2025–26 West Ham United F.C. season

West Ham United

2025–26 season
Owners	David Sullivan (38.8%) Daniel Křetínský (27%) Vanessa Gold (25.1%) J. Albert "Tripp" Smith (8%) Other investors (1.1%)[1]
Co-chairman	David Sullivan and Vanessa Gold
Manager	Graham Potter
Stadium	London Stadium
Premier League	19th
FA Cup	Third round
EFL Cup	Second round
Home colours Away colours Third colours

The 2025–26 season is the 131st season in the history of West Ham United Football Club, and the club's fourteenth consecutive season in the Premier League. In addition to the domestic league, the club is also participating in the FA Cup and the EFL Cup.

West Ham started their season on 16 August at the Stadium of Light playing newly promoted Sunderland. After a goalless first-half, Sunderland’s Eliezer Mayenda opened the scoring on 61 minutes with a header past West Ham’s debut goalkeeper, Mads Hermansen. Dan Ballard added a second on 73 minutes and Wilson Isidor made it 3–0, the final score in the second minute of added-time.^[2]

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Ref.
1 July 2025[a]	CB	Jean-Clair Todibo	Nice	£32,800,000	[3][4]
1 July 2025	CF	Daniel Cummings	Celtic	Free	[5]
15 July 2025	LWB	El Hadji Malick Diouf	Slavia Prague	£19,000,000	[6][7]
20 July 2025	RB	Kyle Walker-Peters	Southampton	Free	[8]
2 August 2025	CF	Callum Wilson	Newcastle United		[9]
9 August 2025	GK	Mads Hermansen	Leicester City	£20,000,000	[10][11]

Expenditure: ~ £71,800,000

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Ref.
10 July 2025	RW	Mohammed Kudus	Tottenham Hotspur	£55,000,000	[12]
27 July 2025		Sean Moore	Shelbourne	Undisclosed	[13]
28 July 2025	DM	Patrick Kelly	Barnsley		[14]

Income: £55,000,000

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Date until	Ref.
22 July 2025	CF	Gideon Kodua	Luton Town	31 May 2026	[15]
25 July 2025	CB	Michael Forbes	Northampton Town		[16]
4 August 2025	GK	Mason Terry	Braintree Town		[17]
6 August 2025	CB	Kaelan Casey	Swansea City		[18]

Date	Pos.	Player	Subsequent club	Join date	Ref.
30 June 2025	AM	Kamarai Swyer	Northampton Town	1 July 2025	[19][20]
	LB	Aaron Cresswell	Stoke City	10 July 2025	[21][22]
	CF	Brad Dolaghan	Worthing	12 July 2025	[19]
	RB	Vladimír Coufal	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	5 August 2025	[21] [23]
	GK	Łukasz Fabiański			[21]
	CF	Danny Ings			[21]
	CB	Kurt Zouma			[19]
	CF	Michail Antonio			[24]

Date	Pos.	Player	Contracted until	Ref.
2 June 2025	RW	Elisha Sowunmi	Undisclosed[a]	[25]
2 July 2025		Andre Dike		[26]

On 17 June, West Ham announced a home pre-season friendly against Lille.^[27] A pre-season training camp in Switzerland and a fixture against Grasshopper was next to be confirmed.^[28]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

On 18 June, the Premier League fixtures were revealed, with West Ham away to Sunderland on the opening weekend.^[30]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

West Ham were drawn away to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the first round.^[33][34]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

As of match played 16 August 2025

Players with no appearances are not included on the list

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premier League		FA Cup		EFL Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	DEN	Mads Hermansen	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
3	DF	ENG	Maximilian Kilman	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
5	DF	MAR	Nayef Aguerd	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
8	MF	ENG	James Ward-Prowse	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
9	FW	ENG	Callum Wilson	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
10	MF	BRA	Lucas Paquetá	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
11	FW	GER	Niclas Füllkrug	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
12	DF	SEN	El Hadji Malick Diouf	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
20	FW	ENG	Jarrod Bowen	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
24	MF	ARG	Guido Rodríguez	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
25	DF	FRA	Jean-Clair Todibo	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
28	MF	CZE	Tomáš Souček	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
29	DF	COD	Aaron Wan-Bissaka	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
39	MF	SCO	Andy Irving	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0

As of match played 16 August 2025

As of match played 16 August 2025

No.	Pos.	Player	Premier League			FA Cup			EFL Cup			Total
3	DF	Maximilian Kilman	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals			1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0

As of match played 16 August 2025

The list is sorted by shirt number when total clean sheets are equal.