West Ham United drew the curtain on 2024/25 on Sunday, with an overall challenging season ultimately culminating in a 14th-place finish.
Graham Potter’s men defeated already-relegated Ipswich Town 3-1 at Portman Road, ensuring the four departing 2023 UEFA Europa Conference League winners - Łukasz Fabiański, Aaron Cresswell, Vladimír Coufal and Danny Ings - enjoyed the perfect farewell.
And, following the conclusion of a record-breaking FPL campaign, where more than 11.5 million people took part, the most in the game's 23-year history, we review West Ham’s best performers throughout the season.
Goalkeepers
The privilege of having two great goalkeepers, who have different characteristics, means you’re able to keep swapping who starts between the sticks.
And that’s exactly what happened at West Ham United this season, with Alphonse Areola (£4.2m) and Łukasz Fabiański (£3.9m) both featuring regularly for the Irons throughout 2024/25.
Areola, who was nominated for the Premier League Save of the Month award on four separate occasions throughout the campaign, started the opening eight games of the season before Fabiański started the next nine.
And, with the Pole having started the first two top-flight games of the Potter era, Areola reclaimed his place between the sticks until Gameweek 38, when Fabiański was given his 216th and final appearance after seven incredible seasons as a Hammer.
Areola managed to keep five clean sheets throughout his 26 Premier League appearances, accumulating 69 FPL points, including a season-high of eight points coming in the Hammers’ first top-flight victory at Old Trafford since May 2007, earlier this month.
Fabiański, meanwhile, managed three clean sheets in 14 appearances, recording 39 points, including a nine-point haul against Everton in November. Elsewhere, Wes Foderingham (£4.2m) is yet to make his competitive West Ham debut.
Defenders
The form of 2024/25 Hammer of the Year winner Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£4.5m) has been one of the main highlights for West Ham this season, with the versatile defender enjoying a stellar debut term in Claret and Blue, starting 36 of the Hammers’ 38 Premier League matches.
He’s been arguably the best differential this season in Fantasy, having scored two goals, provided four assists and led the team in tackles and interceptions, while ranking second in passes and third in clearances and key passes.
Wan-Bissaka produced three double-figure hauls this season, away at Newcastle United, Arsenal and Manchester United, and his outstanding 118 FPL points saw him end the season as the eighth-highest scoring full-back in the Premier League.
Elsewhere, ever-present centre-back Maximilian Kilman (£4.3m) missed just 71 minutes of Premier League football this term. Indeed, he has played more minutes - 10,084 - than any other outfield player since the start of the 2022/23 season. It was a colossal first season in Claret and Blue for our No26, who accumulated 82 points in Fantasy.
French defender Jean-Clair Todibo (£4.2m) had his fair share of fitness and injury issues but managed 54 FPL points in his first season at the Club, while Emerson (£4.4m) and Dinos Mavropanos (£4.3m) achieved 76 and 45 points respectively.
The breakthrough of Academy of Football defender Ollie Scarles (£4.0m), who has developed into a first-team regular, has undoubtedly been one of our proudest highlights of the season. The 19-year-old made 15 Premier League appearances, including the breathtaking performance away at Arsenal in February, where he made seven interceptions and earned seven FPL points. He was duly named the Club’s Mark Noble Young Player of the Season earlier in May.
Meanwhile, our two departing Hammers, Aaron Cresswell (£3.6m) and Vladimír Coufal (£4.1m), saw their game time limited this season, starting just ten and eleven times respectively, but both featured from the off and put in stunning performances in the recent Old Trafford triumph and leave the Club as true West Ham greats.
Midfielders
Jarrod Bowen’s (£7.9m) goals and overall attacking prowess have been vital to Potter’s side this season.
Deemed by most managers as an essential pick in the final few weeks of the season, no player ended 2024/25 in better form than Bowen. Indeed, the only side he failed to return against in the last eight Gameweeks were the league champions, Liverpool, achieving 66 points in that spell.
Bowen’s final-day goal and assist against the Tractor Boys gave him a 13-point haul, as he finished as the league’s sixth-highest point scorer (193) and with top-flight totals of 13 goals and ten assists.
Elsewhere, our giant Czech Tomáš Souček (£4.8m) has now eclipsed 100 FPL points in each of his five full seasons as a West Ham United player, having enjoyed another fruitful season in Claret and Blue.
Souček, who scored an impressive 126 FPL points this season, recorded nine goals throughout 2024/25, his second-highest scoring Premier League season as a Hammer, while we only lost one of the nine games he scored in (against Brighton & Hove Albion).
Mohammed Kudus (£6.2m) - who scored the winning goal at Ipswich on the final day - contributed five goals and two assists in 32 appearances across the 2024/25 campaign, while Lucas Paquetá (£5.7m) enjoyed a particularly productive first half of the season, scoring three of his four goals in the first 16 Gameweeks.
Edson Álvarez (£5.0m) managed 40 points in his second full season with the Hammers, while Carlos Soler (£5.0m) and Guido Rodríguez (£4.8m) both had successful maiden Premier League campaigns.
James Ward-Prowse (£6.1m) spent the first part of the season on loan at Nottingham Forest, but was a revelation on his return to the Hammers, starting all but two of West Ham’s final 14 games under Potter, and notching his first goal in our final game of the season against Ipswich, where he recorded a season-high return of nine FPL points.
Admittedly, it was a difficult first season for Crysencio Summerville (£5.5m), who has been out of action since early January after sustaining a hamstring injury during Potter’s first game in charge - the FA Cup third-round tie at Aston Villa - and there’s no doubt the very best is yet to come from our talented young Dutchman next season.
Luis Guilherme (£4.6m) looked lively coming off the substitutes’ bench on eleven occasions throughout the campaign, while he was rewarded with his full Premier League debut at Molineux against Wolverhampton Wanderers in April.
Meanwhile, our ‘Portobello Pirlo’ Andy Irving (£4.7m), who has become a cult hero in east London, managed ten top-flight appearances in his first Premier League season, with his only start coming at Stamford Bridge, when he was serenaded for 77 minutes by the travelling West Ham supporters.
And how can we forget Academy of Football star Lewis Orford (£4.5m), who was handed his West Ham United debut against Crystal Palace in January, where it became apparent that there is another potential first-team star on the horizon.
Forwards
While Michail Antonio (£5.2m) continues to recover from the injuries suffered in a road traffic accident in early December, it’s worth noting that his 18-point haul against the Tractor Boys in a 4-1 win at London Stadium in October was the biggest score from a single match by any West Ham player throughout 2024/25.
In Gameweek seven, he scored the opening goal inside one minute and was credited with a hat-trick of assists in Fantasy, with bonuses taking him to 18 points.
As for Germany international centre-forward Niclas Füllkrug (£4.2m), it was a stop-start season for him due to injury, but some excellent displays provided three goals and two assists in just 790 minutes of Premier League action, earning him 42 FPL points.
Having had a full season to adjust to life in London and the Premier League, and with his injury issues now behind him, Füllkrug will be confident that a lack of disruption can help him take his game to a new level next season.
Danny Ings (£4.8m) is another player who is set to depart the Club this summer, having managed just one start throughout 2024/25.
Ings, however, did score that last-ditch leveller at Craven Cottage in September and provided two assists in the 2-1 win over Manchester United in October, earning him two eight-point hauls.
Meanwhile, loan signing Evan Ferguson (£5.5m) made eight appearances after arriving on loan from Brighton & Hove Albion on deadline day in early February.
Finally, Head Coach Graham Potter (£0.5m) accumulated an impressive 84 FPL points since taking charge in January, having led the Hammers to famous victories at Arsenal and Manchester United, including a 19-point haul against the Gunners.
And with a full pre-season ahead, including a trip to the United States for the Premier League Summer Series, there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic of a bright future for the Hammers.
