Have we had four different scorers in a EC/UCL game before? How many times have we scored 4+ in the competition?

Our fine win 4-0 against FC Copenhagen in MD4 of this season's UEFA Champions League had us quickly leafing through the club's history books.

Had we registered four different goalscorers in a UCL match before? And what if we go back almost 65 years to our first appearance in the competition, in the old format of the European Cup (the UCL format was introduced in 1992/93)?

Well, that box was ticked in our first tie and first home game in the European Cup - a legendary 8-1 win against Poland champions Gornik Zabzre in September, 1961 when five players were on the scoresheet and what we know as the 'glory, glory nights' in N17 were born.

Bill Nicholson's double winners were rocked by a 4-2 loss in Poland in the first leg of the preliminary round on 13 September, 1961 but turned it around in style, roared on by 56,737 in the Lane, to rack up eight goals - Cliff Jones led the way with a hat-trick with a double from Bobby Smith and skipper Danny Blanchflower, Terry Dyson and John White also on target.

That famous night remains our record win in the competition and the only time we've registered five different goalscorers in a European Cup/UCL match.

UCL era

So, if you now bring it forward to the UCL era, Tuesday night's win against the Danish Superliga champions represents the first time we've registered four different goalscorers in the competition with Brennan Johnson, Wilson Odobert, Micky van de Ven and Joao Palhinha on target.

It's the sixth time we've registered four-plus goals - a 5-0 win against Serbia side Crvena zvezda (Red Star) the best win - and if you bring both European Cup and Champions League eras together, we've now scored four-plus on eight occasions.

EC/UCL | 4+ goals | 4 different goalscorers

20.09.61 - Spurs 8-1 Gornik Zabzre (Poland) - prelim rd, 2nd leg
Blanchflower, Dyson, Jones 3, Smith 2, White
26.02.62 - Spurs 4-1 Dukla Prague (Czech Republic) - 2nd round, 2nd leg
25.08.10 - Spurs 4-0 Young Boys (Switzerland) - play-off, 2nd leg
29.09.10 - Spurs 4-1 FC Twente (Holland) - group
22.10.19 - Spurs 5-0 Crvena zvezda (Serbia) - group
06.11.19 - Crvena zvezda 0-4 Spurs - group
26.11.19 - Spurs 4-2 Olympiacos (Greece) - group
04.11.25 - Spurs 4-0 FC Copenhagen (Denmark) - MD4, league phase
Johnson, Odobert, van de Ven, Palhinha