Six matches between the first and the nineteenth of September, four league wins stacked on top of each other, sixteen goals in those four wins alone, and it all ended with a 2-2 draw at The Den against Millwall that felt, after everything else, almost silent. West Ham's Championship season has moved at two different speeds, and only one of them has been fun.
The league run, in order: 2-2 at Burnley on 16 August; 1-2 at home to Charlton Athletic on the twenty-second; 1-1 at Watford on the twenty-ninth; 4-2 at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers on 1 September; 3-0 at home to Derby County on the fifth; 3-2 away at Bolton Wanderers on the eighth; 6-0 at home to Wrexham on the eleventh; 2-2 away at Millwall at The Den on the nineteenth. Read the middle four again — Wolves, Derby, Bolton, Wrexham — and that is where this season's voice was made.
Four straight league wins, sixteen goals scored in them — three of the wins at home and one, Bolton, out on the road. Start at the Charlton defeat, because it is the last one: 1-2 at home on 22 August, and the table's eight games hold one league defeat. This is it. In the rows since then: four wins and two draws, and the draws bookend that stretch — Watford away on 29 August and Millwall away on the nineteenth.
The Wrexham game on 11 September is the one that will be told loudest: 6-0 at home, six goals in a single afternoon, the biggest margin in these rows. It sat in the middle of a four-match spell that also carried Bolton away (3-2 on the eighth), the cup tie with Fulham (2-3 on the fifteenth) and the trip to Millwall (2-2 on the nineteenth). Four matches in twelve days, and the goals kept coming even when the results stopped landing.
The cup thread has run alongside all of it. Portsmouth at home on 8 August in the Carabao Cup, 3-1. Southampton away on the twenty-fifth, 4-1 — the home-first scoreline there reads 1-4 and the four were West Ham's. Then Fulham at the London Stadium on 15 September, 2-3 to the visitors, the second defeat at that ground this season after Charlton. Three cup ties, nine goals scored in them.
Wolves deserve a footnote while we are here. They were also the opponents of a cup night in August 2025 — a 2-3 defeat away in the Carabao Cup — and then turned up in the league on 1 September and took four. Some grudges resolve themselves inside twelve months.
Look at the ledger as a whole and the striking part is the volume: the table's line reads twenty-two scored and eleven conceded in eight league games. The goals-against column in the rows holds two clean sheets — Derby and Wrexham — and four games in which exactly two went in: Burnley, Charlton, Wolves and Millwall. Both defeats this season, across both competitions — Charlton at home in the league, Fulham at home in the cup — came at the same address, and both were by a single goal.
What the table says, plainly: Championship, eight played, four won, three drawn, one lost. Twenty-two scored, eleven against. Fifteen points from twenty-four. Second.
What comes next is not in these records. The competitions named for this club are the Championship, the Carabao Cup and a friendlies list, and what comes next in either competition is not written down here. What is written down is a fortnight of four wins and sixteen goals that only stopped for breath at The Den.
By the numbers — Championship: 2nd · 8 played · 4-3-1 · 22-11 · 15 pts · form WWWWD (oldest first). All data from ScoreCrowd's match records, retrieved 24 September 2026.