OFFICIAL: Tottenham extend Heung-Min Son's contract until 2026

OFFICIAL: Tottenham exercise option to extend Heung-Min Son's contract to keep him at club until 2026

Tottenham have exercised the option to extend Heung-Min Son's contract to keep him at the club for an additional 12 months until June 2026.

The South Korean forward and club captain's deal was due to expire in June, meaning the club were at risk of losing him on a free transfer at the end of a decade-long spell in north London since signing from Bayer Leverkusen in 2015.

Barcelona were one of a number of clubs rumoured to be looking at signing him this summer, but the 32-year-old will now remain at Tottenham for at least another year.

Son has long-since been the top scoring Asian player in Premier League history and is the third-top scorer of players still playing in the competition, behind only Jamie Vardy and Mo Salah.

He has reached double figures in the top flight in each of the last eight seasons and shared the Golden Boot with Salah in 2022, but has found form harder to come by during this campaign, netting only five goals so far and two in his last 11 Premier League appearances.

The club statement:

We are delighted to announce that we have exercised the option to extend Heung-Min Son’s contract, which will now run until the summer of 2026.

Having joined the Club in August, 2015, Sonny, 32, has become a global star during his time with us and a modern-day great for Tottenham Hotspur.

Since joining from Bayer Leverkusen almost a decade ago, our number seven has gone from strength to strength in Lilywhite, making 431 appearances – seeing him to 11th in our all-time appearances list – and scoring 169 goals – the fourth most in the Club’s history.

Named Club captain in August, 2023, the South Korea international has certainly cemented himself in our history, scoring a number of iconic goals on landmark occasions for the Club.

Scoring his first goals in our colours back in September, 2015, in a Europa League clash with Qarabag on his White Hart Lane debut, Sonny scored the first-ever goal at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, coming against Crystal Palace in April, 2019, before he followed up with the first-ever Champions League goal at our world-class home the following week, striking against Manchester City.

Part of our squad which reached the UEFA Champions League Final for the first time in 2019, in the following December he stunned the world with an incredible solo strike against Burnley as he carried the ball more than 80 yards before slotting home in front of the South Stand. A year later, that goal claimed the FIFA Puskas award making Sonny the first-ever Asian player to take the iconic prize.

In 2021/22, he enjoyed his best goalscoring season to date as he won the Premier League’s Golden Boot with his 23 goals helping us to return to the Champions League.

Now into the Premier League’s top 20 goalscorers of all time with 125 goals to his name – the second-highest return of any Spurs player, this season he broke the Club’s long-standing assist record in the Premier League with his 68th coming in December’s 5-0 win over Southampton.

Captain of his nation, he has made 131 appearances for South Korea to date, finding the net 51 times and has featured for his country at the 2014, 2018, and 2022 FIFA World Cups.

Voted AFC Asian International Player of the Year on a record four occasions, he won gold at the 2018 Asian Games while he reached the Asian Cup Final with Korea in 2015.