Tottenham have announced the return of the club’s Hall of Fame, and there are five names we want to see inducted next after Ledley King.
On Friday, September 4, the 144th anniversary of the Club’s formation, Tottenham Hotspur announced the relaunch of their Hall of Fame.
First introduced in 2004, the Hall of Fame had seen 45 of the club’s greatest former players and managers inducted before the initiative was paused following the closure of White Hart Lane in 2017.
The club have now brought it back, partly following discussions with the Fan Advisory Board, with representatives from both sides unanimously deciding on this year’s new inductees.
The names will be announced across the club’s channels over the coming days, with three already having been confirmed.
Bobby Buckle, one of the founders of the club, Chris Hughton and, most recently, legendary defender Ledley King have all been added to the Hall of Fame.
First Tottenham legends in March 2004
- Bill Nicholson
- Bill Brown
- Peter Baker
- Ron Henry
- Danny Blanchflower
- Maurice Norman
- Dave Mackay
- Cliff Jones
- John White
- Bobby Smith
- Les Allen
- Terry Dyson
- Terry Medwin
May 2004
- Keith Burkinshaw
October 2004
- Pat Jennings
Tottenham Hall of Fame induction March 2005
- Gary Mabbutt
May 2005
- Alan Mullery
November 2005
- Gary Lineker
March 2006
- Martin Peters
December 2006
- Glenn Hoddle
April 2007
- Martin Chivers
February 2008
- Ossie Ardiles
- Ricky Villa
May 2008
- Clive Allen
- Teddy Sheringham
December 2008
- David Ginola
February 2009
- Paul Allen
- Chris Waddle
December 2009
- Darren Anderton
- Steffen Freund
May 2010
- Phil Beal
- Ralph Coates
- John Pratt
December 2013
- Mike England
- Alan Gilzean
November 2014
- Ray Clemence
Posthumous Tottenham Hall of Fame inductions
- Jimmy Dimmock
- Arthur Grimsdell
- Willie Hall
- Ted Ditchburn
- Ron Burgess
October 2015
- Graham Roberts
- Paul Miller
April 2016
- Jimmy Greaves
- Steve Perryman
Tottenham’s most recent Hall of Fame inductees in September 2026
- Chris Hughton
- Bobby Buckle
- Ledley King
But there are plenty of other former Spurs stars who could also make a very strong case. Here are five players we would love to see inducted.
1. Harry Kane
Arguably the best player Tottenham Hotspur have had in recent history, Harry Kane left the club in the summer of 2023 for Bayern Munich as Spurs’ all-time leading scorer, having found the net 280 times in 428 appearances.
The Tottenham academy graduate won the Premier League Golden Boot 3 times during his decade of service in North London, finishing top scorer in 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2020/21. He was also named in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year 6 times – more than any other Tottenham player.
Now 33, Harry Kane is coming off a record-breaking season for club and country, having scored a staggering 73 goals across the campaign, a tally bettered by only one player in football history: Lionel Messi.
Spurs supporters will be hoping Kane’s remarkable year is enough to see him crowned this year’s Ballon d’Or winner.
2. Heung Min Son
For a player who once said he would not call himself a Tottenham legend even after a decade of consistent quality performances, it was incredible to hear Heung Min Son finally say ‘let’s say I’m a legend now’ after he captained Spurs to their first trophy in 17 years.
Son left Tottenham last summer for LAFC after making 454 appearances and scoring 173 goals, placing him sixth in the club’s all-time appearance list and fifth in the scoring charts.
His final competitive appearance for Spurs came on that historic night in Bilbao, when Tottenham defeated Manchester United 1-0 in the Europa League final to win their first major European trophy in 41 years. In doing so, Son became one of only 13 captains in the club’s long history to lift a major trophy.
The South Korea international also became the first Asian player to win the Premier League Golden Boot when he scored 23 goals in 2021/22, remarkably doing so without scoring a single penalty.
Son remains Tottenham’s all-time leading assist maker and was also the first player in the club’s history to win the Puskas Award, receiving the honour in 2020 for his stunning solo goal against Burnley.
Interestingly, he also scored the first Premier League goal and the first European goal at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
3. Hugo Lloris
Hugo Lloris remains Tottenham’s all-time leading appearance maker in the Premier League, having featured 361 times for the club in the competition. The Frenchman also wore the Spurs captain’s armband for 8 years, from 2015 until his departure in 2023.
Lloris became the first Tottenham goalkeeper to reach 100 Premier League clean sheets in 2021 and followed that up by keeping a personal-best 16 clean sheets during the 2021/22 campaign.
His previous best was 15 in 2016/17, when Spurs finished runners-up in the Premier League, although Lloris missed out on the Golden Glove award that season by just 1 clean sheet to Thibaut Courtois.
The Nice-born goalkeeper also led France to their second World Cup triumph in 2018 and captained Les Bleus to another final four years later. Victory in Qatar would have made him the first captain to lift the trophy twice, but France were unfortunately beaten by Argentina on penalties, after which Lloris retired from international football.
His final Tottenham appearance came in April 2023, when Spurs suffered an embarrassing 6-1 defeat to Newcastle United. Lloris was substituted at half-time with a hip injury and did not feature again before eventually leaving the club on a free transfer to LAFC in January the following year.
3. Jermain Defoe
Jermain Defoe was officially appointed as a Tottenham club ambassador in 2022 after making 363 appearances and scoring 143 goals across his 2 spells with the club, leaving him seventh on Spurs’ all-time scoring list.
Defoe spent much of the period between January 2004 and February 2014 as a Tottenham player, with a one-year spell at Portsmouth in between.
When he returned to North London in 2009, Defoe enjoyed the best goalscoring season of his Spurs career, scoring 24 goals in all competitions as Tottenham secured Champions League qualification for the first time in the club’s history
In the Premier League, Defoe is Tottenham’s joint-fourth highest scorer alongside Robbie Keane with 91 goals, behind only Harry Kane (213), Heung Min Son (127) and Teddy Sheringham (97).
One of the most remarkable moments of his career came when he scored his 100th Tottenham goal and his 100th Premier League goal with the same strike. Even more remarkably, that goal was also the 1,000th Premier League goal in the club’s history.
Interestingly, Defoe holds the record for the most Premier League goals scored as a substitute, with 24. He also became just the third player in Premier League history to score 5 goals in a single match when he did so against Wigan Athletic in a 9-1 Tottenham victory in 2009.
He later had a spell on the club’s Academy coaching staff after taking up his ambassadorial role and moved into full-time management with Woking in 2026. However, his time in charge of the National League side lasted only 4 months.
5. Gareth Bale
Gareth Bale was widely regarded as one of the finest players in the world during his prime, and much of that prime came while wearing the Tottenham shirt. Across his two spells in North London, the Welshman made 237 appearances and scored 71 goals.
His 26-goal tally in 2012/13 was a personal Tottenham record and helped him win both the PFA Players’ Player of the Year and PFA Young Player of the Year awards.
It was his second PFA Players’ Player of the Year award with Spurs, having also won it in 2010/11. He remains the only Spurs player to have won that award twice.
That 2012/13 campaign also saw the Welshman complete an individual awards treble after being named FWA Footballer of the Year.
His performances earned him a then-world-record £85m transfer to Real Madrid in 2013.
Bale went on to score 105 goals in 251 appearances for Real Madrid and win the Champions League 4 times before returning to Tottenham on loan for the 2020/21 season, when we were blessed to watch him, Heung Min Son and Harry Kane form one of the most exciting front threes in the club’s recent history.
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