Fulham Football Club

Fulham Football Club (pronounced /ˈfʊləm/) is an English professional football club based in Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they celebrated their 125th anniversary in 2004, and are in the top tier of English football, the Premier League. Fulham are the oldest professional football team in London, usually considered to have been founded in 1879 (though the semi-professional Cray Wanderers are the oldest team in London still in existence).^[2]

The club has spent twenty four seasons in English football's top division, the majority of that in two spells during the 1960s and 2000s. The latter spell was associated with millionaire chairman, Mohamed Al-Fayed, after the club had climbed up from League Two (then Division Three) in the 1990s. They have never won a major honour, though have reached two major finals. In 1975, as a Second Division team, they contested the FA Cup final for the only time in their history, losing 2–0 to West Ham United, the Fulham side that day containing former Hammers great Bobby Moore. In 2010, following their highest ever finish of 7th in the 2008-09 season, they reached the Europa League final, which is yet to be played, against Atletico Madrid in Hamburg.

The club has produced many British greats including Johnny Haynes, George Cohen, Bobby Robson, Rodney Marsh and Alan Mullery. They play at the historic Craven Cottage, their home since 1896, a riverside ground on the banks of the River Thames in Fulham, having spent two years at Loftus Road while Craven Cottage was undergoing renovations to bring it up to Premier League standards. The club's training ground is located near Motspur Park (and was where Chariots of Fire among others was filmed), where Fulham's Academy is also situated, including a mini-stadium where the reserves play. Fulham currently has a partnership agreement with the Boston Red Sox, an American baseball club .^[3] Their most memorable moment in recent history was on 18 March 2010 when they beat former European champions Juventus 4-1 in the Europa League to overturn a 3-1 aggregate deficit and progress to the quarter-finals of the competition.