Scoring records

• Biggest victory: 10–0 v Bury
  Bury F.C.
  Bury Football Club is an association football team based in Bury, Greater Manchester. The team currently play in League One. The club's nickname is The Shakers which was bestowed upon them by club chairman JT Ingham, an industrialist and ironmonger of the late 1890s.-Formation of the club and the...
  
   - Football League Cup
  Football League Cup
  The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup or, from current sponsorship, the Carling Cup, is an English association football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played on a knockout basis...
  
   25 October 1983
• Biggest league win: 8–0 v Rotherham United 8 March 1958, and v Sunderland
  Sunderland A.F.C.
  Sunderland Association Football Club is an English association football club based in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear who currently play in the Premier League...
  
   19 October 1968
• Biggest defeat: 0–7 v Barnsley
  Barnsley F.C.
  Barnsley Football Club are a professional English football club based in the town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Nicknamed the Tykes, they were founded in 1887 under the name Barnsley St. Peter's...
  
   1 September 1919, v Everton
  Everton F.C.
  Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...
  
   22 October 1927, and v Sheffield Wednesday 28 November 1959

League sequences

• Wins: 9 (19 October to 4 December 1985)
• Draws: 5 (7 September to 5 October 1968, and 15 October to 1 November 2003)
• Defeats: 9 (28 March to 29 August 1932)

Leading first class goalscorers

• As of 2nd April 2011
• Current players in bold.

  		Player	West Ham Career	1st Class Gls	Sth. Lge. Gls	War-time Gls	Total Gls	Gls per Game
  1		Vic Watson Vic Watson Victor Martin Watson was an English footballer who played most of his club football for West Ham United....	1920–1935	326			326	65%
  2		Geoff Hurst Geoff Hurst Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst MBE is a retired England footballer best remembered for his years with West Ham. He made his mark in World Cup history as the only player to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final. His three goals came in the 1966 final for England in their 4–2 win over West...	1959–1972	252			252	50%
  3		John Dick	1953–1963	166			166	47%
  =		Jimmy Ruffell Jimmy Ruffell Jimmy Ruffell was an English footballer who played for West Ham United.Ruffell was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, but moved south at an early age...	1921–1937	166			166	30%
  5		Tony Cottee Tony Cottee Anthony Richard "Tony" Cottee is a former football player who now works as a television football commentator...	1983–1988 1994–1996	146			146	43%
  6		Johnny Byrne Johnny Byrne (footballer) John Joseph "Budgie" Byrne was an English professional football player.Johnny started his career playing for Epsom Town, and then Guildford City Youth, before moving to Football League club Crystal Palace, signing a professional contract on his 17th birthday...	1961–1967	107			107	52%
  7		Pop Robson	1970–1974 1976–1979	104			104	41%
  8		Trevor Brooking Trevor Brooking Sir Trevor David Brooking CBE is a football player turned manager, on-air analyst, and administrator.Brooking attended Ripple Infants School and left Ilford County High School with 11 O-levels and 2 A-levels....	1967–1984	102			102	16%
  9		Malcolm Musgrove Malcolm Musgrove Malcolm Musgrove was an English football player and manager.Musgrove played for his local side, Lynemouth Colliery, before being called up for national service, which he served in the Royal Air Force...	1953–1963	100			100	32%
  =		Martin Peters Martin Peters Martin Stanford Peters, MBE is a former football player and member of the victorious England team which won the 1966 World Cup as well as playing in the 1970 FIFA World Cup....	1962–1970	100			100	27%
  11		David Cross David Cross (footballer) David Cross is an English former footballer who played as a striker. He scored 223 goals in 599 appearances in the Football League and the North American Soccer League. Cross was born in Heywood, Lancashire.-Football career:...	1977–1982	97			97	43%
  12		Ray Stewart Ray Stewart (footballer) Raymond "Ray" Strean McDonald Stewart is a former Scottish international footballer of the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. During his career he played for Dundee United, West Ham United, St...	1979–1991	84			84	19%
  13		Syd Puddefoot Syd Puddefoot Sydney Charles Puddefoot was a footballer who played as a forward for West Ham United...	1912–1921 1931–1933	72	35	100	207	67%
  14		Trevor Morley Trevor Morley Trevor Morley is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker.-Playing career:Morley played for Northampton Town, having previously seen non-league football with Corby Town and Nuneaton Borough...	1989–1995	70			70	33%
  15		Paul Goddard Paul Goddard Paul Goddard is a former professional footballer and football manager.During his playing career, he gained caps for England U21s and earned a single full cap for the England team against Iceland in June 1982...	1980–1987	69			69	33%
  16		Vivian Gibbins Vivian Gibbins William Vivian Talbot Gibbins was an English amateur footballer who played as a striker....	1923–1932	63			63	46%
  17		Julian Dicks Julian Dicks Julian Andrew Dicks , is a retired football player and manager, last attached to Isthmian League Division One North club Grays Athletic.-Playing career:...	1988–1993 1994–1998	61			61	19%
  =		Bill Robinson Bill Robinson (footballer) Bill Robinson was a professional footballer who played as a centre forward for Sunderland, Charlton Athletic and West Ham United....	1948–52	61			61	58%
  19		Frank McAvennie Frank McAvennie Francis "Frank" McAvennie is a former Scottish football striker best known as a player with West Ham United and Celtic, having had two spells with both of these clubs.-Early life:...	1985–1987 1989–1992	60			60	31%
  20		Billy Bonds Billy Bonds William Arthur "Billy" Bonds MBE is a former professional footballer and manager, who is most often associated with West Ham United with whom he spent 27 years as player and manager...	1967–1988	59			59	7%
  21		Clyde Best Clyde Best Clyde Cyril Best MBE is a Bermudian former football player who most notably played as a striker for West Ham United, and was one of the first black players in British football...	1969–1976	58			58	27%
  =		Stan Earle Stan Earle Stanley George James Earle was an English footballer who played as a forward....	1924–1932	58			58	21%
  23		Jackie Morton Jackie Morton John "Jackie" Morton was an English professional footballer who played as a forward for West Ham United.Morton was born in Sheffield and made 275 appearances and scored 57 goals for the east London club until 1939, having signed from Gainsborough for £600 in 1931...	1931–1939	57			57	21%
  24		Len Goulden Len Goulden Leonard Arthur Goulden was an English footballer. His son Roy was also a footballer.-Playing career:Born in Hackney, London, Goulden began his career with Chelmsford City, before moving to Leyton and then West Ham United in 1933...	1933–1945	55		77	132	29%
  =		Marlon Harewood Marlon Harewood Marlon Anderson Harewood is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Guangzhou R&F in China.Harewood started his career at Nottingham Forest. During his career there, he had loan spells at Haka and Ipswich Town before joining West Ham United in 2003 and then Aston Villa in 2007...	2003–2007	55			55	34%
  26		Jim Barrett, Sr. Jim Barrett, Sr. James William Barrett was an English footballer who played for West Ham United.Born in Stratford, London, Barrett began playing football at the city's Park School, after moving from Abbey School because it lacked a team...	1924–1943	53		15	68	13%
  =		John Sissons John Sissons (footballer) John Sissons is an English former footballer who played for West Ham United, Sheffield Wednesday, Norwich City and Chelsea....	1962–1970	53			53	20%
  28		Terry Woodgate Terry Woodgate John Terence Woodgate was an English footballer who played for West Ham United and Peterborough United.Terry was born in East Ham, London....	1938–1953	52		22	74	21%
  29		Paolo Di Canio Paolo Di Canio Paolo Di Canio is a Italian former professional footballer and current manager of League Two side Swindon Town. Di Canio made over 500 league appearances and scored over 100 league goals as a player....	1999–2003	51			51	40%
  =		Tommy Yews Tommy Yews Thomas Peace Yews was an English footballer, playing as a winger.Yews was born in Wingate, County Durham and joined West Ham United from Hartlepool United for a fee of £150 in 1923....	1923–1933	51			51	14%

Other top goalscorers

		Player	West Ham Career	1st Class Gls	Sth. Lge. Gls	War-time Gls	Total Gls	Gls per Game
1		George Foreman	1939–1946	1		187	188	80%
2		Danny Shea Danny Shea (footballer) Danny Shea was a footballer who played as an inside-forward.-West Ham United:Born in Wapping, England, Shea played for the Builders Arms pub in Stratford, as well as other local teams Pearl United and Manor Park Albion, when he was discovered by West Ham United boss Charlie Paynter...	1908–1913 1920–1921	1	121	64	186	64%
3		Billy Grassam Billy Grassam William "Billy" Grassam was a Scottish footballer. His regular position was as a forward.-Playing career:...	1900–1903 1906–1909		68		68	38%
4		Dick Leafe Dick Leafe Richard 'Dick' Leafe was a professional footballer who played as a forward.-Career:Leafe played for Boston Town, Grimsby Town, Sheffield United and West Ham....	1913–1922	7	37		44	42%
5		Harold Stapley Harold Stapley Harold "Harry" S. Stapley was an English football player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, where he scored 6 goals....	1905–1908		41		41	55%
6		Herbert Ashton Herbert Ashton Herbert Ashton was an English football player who played for Accrington and West Ham United.-Career:Nicknamed 'Tiddler', Ashton started his footballing career with Accrington where he helped them win the Lancashire Combination league in 1905–06...	1908–1918		25	11	36	11%
7		George Hilsdon George Hilsdon George Richard Hilsdon was a footballer who began his career at West Ham United, making his debut in the 1903-04 season. His brother Jack Hilsdon also played for West Ham at this time...	1904–1905 1912–1915		35		35	36%
8		George Webb	1908–1912		32		32	52%
9		Fred Blackburn Fred Blackburn (footballer) Frederick Blackburn was an English footballer.Fred Blackburn played for his home-town club of Blackburn Rovers, playing as an outside left, and featured for the team at the age of 17....	1905–1913		28		28	12%
=		Richard Dunn	1939–1948	2		26	28	12%
10		Dan Bailey	1912–1921	10	16	1	27	28%
=		Lionel Watson	1905–1908		27		27	34%

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