West Ham United F.C.
association football club in London, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
West Ham United Football Club is an English football club.
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Full name | West Ham United Football Club | |||
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Nickname(s) | The Irons/The Hammers | |||
Founded | 1895 | |||
Ground | London Stadium | |||
Capacity | 60,000 | |||
Chairman | David Sullivan | |||
Manager | David Moyes | |||
League | Premier League | |||
2021–22 | Premier League, 7th of 20 | |||
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The club plays in the Premier League. It was started in 1895 and its home stadium is the London stadium East London. The club is also called "the Hammers" and "the Irons" because it was started in a London Ironworks. Their main rivals are Millwall and other rivals are Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Arsenal
West Ham currently are managed by David Moyes, their former care-taker manager for the 2017/18 season in Premier League.
Joint chairman David Gold has died aged 87 on 4 January 2023.