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The Wanderers Football Club were an Amateur Football club, who 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 . Initially formed as Forest Football Club in 1860 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 1880's when individual schools set up their own clubs (such as Old Etonians and Old Carthusians ). External links Sources |