10 Fun Facts About London Football Teams

Which London club, founded by Woolwich munitions workers in 1886, holds the record for most FA Cup wins?

The club began life as Dial Square, named after a workshop at the Royal Arsenal, and won its first match 6–0 in December 1886.

Which club did Gus Mears found in 1905 specifically to occupy Stamford Bridge?

The ground was an athletics venue first, and its record crowd of 82,905 came for a league match in October 1935.

In which year did the North London derby become a true rivalry, when one club moved north from Woolwich?

The two sides had first met in 1887 and had played each other in the Football League since 1909, but proximity turned the fixture bitter.

Which club, nicknamed the Hammers, was founded in 1895 as the works team of a Thames shipbuilder?

Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding built HMS Warrior, and the club moved into the former Olympic Stadium in Stratford in 2016.

Selhurst Park is the home ground for which London football club?

The club bought the former brickfield from a railway company for £2,750 in 1922, and the Lord Mayor of London opened the ground in August 1924.

Which London club became the first British side to win a European trophy, the 1963 Cup Winners' Cup?

Two years earlier they had become the first club of the 20th century to do the League and FA Cup double.

Craven Cottage is home to which club, London's oldest professional football club?

The club began in 1879 as a church Sunday school side, and the site was originally a royal hunting lodge.

Which South East London club, whose fans sing 'No one likes us, we don't care', is nicknamed the Lions?

The club moved to The Den in New Cross in 1910 and to its current stadium of the same name nearby in 1993.

Which London club played at a record near-20 grounds before settling at Loftus Road in 1917?

Even after settling they twice decamped to the White City Stadium in search of bigger crowds, in 1931–33 and 1962–63.

Which London football club is known by the nickname 'The Bees'?

The name came from a college chant of 'Buck up Bs!' that the press misheard in 1894–95; the club left Griffin Park for a new stadium in 2020.