West Ham United Football Club

About

West Ham United Football Club is a English Premier League association football club based in Upton Park, Newham, East London. They have been members of the Premier League for all but three seasons since its creation in 1992, and their highest finish in the Premier League was Fifth in the 1998–99 season.

The club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks FC and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. In 1904 the club relocated to their current Boleyn Ground stadium. They initially competed in the Southern League and Western League before eventually joining the full Football League in 1919 and subsequently enjoyed promotion to the top flight for the 1923 season. 1923 also saw the club feature in the first FA Cup Final to be held at Wembley against Bolton Wanderers.

In 1940 the team won the inaugural Football League War Cup. The club have won the FA Cup three times: in 1964, 1975 and 1980 as well as being runners-up twice, in 1923 and 2006. In 1965, they won the European Cup Winners Cup, and in 1999 they won the Intertoto Cup. The club's best final league position is third place in the 1985–86 (old) First Division.

Three West Ham players were considered an important factor behind England's triumph in the 1966 World Cup. England's captain at the time was West Ham's Bobby Moore, and both goalscorers in the final were then current players Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters.

West Ham United Community Sports Trust

The West Ham United Community Sports Trust has been delivering services since the early 90s in east London and Essex, targeting some of the most depraved boroughs throughout the country.

The trust provides themed projects in Health and Wellbeing, Education and Lifelong Learning, Equality and Social Inclusion, which use the power of football and the West Ham United brand to motivate, empower and educate local communities.

The programmes the trust develops and delivers are specifically targeted to cater for the needs of the localities in which they operate. Given this approach, and since their work is so vast and diverse the scheme is rightly regarded as one of the most forward-thinking departments in the country.