West Ham United F.C.

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	Olympic Stadium (Capacity: 60,000)
Owner	David Sullivan (51.1%) David Gold (35.1%) Albert 'Tripp' Smith (10%) Other investors (3.8%)
Chairman	David Sullivan and David Gold
Manager	David Moyes
Current League	Premier League
2020–21	Premier League, 6th
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 6 February 2021

No. Position Player 1 GK Łukasz Fabiański 3 DF Aaron Cresswell 4 DF Fabián Balbuena 5 DF Vladimír Coufal 7 FW Andriy Yarmolenko 9 FW Saïd Benrahma 10 MF Manuel Lanzini 11 MF Jesse Lingard (on loan from Manchester United) 14 DF Frederik Alves 15 DF Craig Dawson (on loan from Watford) 16 MF Mark Noble (captain) 18 MF Pablo Fornals 20 FW Jarrod Bowen 21 DF Angelo Ogbonna 23 DF Issa Diop

No. Position Player 24 DF Ryan Fredericks 25 GK David Martin 26 DF Arthur Masuaku 28 MF Tomáš Souček 30 FW Michail Antonio 31 DF Ben Johnson 34 GK Nathan Trott 35 GK Darren Randolph 37 MF Nathan Holland 41 MF Declan Rice (vice-captain) 45 FW Mipo Odubeko 50 DF Harrison Ashby 54 MF Conor Coventry 56 DF Manny Longelo 75 DF Jamal Baptiste

Out on loan

No. Position Player 2 DF Winston Reid (at Brentford until 30 June 2021) 8 MF Felipe Anderson (at Porto until 30 June 2021) 29 DF Gonçalo Cardoso (at FC Basel until 31 May 2022) 32 MF Xande Silva (at Aris Thessaloniki until 31 May 2021)

No. Position Player 40 FW Dapo Afolayan (at Bolton Wanderers until 31 May 2021) 42 DF Aji Alese (at Cambridge United until 31 May 2021) 46 DF Tunji Akinola (at Leyton Orient until 31 May 2021)

Under-23s

Main article: West Ham United F.C. Under-23s and Academy

Club alumni

Former players

Main article: West Ham United F.C. players

Managers

Main article: West Ham United F.C. managers

Honours

Domestic

Leagues

• Football League First Division/Premier League (first tier)
  • Highest placing: 3rd 1985–86
• Football League Second Division/Football League Championship (second tier): 2
  • Champions: 1957–58, 1980–81
  • Runners-up: 1922–23, 1990–91, 1992–93
  • Play-off Champions: 2005, 2012
  • Play-off Runners-up: 2004
• Southern League First Division:
  • Highest placing: 3rd 1912–13
• Western Football League: 1
  • Champions: 1906–07
  • Section A Champions: 1906–07

Cups

• FA Cup: 3
  • Winners: 1964, 1975, 1980
  • Runners-up: 1923, 2006
• League Cup
  • Runners-up: 1966, 1981
• FA Charity Shield:: 1
  • Winners: 1964 (shared)
  • Runners-up: 1975, 1980
• Football League War Cup: 1
  • Winners: 1940
• Southern Floodlit Cup: 1
  • Winners: 1956
  • Runners-up: 1960
• Essex Professional Cup: 3
  • Winners: 1951, 1955 (Trophy shared), 1959
  • Runners-up: 1952, 1958

Hammers in Wartime

• London Combination: 1
  • Champions: 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

As Thames Ironworks F.C.

• Southern League Division Two : 1
  • Champions: 1898-99
  • London Champions: 1898–99
• London League: 1
  • Champions: 1897–98
  • Runners-up: 1896–97
• West Ham Charity Cup: 1
  • Winners: 1896
  • Runners-up: 1897

European

• European Cup Winners Cup: 1
  • Winners: 1965
  • Runners-up: 1976
• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1
  • Winners: 1999
• Anglo-Italian League Cup
  • Runners-up: 1975
• Ciutat de Barcelona Trophy
  • Winners: 2013
• Guadiana Trophy
  • Runners-up: 2013

International

• International Soccer League: 1
  • Champions: 1963
• American Challenge Cup
  • Runners-up: 1963

Other

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