{"id":398108,"date":"2025-09-04T20:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398108\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:08:17","slug":"daniel-levy-tottenham-executive-chairman-exits-role-after-24-years-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398108\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Levy: Tottenham executive chairman exits role after 24 years in charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham&#8217;s European trophy success last season came against the backdrop of a difficult Premier League campaign in which the team finished 17th under head coach Ange Postecoglou, who was sacked in the summer and replaced by Thomas Frank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were a number of protests aimed at Levy last season, with prominent banners at the home defeat by Leicester in January carrying the messages &#8220;Our game is about glory, Levy&#8217;s game is about greed&#8221; and &#8220;24 years, 16 managers, 1 trophy &#8211; time for change&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were also regular chants of &#8220;Levy out&#8221; during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his tenure, Levy oversaw the switch from White Hart Lane to the \u00a31bn state-of-the-art Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which the club made their new home in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spurs also reached the Champions League final under former manager Mauricio Pochettino in 2019 but missed out on the trophy following a 2-0 defeat by Liverpool. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Football finance expert Kieran Maguire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cr53l53g793o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has described Tottenham<\/a> as the &#8220;most profitable club in Premier League history&#8221; because of the money their new stadium generates, a historically lower wage structure and a &#8220;degree of caution&#8221; on transfer spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This summer, according to FootballTransfers.com, Spurs have spent about \u00a3181m on signings who have included attacking midfielders Xavi Simons and Mohammed Kudus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham have been making key appointments in recent months. Before Frank&#8217;s arrival, the club named Vinai Venkatesham as their new chief executive in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peter Charrington becomes non-executive chairman, a new role, following Levy&#8217;s exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charrington, a director of Tottenham&#8217;s owners Enic &#8211; Tavistock&#8217;s vehicle for running the club &#8211; was appointed to the Spurs board in March as a non-executive director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Levy and his family hold a stake in Enic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In announcing Levy&#8217;s departure, the club said: &#8220;Tottenham Hotspur has been transformed over the last quarter of a century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has played in European competitions in the last 18 of 20 seasons, becoming one of the world&#8217;s most recognised football clubs, consistently investing in its academy, players and facilities, including a new, world-class stadium and state-of-the-art training centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club has also competed regularly at the highest level, enjoying a number of fantastic on-field successes, including the recent Europa League cup win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham said there would be &#8220;no changes to the ownership or shareholder structure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charrington thanked Levy for his service and added: &#8220;This is a new era of leadership for the club, on and off the pitch. I do recognise there has been a lot of change in recent months as we put in place new foundations for the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are now fully focused on stability and empowering our talented people across the club, led by Vinai and his executive team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The change of leadership comes with the club sitting fourth in the Premier League after three games of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham&#8217;s European trophy success last season came against the backdrop of a difficult Premier League campaign in which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-398108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115147840256181026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}