Fulham F.C.
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Fulham Football Club is a
football team from
Fulham in south-west
London. Founded in 1879, they played at the same
Craven Cottage ground from 1896 to 2002, when they temporarily left for what was intended to be a complete rebuild of the stadium. Rebuilding plans fell through, and the club decided to convert Craven Cottage to an all-seater and return there for the 2004/05 season. Fulham will stay at Craven Cottage until they build a new ground.
They were first promoted to the First Division in 1949. In the mid
1960s Fulham were mainly a bottom half team, without winning any major honours. Although following 1968 two relegations in consecutive seasons at the end of the left them in the 3rd division, they were able to attract famous name players including
George Best (
1976-
1977) and
Bobby Moore (
1973-
1977). Despite an appearance in the
1975 FA Cup final, the club lost its way in the latter part of the 70s, ending up at the very lowest depths of the
football league.
Since the mid
90s, however, with the backing of multi-millionaire
Mohammed Al-Fayed, and the recent guidance of Jean Tigana Fulham has risen back through the divisions, and being promoted to the
FA Premier league, the top division of English football, for the
2001/02 season. It was announced that Tigana's contract would not be renewed towards the end of the 2002/2003 season, and the team were subsequently managed by former club captain,
Chris Coleman.
Over recent years Fulham have had shirt sponsorship deals from Deamon Internet, Pizza Hut, the online betting exchange Betfair and dabs.com.
Johnny Haynes played more games for Fulham than any other player.
History
All time league record
| Pld | : | 3434
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| W | : | 1289
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| D | : | 853
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| L | : | 1292
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| F | : | 5085
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| A | : | 4956
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Win Ratio : 38%
Previous grounds
2003-04 Squad
- 1 - Edwin van der Sar
- 2 - Moritz Volz
- 5 - Sylvain Legwinski
- 7 - Mark Pembridge
- 8 - Brian McBride
- 9 - Facundo Sava
- 10 - Lee Clark
- 11 - Luis Boa Morte
- 12 - Mark Crossley
- 13 - Ross Flitney
- 14 - Steed Malbranque
- 16 - Zat Knight
- 18 - Jerome Bonnissel
- 19 - Elvis Hammond
- 22 - Dean Leacock
- 24 - Alain Goma
- 25 - Malik Buari
- 28 - Zesh Rehman
- 29 - Sean Doherty
- 30 - Adam Green
- 31 - Darren Pratley
- 33 - Stuart Noble
- 34 - Carlos Bocanegra
- 35 - Ian Pearce
- 36 - FA Premier League 2004/05
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