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Chelsea vs West Ham Preview
Monday night football returns with Chelsea hosting West Ham in a thrilling London derby. English Premier League | Monday 15 August | Stamford Bridge | 21:00 Chelsea will be desperate to banish the memory of last season under new manager
English Premier League Preview
The wait is over! Premier League football is back with some cracking opening round encounters. It’s back! The Premier League has finally returned to save us from our desperate attempts to make some money on international and friendly football.
Payet: I love West Ham and I’m staying
Dimitri Payet confirms that he will stay at West Ham despite rumours linking him away. (Picture: Twitter) West Ham fans can breathe a sigh of relief after Dimitri Payet committed his immediate future to the club. The creative midfielder
West Ham United Football Club is a professional football club located in Stratford, East London, England. The club competes in the Premier League and plays its home games at the London Stadium.
Founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks, the club was reformed as West Ham United in 1900 and moved to the Boleyn Ground in 1904, which served as its home for over a century.
West Ham was promoted to the top flight in 1923, the same year it became a losing finalist in the inaugural FA Cup final held at Wembley. In 1940, the club won the first Football League War Cup.
Throughout its history, West Ham United has secured five major honors. Domestically, it has won the FA Cup three times (in 1964, 1975, and 1980) and finished as runner-up twice (in 1923 and 2006).
In European competitions, the club has reached three major finals, winning the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1965, finishing as runner-up in 1976, and claiming victory in the second edition of the Europa Conference League in 2023.
West Ham United is one of eight clubs that have never fallen below the second tier of English football, having spent 66 of its 98 league seasons in the top flight up to and including the 2023–24 season.
Some of the notable players that have represented the Hammers include English defensive midfielder Declan Rice who left the team in 2022-23 to join Arsenal and French defender Kurt Zouma who is now in the book of Saudi Pro League side Al-Orobah on loan.
The club boast talented players including Michail Antonio, Lucas Paqueta, Mohammed Kudus, Edson Alvarez and Jarrod Bowen to name a few.