wolves 4-2 Spurs
Spurs 1-2 Nottm Fst
Liverpool 5-1 Spurs
West Ham 1-1 Spurs
Spurs 0-2 C. Palace
A. Villa 2-0 Spurs
Brighton - DLWDWW
Brighton 2-2 Leicester
Brentford 4-2 Brighton
Brighton 3-2 West Ham
Brighton 1-1 Newcastle
Wolves 0-2 Brighton
Brighton 3-2 Liverpool
Pos P W D L F-A GD Pts
8. Brighton 37 15 13 9 62-58 4 58
17. Spurs 37 11 5 21 63-61 2 38
We're still partying. Who cares about this result?
Considering the fact that the Spurs squad has partied hard since the final whistle in Bilbao on Wednesday night, it's difficult to imagine we will be able to field a competitive team against Brighton.
I wrote before the Bodo/Glimt semi-final that we had witnessed "A tale of two seasons". The season will be remembered not for (potentially) matching our worst ever league season with 22 defeats (if we lose tomorrow), but for the glory of winning our fourth European Trophy - something most Premier League sides can only dream about (especially Arsenal!).
The players were still drinking last night (Friday) for the open-top bus parade of Edmonton and Tottenham High Roads, witnessed by an estimated 150,000 fans. Ange Postecoglou declared in front of our stadium that "season three is always better than season two", which suggests he has already been told his job is secure until the start of next season at least.
I suspect the starting line-up tomorrow (4pm - not televised in UK) will resemble that which played at Villa Park, rather than those who began against Manchester United. The squad will once again parade our shiny new trophy after the game on their "lap of appreciation."
The guests at our final day party will be Brighton who can finish no higher than eighth place, but circumstances this season mean that European places could go down as far as eighth, should Chelsea finish outside the top five AND win the Europa Conference League. Brighton do need a point to guarantee eighth position and the hope of Europe, so they will be trying tomorrow.
Brighton's last six matches have averaged four goals per game, and they've scored half of those goals, so they are in decent form.
Last week's away loss at Villa Park was our 25th defeat of the campaign in all competitions, equalling the club record for a single season, set in 1991-92 Spurs have now lost eight of their past 11 top-flight matches.
If we suffer our 22nd league defeat tomorrow it will equal our all-time low from 1934-35 which was in a 42 game season.
Ange Postecoglou's side are one of four top-flight teams to lose 10 or more league games in 2025 – the other three sides have all been relegated.
Spurs have won seven of their past eight home league games against Brighton, the exception being a 1-0 defeat in April 2022.
Brighton won a second consecutive home game against Spurs last October, bringing an end to Spurs run of five consecutive wins in all competitions. Spurs had been 2-0 up at the interval, but the term "game of two halves" has never been more true, as the "Seagulls" put us to the sword in the second half. We became the first side in Premier League history to lose 10 games after leading by two or more goals. Our top scorer Brennan Johnson scored for the sixth consecutive game when opening the scoring in October.
We've never played Brighton in May before. The latest we've played them in the season was on 23rd April 2019, when we won 1-0, thanks to an 88th minute goal by Christian Eriksen. That was the year of our last European final.
The first season we met Brighton in competition was in our 1977/78 Division Two season. We played at The Goldstone Ground on 15th April, arriving as leaders of the division, but leaving in third place. Declan Mulcahy told the story of that season's ending in this article written 9 years ago.
Son Heung-min scored his 100th EPL goal against Brighton on 8th April 2023. He's scored another 27 league goals since for a total of 127 league goals in a total of 333 Premier League appearances. Sonny's total appearances for the club amount to 454 in which he has scored 173 goals. One more goal would put him level with Martin Chivers in our rankings.
Brighton's 7-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest in February was their heaviest defeat since an opening day 1958 Second Division defeat by 9-0 at Middlesbrough. Brian Clough scored 5 goals that day. Clough's future managerial partner Peter Taylor was in the Middlesbrough goal, and spent some time as Brighton manager in the 70s after Clough left in 1974.
A little known former Spurs player was Middlesbrough's number 6 in that 9-0 win. Ernie Walley, who passed away on 6th February this year, aged 91, was Spurs' oldest surviving former player. Terry Dyson now takes over that title. Ernie Walley made just five first team appearances for Spurs, wearing number 4, between August 1955 and March 1958, before his move to Middlesbrough.
Rob Jones referees Spurs for the eleventh time tomorrow. One of his early Spurs games was a 2-0 away win in March 2022. The day before that game we heard the news of the passing of Tony Marchi who replaced the injured Dave Mackay and played in our very first European trophy win in 1963. Now we play Brighton only four days after our fourth European trophy win.
Enjoy the party tomorrow and enjoy your summer!
