Craven Cottage is the name of a football stadium located in Fulham, London, and has been the home ground of the association football team Fulham F. C.

The board seem to have moved away from their grandiose ideas of making Fulham the " Manchester United of the south " as Al-Fayed has come to realise how expensive it is to subsidise a Premiership outfit.

Fulham previously announced in 2007 that they are planning to increase the capacity of Craven Cottage by 4000 seats, but this is yet to be implemented.

It is home to the more vocal, deafening Fulham fans, and many stand during games at the back rows of the stand.

There is a large permanent banner in the river corner which proudly states " We Are Fulham ".

The end of the Riverside Stand towards the ' Smithy ' End ' indicates the end of the ' Fulham Wall ', which is the mile post in The Boat Race.

Chelsea Football Club () is an English football club based in Fulham, London.

Fulham Football Club () is a professional football club based in Fulham, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, southwest London.

When he rejected an offer from businessman Gus Mears to move Fulham to land where the present-day Chelsea stadium Stamford Bridge is situated, Mears decided to create his own team to occupy the ground.

In the third season of what is now considered the modern era of football, Fulham finished top of the Second Division, with a win-loss-draw record of 24 – 9 – 9 ( identical to that which won them the Third Division South seventeen years previously ).

To the south is Fulham Road, which connects South Kensington with Fulham to the southwest.

The borough is immediately to the west of the City of Westminster, which is at the heart of modern London, and to the east of Hammersmith & Fulham, and itself contains a substantial number of city centre facilities such as major museums and universities ( in " Albertopolis "), department stores like Harrods, Peter Jones and Harvey Nichols, is home to the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's largest carnival, and several Embassies in its Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Kensington Gardens districts.

The far west of Putney is also served by Barnes Station, a few hundred yards across the boundary in Barnes, while Putney Bridge tube station is across the river in Fulham.

White City is a district in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, to the north of Shepherd's Bush.

Wormwood Scrubs, known locally as The Scrubs, is an open space located in the north-eastern corner of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London.

This site is currently being managed by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in collaboration with Groundwork UK.

The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham () is a London borough in West London, and forms part of Inner London.

Owing to its location next to a main road and two railway lines, fans can only enter the ground via the Fulham Road exits, which places constraints on expansion due to health and safety regulations.

' Heggy ' Hegazi, an Egyptian forward, was one of the first non-British players to appear in the Football League, though he only played one game for Fulham in 1911, marked with a goal afterwards playing for non-league Dulwich Hamlet.

In only their third season of First Division football, Fulham finished rock bottom of the 22-team league in the 1951 – 52 season, winning only eight of forty-two games.

In terms of cup performance the club was superb, reaching the 2nd round of the League Cup losing only 1 – 2 to Queens Park Rangers, the quarter finals of the Football League Trophy losing 0 – 2 to Leeds United and the 4th round of the FA Cup losing 1 – 3 to Premier League team Fulham.

The Harwood Arms, behind Fulham Broadway, is the only pub in London to receive a Michelin Star, this fresh entry to the Michelin Guide looks to take diners to a “ rural haven in the middle of Fulham ”.

On February 3, he made only his second ever Premier League appearance when Fulham played Aston Villa at Craven Cottage.

He did take part in a fourth round League Cup hammering of Stoke City, scoring a hat-trick in an 8 – 0 victory, which was second only to the clubs biggest ever win in 1986-a 10 – 0 defeat of Fulham.

Putney Bridge is the only bridge in Britain to have a church at both ends: St. Mary's Church, Putney is located on the south bank and All Saints Church, Fulham on the north bank.

It is one of only three bridges in London to combine pedestrian and rail use ; the others being the Fulham Railway Bridge and Barnes Railway Bridge.

After leaving Fulham, Coleman was appointed manager of Real Sociedad, but resigned in January 2008, citing differences with the incoming president, even though in his last twelve games he recorded only one defeat.

After a seemingly poor start to the League campaign, performances improved, which propelled the club into a promotion battle with Watford, Bristol City and an expensively-assembled Fulham ( at the time the only club at this level to have spent seven-figure sums on players ).

Despite this, the club struggled to avoid relegation, only securing their place in Division One on the last day of the season with a win over promoted Fulham.

Striker Geoff Horsfield, who scored 30 goals for Town in the previous season, only managed ten games before he was sold to Fulham for £ 300, 000 in October 1998.

The Radio Authority grant the station permission to broadcast games involving Chelsea, Fulham, and Tottenham Hotspur on their London transmitters only.

Despite this successful period at Fulham he decided to leave the club after only one season as his family wanted to return to the North West.

Despite signing a new contract with Manchester City only months earlier and leaving Fulham in 2005 to return to the north, Cole signed for south coast club Portsmouth on transfer deadline day ( 31 August 2006 ) for an undisclosed fee expected to rise to £ 1 million depending on appearances.

Cohen also bears the distinction of being the only Fulham player to have won a World Cup winner's medal while at the Cottagers.

In his final season at Fulham he contributed fifteen goals in only 22 appearances before leaving in the January transfer window.

Saha began the 2006 – 07 season by scoring only seven minutes into the first game against Fulham.

Despite this, Kamara scored his only league goal in the 2009 / 10 season for Fulham in a 2-0 victory over Hull City on 19 September 2009. On 17 September, Kamara helped Fulham secure an away draw against CSKA Sofia which ended 1 – 1 in the Europa League.

Dempsey scored his first goal for Fulham on 5 May when he struck the only goal of a 1 – 0 home win over Liverpool.

The stand on Stevenage Road celebrated its centenary in the 2005 – 2006 season and, following the death of Fulham FC's favourite son, former England captain Johnny Haynes, in a car accident in October 2005 the Stevenage Road Stand was renamed the Johnny Haynes Stand after the club sought the opinions of Fulham supporters.

This helped his Fulham team to beat Ipswich 10 – 1 ( a club record ).

An offer to lease it to nearby Fulham was turned down, so Mears opted to found his own club to use the stadium.

As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club, having also considered names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC.

On 1 June 2002 Baresi was officially appointed as director of football at Fulham, but tensions between Baresi and then Fulham manager Jean Tigana led to resignation from the club in August.

Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.

Al-Fayed bought the freehold of West London professional football club Fulham F. C.

This meant that Al-Fayed had achieved his objective of Fulham being a Premiership club a year ahead of schedule.

He came to regard Fulham as " a nice club, a social club ..." but " never ... a serious, championship-challenging club ".

Soon after Robson joined Fulham, the club sold Alan Mullery and Rodney Marsh, meaning Robson's chances of securing any significant honour there were substantially reduced.

However, the proximity of other more established teams, such as Chelsea and Fulham and its small ground, meant that the club struggled to increase its fan base to the size needed to maintain a top flight team.

* Sean Davis plays currently for Bolton Wanderers and was capped for England under-21s, he is one of the few players in history to play for the same club in all 4 divisions of the English football league whilst at Fulham.

On 9 July 2007, former Welsh international and Fulham manager Chris Coleman was appointed as the new club coach, on the recommendation of former Real Sociedad manager John Toshack, an important board member at the club.