Wanderers F.C.

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This article is about the 19th-century amateur football club. For modern-day football clubs with "Wanderers" in their name, see the list below.

The Wanderers Football Club were an amateur football club based in Battersea, Wandsworth, London, and were one of the leading clubs in English football in the 1860s and 1870s. They are chiefly noted for winning the first-ever FA Cup final, held at the Kennington Oval, London, on March 16, 1872. They beat the Royal Engineers 1-0, the winning goal scored by Morton Betts, under the pseudonym A.H. Chequer. In all they won the cup five times in its first seven seasons, between 1872 and 1878, and even as of 2006 the club remains equal eighth in the list of all-time winners of the FA Cup. Though The Wanderers never had a permanent home ground (as their name suggests), they are known to have played at Lillie Bridge and Battersea Park.

Initially formed as Forest Football Club (not to be confused with Nottingham Forest) in 1859 and based in Leytonstone, London, they were a founder member of The Football Association in 1863. They adopted the title of Wanderers a year later, after moving across London to Battersea Park. The team consisted mostly of ex-public schoolboys, and was captained by Charles Alcock, who was also chairman of the FA from 1870 to 1895 and the original proponent of the FA Cup. Other members included A. G. Guillemard, the "father" of the Rugby Football Union.

The club was eventually disbanded in the early 1880s when individual schools set up their own clubs (such as Old Etonians and Old Carthusians).

1 Modern football clubs using the name Wanderers
- 1.1 England
  - 1.1.1 Premiership and Football League
  - 1.1.2 Non-League football
- 1.2 Elsewhere
2 References
3 External links
4 Sources

[edit] Modern football clubs using the name Wanderers

[edit] England

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Rob Cavallini [2005]. The Wanderers F.C.: Five Times F.A. Cup Winners. Worcester Park: Dog N Duck Publications. ISBN 0-9550496-0-1 available from www.dognduck.net