Wanderers F.C. 1598477 221334146 2008-06-24T01:58:37Z DumZiBoT 6085301 robot Adding: [[it:Wanderers F.C.]] {{Infobox Football club | clubname = Wanderers | fullname = Wanderers Football Club | founded = 1859 | dissolved = 1883 | ground = [[Lillie Bridge]],<br />[[Battersea Park]],<br />possibly others | capacity = ''n/a'' |pattern_la1=_wanderers FC|pattern_b1=_wanderers FC|pattern_ra1=_wanderers FC | leftarm1=ffffff|body1=ffffff|rightarm1=ffffff|shorts1=ffffff|socks1=000000| }} {{about|the 19th-century football club|other football clubs with "Wanderers" in their name|Wanderers}} The '''Wanderers Football Club''' were an [[amateur]] [[football (soccer)|football]] club based in [[Battersea]], in the [[London Borough of Wandsworth]], and were one of the leading clubs in [[football in England|English football]] in the 1860s and 1870s. They are most notable for having won the first ever [[FA Cup]] final, in [[1872 in football (soccer)|1872]], and the competition another four times during the rest of the 1870s. ==History== 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 "wandering" across London to [[Battersea Park]]. The team consisted mostly of ex-[[public school (England)|public schoolboys]], and was captained by [[C. W. Alcock|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 "[[List of people known as the father or mother of something|father]]" of the [[Rugby Football Union]]. 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 A.F.C.|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 [[FA Cup Final 1872|1872]] and [[FA Cup Final 1878|1878]], and even as of 2007 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]]. The club was eventually disbanded in [[1883 in football (soccer)|1883]], by which time individual schools had set up their own clubs (such as [[Old Etonians F.C.|Old Etonians]] and [[Old Carthusians F.C.|Old Carthusians]]). ==Notable players== Between 1872 and [[1880 in football (soccer)|1880]] the club supplied fifteen [[England national football team|England]] internationals, who are listed below, with the number of caps won in parentheses:<ref>[http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamClubs/Clubs/Wanderers.html Club Affiliations - Wanderers ]</ref> *[[C. W. Alcock|Charles Alcock]] (1) *[[Francis Birley]] (1) *[[Alexander Bonsor]] (2) *[[Frederick Green (footballer)|Frederick Green]] (1) *[[Francis Heron]] (1) *[[Hubert Heron]] (3) *[[Leonard Howell (footballer)|Leonard Howell]] (1) *[[William Kenyon-Slaney]] (1) *[[Robert Kingsford]] (1) *[[William Lindsay (footballer)|William Lindsay]] (1) *[[Alfred Stratford]] (1) *[[Henry Wace (footballer)|Henry Wace]] (3) *[[Reginald de Courtenay Welch]] (1) *[[Charles Wollaston]] (4) *[[John Wylie (footballer)|John Wylie]] (1) [[Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird|Lord Arthur Kinnaird]] made one appearance for [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]]. [[John Hawley Edwards]], who made his only international appearance for [[England national football team|England]] in 1874 whilst registered with [[Shropshire Wanderers F.C.|Shropshire Wanderers]], and scored for Wanderers in the [[1876 FA Cup Final]], played for [[Wales national football team|Wales]] against Scotland a week after the Cup Final. ==Honours== *[[FA Cup]] winners: [[1872 FA Cup Final|1872]], [[1873 FA Cup Final|1873]], [[1876 FA Cup Final|1876]], [[1877 FA Cup Final|1877]] and [[1878 FA Cup Final|1878]] ==Legacy== Many clubs have adopted "Wanderers" as a [[suffix]] in their name, directly or indirectly inspired by the Wanderers FC name. :''For a list of clubs with "Wanderers" in their name, see the disambiguation page at [[Wanderer#In sports|Wanderers]]'' ==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite book | author=Rob Cavallini | date=2005 | title=The Wanderers F.C.: Five Times F.A. Cup Winners | publisher=Dog N Duck Publications | id=ISBN 0-9550496-0-1 }} ==External links== * {{cite web | url=http://www.innotts.co.uk/soccer/books/kw3.pdf | title=1871-72 FA Cup Final }} * {{cite web | url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22194 | title=History of Association Football }} *{{fchd|id=WANDERER|name=Wanderers}} {{fb start}} {{The Football Association}} {{fb end}} [[Category:Football (soccer) clubs established in 1859]] [[Category:Football (soccer) clubs disestablished in 1883]] [[Category:Defunct English football clubs]] [[Category:Sport in London]] [[Category:FA Cup winners]] [[de:Wanderers FC]] [[es:Wanderers Football Club]] [[fr:Wanderers Football Club]] [[it:Wanderers F.C.]] [[lt:Wanderers FC]] [[nl:Wanderers FC]] [[ja:ワンダラーズFC]] [[pl:Wanderers F.C.]] [[ro:London Wanderers]] [[sv:Wanderers FC]]