West Ham United

West Ham United Football Club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks FC and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. The team initially competed in the Southern League and Western League before joining the Football League in 1919. West Ham are known for being an "East End" club - one which plays on its reputation of being able to pull in crowds with lower budgets than other teams in London, and thus has traditionally been associated with blue-collar workers and families. 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 club have reached two major European finals, winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1965 and finishing runners-up in the same competition in 1976. West Ham also won the Intertoto Cup in 1999. They are one of eight clubs never to have fallen below the second tier of English football, spending 63 of 95 league seasons in the top flight, up to and including the 2020-21 season. The club's highest league position to date came in 1985–86, when they achieved third place in the then First Division.