 West Ham United Football Club are an English football club based in Upton Park, East London, and have played their home matches at the 35,303 capacity Boleyn Ground stadium since 1904.The club was originally founded as Thames Ironworks F.C. in 1895 and later reformed, in 1900, as their current incarnation. They joined the full Football League in 1919 and enjoyed their first top flight season in 1923, also featuring in the first FA Cup Final to be held at Wembley. The club, who have spent their entire league career in the top two divisions, have been FA Cup winners three times and in 1999 they won the Intertoto Cup.The club's best final league position is third place in the 1985-86 First Division. West Ham currently holds the dubious distinction of being the only team to breach the 40 point boundary in a 38-game Premier League season and still be relegated (in 2003). |
