Dundee Wanderers F.C.

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Dundee Wanderers

Full name

Founded

1885

Ground

Clepington Park

League

Scottish League





Home colours

Dundee Wanderers were a Scottish football club based in Dundee. The club were briefly members of the Scottish Football League Second Division. Their home ground was Clepington Park.

The club was formed in 1885, merging with local club Strathmore F.C. in 1891 when they took the name Johnstone Wanderers. Reverting to their original name in 1894, they spent the 1894-95 season as members of the Scottish League, finishing ninth out of ten. Their performance might well have been worse had they not been awarded two points after Renton F.C. failed to fulfil a fixture against the club (who were thus awarded the two points), with the Dumbartonshire side instead opting for a glamour friendly against Queen's Park F.C.^[1] Wanderers brief sojourn in the Scottish League did produce one record that still stands, however, with the club's 15-1 away defeat to Airdrieonians F.C. being the heaviest defeat in Scottish League history.^[2]

They failed to secure re-election for the following season and so returned to the Northern League where they competed regularly until folding during the 1912-13 season.

Formed: 1894. Defunct 1913. (1885 Wanderers. 1892 Johnstone Wanderers - Amalgamated with Strathmore. 1894 Renamed Dundonians. 1894 Renamed Dundee Wanderers).

Grounds: Wanderers/Johnstone Wanderers - 1885-1891 Morgan Park. 1891-1894 Clepington Park.

Strathmore - 1880-1892 Rolle's Pier/Logie Park. 1892-1894 Carolina Park.

Dundee Wanderers - 1894 East Dock Street Ground. 1894-1909 Clepington Park. 1909-1910 No Ground. 1910-1913 St Margaret's Park, Lochee.

Colours: Wanderers/Johnstone Wanderers - 1885-1894 Maroon shirts with dark blue sash (diagonal stripe), dark blue shorts.

Dundee Wanderers - 1894-1900 Red & white striped shirts, dark blue shorts. 1900-1913 Red shirts, black shorts.

[edit] References

^ B. Crampsey, The First Hundred Years, Glasgow: Scottish Football League, 1990, p. 32
^ Twydell, Dave (1997). Rejected F.C. of Scotland Volume 3:The Rest, pp. 76. ISBN 1-874427-17-8.