The impressive Premier League table since West Ham appointed Nuno Espirito Santo

West Ham have steadily improved and climbed out of the relegation zone under Nuno Espirito Santo, but what about when you zoom out and look at his tenure at the club as a whole?

After parting company with David Moyes in 2024, West Ham appointed Julen Lopetegui and backed him heavily in the transfer market.

However, it quickly became apparent that Lopetegui wasn’t the right man for the job, and he was dismissed at the start of January, with West Ham sat 14th in the Premier League.

Graham Potter was his replacement, but won just six of his 25 matches in charge before being dismissed.

Nuno was brought in after his sacking by Nottingham Forest and earned a 1-1 draw at Everton in his first match as Hammers boss.

But the strugglers swiftly lost to Arsenal, Brentford and Leeds in a series of increasingly disappointing performances.

Nuno enjoyed a brief respite with back-to-back victories at home to Newcastle and Burnley in early November, but West Ham never really had a new manager bounce, and come early January the Hammers appeared destined for the drop.

But after a run of nine successive Premier League games, he’s slowly but surely started to turn things around – and now has them two points clear of Tottenham in a relegation scrap for the ages. And they’ve performed considerably better than their London rivals over Nuno’s overall tenure.

“Every day is important and it is going to be a fight until the end. I think (we have the characters),” Nuno said after West Ham’s hard-fought 0-0 draw away to Crystal Palace on Monday night.

“I think we’re proving that we don’t give up. We are committed. You can see today, even though it was not the perfect game for us, it was a game that we fight.

“We were organised, committed, had team spirit, the basics that I consider to keep fighting until the end.

“The players, they are aware and they are giving it all, so I am positive about it.”

To illustrate West Ham’s form since they made the change, here is the Premier League table since they hired Nuno at the end of September 2025.

Note: to create this table, we’ve used our sister site Football365 and their brilliant Premier League Tables resource – a goldmine for creating and exploring custom tables.

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