[4] In the 1963–64 season, he became a regular starter and was the club's joint leading goalscorer (with Terry Paine) with 21 goals, as Southampton finished a disappointing fifth in the Second Division.

[6] In the 1965–66 season, he played an integral role as the club finally gained promotion to the top flight (as runners-up),[7] scoring 30 goals from 39 games, generally from crosses provided by Terry Paine and John Sydenham.

[1] In January 1968, Tottenham Hotspur manager Bill Nicholson signed Chivers for a club record fee of £125,000, which also made him the country's most expensive player at that time.

Chivers was often seen as a lethargic and lazy player,[13] but his pace and natural strength established "Big Chiv" as a star of the Spurs side throughout the early 1970s.

The resurgent striker saved his most impressive form for the UEFA Cup, scoring eight times in 11 matches, including a hat-trick in a 9–0 demolition of Icelandic side Keflavik ÍF,[19] and a superb double against Wolverhampton Wanderers in a memorable final.

His acclaimed goalscoring ability again guided Tottenham to League Cup success with two quarter-final strikes against Liverpool, and a crucial goal at Molineux where the Londoners drew 2–2 to reach the final.

[23] Spurs again reached the final of the UEFA Cup in 1974 with Chivers scoring six goals, including in a 2–0 home victory against East German side Lokomotive Leipzig.

[28][29] In his 8+1⁄2-year Spurs career, Chivers scored a total of 174 goals in 367 first-team appearances and remained the leading Tottenham goalscorer in European competition for 39 years until he was overtaken by Jermain Defoe on 7 November 2013.

[30] At the age of 31 in July 1976, the prolific striker moved to Servette in Switzerland, before returning to English league football with spells at Norwich City (1978–79) and Brighton (1979–80), where he finished his professional career.

[34] Despite scoring six international goals in the calendar year, the Spurs striker was a casualty of his country's failure to qualify for the tournament and would later be ignored by caretaker manager Joe Mercer and future boss Don Revie.