Which club did Mateus Fernandes leave to join Tottenham Hotspur in 2026?

Mateus Fernandes left West Ham United to join Tottenham Hotspur in 2026.

The Portugal international midfielder completed his move to Spurs in July 2026 after one season with West Ham. Tottenham announced that he joined from West Ham, making the London club his next stop in the Premier League summer transfer window.

Fernandes had previously developed at Sporting CP, where he came through the academy and made his senior debut. He then gained Premier League experience at Southampton before moving to West Ham. Those earlier clubs can create confusion in a question asking specifically which team he left for Tottenham: Sporting CP and Southampton were former clubs, but West Ham was his immediate predecessor.

The transfer also connected several stages of his rapid rise. Fernandes represented Portugal through the youth ranks before earning a senior call-up in 2026. Tottenham presented him as a young midfielder with experience in both deeper and box-to-box roles, while his arrival became one of the notable moves of that summer’s Premier League market.