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This article lists records and statistics associated with West Ham United.

Team records

Scoring records

• Biggest victory: 10–0 v Bury, Football League Cup (25 October 1983)
• Biggest league win: 8–0 v Rotherham United (8 March 1958), and v Sunderland (19 October 1968)
• Biggest defeat: 0–7 v Barnsley (1 September 1919), v Everton (22 October 1927), and v Sheffield Wednesday (28 November 1959)

League sequences

• Wins: 9 (19 October to 4 December 1985)
• Draws: 5 (7 September to 5 October 1968, and 15 October to 1 November 2003)
• Defeats: 9 (28 March to 29 August 1932)

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Goalscorers

Leading first class goalscorers

Rank	Nat.	Player	West Ham Career	Total Goals
1		Vic Watson	1920–1935	326
2		Geoff Hurst	1959–1972	252
3		John Dick	1953–1962	166
		Jimmy Ruffell	1921–1937	166
5		Tony Cottee	1983–1988 1994–1996	146
6		Johnny Byrne	1961–1967	107
7		Pop Robson	1970–1974 1976–1979	104
8		Trevor Brooking	1967–1984	102
9		Malcolm Musgrove	1953–1963	100
		Martin Peters	1962–1970	100

Other top goalscorers

Rank	Nat.	Player	West Ham Career	First Class Goals	Sth. League Goals	War-time Goals	Total Goals
1		George Foreman	1939–1946	1		187	188
2		Danny Shea	1908–1913 1920–1921	1	121	64	186
3		Billy Grassam	1900–1903 1906–1909		68		68
4		Dick Leafe	1913–1922	7	37		44
5		Harry Stapley	1905–1908		41		41
6		Herbert Ashton	1908–1918		25	11	36
7		George Hilsdon	1904–1905 1912–1915		35		35
8		George Webb	1908–1912		32		32
9		Fred Blackburn	1905–1913		28		28
		Richard Dunn	1939–1948	2		26	28

Top goalscorers by season

For a list of top scorers by season see List of West Ham United F.C. seasons.

Penalty shoot-outs

Competitive

Friendly

Honours

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European

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
  • Winners: 1964–65
  • Runners-up: 1975–76
• UEFA Europa Conference League
  • Winners: 2022–23
• UEFA Intertoto Cup
  • Winners: 1999
• Anglo-Italian League Cup
  • Runners-up: 1975

Domestic

Leagues

• First Division/Premier League (Tier 1)
  • Highest placing: 3rd, 1985–86
• Second Division/Championship (Tier 2)
  • Champions (2): 1957–58, 1980–81
  • Runners-up: 1922–23, 1990–91, 1992–93
  • Play-off winners: 2005, 2012
  • Play-off runners-up: 2004

Cups

• FA Cup
  • Winners (3): 1963–64, 1974–75, 1979–80
  • Runners-up: 1922–23, 2005–06
• EFL Cup/Football League Cup
  • Runners-up: 1965–66, 1980–81
• FA Community/Charity Shield
  • Winners: 1964 (shared)
  • Runners-up: 1975, 1980
• Football League War Cup
  • Winners: 1939–40

Other

• Southern League Division One:
  • Highest placing: 3rd, 1912–13
• Southern League Division Two
  • Champions: 1898–99
• Western League:
  • Champions: 1906–07
• London League:
  • Champions (2): 1897–98, 1901–02
  • Runners-up: 1896–97, 1902–03
• Southern Floodlit Cup:
  • Winners: 1956
  • Runners-up: 1960
• London Challenge Cup
  • Winners (9): 1925, 1926, 1930, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1968, 1969
• Essex Professional Cup:
  • Winners (3): 1951, 1955 (shared), 1959
  • Runners-up: 1952, 1958

• Southern Charity Cup
  • Runners-up: 1902
• West Ham Charity Cup
  • Winners: 1896
  • Runners-up: 1897
• Norfolk & Norwich Hospital Cup
  • Winners: 1924
  • Runners-up: 1925

Wartime

• London Combination:
  • Champions: 1916–17
  • Runners-up: 1915–16 (Supplementary Tournament), 1917–18
• Regional League South:
  • Runners-up: 1939–40, 1940–41
• London League:
  • Runners-up: 1943–44, 1944–45

Indoor

• London Fives
  • Winners: 1967, 1970, 1984
  • Runners-up: 1955, 1957, 1960, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1981

International

• International Soccer League
  • Winners: 1963
• American Challenge Cup
  • Runners-up: 1963

Friendly

• Bobby Moore Cup:
  • Winners: 2008
• SBOBET Cup:
  • Winners: 2010
• Ciutat de Barcelona Trophy:
  • Winners: 2013
• Betway Cup:
  • Winners: 2018, 2021

Other awards

• BBC Sports Personality of the Year Team Award: 1965
• Honorary Degree (awarded to the club) in 2009 by the University of East London

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