2005–06 West Ham United F.C. season

This is a complete list of appearances by members of the professional playing squad of West Ham United F.C. during the 2005-2006 season, in which they made a strong return to the Premier League following promotion and finished ninth.

They almost claimed their first major trophy since 1980 when they reached the FA Cup final and took a 2-0 lead against Liverpool in the first half, and despite a fightback by Liverpool, West Ham had a 3-2 lead with 90 minutes showing on the clock, only for Liverpool's Steven Gerrard to equalise one minute into injury time and force extra time. With the scores still level at the end of extra time, the match went to penalties and Liverpool won the game.

No.	Nat.	Player	Position	Lge Apps	Lge Gls	FAC Apps	FAC Gls	LC Apps	LC Gls	Tot Apps	Tot Gls	Date Signed	Previous Club
First XI (Most appearances)
34		Shaka Hislop	GK	16	-	7	-	2	-	25	-	29 July 2005	Portsmouth
2		Tomáš Repka	RB	19	-	1	-	2	-	22	'	14 September 2001	Fiorentina
3		Paul Konchesky	LB	36(1)	1	7	1	1	-	44(1)	2	5 July 2005	Charlton Athletic
4		Danny Gabbidon	CB	31(1)	-	2	-	-	-	38(1)	-	5 July 2005	Cardiff City
5		Anton Ferdinand	CB	32(1)	2	5	-	-	-	37(1)	2	14 December 2002	Academy
17		Hayden Mullins	CM	35	-	6	1	1	-	42	1	23 October 2003	Crystal Palace
15		Yossi Benayoun	RM	30(4)	5	6	-	-	-	36(4)	5	16 July 2005	Racing Santander
20		Nigel Reo-Coker	CM	31	5	7	-	-	-	38	5	22 January 2004	Wimbledon
25		Bobby Zamora	CF	17(17)	6	2 (5)	2	1	2	20(22)	10	2 February 2004	Tottenham Hotspur
10		Marlon Harewood	CF	31(6)	14	4 (1)	3	2	-	37(7)	16	25 November 2003	Nottingham Forest
11		Matthew Etherington	LM	33	2	7	1	-	-	40	3	4 August 2003	Tottenham Hotspur
Players with 10+ appearances
1		Roy Carroll	GK	19	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	15 June 2005	Manchester United
19		James Collins	CB	13(1)	2	3	-	2	-	18(1)	2	5 July 2005	Cardiff City
8		Teddy Sheringham	CF	15(11)	6	1 (2)	1 (1)	1	-	17(14)	7	14 July 2004	Portsmouth
2		Lionel Scaloni	RB	13	-	3(1)	-	-	-	16(1)		31 January 2006	On loan from Deportivo
9		Dean Ashton	CF	9 (2)	3	5	3	-	-	14(2)	6	23 January 2006	Norwich
26		Shaun Newton	RM	8(18)	1	1(1)	-	1 (1)	-	10(20)	1	10 March 2005	Wolves
7		Christian Dailly	D/CM	6(16)	-	2 (4)	-	2	1	10(20)	1	17 January 2001	Blackburn Rovers
6		Carl Fletcher	CM	6 (6)	1	1 (3)	-	0 (1)	-	7 (10)	1	31 August 2004	Bournemouth
Other players with appearances
24		Mark Noble	M	4 (1)	-	-	-	1	-	5 (1)	-	1 July 2003	Academy
22		Elliott Ward	CB	3 (1)	-	-	-	2	-	5 (1)	-	1 August 2001	Academy
21		David Bellion	CF	2 (6)	-	-	-	1 (1)	1	3 (7)	1	17 August 2005	Manchester United
23		Jimmy Walker	GK	3	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	10 June 2004	Walsall
30		Clive Clarke	LB	2	-	-	-	1	-	3	-	31 July 2005	Stoke City
18		Yaniv Katan	CF	2 (4)	-	0 (2)	-	-	-	2 (6)	-	3 January 2006	Maccabi Haifa
39		Jérémie Aliadière	CF	1 (6)	-	-	-	0 (1)	-	1 (7)	-	25 August 2005	Arsenal
35		Kyel Reid	M	1 (1)	-	-	-	-	-	1 (1)	-	1 July 2004	Academy
14		Chris Cohen	LB/LM	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	1 July 2003	Academy
16		Gavin Williams	M	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	December 2004	Yeovil
13		Stephen Bywater	GK	0 (1)	-	-	-	-	-	0 (1)	-	20 February 1998	Rochdale
29		Hogan Ephraim	M	-	-	-	-	0 (1)	-	0 (1)	-	1 July 2004	Academy
31		Tony Stokes	M	-	-	-	-	0 (1)	-	0 (1)	-	1 July 2005	Academy

Premier League

Matches

1 13 August 2003	West Ham United	3–1	Blackburn Rovers	London
	Sheringham  46' Reo-Coker  62' Etherington  80'	Report	Todd  18' Dickov  81'	Stadium: Boleyn Ground Attendance: 33,305 Referee: Alan Wiley

2 20 August 2005	Newcastle United	0–0	West Ham United	Newcastle-upon-Tyne
		Report	Konchesky  55'	Stadium: St. James' Park Attendance: 51,620 Referee: Dermot Gallagher

3	Everton	1–2	West Ham United	Liverpool
	Beattie  9'		Weir  19' (o.g.) Zamora  67'	Stadium: Goodison Park

4	West Ham	1–2	Bolton
	Sheringham  90' (pen.)		Nolan  59' Iván Campo  85'

5	West Ham	4–0	Aston Villa
	Harewood  25', 29', 50' Benayoun  89'

6	Fulham	1–2	West Ham
	Boa Morte  66'		Harewood  46' Warner  52' (o.g.)

7	West Ham	0–0	Arsenal

8	Sunderland	1–1	West Ham
	Miller  45'		Benayoun  72'

9	Manchester City	2–1	West Ham
	A. Cole  18', 56'		Zamora  90'

10	West Ham	2–1	Middlesbrough
	Sheringham  66' Queudrue  87' (o.g.)		Riggott  74'

11	Liverpool	2–0	West Ham
	Alonso  18' Zenden  82'

12	West Ham	1–0	West Bromwich
	Sheringham  57'

13	Tottenham	1–1	West Ham
	Mido  16'		Ferdinand  90'

14 27 November 2005	West Ham United	1–2	Manchester United	London
	Harewood  2'	Report	Rooney  47' O'Shea  56'	Stadium: Boleyn Ground Attendance: 34,755 Referee: Steve Bennett

15	Birmingham	1–2	West Ham
	Heskey  11'		Zamora  36' Harewood  45'

16	Blackburn	3–2	West Ham
	Dickov  56' (pen.) Kuqi  76'		Zamora  45' Harewood  63'

17	West Ham	2–4	Newcastle
	Solano  20' (o.g.) Harewood  73' (pen.)		Owen  5', 43', 90' Shearer  66'

18	Portsmouth	1–1	West Ham
	O'Neil  17'		Collins  56'

19	West Ham	0–2	Wigan
			Roberts  43' Camara  45'

20	Charlton	2–0	West Ham
	Bartlett  21' D. Bent  63'

21	West Ham	1–3	Chelsea
	Harewood  46'		Lampard  25' Crespo  61' Drogba  80'

22	Aston Villa	1–2	West Ham
	Hendrie  27'		Zamora  51' Harewood  60'

24	Arsenal	2–3	West Ham
	Henry  45' Pirès  89'		Reo-Coker  25' Zamora  32' Etherington  80'

25	West Ham	2–0	Sunderland
	Ashton  81' Konchesky  87'

26	West Ham	3–0	Birmingham
	Harewood  11', 63' Ashton  65'

27	Manchester United	1–0	West Ham
	van Nistelrooy  45'

28	West Ham	2–2	Everton
	Harewood  10' Ashton  23'		Osman  18' Beattie  71'

29	Bolton	4–1	West Ham
	Stelios  12', 33' Speed  45' Pedersen  81'		Sheringham  79'

30	West Ham	2–4	Portsmouth
	Sheringham  69' Benayoun  90'		LuaLua  19' Davis  25' Mendes  42' Todorov  77'

31	Wigan	1–2	West Ham
	McCulloch  45'		Harewood  52' Reo-Coker  90'

32	West Ham	0–0	Charlton

33	Chelsea	4–1	West Ham
	Drogba  28' Crespo  31' Terry  54' Gallas  69'		Collins  10'

34	West Ham	1–0	Manchester City
	Newton  15'

36	West Ham	1–2	Liverpool
	Reo-Coker  46'		Cissé  19', 54'

37	West Bromwich	0–1	West Ham
			Reo-Coker  42'

38	West Ham United	2–1	Tottenham Hotspur	London
	Fletcher  10' Benayoun  80'	Report	Defoe  35'	Stadium: Boleyn Ground Attendance: 34,970 Referee: Chris Foy

Top Scorers

• Marlon Harewood 14 (1)
• Teddy Sheringham 6 (1)
• Bobby Zamora 6
• Yossi Benayoun 5
• Nigel Reo-Coker 5

FA Cup

3rd Round

	Norwich	1–2	West Ham
	McVeigh  72' (pen.)		Mullins  6' Zamora  57'

4th Round

	West Ham	4–2	Blackburn
	Sheringham  33' (pen.) Etherington  39' Khizanishvili  59' (o.g.) Zamora  63'		Bentley  1' Neill  65'

5th Round

	Bolton	0–0	West Ham

	West Ham	2–1 (AET)	Bolton
	Jääskeläinen  10' (o.g.) Harewood  96'		K. Davies  31'

Quarter Final

	Manchester City	1–2	West Ham
	Musampa  85'		Ashton  41, 69'

Final

13 May 2006	Liverpool	3–3 (3–2 pen.)	West Ham	Cardiff
	Cissé  32' Gerrard  54', 90', pen.' Hamann  pen.' Riise  pen.'		Carragher  21' (o.g.) Ashton  28' Konchesky  64' Sheringham  pen.'	Stadium: Millennium Stadium Attendance: 71,140 Referee: Alan Wiley