Tottenham have not been awarded a Premier League penalty since 25 May 2025, a run that stands at 41 league matches. The next test comes at Old Trafford on 10 October, and anyone weighing up Man U vs Tottenham Betting should factor it in.
Spurs travel north without a goal to their name in three league games, which is a problem made worse by having no access to the easiest chance in football. Michael Carrick’s Manchester United are not much steadier, sitting 11th after losing at Hull, putting five past Ipswich and drawing at Everton. Whatever route this Spurs side will take to finally find a goal, it is a slim possibility that it will come from the 12-yard spot.
The last home penalty: Solanke against Brighton
The last Premier League penalty scored at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium came on the final day of 2024-25, four days after Spurs beat Manchester United in Bilbao to win the Europa League. Mats Wieffer made a clumsy challenge on Mathys Tel inside the area in the 17th minute, and Dominic Solanke slammed the spot-kick into the roof of the net.
Brighton won 4-1 in north London through two Jack Hinshelwood goals, a Matt O’Riley penalty and a Diego Gomez curler, and Spurs finished 17th. That O’Riley penalty is the detail that lands. The last time a Tottenham player scored from the spot in this division, the away side were given one too, after Yves Bissouma fouled Gomez.
The last away penalty: Kane at Villa Park
The road wait runs to more than three years. Spurs’ last away penalty in the league came on 13 May 2023, Harry Kane still donning the Lilywhite kit. Aston Villa were 2-0 up through Jacob Ramsey in the 8th minute and Douglas Luiz in the 72nd, chasing Europe under Unai Emery, with Ryan Mason in interim charge.
Then, on 90 minutes, Kane got to a loose ball ahead of Emi Martinez and went down. Peter Bankes did not give it, but VAR sent him to the monitor, he overturned the decision himself, and Kane scored the consolation in a 2-1 defeat. Kane joined Bayern Munich that summer, and no Spurs player has been awarded one away from home since.
Maddison was not just complaining
Spurs went through the whole of 2025-26 without a single penalty, one of only two clubs alongside Aston Villa to manage that. The sharpest flashpoint came at home to Leeds on 11 May 2026, at a time when Spurs desperately needed points to avoid relegation. James Maddison went down under a challenge from Lukas Nmecha in the 103rd minute, Jarred Gillett waved it away, and VAR confirmed the call on the basis that Nmecha had played the ball.
Maddison later took to social media to set the record straight. He said the touch came off the outside of his own right foot rather than Nmecha’s, and argued that officials are “petrified to make decisions on pitch now because of VAR”. Leeds had already been given a spot-kick in that same match after a pitchside review, and the result finished 1-1.
Marmoush, Kane and an awkward parallel
This season produced another. On 31 August, with Newcastle 2-0 ahead at Tottenham, Omar Marmoush reached a loose ball in the box and was caught by Malick Thiaw. Bankes, again, said no, and this time VAR stayed out of it.
The threshold has been raised this season, and officials have applied it consistently. What grates is the comparison with July, when Kane swung a leg at a loose ball in England’s round-of-16 win over Mexico and caught Brian Gutierrez as he arrived from behind. That was given, and Raul Jimenez scored it, but the same scenarios never seem to go in Tottenham’s favour. Anyone building a Premier League bet around this Spurs side should assume contact in their favour needs to be emphatic.
