West Ham United F.C. Supporters

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. West Ham United F.C. supporters are the followers of the London-based West Ham United Football Club, who were founded as Thames Ironworks in 1895. There are 670,000 fans on the club's database and over 100,000 followers on Facebook. The club's website is in the top ten most visited football websites by people in the USA. Their fans are also associated with a once-notorious hooligan element and have long-standing rivalries with several other clubs, most notably Millwall.West Ham have a larger than average number of male fans.West Ham is the only club in the borough of Newham and a majority of fans in the borough support West Ham. Their home match average attendance over the last six seasons was in excess of 33,000 per season and despite finishing in bottom place in the Premier League for the 2010-11 season, their home attendance averaged 33,426, eleventh highest of all Premier League clubs. Traditionally West Ham fans are drawn from East London, Essex or Kent however there are fans clubs around the world notably in Barcelona, Tenerife, Serbia, Australia, and Scandinavia which has over 800 members.