West Ham fans will want to forget 2024 ever happened.
After a hugely successful 2023, we went into the following year with so much optimism. We were 6th in the Premier League, had enjoyed our best-ever start to a top-flight season and had just beaten Arsenal and Manchester United.
It was a really exciting time.
In 2023, West Ham played 59 games in all competitions, winning 32, drawing nine and losing 18. We scored 97 goals and conceded 80.
For wins, it was the most we’d achieved in a calendar year since 1980 when we won 37 games. We scored the most goals in a calendar year since 1980 when we scored 106.
At home, we won 17 games. That was our best home record since 2004 (19 home wins).
And of course, we won our first trophy since 1980.
So 2023 was incredible.
But in 2024, it was the complete opposite.
Of the 46 games we played in all competitions, we won just 12. That was the fewest wins in a calendar year since 2010 (11). We lost 20 times, the most since 2022 (23) and conceded 90 goals, the most since 1967 (101). That’s 57 years since we conceded so many goals in an entire calendar year.
We slipped from 6th in the Premier League to 13th, missing out on European qualification for the first time in four years, and are now looking more like a mid-to-lower table side than a club pushing at the top end of the Premier League.
It has been a catastrophic fall from grace in 2024.
But in 2025 we have an opportunity to put things right and push forward once again. Will we do that? No one really knows. It doesn’t look likely at the moment but you never know with West Ham, do you?
