List of West Ham United F.C. managers

Former player Kevin Keen has been caretaker manager twice; immediately prior to Zola's appointment in 2008 and after the sacking of Avram Grant in 2011.

[4][5] A player with West Ham's predecessor team Thames Ironworks, he continued to play for the newly formed club until 1903.

[7] Fenton's greatest achievement was in winning the Division Two championship in the 1957–58 season and thereby securing the club top flight football for the first time since 1932.

Seven of the West Ham 1964 FA Cup winning team had either been signed by Ted Fenton from other clubs, or had worked their way up from The Academy during his time as manager.

[13] During their exile from the top flight, on 10 May 1980 West Ham beat Arsenal in the FA Cup final, the last lower league side to do so.

Long serving Trevor Brooking and Frank Lampard both retired and Billy Bonds was struggling with the effects of first team football.

[13] Lyall again attempted to rebuild the team bringing Frank McAvennie from St Mirren and Mark Ward from Oldham Athletic.

However, they were unable to compete in the UEFA Cup because of the ban on English teams from European competition arising from the previous year's Heysel Disaster.

[14] Their replacements combined with the additions of Tommy McQueen, Gary Strodder, David Kelly, Allen McKnight, Liam Brady, Julian Dicks and the return of McAvennie in March 1989 failed to save West Ham from relegation in May 1989.

[17] Macari bought in new recruits in future regular players, Luděk Mikloško,[18] Trevor Morley,[19] Martin Allen[20] and Ian Bishop.

[26][27][28][29] New players Mike Small and Clive Allen were unable to provide the goals and the team finished bottom with only nine wins, only three after the turn of the new year.

With rumours of his old club, AFC Bournemouth being prepared to offer him a position [36] the West Ham board and their managing director, Peter Storrie made a controversial move.

[1] His time at West Ham was notable for the turnover of players during his tenure and for the level of attractive football and success which had not been seen since the managership of John Lyall.

[39] Some, however, were notably successful, such as the signings of Stuart Pearce,[40] Trevor Sinclair,[40] Paolo Di Canio,[40] John Hartson,[40] Eyal Berkovic[40] and Ian Wright.

[41] Some were expensive, international players who failed at West Ham, such as Florin Raducioiu,[40] Davor Šuker (who earned as much in wages as the revenue gained from one entire stand yet made only eight appearances),[39] Christian Bassila (who cost £720,000 and played only 86 minutes of football),[39] Titi Camara, Gary Charles (whose wages amounted to £4.4 million but made only three starts for the club),[39] Rigobert Song, Paulo Futre[40] and Marco Boogers[40] (a player often quoted as one of the biggest failures in the Premier League).

Redknapp used the transfer money poorly with purchases such as Ragnvald Soma (who cost £800,000 and played only seven league games), Camera and Song.

Numerous fall outs with Paolo Di Canio and a series of injuries to Frédéric Kanouté left the team with too few strikers.

[60] Pardew set out to rebuild the side bringing in Nigel Reo-Coker,[61] Marlon Harewood[62] and Brian Deane.

"[66] In the 2005–06 season, having signed striker Dean Ashton he guided them to ninth place and an FA Cup final where they were beaten on penalties by Liverpool.

[71] Pardew was acting more like a highly paid player than a manager by turning up for training driving an expensive Ferrari car and was boasting of his wealth having earned £1.5 million in bonuses in the previous season.

[77] He was also required to deal with the controversy caused under Pardew's managership by the signings of Argentine internationals Javier Mascherano and Carlos Tevez.

[77] West Ham maintained their Premier League status only on the last day of the season, with Tevez scoring the only goal at Old Trafford against Manchester United.

[82][83][84] Tevez left the club in the summer and Curbishley produced what he was renowned for; a comfortable mid-table finish of tenth place with a degree of stability in defence due to the performances of Lucas Neil[85] and Matthew Upson.

[88] His transfers dealings, particularly the reportedly club record £9 million fee paid for untried teenager Savio Nsereko,[91] had failed to enhance the team.

[108] In July 2013, co-chairman David Gold defended Allardyce's style of football, saying, "Sam could not be described as a pussy cat or a cute panda, someone you might want to pick up and give a big cuddle to and that is why he may be hard to love, but you cannot question the job he has done at West Ham.

"[111] His West Ham side had finished 12th in the League, one place higher than in 2013–14, but after a promising start to the 2014–15 season, poor results meant supporters had turned against him.

[115] Former Preston North End, Everton, Manchester United, Real Sociedad and Sunderland manager David Moyes was appointed as successor to Slaven Bilić on 7 November 2017.

[120] West Ham broke their transfer record twice under Pellegrini paying £36m for Felipe Anderson in 2018 and £45m for striker Sebastien Haller in 2019.

[127][128] West Ham won the competition the next year, beating Fiorentina 2-1 in the final in Prague, thereby qualifying for a third consecutive season of European football for the first time in their history.

Potter was appointed on an initial two-and-a-half year contract with his first game in charge being the FA Cup third round match against Aston Villa on 10 January.