West Ham United

City: London
Stadium: London Stadium
Founded: 1895
Nickname: The IronsThe HammersThe Academy of Football
West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Upton Park, East London, England, currently playing in the Premier League, England's top tier of football. The club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. In 1904 the club relocated to their current Boleyn Ground stadium. They initially competed in the Southern League and Western League before eventually joining the full Football League in 1919 and subsequently enjoyed promotion to the top flight for the 1923 season. 1923 also saw the club feature in the first FA Cup Final to be held at Wembley against Bolton Wanderers.
In 1940 the team won the inaugural Football League War Cup. The club has won the FA Cup three times: in 1964, 1975 and 1980 as well as being runners-up twice, in 1923 and 2006. In 1965, they won the European Cup Winners Cup, and in 1999 they won the Intertoto Cup. They are one of eight clubs never to have fallen below the second tier of English football, spending 56 of 88 league seasons in Division 1, or the Premier League, to 2014. However, unlike the other seven (Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United, Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur), the club has never won the league title. The club's best final league position is third place in the 1985–86 First Division.
Three West Ham players played significant roles in England's victory in the 1966 World Cup final; captain Bobby Moore, and both goalscorers, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters.
Current season top scorers
# | Player | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
1. | Saïd Benrahma | 6 | 4 | 0 |
2. | Jarrod Bowen | 6 | 1 | 0 |
3. | Michail Antonio | 5 | 0 | 0 |
4. | Lucas Paquetá | 4 | 1 | 0 |
5. | Declan Rice | 4 | 0 | 0 |
6. | Gianluca Scamacca | 3 | 0 | 0 |
7. | Pablo Fornals | 3 | 0 | 0 |
8. | Kurt Zouma | 3 | 0 | 0 |
9. | Tomáš Souček | 2 | 0 | 0 |
10. | Danny Ings | 2 | 0 | 0 |
First-team squad
Goalkeepers: Lukasz Fabiański (1), Alphonse Areola (13),
Defenders: Ben Johnson (2), Aaron Cresswell (3), Kurt Zouma (4), Vladimír Coufal (5), Angelo Ogbonna (21), Thilo Kehrer (24), Nayef Aguerd (27), Emerson Palmieri (33), Jamal Baptiste (75),
Midfielders: Pablo Fornals (8), Manuel Lanzini (10), Lucas Paquetá (11), Flynn Downes (12), Maxwel Cornet (14), Saïd Benrahma (22), Tomáš Souček (28), Conor Coventry (32), Declan Rice (41), Daniel Chesters (51), Keenan Forson (59), Freddie Potts (62),
Forwards: Gianluca Scamacca (7), Danny Ings (9), Michail Antonio (9), Jarrod Bowen (20), Armstrong Oko-Flex (40), Divin Mubama (72),
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