Upton Park & Boleyn Ground

West Ham United took up the tenancy in 1904, after amalgamating with the local club Old Castle Swifts. From around 1912 West Ham rented Green Street House and its grounds in East Ham from the Roman Catholic Church. The house was known locally as Boleyn Castle, for its imposing nature and for an association with Anne Boleyn, who had either stayed at it or, as some believe, owned it, and the ground took its name from the house. Supporters more often called it Upton Park, after the East London district it stood in.

In August 1944 a V-1 flying bomb fell on the south-west corner of the pitch, forcing West Ham to play at other grounds while repairs were undertaken. It did not affect performances: the club managed nine consecutive victories, and on their return in December 1944 they lost 1-0 to Tottenham Hotspur. The record attendance came on 17 October 1970, when 42,322 watched a Division One match against Tottenham, the North and South Banks then terraced.

By 1990 West Ham were required to convert Upton Park into an all-seater stadium for the 1994-95 season to comply with the Taylor Report, clubs having to meet new safety regulations after the Hillsborough disaster of 1989. The South Bank went first, replaced in 1993 by a two-tier 9,000-seat stand with executive boxes and a digital clock, named for Bobby Moore, captain of the successful mid-1960s side, who had died earlier that year. The North Bank was demolished in 1994 and a 6,000-seat two-tier stand opened on its site the following year as the Centenary Stand, matching the club's 100th season since its formation as Thames Ironworks in 1895; it was renamed the Sir Trevor Brooking Stand in July 2009.

The final change replaced the West Stand with a 15,000-seat two-tier stand, the Dr. Martens Stand, carrying executive boxes and the West Ham United Hotel, and taking the ground to a 35,000 all-seater capacity. It was officially opened by the Queen, introduced to the manager Glenn Roeder and the captain Joe Cole. When the Dr. Martens sponsorship ended the stand resumed the name West Stand in 2009; in 2011 it was renamed the Alpari Stand under a three-year agreement.

Talk of a move to the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games ran through 2006, with the new chairman Eggert Magnusson confirming his interest, but talks broke down once it was announced the stadium would be reduced to a 25,000 all-seater keeping its running track - 10,000 fewer than the Boleyn Ground held, and with supporters further from the pitch.

The new owners David Gold and David Sullivan reversed the position in 2010, and the club submitted a joint bid with Newham London Borough Council on 30 September 2010. On 11 February 2011 the Olympic Park Legacy Committee unanimously selected West Ham as its preferred occupant, and the British government and the mayor, Boris Johnson, approved the move on 3 March 2011. Legal challenges by Tottenham Hotspur and Leyton Orient collapsed the sale on 11 October 2011; the club then pursued tenancy, won the bidding on 22 March 2013 and was offered a 99-year lease. In February 2014 West Ham announced the sale of the Boleyn Ground to the Galliard Group, to take effect once the move was complete.

Swansea City had been fixtured as the final opponents on 7 May 2016, but Manchester United's involvement in the FA Cup moved their match to 10 May and made it the last. The Manchester United coach was pelted with missiles on Green Street, breaking windows and pushing the kick-off from 19:45 to 20:15. In the 2,398th match played at the ground, in front of 34,907, Diafra Sakho scored in the tenth minute, Anthony Martial twice put Manchester United ahead, and Michail Antonio and then Winston Reid in the 80th minute won it 3-2. A 45-minute display on the pitch followed. Three people were arrested that night, and the club vowed to ban for life anyone convicted over the coach attack.

Capacity at closure was 35,016, all seated. Dismantling had begun on 14 March 2016 with the removal of the John Lyall gates for reinstallation at the Olympic Stadium; the seats were out by July, the sale completed on 15 July at £40,000,000, and ownership of the site formally transferred to Barratt London a month later. In September the ground hosted a charity match on the 27th, shortly before demolition commenced. Of 1,400 commemorative bricks in a wall taken down there, 1,000 were saved by Jonjo Heuerman for the supporters who had paid for them, their inscriptions later reproduced in a pathway at the new ground.