West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stratford, East London. 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. 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 Hammers won the First Division title in 2011-12 and were promoted to the First League in 2012-13.
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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 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. 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. 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. They are one of eight clubs never to have fallen below the second tier ofEnglish football, spending 62 of 94 league seasons in the top flight, up to and including the 2019-20 season. They adopted their claret and sky blue colour scheme in the early 1900’s, with the most common iteration of a claret shirt and skyblue sleeves first emerging in 1904. The last ship built there was the dreadnought HMS Thunderer in 1912 and the yard shut soon after. In 1907, West Ham were crowned the Western League Division 1B Champions and defeated Fulham 1A–0 to become the Overall Champions. The reborn club continued to play their games at the Memorial Grounds in Upton Plow but moved to a pitch in the Upton Park area of the area in the area of Upton Park in the guise of the Bolyn Park Ground in the 1930s and 1940s.
They have a long-standing rivalry with Millwall and play at the London Stadium, having moved from their former home the Boleys Ground in 2016. The club have reached two major European finals, winning the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1965 and finishing runner-up in the same competition in 1976. They were also losing finalists in the first FA Cup Final held at Wembley in 1923, when they were also winning the inaugural Football League War Cup. They won the Intertoto Cup in 1999 and have won the League Cup four times, the most recent of which was in 2007. The first Premier League season saw the club win promotion to the top division for the first time in the history of the competition. The next season they were relegated to the Second Division, where they remained until the end of the 2010-11 season. The Hammers won the First Division title in 2011-12 and were promoted to the First League in 2012-13. They also won the FA League Cup in 2013-14 and 2014-15, as well as the FA Community Cup in 2014 and the FA Premier League in 2015-16. They play their home games at Upton Park, which is located in West Ham’s Upton Park neighbourhood, and Upton Park Stadium in Upton Park’s Uptonfield area in Upton, Upton Park.
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