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Fulham

Fulham Football Club are an English football team based in Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they celebrated their 125th anniversary in 2004, and they are in the top tier of English football, the FA Premier League. Fulham are the oldest professional football team in London, usually considered to have been founded in 1879 (though Cray Wanderers F.C. are the oldest team in London still in existence).[3]

They spent much time in the old First Division (Premiership) through the 1960s, but are yet to gain any major honours. In 1975, as a Second Division team, they contested the FA Cup final for the only time in their history, losing 2-0 to West Ham United. Fulham qualified for the UEFA Cup in 2002 by winning the Intertoto Cup, beating Bologna 5-3 in the final over two legs. In the UEFA Cup, they won through two rounds before being defeated by Hertha Berlin. In the mid-1990s they had a brief spell in the former Fourth Division, but they recovered spectacularly by the early 2000s.

They currently play at Craven Cottage, their famous home since 1896, a riverside ground on the banks of the River Thames in Fulham, having spent two years at Loftus Road while Craven Cottage was undergoing renovations to bring it up to Premier League standards. The club's training ground is located near Motspur Park (and was where Chariots of Fire among others was filmed) (Sydney Charles Wooderson set the then world mile record of 4min 6.4sec at Motspur Park's University of London Athletics ground on August 28, 1938. It was knocked down by the club), where Fulham's Academy is also situated, including a mini-stadium where the reserves play.

Full name: Fulham Football Club
Nickname(s): The Cottagers, The Whites[1]
Founded: 1879
Ground: Craven Cottage, Fulham, London. Capacity 26,600.
Chairman: Mohamed Al-Fayed
Manager: Lawrie Sanchez
League: FA Premier League
2006–07 Premier League Position: 16th