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 61 of 93 league seasons in the top flight, up to and including the 2018–19 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.<\/P>","93E993D54869F4B8":"3882","8524B53828524224755A552E6AAA1E77":"Nottingham Forest F.C.","D5AF1249DEAE15446FB07F95BE07BAC61FCF1CF21901A599":"1","D5AF1249DEAE15440A9E01742A8A4E92":"371800000.00","5E8F53D0A504BF86":"West Ham United F.C.","D818D0DBB58D9A673E378E57E02D444F9E96A907729BB512":"1895-6-29","92DC52DD0D4041625C68AA7C024C7F67":"England","7B11A9E5D141DF5785F9EF965C7D588D":"Nottingham Forest F.C.,Al Ittihad Jeddah,Tottenham Hotspur F.C.,Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.,FC Porto,Valencia CF,Rio Ave F.C.,Panathinaikos F.C.","89F75C88F810F7B54F1BC067C7848CF5":"London Stadium","9874ED9F3729871C766BB9BF72DD3990":"2025-9-27","4268BF6963F167300062241A864D4973":"Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London, United Kingdom","0C852134AA40B2DD":"1","C6E00DEB351621C4":"68","00E1A43DD023DEC2DFC0A799EF9025A4":"
PLAYER<\/U><\/STRONG> Nuno Herlander Simoes Espírito Santo (born 25 January 1974), known simply as Nuno as a player, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and head coach of Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers. DOMESTIC Western Football League FA Cup FA Charity Shield Football League War Cup Southern Floodlit Cup London Challenge Cup Essex Professional Cup European Cup Winners Cup UEFA Intertoto Cup International Soccer League Highest league attendance:<\/STRONG> 42,322 v<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>.Tottenham Hotspur (Division One, 17 October 1970)
Deportivo<\/STRONG>
Copa del Rey: 2001–02
Porto<\/STRONG>
Primeira Liga: 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08, 2008–09
Taca de Portugal: 2002–03, 2008–09
Supertaça Candido de Oliveira: 2003, 2004, 2009
UEFA Champions League: 2003–04
UEFA Cup: 2002–03
Intercontinental Cup: 2004
Taca da Liga runner-up: 2009–10
INDIVIDUAL<\/U><\/STRONG>
Ricardo Zamora Trophy:<\/STRONG>
1999–2000 (Segunda Division)
MANAGER<\/U><\/STRONG>
Rio Ave<\/STRONG>
Taca de Portugal runner-up: 2013–14
Taca da Liga runner-up: 2013–14
Wolverhampton Wanderers
<\/STRONG>EFL Championship: 2017–18
INDIVIDUAL<\/U><\/STRONG>
La Liga Manager of the Month:<\/STRONG>
September 2014, December 2014, February 2015
EFL Championship Manager of the Month:
<\/STRONG>November 2017
LMA Manager of the Year:<\/STRONG>
2017–18 EFL Championship
Premier League Manager of the Month:<\/STRONG>
September 2018
University of Wolverhampton: Honorary Doctorate in Sport:<\/STRONG>
4 May 2019<\/P>","0284C3E6252CDEEA":"Nuno Herlander Simoes Espirito Santo","500D9C7B9500177D0E53F89F378715C8":"
During his career he first made a name for himself in Spain, playing for three teams in five years. He later returned to Portugal to represent Porto, and also played professionally in Russia; he was part of the Portuguese squad at Euro 2008, but never won a cap for the national team.
Espirito Santo became a manager in 2012, leading Rio Ave to both domestic cup finals in 2014 before taking the reins at Valencia.<\/P>","2C96C5176EAF712DA7D4D953D3793B1F":"Nuno Herlander Simoes Espirito Santo","761C3792446BE5ED2EFE4C1CAFC95D68":"1974-1-25","A9113A766E3C872ED6E5814BC86CB140":"188cm","3D9B31C67DFDD0FC8C73053EF2ADBD66":"
<\/U>
Football League First Division\/Premier League (first tier)
<\/STRONG>Highest placing: 3rd 1985–86
Football League Second Division\/Football League Championship (second tier)
<\/STRONG>Champions: 1957–58, 1980–81
Runners-up: 1922–23, 1990–91, 1992–93
Play-off Winners: 2005, 2012<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Champions: 1906–07
Section A Champions: 1906–07<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1964, 1975, 1980
Runners-up: 1923, 2006<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1964 (shared)
Runners-up: 1975, 1980<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1940<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1956
Runners-up: 1960<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1924–25, 1925–26, 1929–30, 1946–47, 1948–49, 1952–53, 1956–57, 1967–68, 1968–69<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1951, 1955 (Trophy shared), 1959
Runners-up: 1952, 1958<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1965
Runners-up: 1976
UEFA Europa Conference League<\/STRONG>
Winners (1): 2022–23<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1999<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Champions: 1963<\/P>","42B1B76A697DFC47":"26.89","9262149CB11F269E":"London","E4FAE8AE56FCFFF1DC7AFC02ACE5DEE8":"18","76E4AF6D9D682B9E33C3CEBB0A099E01":"","50DCDC085A8BF7E4518E56CD69FC7EB2":"62,500","729294714CECF588":"
Record League Win:<\/STRONG> 10-0 v<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>.Bury 1983
Record League Defeat:<\/STRONG> 2-8 v<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>.Blackburn Rovers 26\/12\/63
Top League Scorer In A Season:<\/STRONG> Vic Watson (42) Div. One 1929-30 <\/P>","B52BFE7EA0432304":"","937DE1BE2366A0DF":"http:\/\/www.whufc.com\/","6A881B134CC16CFA535D54FE36142BBC":"West Ham United F.C.","686A4807662B110DEF267ED94EA5AF8C":"Portugal","A7F9B63E25A659E5":"West Ham United F.C.","0357E9507AE48270":"1","e_index":1};