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Wanderers Football Club
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1859
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1883
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Lillie Bridge ,<br /> Battersea Park ,<br />possibly others
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The 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 most notable for having won the first ever
FA Cup final, in
1872 , and the competition another four times during the rest of the 1870s.
Initially formed as (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 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 .
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 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 , by which time individual schools had set up their own clubs (such as
Old Etonians and
Old Carthusians ).
Corinthians FC , another touring side composed of amateurs and ex-public schoolboys, were founded in 1882 and can be regarded in some ways as the spiritual successor to Wanderers, although they refused to take part in competitive football and the FA Cup, unlike the Wanderers.
See also:
1860 In Football (soccer) .
Between 1872 and
1880 the club supplied fifteen
England internationals, who are listed below, with the number of caps won in parentheses:
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 Wanderers
