| West Ham United |
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| Full name | West Ham United Football Club |
| Nickname(s) | The Hammers,
The Academy of Football |
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| Founded | 1895 as Thames Ironworks F.C. |
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| Ground | Boleyn Ground
Upton Park
Green Street
London, E13 9AZ
England |
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| Capacity | 35,567 |
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| Chairman |  Eggert Magnússon |
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| Manager |  Alan Curbishley |
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| League | Premier League |
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| 2006–07 | Premier League, 15th |
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West Ham United Football Club are an English football team based in West Ham, in the London Borough of Newham, and have played their home matches at the 35,146 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 initially competed in the Southern League and Western League before joining 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 has never fallen outside the top two divisions and has won the FA Cup three times: in 1964, 1975 and 1980, and also captured the now defunct Cup Winners Cup in 1965 and the Intertoto Cup in 1999. They also won the first War Cup in 1940. The club's best league position was a third place finish in 1986 old top flight. West Ham currently holds the distinction for being the only team in the history of the Premiership to breach the 40 point boundary and still be relegated (in 2003).
The club won promotion back to the Premier League for the 2005/06 season through the playoff system in the Coca Cola Championship (defeating Preston N.E.). In the 2005/06 season they finished in 9th place in the league table. In addition the club also progressed through to the FA Cup Final for the first time in twenty-six years where they lost on penalties to Liverpool after a 3-3 draw.
They are currently in the English Premier League after finishing 15th in the 2006/07 campaign The club's current manager is Alan Curbishley who was appointed on 13 December 2006.. The club's current captain is Australian Lucas Neill.
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