Tottenham Hotspur players missed more than 1,650 days last season through injury, as the club forked out almost £18m on sidelined players, new data has revealed.
The club sat only behind rivals Arsenal (1,771 days) in terms of days missed by first team players through injury, but still managed to reach a Champions League final and secure a top-four finish.
Alarmingly, however, the 1,652 days missed by players - via a total of 61 injuries picked up by the squad - was more than double the 791 injuries picked up in 2017/18, suggesting Spurs players suffered from the ramp-up in fixtures.
Those 61 injuries put Spurs behind only Manchester United in terms of total injuries accrued over the season.
On average, Spurs had 5.5 players missing from their 58 total matches last season, data from insurance specialist Marsh-JLT Specialty reveals in its fourth annual Football Injury Index.
Meanwhile, the £17.9m spent paying injured players was the fifth-highest in the league - behind only Manchester City (£26.3m), Manchester United (£25.2m), Arsenal (£24.2) and West Ham (£22.8m).
"Spurs contested its first-ever UCL final last season, and made the FA Cup semifinals, on the back of a long World Cup campaign for several players last summer," Marsh-JLT Specialty reasons.
"This arguably took its toll: the club’s injury total almost doubled last season (up from 33 in 2017-18). Over the last three seasons (2016–19), its payouts to injured players more than doubled (110%) — a far higher increase than other top six clubs."
Meanwhile, the proportionally higher wage bills of the Big Six saw them dominate money spent on sidelined players.
"Between them, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, the two Manchester clubs, and Tottenham Hotspur accounted for 54% of injury costs, " Marsh-JLT Specialty notes.
"Together, they’ve experienced a 48% increase in salaries paid to injured players since 2016."
