Formations

How West Ham have done with each formation, and against each one the opponent used. Men's matches from 2016/17.

Based on 479 matches, 15 Aug 2016 to 7 Nov 2026, league and cup. Formations are recorded for men's matches from 2016/17.

West Ham's formation

We played	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts/game
4-2-3-1	209	84	41	84	311	336	1.40
3-4-2-1	56	17	12	27	62	87	1.13
4-1-4-1	48	17	18	13	70	63	1.44
4-4-2	36	16	5	15	63	51	1.47
4-3-3	27	13	4	10	45	28	1.59
4-4-1-1	27	11	5	11	49	45	1.41
3-4-3	20	9	5	6	27	27	1.60
3-4-1-2	18	7	4	7	27	28	1.39
3-5-2	10	3	2	5	13	15	1.10
5-4-1	7	2	2	3	13	10	1.14
5-3-2	5	2	1	2	3	6	1.40
3-5-1-1	5	1	2	2	8	9	1.00
3-1-4-2	3	2	0	1	5	2	2.00
4-5-1	3	0	2	1	3	6	0.67
4-3-1-2	2	0	0	2	2	6	0.00
4-3-2-1	2	0	1	1	1	2	0.50
4-2-2-2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0.00

Greyed rows are fewer than five matches, too few to read much into.

They played	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts/game
4-2-3-1	165	58	42	65	249	257	1.31
4-3-3	94	30	22	42	130	168	1.19
4-4-2	49	23	11	15	70	62	1.63
3-4-2-1	39	16	8	15	56	47	1.44
4-4-1-1	24	10	7	7	37	29	1.54
4-1-4-1	20	5	4	11	29	43	0.95
3-5-2	19	10	2	7	26	23	1.68
4-3-1-2	12	6	1	5	14	17	1.58
3-4-3	12	5	3	4	18	10	1.50
5-3-2	9	6	1	2	20	12	2.11
3-4-1-2	6	3	0	3	7	5	1.50
3-5-1-1	6	3	1	2	9	6	1.67
4-3-2-1	6	3	0	3	9	9	1.50
4-5-1	6	2	1	3	7	10	1.17
4-2-2-2	4	2	0	2	10	7	1.50
5-4-1	3	1	0	2	5	7	1.00
3-1-4-2	2	1	0	1	4	3	1.50
3-2-4-1	2	0	0	2	1	6	0.00
4-1-3-2	1	0	1	0	1	1	1.00

Greyed rows are fewer than five matches, too few to read much into.

Season	Most used	Times	Of	W–D–L with it
2026/27	4-4-2	9	18	4–2–3
2025/26	4-2-3-1	12	43	2–5–5
2024/25	4-2-3-1	15	41	4–3–8
2023/24	4-2-3-1	41	53	18–9–14
2022/23	4-2-3-1	26	57	11–1–14
2021/22	4-2-3-1	46	56	23–11–12
2020/21	4-2-3-1	26	44	16–4–6
2019/20	4-2-3-1	13	41	4–3–6
2018/19	4-1-4-1	19	43	10–5–4
2017/18	3-4-2-1	16	41	5–5–6
2016/17	4-2-3-1	13	42	2–3–8

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