History | Our European wins in Germany

It's now over 50 years since we first stepped into Germany - West Germany, as it was in 1974 - in European competition.

That was in March, 1974, for a UEFA Cup fourth round, first leg against FC Koln (Cologne) with goals from Chris McGrath and Martin Peters seeing us home 2-1. We were soon back, this time in East Germany, to face Locomotive Leipzig in the semi-finals as Bill Nicholson's defending champions made it back to the final.

Thursday night's MD7 in the league phase of the UEFA Europa League represents our 16th competitive match in Germany with five wins, three draws and seven defeats.

Here's a look back at the wins...

FC Cologne 1-2 Spurs

UEFA Cup 4th round, 1st leg
6 March, 1974

Our first trip to West Germany, as it was, took us to the Mungersdorfer Stadion, Cologne, for the first leg of a fourth round tie in the UEFA Cup. Chris McGrath and Martin Peters saw us home, inflicting only Cologne's second loss in 31 European ties. We won the second leg 3-0 back at the Lane (goals from Peters, Martin Chivers and Ralph Coates) for a 5-1 aggregate victory.

Spurs in Cologne: Jennings, Evans, Naylor, Pratt, England, Beal, McGrath, Perryman, Chivers, Peters, Coates.

Locomotive Leipzig 1-2 Spurs

UEFA Cup semi-final, 1st leg
10 April, 1974

From West to East Germany in just over a month, but the same scoreline, this time in the semi-final, first leg in front of 74,000 fans at Leipzig's Zentralstadion. Leipzig had beaten Ipswich and Wolves to reach the last four, but couldn't contain a Bill Nicholson plan to attack the first leg, and we were 2-0 up inside 30 minutes via Martin Peters and Ralph Coates. A 2-0 win back in N17 (McGrath, Chivers on target) secured a 4-1 aggregate win to reach our second-successive UEFA Cup Final, unfortunately, defending the trophy, we lost 4-2 on aggregate to Dutch side Feyenoord.

Spurs in Leipzig: Jennings, Evans, Naylor, Pratt, England, Beal, Neighbour, Perryman, Chivers, Peters, Coates (Holder).

Bayer Leverkusen 0-1 Spurs

UEFA Cup, Group B
23 November, 2006

This was all about Dimitar Berbatov. The striker joined us from Bayer Leverkusen in the summer of 2006 having scored 91 goals in 201 games for the Bundesliga side. Drawn against his former side in Group B in our first European campaign for seven years after qualifying in a play-off against Slavia Prague, Berba took just 36 minutes to score what turned out to be the only goal of the game at the BayArena, turning home Aaron Lennon's cross. We won four out of four in Group B, beat Braga in the fourth round but then lost 4-3 on aggregate to Sevilla in the quarter-finals.

Spurs in Leverkusen: Robinson, Assou-Ekotto, Chimbonda, Dawson, King, Lennon, Malbranque (Huddlestone), Tainio, Zokora, Berbatov (Mido), Keane.

Borussia Dortmund 1-2 Spurs

UEFA Champions League, Group H
21 November, 2017

Just 18 months after somewhat of a humbling at Dortmund's vast Signal Iduna Park - a 3-0 loss in the Europa League Round of 16 - were were back in the North Rhine-Westphalia area of Germany in the Champions League. We'd finished second in the Premier League in 2016/17 and the team was growing, step by step, as illustrated by this performance. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang struck first for the home side - just as had 18 months earlier - but we hit back to win with goals from Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son, completing the double over the Bundesliga side in the group stage. We also took four points of Real Madrid to top the group and advanced to the Round of 16, where we lost 4-3 on aggregate to Juventus.

Spurs in Dortmund: Lloris, Dier, Sanchez, Vertonghen, Aurier, Winks, Eriksen (Sissoko), Dele (Dembele), Rose, Kane (Llorente), Son.

Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Spurs

UEFA Champions League Round of 16, 2nd leg
5 March, 2019

Leading 3-0 from the Jan Vertonghen-inspired first leg, we progressed to the quarter-finals of the Champions League thanks to a tremendous defensive display at Signal Iduna Park. The home side threw everything at us, particularly in the first half, but Hugo Lloris was in unbeatable form in goal, with one save in particular from Mario Götze right out of the top drawer. The home side racked up 20 efforts at goal, but our clean sheet remained intact. It was left to Harry Kane, threaded through by Mousa Sissoko, to put the issue beyond doubt as we won 4-0 on aggregate on that thrilling route to the final in 2019.

Spurs in Dortmund: Lloris, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Vertonghen, Aurier, Sissoko, Winks (Dier), Eriksen (Rose), Davies, Son (Lamela), Kane.