west ham won the european cup in 2006.
west ham won the european cup in 2006.
when did west ham win the european cup?
2006
west ham started the competition against la gantoise, the first belgian side to play in this competition. in the opening game on 23 september 1964, west ham won 1–0 in belgium thanks to a headed ronnie boyce goal from an alan sealey corner. in the home leg, west ham fans paid record match receipts to see what was described as a "decrepit performance which brought jeers from the crowd". martin peters scored an own goal for la gentoise before johnny byrne scored an equalizer from a cross by johnny sissons in the second round, west ham drew czech side sparta prague. the first leg on 25 november contained considerable time-wasting by the czechs including four times when the ball was kicked clean out of the ground. the match was decided in the second half by a 25-yard shot from full-back, john bond, his first for three years and alan sealey, who scored after his shot had hit the post. in the second leg, on 9 december 1964, sissons put west ham 3–0 up on aggregate only for prague's gustáv mráz to score two late goals to finish the tie 3–2 in favour of west ham. the quarter-finals matched west ham against swiss side lausanne. in the first leg in switzerland, brian dear, playing in his first european game scored the first goal, byrne the second before lausanne scored in the 80th minute through robert hosp. the second leg, described as a "thrilling cup-tie" took place at the boleyn ground on 23 march 1965. two goals from dear, one from peters and an own goal from lausanne's ely tacchella gave west ham an aggregate 6–4 win. the lausanne goals were scored by pierre kerkhoffs, hertig and norbert eschmann. the semi-finals west ham played spanish side, real zaragoza. in the first leg in london, west ham scored two first-half goals through dear and byrne. they attempted to defend their lead in the second half by playing nine in defence but conceded a 55th goal scored by canário. the second leg in spain finished as a 1–1 draw with goals from sissons and zaragoza's carlos lapetra. zaragoza were denied three penalty appeals and blamed the referee for their defeat. the final against west german side 1860 munich was played at wembley on 19 may 1965 in front of 100,000 spectators. it has been described as "west ham's greatest moment". alan sealey scored in the 69th and 71st minute, the first from an "impossible angle" and the second after bobby moore's free-kick was not cleared by the munich defence. manager greenwood, in his 1984 book "yours sincerely", noted the significant roles played by sealey, dear and bobby moore in the final but also praised west ham's defence, particularly the efforts of goalkeeper jim standen and defender jack burkett.
west ham united f.c. in european football
winners of the 1980 fa cup, west ham a second division team, started another european campaign in the cup winners' cup. crowd violence broke out in the first-leg away in the bernabéu stadium to castilla in which one west ham fan was killed. west ham were ordered to play the return leg at least from upton park. after an appeal, they were allowed to play at home resulting in the playing of ""the ghost match"" behind closed doors in the return leg at upton park with no fans in attendance, resulting in an official attendance of 262, the club's lowest ever figure for a competitive first team match. 3–1 down from the first-leg, west ham won the second-leg 5–1, still their record score in european football with david cross scoring a hat-trick, west ham's only ever hat-trick in european competition. in the second round, west ham played romanian side poli timișoara. the first-leg in london resulted in a 4–0 win for west ham. goals for billy bonds, paul goddard, a ray stewart penalty and another for david cross gave them a strong lead ahead of the away leg. in romania, timisoara won 1–0 after phil parkes had let a dan păltinișanu shot bounce over his arm. west ham lost in the quarter-finals to eventual winners dynamo tbilisi. in the first leg in london, west ham lost 4–1. tbilisi's performance was described as "one of the finest many fans had seen". they were 2–0 ahead by half-time after goals by aleksandre chivadze, vladimir gutsaev and although david cross scored for west ham, ramaz shengelia scored twice for the soviets. in the away leg in tbilisi, west ham needed to score four goals which never looked likely. they won 1–0, in the lenin stadium, after an 88th-minute goal by stuart pearson, losing the tie 2–4 on aggregate.
west ham united f.c. in european football