Fulham F.C.
| Full name | Fulham Football Club | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | The Cottagers | |||
| Founded | 1879 (as St Andrews Cricket & Football Club)[1] | |||
| Ground | Craven Cottage | |||
| Capacity | 29,130[2] | |||
| Owner | Shahid Khan[3] | |||
| Chairman | Shahid Khan[3] | |||
| Manager | Marco Silva | |||
| League | Premier League | |||
| 2024–25 | Premier League, 11th of 20 | |||
| Website | fulhamfc | |||
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Fulham Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, West London, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1879, they have played home games at Craven Cottage since 1896. Fulham contest West London derby rivalries with Chelsea, Brentford and Queens Park Rangers. The club adopted a white shirt and black shorts as its kit in 1896, which has been used ever since.[4]
Founded in 1879, they are London's oldest professional football club.[5] They joined the Southern League in 1898 and won two First Division titles (1905–06 and 1906–07), as well as two Second Division titles and a Western League title. Elected into the Second Division of the Football League in 1907, Fulham would win the Third Division South in 1931–32, four years after being relegated. They won the Second Division title in 1948–49, though were relegated after three seasons. Promoted back to the First Division again in 1958–59, the form of star player Johnny Haynes helped Fulham to remain in the top-flight until consecutive relegations occurred by 1969. They were promoted in 1970–71 and went on to reach the final of the 1974–75 FA Cup.
Fulham drifted between the second and fourth tiers until being taken over by Mohamed Al-Fayed in 1997. They went on to win two divisional titles in three seasons to reach the Premier League by 2001. They won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2002 and were beaten in the 2010 final of the UEFA Europa League. However, 13 consecutive seasons in the top flight culminated in relegation in 2014. Since then, the club have moved between the first and second tiers under new owner Shahid Khan. Fulham changed divisions in five successive seasons between 2017–18 to 2021–22, being relegated after winning the 2018 and 2020 EFL Championship play-off finals. They then won the 2021–22 EFL Championship title, settling in the Premier League since 2022.
- ^ "History". Fulham F.C. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- ^ "Premier League Handbook 2022/23" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 July 2022.
- ^ a b "Welcome To Shahid Khan". Fulham F.C. 12 July 2013. Archived from the original on 14 July 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ "Fulham – Historical Football Kits". Historicalkits.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 June 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ 1879 according to the club history Archived 13 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine on the official website and 1886/7 "St Andrews-Fulham Fields". Archived from the original on 18 October 2009. Retrieved 27 July 2009. according to 'How a church's cricket and football club became Fulham Football Club' – Morgan Phillips 2007.