# 2021–22 West Ham United F.C. season

The 2021–22 season was the 127th season in existence of West Ham United Football Club and the club's tenth consecutive season in the top flight of English football. In addition to the domestic league, West Ham United participated in this season's editions of the FA Cup, EFL Cup and UEFA Europa League.

## Squad
### Season squad

| Squad no. | Player | Position(s) | Date of birth (age) |
| Goalkeepers |||||
| 1 | Łukasz Fabiański | GK | (1985-04-18)18 April 1985 (aged 37) |
| 13 | Alphonse Areola (on loan from Paris Saint-Germain) | GK | (1993-02-27)27 February 1993 (aged 29) |
| 25 | David Martin | GK | (1986-01-22)22 January 1986 (aged 36) |
| 35 | Darren Randolph | GK | (1987-05-12)12 May 1987 (aged 35) |
| Defenders |||||
| 3 | Aaron Cresswell | DF | (1989-12-15)15 December 1989 (aged 32) |
| 4 | Kurt Zouma | DF | (1994-10-27)27 October 1994 (aged 27) |
| 5 | Vladimír Coufal | DF | (1992-08-22)22 August 1992 (aged 29) |
| 15 | Craig Dawson | DF | (1990-05-06)6 May 1990 (aged 32) |
| 21 | Angelo Ogbonna | DF | (1988-05-23)23 May 1988 (aged 33) |
| 23 | Issa Diop | DF | (1997-01-09)9 January 1997 (aged 25) |
| 24 | Ryan Fredericks | DF | (1992-10-10)10 October 1992 (aged 29) |
| 26 | Arthur Masuaku | DF | (1993-11-07)7 November 1993 (aged 28) |
| 31 | Ben Johnson | DF | (2000-01-24)24 January 2000 (aged 22) |
| 50 | Harrison Ashby | DF | (2001-11-14)14 November 2001 (aged 20) |
| Midfielders |||||
| 8 | Pablo Fornals | MF | (1996-02-22)22 February 1996 (aged 26) |
| 10 | Manuel Lanzini | MF | (1993-02-15)15 February 1993 (aged 29) |
| 11 | Nikola Vlašić | MF | (1997-10-04)4 October 1997 (aged 24) |
| 16 | Mark Noble (C) | MF | (1987-05-08)8 May 1987 (aged 35) |
| 28 | Tomáš Souček | MF | (1995-02-27)27 February 1995 (aged 27) |
| 33 | Alex Král (on loan from Spartak Moscow) | MF | (1998-05-19)19 May 1998 (aged 24) |
| 41 | Declan Rice | MF | (1999-01-14)14 January 1999 (aged 23) |
| Forwards |||||
| 7 | Andriy Yarmolenko | FW | (1989-10-23)23 October 1989 (aged 32) |
| 9 | Michail Antonio | FW | (1990-03-28)28 March 1990 (aged 32) |
| 20 | Jarrod Bowen | FW | (1996-12-20)20 December 1996 (aged 25) |
| 22 | Saïd Benrahma | FW | (1995-08-10)10 August 1995 (aged 26) |
Last updated: 22 May 2022. Source: West Ham United F.C.

## Transfers
### Transfers in

| Date | Position | Player | From | Fee |
| 9 June 2021 | CB | Craig Dawson | Watford | £2,000,000 |
| 9 June 2021 | DM | Pierre Ekwah | Chelsea | Undisclosed |
| 9 June 2021 | LW | Thierry Nevers | Reading | Undisclosed |
| 1 July 2021 | LW | Armstrong Okoflex | Celtic | Free transfer |
| 3 August 2021 | GK | Brian Kinnear | Rangers | Free transfer |
| 28 August 2021 | CB | Kurt Zouma | Chelsea | £29,800,000 |
| 31 August 2021 | AM | Nikola Vlašić | CSKA Moscow | £33,500,000 |
| 4 January 2022 | CF | Callum Marshall | Linfield | Undisclosed |

### Loaned in

| Date from | Position | Nationality | Player | From | Date until | Ref. |
| 29 July 2021 | GK | | Alphonse Areola | Paris Saint-Germain | End of season | |
| 31 August 2021 | DM | | Alex Král | Spartak Moscow | End of season | |

### Loaned out

| Date from | Position | Player | To | Date until |
| 1 July 2021 | GK | Joseph Anang | Stevenage | 4 January 2022 |
| 22 July 2021 | GK | Nathan Trott | Nancy | End of season |
| 29 July 2021 | LW | Nathan Holland | Oxford United | End of season |
| 30 August 2021 | CF | Mipo Odubeko | Huddersfield Town | 4 January 2022 |
| 31 August 2021 | DM | Conor Coventry | Peterborough United | 5 January 2022 |
| 18 January 2022 | DM | Conor Coventry | Milton Keynes Dons | End of season |
| 20 January 2022 | CB | Gonçalo Cardoso | Real Betis | End of season |
| 27 January 2022 | CF | Mipo Odubeko | Doncaster Rovers | End of season |
| 28 January 2022 | GK | Joseph Anang | St Patrick's Athletic | End of season |
* ↑ On 4 January, Anang was recalled back from his loan spell at Stevenage.
* ↑ On 4 January, Odubeko was recalled back from his loan spell at Huddersfield Town.
* ↑ On 5 January, Coventry was recalled back from his loan spell at Peterborough United.

### Transfers out

| Date | Position | Player | To | Fee |
| 27 May 2021 | LW | Oladapo Afolayan | Bolton Wanderers | Free transfer |
| 30 June 2021 | CF | Sean Adarkwa | Queens Park Rangers | Released |
| 30 June 2021 | CB | Tunji Akinola | Partick Thistle | Released |
| 30 June 2021 | CB | Fabián Balbuena | Dynamo Moscow | Released |
| 30 June 2021 | CB | Sam Caiger | Ware | Released |
| 30 June 2021 | CM | Alfie Lewis | St Patrick's Athletic | Released |
| 30 June 2021 | CB | Joshua Okotcha | Hendon | Released |
| 1 July 2021 | GK | Daniel Jinadu | Barnsley | Free transfer |
| 16 July 2021 | LW | Felipe Anderson | Lazio | Undisclosed |
| 13 August 2021 | DF | Carlos Richards | Derby County | Free transfer |
| 31 August 2021 | RW | Xande Silva | Nottingham Forest | Undisclosed |
| 21 September 2021 | CB | Winston Reid | Mutual consent | Mutual consent |
| 31 January 2022 | CB | Frederik Alves | Brøndby | Undisclosed |

## Pre-season friendlies

As part of their pre-season preparations, West Ham United confirmed they would play friendly matches against Dundee, Leyton Orient, Northampton Town, Reading, Celtic, Brentford and Atalanta.

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Premier League | 15 August 2021 | 22 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 38 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 60 | 51 | +9 | 042.11 |
| FA Cup | 9 January 2022 | 2 March 2022 | Third round | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 066.67 |
| EFL Cup | 22 September 2021 | 22 December 2021 | Third round | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | +0 | 033.33 |
| UEFA Europa League | 16 September 2021 | 5 May 2022 | Group stage | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 56 | 25 | 11 | 20 | 84 | 64 | +20 | 044.64 |
Source: Soccerway

### Premier League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 5 | Arsenal | 38 | 22 | 3 | 13 | 61 | 48 | +13 | 69 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 6 | Manchester United | 38 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 57 | 57 | 0 | 58 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 7 | West Ham United | 38 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 60 | 51 | +9 | 56 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-off round |
| 8 | Leicester City | 38 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 62 | 59 | +3 | 52 | |
| 9 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 38 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 42 | 44 | −2 | 51 | |
* 1 2 Since the winners of the 2021–22 FA Cup and the 2021–22 EFL Cup, Liverpool, qualified for the Champions League, the spot given to the FA Cup winners (Europa League group stage) was passed to the sixth-placed team and the spot given to the League Cup winners (Europa Conference League play-off round) was passed to the seventh-placed team.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source:

#### Results by matchday

| Matchday | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | W | D | D | L | W | L | W | W | W | W | L | L | D | W | D | L | L | W | W | W | L | L | W | D | D | W | L | W | L | W | L | D | L | L | W | D | L |
| Position | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were revealed on 16 June 2021.

### FA Cup

The Hammers were drawn at home to Leeds United in the third round and away to Kidderminster Harriers in the fourth round.

### EFL Cup

Due to participation in UEFA competitions, the Hammers entered the competition in the third round and were drawn away to Manchester United and then Manchester City at home in the fourth round.

### UEFA Europa League
#### Group stage

West Ham were drawn against Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb, Belgian side Genk and Austrian side Rapid Wien in the group stage, with the fixtures being released a day later.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | WHU | DZA | RWI | GNK |
| 1 | West Ham United | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 13 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 |
| 2 | Dinamo Zagreb | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 10 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 0–2 | — | 3–1 | 1–1 |
| 3 | Rapid Wien | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 6 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 0–2 | 2–1 | — | 0–1 |
| 4 | Genk | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 5 | | 2–2 | 0–3 | 0–1 | — |

#### Knockout phase
##### Semi-finals
## Statistics

* Correct as of 22 May 2022

### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Premier League | Premier League | FA Cup | FA Cup | League Cup | League Cup | Europa League | Europa League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | POL | Łukasz Fabiański | 38 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | GK | FRA | Alphonse Areola | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 35 | GK | IRL | Darren Randolph | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||||
| 3 | DF | ENG | Aaron Cresswell | 42 | 2 | 31 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Kurt Zouma | 32 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | CZE | Vladimír Coufal | 34 | 0 | 25+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | ENG | Craig Dawson | 50 | 4 | 30+4 | 2 | 2+1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 2 |
| 21 | DF | ITA | Angelo Ogbonna | 11 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | FRA | Issa Diop | 26 | 1 | 10+3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6+1 | 1 |
| 24 | DF | ENG | Ryan Fredericks | 19 | 0 | 7+4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | COD | Arthur Masuaku | 21 | 1 | 6+7 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | ENG | Ben Johnson | 34 | 1 | 16+4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6+2 | 0 |
| 42 | DF | ENG | Aji Alese | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 50 | DF | SCO | Harrison Ashby | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 56 | DF | ENG | Emmanuel Longelo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 75 | DF | ENG | Jamal Baptiste | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||||
| 8 | MF | ESP | Pablo Fornals | 54 | 6 | 32+4 | 6 | 1+2 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 8+4 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ARG | Manuel Lanzini | 45 | 7 | 19+11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9+1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | CRO | Nikola Vlašić | 31 | 0 | 6+13 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | ENG | Mark Noble | 23 | 2 | 3+8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4+5 | 1 |
| 28 | MF | CZE | Tomáš Souček | 51 | 6 | 34+1 | 5 | 2+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9+2 | 1 |
| 33 | MF | CZE | Alex Král | 6 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 |
| 41 | MF | ENG | Declan Rice | 50 | 5 | 35+1 | 1 | 2+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 |
| 51 | MF | ENG | Daniel Chesters | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 59 | MF | ENG | Keenan Forson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 62 | MF | ENG | Freddie Potts | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 64 | MF | ENG | Sonny Perkins | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||||
| 7 | FW | UKR | Andriy Yarmolenko | 32 | 3 | 1+18 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 4+4 | 2 |
| 9 | FW | JAM | Michail Antonio | 47 | 13 | 34+2 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
| 20 | FW | ENG | Jarrod Bowen | 51 | 18 | 34+2 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 2+1 | 1 | 6+3 | 3 |
| 22 | FW | ALG | Saïd Benrahma | 49 | 11 | 26+6 | 8 | 1+1 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 4+8 | 3 |

### Goalscorers

* Correct as of 22 May 2022
| Rank | Pos | No. | Nat | Name | Premier League | FA Cup | EFL Cup | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | FW | 20 | | Jarrod Bowen | 12 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 18 |
| 2 | FW | 9 | | Michail Antonio | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| 3 | MF | 22 | | Saïd Benrahma | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 4 | MF | 10 | | Manuel Lanzini | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 | MF | 8 | | Pablo Fornals | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 5 | MF | 28 | | Tomáš Souček | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | MF | 41 | | Declan Rice | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | DF | 15 | | Craig Dawson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | FW | 7 | | Andriy Yarmolenko | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | DF | 3 | | Aaron Cresswell | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | MF | 16 | | Mark Noble | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | DF | 4 | | Kurt Zouma | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | MF | 11 | | Nikola Vlašić | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | DF | 21 | | Angelo Ogbonna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | DF | 23 | | Issa Diop | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | DF | 26 | | Arthur Masuaku | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | DF | 31 | | Ben Johnson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 60 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 85 |

### Clean sheets

The list is sorted by shirt number when total clean sheets are equal.
| Rnk | No. | Player | Premier League | FA Cup | EFL Cup | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | 1 | Łukasz Fabiański | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| 2 | 13 | Alphonse Areola | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| TOTALS | TOTALS | TOTALS | 8 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 17 |
Last updated: 8 May 2022. Source: premierleague.com