The West Ham Charity Cup was an annual amateur football tournament which was contested by teams from West Ham and the surrounding area, an area of Essex that is now part of London. Only players that lived locally were eligible to compete. The competition was founded as the West Ham Hospital Cup in 1885 by George Hay, Mayor of the County Borough of West Ham, to raise funds for the local hospital, and ran until 1931. In April 1902, Clapton Orient won the tournament by beating Clapton 1–0. Clapton have won the competition six times. The tournament was not held between 1915 and 1918.