West Ham United F.C.

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West Ham United
Full name	West Ham United Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Hammers The Irons Diss Irons
Short name	West Ham
Founded	29 June 1895, as Thames Ironworks 5 July 1900, as West Ham United
Ground	London Stadium (Capacity: 62,500)
Owner	David Sullivan (38.8%) Daniel Křetínský (27%) Vanessa Gold (25.1%) J. Albert Smith (8%) Other investors (1.1%)
Chairman	David Sullivan Vanessa Gold
Manager	Julen Lopetegui
Current League	Premier League
2023–24	Premier League, 9th
Website	Club home page
Current season

West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stratford, East London. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club play at the London Stadium, having moved from their former home the Boleyn Ground in 2016.

The club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. They moved to the Boleyn Ground in 1904, which remained their home ground for more than a century. The team initially competed in the Southern League and Western League before joining the Football League in 1919. They were promoted to the top flight in 1923, when they were also losing finalists in the first FA Cup Final held at Wembley. In 1940, the club won the inaugural Football League War Cup.

West Ham have been winners of the FA Cup three times; in 1964, 1975 and 1980, and have also been runners-up twice; in 1923 and 2006. The club have reached two major European finals, winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1965 and finishing runners-up in the same competition in 1976. West Ham also won the Intertoto Cup in 1999. They are one of eight clubs never to have fallen below the second tier of English football, spending 62 of 94 league seasons in the top flight, up to and including the 2019-20 season. The club's highest league position to date came in 1985–86, when they achieved third place in the then First Division.

Three West Ham players were members of the 1966 World Cup final-winning England team: captain Bobby Moore and goalscorers Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters. The club has a long-standing rivalry with Millwall. West Ham adopted their claret and sky blue colour scheme in the early 1900's, with the most common iteration of a claret shirt and sky blue sleeves first emerging in 1904.

Players

First-team squad

As of 30 August 2024

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK Łukasz Fabiański 3 DF Aaron Cresswell (vice-captain) 4 MF Carlos Soler (on loan from Paris Saint-Germain) 5 DF Vladimír Coufal 7 FW Crysencio Summerville 9 FW Michail Antonio 10 MF Lucas Paquetá 11 FW Niclas Füllkrug 14 FW Mohammed Kudus 15 DF Konstantinos Mavropanos 17 MF Luis Guilherme 18 FW Danny Ings

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF Edson Álvarez 20 MF Jarrod Bowen (captain) 21 GK Wes Foderingham 23 GK Alphonse Areola 24 MF Guido Rodríguez 25 DF Jean-Clair Todibo (on loan from Nice) 26 DF Maximilian Kilman 28 MF Tomáš Souček 29 DF Aaron Wan-Bissaka 33 DF Emerson Palmieri 39 MF Andy Irving

Out on loan

No. Pos. Nation Player 8 MF James Ward-Prowse (on loan to Nottingham Forest until 30 June 2025) 22 FW Maxwel Cornet (on loan to Southampton until 30 June 2025) 27 DF Nayef Aguerd (on loan to Real Sociedad until 30 June 2025) 40 MF George Earthy (on loan to Bristol City until 31 May 2025) 50 FW Callum Marshall (on loan to Huddersfield Town until 31 May 2025) 53 DF Levi Laing (on loan to Cheltenham Town until 31 May 2025)

No. Pos. Nation Player 54 MF Patrick Kelly (on loan to Doncaster Rovers until 31 May 2025) 65 DF Michael Forbes (on loan at Bristol Rovers until 31 May 2025) GK Krisztián Hegyi (on loan to Motherwell until 31 May 2025) DF Kurt Zouma (on loan to Al-Orobah until 30 June 2025) MF Mohamadou Kanté (on loan at Paris FC until 31 May 2025)

Under-21s

Main article: West Ham United F.C. Under-21s and Academy

Former players

Retired numbers

Main article: Retired numbers in association football

• 6 Bobby Moore, Defender (1958–74) – posthumous honour
• 38 Dylan Tombides, Striker (2010–14) – posthumous honour

Managers

Main article: West Ham United F.C. managers

Honours

Domestic titles

• Second Division / Championship (level 2)

1957–58, 1980–81, 2005 (play off), 2012 (play off)

• FA Cup: 3

1963–64, 1974–75, 1979–80

• Community Shield

1964 (shared)

European titles

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

1964–65

• UEFA Europa Conference League

2022–23

• UEFA Intertoto Cup

1999

Runners up and promotions

• First Division / Premier League (level 1)

Highest placing: 3rd, 1985–86

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Runners-up: 1975–76

• Second Division / Championship (level 2)

Runners-up: 1922–23, 1990–91, 1992–93

• FA Cup

Runners-up: 1922–23, 2005–06

• League Cup

Runners-up: 1965–66, 1980–81

• FA Charity Shield

Runners-up: 1975, 1980

• Anglo-Italian League Cup

Runners-up: 1975

Minor titles

• Southern League Division One: Highest placing: 3rd, 1912–13
• Southern League Division Two: 1898–99. London champions: 1898–99
• Western Football League: 1906–07. Section B champions: 1906–07
• London League Premier Division: 1901–02
• Football League War Cup: 1940
• Southern Floodlit Cup: 1956
• London Challenge Cup (9): 1925, 1926, 1930, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1968, 1969
• Essex Professional Cup: 1951, 1955 (shared), 1959
• Norfolk & Norwich Hospital Cup: 1924
• London Charity Cup: Runners-up: 1902
• International Soccer League: 1963
• American Challenge Cup runners-up: 1963
• London League: 1897–98
• West Ham Charity Cup: 1896

Indoor

• London Fives: 1967, 1970, 1984. Runners-up: 1955, 1957, 1960, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1981

Wartime

• London Combination: 1916–17, runners-up: 1915–16 (Supplementary Tournament), 1917–18
• League South A runners-up: 1939–40
• League South C: runners-up: 1939–40
• Regional League South runners-up: 1940–41
• League South runners-up: 1943–44, 1944–45

Other Awards

• BBC Sports Personality of the Year Team Award: 1965
• Honorary Degree (awarded to the club) in 2009 by the University of East London

External links

• Official website
• West Ham United News – Sky Sports'
• Knees up Mother Brown (KUMB.com) – the supporters' website