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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

The Oldest London Club Currently Playing In EPL



Fulham Football Club is the oldest established football team from London currently playing in the Premier League.

The professional football club based in Fulham, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, southwest London was founded in 1879 as Fulham St Andrew's Church Sunday School F.C., they currently play in the English Premier League, and are in their 13th consecutive season in the division.
The club has spent twenty-four seasons in English football's top division, majority of that in two spells during the 1960s and 2000s.

Fulham have never won a major honour, although they have reached two major finals; In 1975, as a Second Division team, they played in the FA Cup final for the only time in their history, losing 2–0 to West Ham United. Fulham also reached the final of the 2010 Europa League against all odds, but lost to Atlético Madrid, 2–1 after extra time.

Fulham shortened their name from Fulham Excelsior to its present form in 1888, the club's first ever kits was half red, half white shirts with white shorts worn in the 1886–7 season.The club's first recorded all-white club kit came in 1903, and ever since then the club has been playing in all-white shirts and black shorts, with socks going through various evolutions of black and/or white, but are now normally white-only.

The club gained professional status on 12 December 1898, in the same year that they were admitted into the Southern League's Second Division. They were the second club from London to turn professional, following Arsenal F.C.

Fulham started playing at their current ground, Craven Cottage, in 1896, a ground on the banks of the River Thames in Fulham, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F.C
The training ground is located near Motspur Park, where the club's Academy is also situated.


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