{"id":454772,"date":"2026-05-18T11:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454772\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:32:18","slug":"west-ham-london-taxpayers-could-pay-extra-2-5m-if-hammers-relegated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454772\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham: London taxpayers could pay extra \u00a32.5m if Hammers relegated"},"content":{"rendered":"

London taxpayers may have to pay an extra \u00a32.5m if West Ham<\/a> are relegated from the Premier League this season, because of the club’s lease agreement for London Stadium.<\/p>\n

The Hammers are 18th in the table with one match remaining, and will be as good as relegated to the Championship if Tottenham<\/a> – two points above them with a game in hand and a much better goal difference – draw with Chelsea<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Under the 99-year lease agreement, West Ham<\/a> would pay the Greater London Authority about half their current annual rent of \u00a34.4m if they are relegated.<\/p>\n

London taxpayers, who currently contribute to stadium operating costs such as stewarding, will have to make up the funding gap.<\/p>\n

“If West Ham<\/a> are relegated, we, the taxpayers, we City Hall, could lose up to \u00a32.5m a year,” said Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London taxpayers may have to pay an extra \u00a32.5m if West Ham are relegated from the Premier League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-454772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}