Wimbledon F.C.
Full name | Wimbledon Football Club |
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Nickname(s) | The Dons, The Wombles, The Crazy Gang |
Founded | 1889 (as Wimbledon Old Centrals[n 1]) |
Dissolved | 21 June 2004 (Relocation of Wimbledon F.C. to Milton Keynes) |
Ground |
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| 24th (Relegated from First Division) |
Wimbledon Football Club was an English
Wimbledon's "
In 2001, after rejecting a variety of possible local sites and others further afield, the club announced its intention to move 46 miles (74 km) north to Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. The idea of Wimbledon leaving south London was deeply unpopular, both with the bulk of the club's established fanbase and with football supporters generally, but an independent commission appointed by the Football Association granted permission in May 2002. A group of supporters, appalled by the decision, responded by forming a new club, AFC Wimbledon, to which the majority of Wimbledon FC fans switched allegiance.[1][2]
History
Non-League beginnings
Wimbledon Old Central Football Club were formed in 1889, taking its name from the
Wimbledon won the Isthmian League for the fifth time in
The Football League
The 1977–78 season was a satisfactory Football League debut for Wimbledon, who finished 13th in the Fourth Division.[3] Allen Batsford had resigned as manager on 2 January 1978 to be succeeded by Dario Gradi, who guided the club to promotion in 1978–79.[3] Wimbledon's first stay in the Third Division was not a successful one. The team struggled, and were relegated in bottom place, winning just 10 league games all season.[3] Following relegation, relocation to Milton Keynes was considered – chairman Ron Noades entered talks with the Milton Keynes Development Corporation about the possibility of moving the club to the new town, but the plan was never executed.[5][6]
Still in south
The top flight
Many observers tipped Wimbledon to go straight back down in
Just days after the FA Cup triumph, Wimbledon directors announced plans to build a new
Nothing came of the plans for a new ground and at the end of
Relegation and relocation
The
Joe Kinnear stepped down as manager in June 1999 due to ill health, and was succeeded by Norwegian coach
Relocation, renaming, and foundation of AFC Wimbledon
In August 2001, the club announced its intent to relocate to Milton Keynes.[14] Despite opposition from Wimbledon fans,[15] The Football League, and The Football Association,[15] they were given permission to do so on 28 May 2002 after a 2–1 vote by the three-person, independent commission appointed by the F.A.[15][16] The approval of the decision to move the club caused supporters who were against the move to found a new club, AFC Wimbledon, to which most Wimbledon fans switched their allegiance;[1][2][17] gates at the new club were over 3,500, compared with 2,500 or less for the relocated club.[1]
Goalkeeping coach Stuart Murdoch was promoted to manager,[18] and as attendances plummeted,[19] Murdoch's team finished 10th in the league during the club's last full season at Selhurst Park.[3] Wimbledon entered administration in June 2003,[20] and played their first match in Milton Keynes in September.[21] Although crowds attending the club's games at its new base were bigger than those at Wimbledon, the administrator in charge of the club's financial affairs sold any player who could command a transfer fee and Murdoch's team finished at the bottom of the league.[3][22]
The club were brought out of administration at the end of the 2003–04 season,[23] and "Milton Keynes Dons".[24][23] was formed in the club's place.
Club identity
The club's nickname was the Dons, though the club were also often referred to in the media as the Wombles from the mid-1970s onwards. Following the FA Cup victory in 1988, the term Crazy Gang also started to be applied; originally to the players, though over time to the club as a whole.[25] The club introduced a character mascot in 2000, a Womble named Wandle the Womble. However, following the relocation of the club in 2003, the owners of the Wombles brand refused to renew the licensing agreement in protest at the move. Three years later, a deal was agreed that saw a similar character named Haydon the Womble appear at AFC Wimbledon.[26]
The colours most associated with the club were blue and yellow.[25] The club's first colours were navy blue and white,[25] though the kit changed several times soon after the club's foundation, between combinations of: brown and blue striped shirts with navy blue shorts; green and white striped shirts with navy blue shorts; green shirts and black shorts; white shirts with navy blue shorts, and finally green and black striped shirts with black shorts.[25] Royal blue shirts with navy blue shorts and socks were finally settled upon in 1918, initially bearing a "W" (for Wimbledon) in the centre of the chest.[25] Wimbledon players then regularly wore royal blue shirts with black shorts and socks until a shift in the 1950s saw the shorts change from black to white.[25] A combination of blue shirts, blue shorts and white socks was introduced in 1966,[25] before being abandoned a year later in favour of an all-blue outfit.[25] The white socks returned in 1970.[25] A blue and yellow combination was first used in 1975,[25] but was replaced after a year with an all-white outfit trimmed with blue,[25] and this was the kit in which the club played its first season in the Football League. In 1978, Yellow shirts, blue shorts and yellow socks were adopted,[25] before the club made the change to an all-blue strip with yellow markings in 1981.[25] The kit underwent only minor changes until 1993,[25] when a darker, deep navy blue replaced the royal blue shade that had been used for the previous twelve years.[25] Wimbledon wore these colours for the remainder of their history. As for change colours, a red kit, with black trim, was a frequent choice in the 1990s. The club had a green away kit for the 2000–01 season.[25]
The first crest the club wore was the emblem of the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon. This emblem appeared on Wimbledon shirts from the late 1920s until the mid-1950s, when no badge was worn.[25] The coat of arms returned in the early 1970s,[25] before the club adopted its own badge on election to The Football League in 1977.[25] The crest was very similar to the badge most commonly associated with the club – the difference being the inclusion of white rather than yellow. Yellow replaced white in 1981, and this logo was used until 2003.[25] After the club's relocation to Milton Keynes was confirmed in May 2002, the College of Arms informed the club in August 2002 that its continued use of the Borough arms was illegal. A replacement, given the go-ahead on 12 April 2003, featured a stylised eagle's head – an element from the Wimbledon arms – drawn in navy blue and yellow outline, the yellow forming a stylized rendering of the letters "MK" (for Milton Keynes).[27] Despite being officially adopted in April 2003, the logo's use was inconsistent: the club officially announced that it would be used "on all club kit, merchandise and literature from the start of [the 2003–04] season",[27] including on a new white away kit and on an amended version of the previous season's home outfit,[28] but this never occurred; both the home and away colours from 2002 to 2003 were retained for the following year with the municipal arms still present. Moreover, the old crest continued to appear on official club statements and literature towards the end of the 2003–04 season, making the status of the new badge ambiguous at best.[29][30]
Mascot
From 2000 to June 2003, the original Wimbledon F.C. had used a Womble mascot named "Wandle", named after the local River Wandle, as a club mascot. However, in light of the controversy over the moving of the club to Milton Keynes, the legal licence to use the character was withdrawn by the Wombles' creator, Elisabeth Beresford, in protest at the nature of the club's relocation.[31]
Stadium
Wimbledon originally played on
The Plough Lane ground remained comparatively basic, and by the time the club had risen to the
Given the location of the Plough Lane ground, at the junction of two major roads and beside the River Wandle, major redevelopment of the site as a modern all-seater stadium might have been difficult, though not impossible. The club's board of directors maintained that it had "searched exhaustively with Merton Council" for a site in or around Merton on which to build a new stadium, looking at "14 different sites over a period of five years", in addition to commissioning feasibility studies for redeveloping both Plough Lane and the neighbouring site at Wimbledon Stadium. Despite this, nothing ever became of the board's continual promises to redevelop the site or to build a new ground within the borough, and the club remained as tenants at Selhurst Park for twelve years.[32]
Wimbledon's first match at the National Hockey Stadium in Milton Keynes was played on 27 September 2003.[21] The club remained there for the rest of its final season, and the ground became the first home of Milton Keynes Dons.
Period | Stadium | Borough/Town |
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1889–1912 | Wimbledon Common | Merton |
1912–1991 | Plough Lane
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Merton |
1991–2003 | Selhurst Park | Croydon |
2003–2004 | National Hockey Stadium | Milton Keynes |
Supporters
Due to
Following the sanctioning of the move, most of the team's support left, in specific protest at the club's relocation, to follow AFC Wimbledon,[1][2] the new club founded by Wimbledon supporters.[1][2] During the 2002–03 season, AFC Wimbledon's first and Wimbledon's last full season in south London, average crowds at the new club were actually higher than those at the original club.[33] Attendances during the 2003–04 season, Wimbledon's last, were higher than those at AFC Wimbledon: Wimbledon averaged 4,751 at the National Hockey Stadium, compared to AFC Wimbledon's 2,606.[33]
The club had two main supporters organisations– the long established official Wimbledon F.C. Supporters Club, which was tied to the club, and the more radical Wimbledon Independent Supporters Association (WISA) which was founded in 1995.
Rivalries
During much of Wimbledon's amateur and later
From the mid 1980s, the club's main rivals were considered by fans to be fellow south London club Crystal Palace (who were their landlord from 1991 to 2003) and west London-based Chelsea; however, neither of these rivalries was seriously reciprocated. Wimbledon were in the same division as Palace for a total of 11 seasons between 1984 and 2004, and in the same division as Chelsea for all but one season between 1986 and 2000.[36]
Records and statistics
The record for most appearances for Wimbledon was held by Roy Law, who turned out for the club 644 times between 1958 and 1972;[37] Law's 433 league appearances was also a record.[37] Wimbledon's all-time top goalscorer was Eddie Reynolds, who scored 340 goals in 329 matches between 1957 and 1966.[38] The closest to Reynolds's record was Ian Cooke, who notched 297 between 1964 and 1977;[39] Cooke also made the second highest total number of appearances for the team, having appeared 615 times in a Wimbledon shirt.[39]
The records for most appearances and goals for Wimbledon in
Wimbledon's best win was a 6–0 league victory over
Wimbledon's highest attendance, 30,115, was set on 9 May 1993 for the
European record
Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away |
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1995 | Intertoto Cup | Group Stage | Bursaspor | 0–41 | |
Košice
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1–1 | ||||
Beitar Jerusalem | 0–01 | ||||
Charleroi
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0–3 |
1Both home matches in this competition were played at Brighton and Hove Albion's Goldstone Ground, as Selhurst Park was unavailable.[45]
Players
First team squad
- The squad given here is made up of the players registered to the club on the date of Wimbledon F.C.'s final league match (Wimbledon 1–0 Derby County, 9 May 2004). Updated 9 May 2004.[46]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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- a ^ Denotes players who stayed on to play for Milton Keynes Dons[c]
- b ^ Denotes players who later played for AFC Wimbledon[c]
- c ^ Sourced to Soccerbase Archived 2009-08-02 at the Wayback Machine.
Notable former players
Managers
Prior to the appointment of H. R. Watts as first team manager in 1930, a committee would deal with first team affairs, such as choosing the team on a matchday.
- Statistics apply to competitive league and cup matches only. Wartime matches excluded.
Name | Nationality | From | To | Matches | Won | Drawn | Lost | Win % | Notes |
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H.R. Watts | English | 1930 | 1946 | [47][48] | |||||
Doc Dowden | English | 1946 | August 1955 | 375 | 186 | 64 | 126 | 49.6 | [48][49] |
Les Henley | English | August 1955 | 5 April 1971 | 869 | 468 | 156 | 235 | 53.9 | [49][51] |
Mike Everitt | English | 5 April 1971 | 6 August 1973 | 120 | 49 | 26 | 45 | 40.8 | [51] |
Dick Graham | English | 18 August 1973 | 16 March 1974 | 45 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 35.6 | [51] |
Allen Batsford | English | July 1974 | 2 January 1978 | 231 | 131 | 51 | 49 | 56.7 | [51] |
Dario Gradi | English | 5 January 1978 | 24 January 1981 | 171 | 63 | 47 | 61 | 36.8 | [51] |
Dave Bassett | English | 31 January 1981 | 17 June 1987 | 303 | 144 | 74 | 85 | 47.5 | |
Bobby Gould | English | 26 June 1987 | 18 June 1990 | 142 | 57 | 43 | 42 | 40.1 | |
Ray Harford | English | 18 June 1990 | 7 October 1991 | 56 | 20 | 17 | 19 | 35.7 | |
Peter Withe | English | 7 October 1991 | 19 January 1992 | 17 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5.9 | |
Joe Kinnear | Irish | 19 January 1992 | 9 June 1999 | 364 | 130 | 109 | 125 | 35.7 | |
Egil Olsen | Norwegian | 9 June 1999 | 1 May 2000 | 43 | 11 | 12 | 20 | 25.6 | [12] |
Terry Burton | English | 1 May 2000 | 25 April 2002 | 108 | 39 | 39 | 30 | 36.1 | [12] |
Stuart Murdoch | English | 25 June 2002 | 7 August 2004 | 101 | 30 | 17 | 54 | 29.7 | [18][n 3] |
Managers from Dowden until Batsford sourced to: Jones, Marc. "AFCW Statistics". FOTO. Archived from the original on 23 April 2009. Retrieved 5 November 2009.
Managers after Batsford sourced to: "Manager History for Wimbledon".
Honours
Wimbledon were a successful club even before election to
Even at the higher level, Wimbledon continued to collect honours; the most notable being the FA Cup victory in 1988, which made Wimbledon only the third club to have won both the FA Cup and its amateur equivalent. Despite swift success in The Football League, the club's rapid ascent combined with short spells in the Second and Third Divisions meant that the team only won a solitary divisional championship within the League – the Fourth Division title of 1982–83.[3]
Honour | Year(s) | |
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FA Cup | Winners | 1987–88 |
Football League Second Division |
Promotion | 1985–86 |
Football League Third Division |
Promotion | 1983–84 |
Football League Fourth Division |
Champions | 1982–83 |
Promotion | 1978–79, 1980–81 | |
FA Amateur Cup | Winners | 1962–63 |
Runners-up | 1934–35, 1946–47 | |
Football League Group Trophy |
Runners-up | 1980–81 |
Anglo-Italian Cup | Runners-up | 1975–76 |
Southern Football League | Champions | 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77 |
Runners-up | 1967–68 | |
Isthmian League | Champions | 1930–31, 1931–32, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1958–59, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64 |
Runners-up | 1949–50, 1951–52 | |
Athenian League | Runners-up | 1920–21 |
Notes and references
Footnotes
- ^ a b The club's official name on its formation was "Wimbledon Old Central Football Club", but they were commonly called "Wimbledon Old Centrals".
- ^ The others are Old Carthusians and Royal Engineers.
- ^ Stuart Murdoch remained manager after the club was renamed Milton Keynes Dons. The date of MK Dons' first league match, 7 August 2004, was agreed upon in 2006 as the dividing line for statistical purposes.
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External links
- The official website of AFC Wimbledon
- The official website of Milton Keynes Dons F.C.
- Wimbledon at the Football Club History Database
- The History of Wimbledon F.C.