West Ham will look to kickstart their Europa Conference League group stage campaign in style as they welcome Romanian side FCSB to the London Stadium on Thursday evening.
FCSB are a successor club to the government-owned Steaua Bucharest that won the European Cup in 1986 under Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Communist regime in Romania but were taken over by a group of private shareholders in 1998. The club were then forced to change their name to FCSB in 2017 due to an ongoing conflict with CSA Steaua București sports club, which is still owned by the Ministry of National Defence, who claim the football club is a new and separate entity.
