West Ham United Football Club is an English football club founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks, and later reformed, in Upton Park, London Borough of Newham, East London, and have played their home matches at the 35,303 capacity Boleyn Ground stadium since 1904. The club 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. They have spent their entire league career in the top two divisions, have been FA Cup winners three times: in 1964, 1975 and 1980, in 1965, won the Cup Winners Cup in 1965 and in 1999 they won the Intertoto Cup.
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Also they have won the first War Cup in 1940. Their best final league position is third place in the 1985-86 First Division, and currently they hold the dubious distinction of being the only team to breach the 40 point boundary in a 38-game Premier League season and still be relegated in 2003. After finishing in 15th position in the 2006-07 season, the club currently competes in the Premier League. Their current manager is Alan Curbishley who was appointed on December 13, 2006 , and the captain is Australian Lucas Neill.