Wanderers F.C.
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| fullname = Wanderers Football Club
| founded = 1859
| dissolved = 1883
| ground = [[Lillie Bridge]],<br />[[Battersea Park]],<br />possibly others
| capacity = ''n/a''
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{{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 }}
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