West Ham have enjoyed an exceptional season in the Premier League and they are on course to achieve one of the highest finishes in the club’s history with even a top-four place still possible.

David Moyes’ side started the campaign as one of the favourites for relegation in the Premier League, but that underrated that squad that has been put together quietly over the last few transfer windows. West Ham have started to recruit really sensibly and abandoned their big-name high wages approach for a much more sensible one that is paying off handsomely.

The Hammers should have enough in their squad to have a real go at finishing inside the top six places in the table, which would be a remarkable story considering where they have been the last few years. West Ham are a side full of confidence and with a lot of quality in their squad and they have been one of the best teams to watch this term in the Premier League.

Given what Moyes has achieved this season, we decided to take a look at previous Hammers bosses and ranked their top ten ever managers according to points per game.

However, this list only includes the period from when three points was introduced for a win (1981), so the likes of Ron Greenwood, Ted Fenton, Charlie Paynter, Syd King and John Lyall (whose tenure began before 1981) and others miss out. They are though well worth a mention before we start. Click ‘next’ to scroll through the list...

Had managers like Greenwood and Lyall been included on this list Glen Roeder would have missed out. However, he does make the list having managed to claim 27 wins, 23 draws and 36 defeats from his 86 games in charge leaving him with 1.21 points per game.

Roeder took over at West Ham in May 2001 and he led the Hammers to a 7^th place finish in the top-flight during the 2001/02 campaign. However, the following season the club would ultimately have a massive drop off and were fighting relegation when he left and they were ultimately relegated.

Coming in at number nine in this list is Manuel Pellegrini, who makes the list having managed to secure 24 wins, 11 draws and 29 defeats in his 64 games in charge leaving him with 1.30 points per game.

Pellegrini was an ambitious appointment by the Hammers in the summer of 2018 to replace David Moyes. He was backed in the transfer market to bring in the likes of Felipe Anderson and Issa Diop and led them to a respectable 10^th place finish in 2018/19. However, after more investment was made in the squad, he was sacked in December 2019 with the Hammers in 17^th.

In eighth place on this list is Harry Redknapp, who managed to secure 121 wins, 85 draws and 121 defeats in his 327 games in charge, which leaves him with 1.37 points per game.

Redknapp took over at West Ham in the summer of 1994 and he managed to guide the club to a 14^th placed finish in the Premier League in his first campaign in charge. He managed to take the Hammers to a fifth-place finish in the 1998/99 season which proved to be his best, but two seasons later he left the club in May 2001 with the club ending that season in 15^th.

In at number seven on this list is Alan Curbishley, who makes the list having managed to secure 28 wins, 14 draws and 29 defeats in his 71 matches in charge leaving him with 1.38 points per game.

Curbishley took over at West Ham in December 2006 with the Hammers in a real relegation battle in the Premier League. Things started slowly but following a remarkable run of seven wins in their last nine the club survived. The following season he guided them to a 10^th place finish before stepping down in September 2008 over the selling of some key players.

In at sixth place on this list is Sam Allardyce, who managed to pick up 69 wins, 45 draws and 67 defeats in his 181 matches in charge leaving him with 1.39 points per game.

Allardyce was drafted in by the Hammers in the summer of 2011 and tasked with getting the club back into the Premier League. He guided them to a 3^rd place finish in the Championship and then beat Blackpool 2-1 in the play-off final to take them up. A tenth place finish followed in the top-flight, before 12^th and 13^th finishes the following two campaigns and he left in May 2015.

In fifth place on this list is the popular figure of Slaven Bilic, who managed to secure 42 wins, 30 draws and 39 defeats during his 111 games in charge of the Hammers leaving him with 1.41 points per game.

Bilic took over at West Ham in the summer of 2015 following Allardyce’s departure and he managed to guide the Hammers to a 7^th place finish in their final ever campaign at Upton Park. However, things were downhill from there and after struggling to adjust to life in the Olympic Stadium they could only finish 11^th in 2016/17. He was then sacked in November 2017 after a difficult start to the campaign.

In at fourth place on this list is a manager who was not at West Ham for very long, but he still managed to pick up 14 wins, 12 draws and 12 defeats from his 38 games in charge leaving him with 1.42 points per game.

Macari took over at West Ham in July 1989 and he was tasked with getting the Hammers back into the top-flight. However, they were not consistent enough in the first half of the 1989/90 season and were sat in 10^th place in the table around the halfway point and he eventually left the club in February 1990.

Coming at third place, or joint-second, on this list is Alan Pardew who managed to record 67 wins, 38 draws and 58 defeats during his 163 games in charge leaving him with 1.47 points per game.

Pardew arrived at West Ham in October 2003 with the aim of trying to get the back into the Premier League, but they missed out on promotion through the play-offs after a 4^th placed finish in 2003/04. The next term saw them finish in 6^th place and earn promotion via the play-offs. In 2005/06 he took them to a 9^th place finish and the FA Cup final, but after a poor start to the following season, he was sacked in December 2006.

Coming in at number two on this list is West Ham’s current manager David Moyes, who during his second spell in charge of the club has managed to accumulate 1.47 points per game at the time of writing.

Moyes was reappointed as West Ham boss to replace Pellegrini in December last season and despite some difficult periods of form managed to keep the club in the Premier League with a 16^th placed finish. So far this term he has guided them to 14 wins and just eight defeats and they sit in 5^th place in the table just two points shy of the top four at the time of writing.

West Ham legend Billy Bonds leads the way in this list with him having managed to record 99 wins, 61 draws and 67 defeats from his 227 games in charge leaving him with an impressive 1.58 points per game.

Bonds took over as manager after Macari’s departure in February 1990 and he guided the Hammers to a 7^th place finish in the second tier in 1989/90. The following year he took the club to promotion with a second-place finish, before suffering an immediate relegation the next campaign. A second promotion followed though with another second-place finish in 1992/93. After a 13^th place finish in 1993/94 he resigned in the summer of 1994 with Redknapp taking over.