Fulham F.C.

Fulham Football Club is an English football club from London that currently plays in the Premier League in the 2022–23 season. It plays in a white shirt and black shorts for home games. For away games, it played in red shirts and white shorts in 2013/14, but has played in colours such as green, yellow or black. The team's away kit in 2014 is navy with orange sleeves. Shahid Khan owns the club. He is from the United States, and also owns the Jacksonville Jaguars, a famous NFL team.

 History 
The club was made in 1879 as Fulham St. Andrews. Lots of famous players used to play for Fulham, like Johnny Haynes (1950s), Bobby Moore (1970s), George Best (1970s) and Edwin van der Sar (2000s). Fulham have won one international tournament; the Intertoto Cup in 2003. They also were runner-up of the 2009-10 UEFA Europe League. They lost to Atletico Madrid in the final.

When Mohamed Al-Fayed bought Fulham in 1997, it was in the 3rd division of English football Football League One. He put lots of money into the club, and he made good choices about the club. The club won promotion two times, which means that in 2001 it was now in the top division of English Football, the Premier League. The club has been managed by Scott Parker since the 2020/21 season.

 Name 
 1879-1888 - Fulham St Andrew's Church Sunday School
 1888-present - Fulham F.C.

 Stadium 
Fulham's stadium is called Craven Cottage. It was built 100 years ago. It has a pretty building in one corner of the pitch, this is the "Cottage". The fans of Fulham like to call it "The Cottage", and it can have 27,000 people sitting in it.

From 2002 to 2004, Fulham had to play at Loftus Road, which is the ground of Queens Park Rangers, near the BBC headquarters. This was because the club needed to renovate Craven Cottage because of new rules. The rules said that nobody can stand at football games, so the club had to install new seats.

Some people who live near to Craven Cottage do not like having a big club near to them. They made it hard for the club to be allowed to make the changes. This is why the changes took a long time, even though it was easy work for the builders.

Because of the "Cottage", the club and its supporters are called "The Cottagers". 

 League position by season 
SeasonLeaguePosition2000/01First Division1st (Promoted)2001/02Premier League13th2002/03Premier League14th2003/04Premier League9th2004/05Premier League13th2005/06Premier League12th2006/07Premier League16th2007/08Premier League17th2008/09Premier League7th2009/10Premier League12th2010/11Premier League8th2011-12Premier League9th2012-13Premier League12th2013-14Premier League19th (Relegated)2014-15Championship17th2015-16Championship20th2016-17Championship6th2017-18Championship3rd (Promoted)2018-19Premier League19th (Relegated)

 Former position 

 Other websites 
 Fulham Website
 News about Fulham from the BBC (BBC)
 Pictures of Craven Cottage
 The outside of Craven Cottage 

Category:Premier League clubs
Category:1879 establishments in England