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Wanderers

Full name

Wanderers Football Club

Founded

1859

Dissolved

1883

Ground

Lillie Bridge,
Battersea Park,
possibly others

Capacity

n/a





Home colours





Away colours

For other football clubs with "Wanderers" in their name, see Wanderers.

The Wanderers Football Club 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.

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 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.

Notable players

Between 1872 and 1880 the club supplied fifteen England internationals, who are listed below, with the number of caps won in parentheses:

Reginald Welch (1)
Leonard Howell (1)
Alexander Bonsor (2)
William Kenyon-Slaney (1)
Alfred Stratford (1)
Charles Wollaston (4)
Robert Kingsford (1)
Francis Birley (1)
Charles Alcock (1)
George Heron (3)
Frederick Green (1)
Charles Heron (1)
William Lindsay (1)
John Wylie (1)
Henry Wace (3)

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 Wanderers

References

Rob Cavallini (2005). The Wanderers F.C.: Five Times F.A. Cup Winners. Dog N Duck Publications. ISBN 0-9550496-0-1.
1871-72 FA Cup Final.
History of Association Football.

The Lillie Bridge Grounds was a sports ground in London near to present day Stamford Bridge, opened around 1867. The ground started to fall into disuse after the opening of Stamford Bridge and after a riot on September 18 1887 which destroyed the track and grandstand, finally
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Battersea Park is a 200 acre (0.83 km²) green space in Battersea, London, England. It is situated on the south bank of the River Thames opposite Chelsea. It was opened in 1858.
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Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players. It is the most popular sport in the world.
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Battersea

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Wandsworth

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London
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Constituent country England
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Football is the national sport of England, and as such has an important place within English national life. The sport is almost always referred to simply as football; it is unusual for it to be called soccer
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Sport Football
Founded 1871
No. of teams 731
Country(ies) England

Most recent champion(s) Chelsea F.C. (2006-07)

Official website http://www.thefa.
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Nottingham Forest

Full name Nottingham Forest Football Club
Nickname(s) The Reds, Forest
Founded 1865
Ground City Ground
Nottingham
England
Capacity 30,602^[1]
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Leytonstone

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The Football Association (The FA) is the governing body of football in England and the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. The FA has a unique place in the history of football.
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An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school relying, for all of its funding, upon private sources, so almost invariably charging school fees. In England and Wales the term public school
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Charles William Alcock (December 2, 1842 - February 26, 1907) was an influential English sportsman and administrator. He was a major instigator of the development of both international football and cricket, as well as being the creator of the FA Cup.
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Rugby Football Union

Founded 1871
IRB affiliation 1890
FIRA affiliation ?
President Bob Taylor
Men's coach Brian Ashton
Women's coach Geoff Richards
Official website
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Location: Kennington, London
Established: 1845
Seating Capacity: 23,500
Operator Surrey County Cricket Club
First Test v , September 6-8, 1880
Last Test v , August 9-13, 2007
First ODI
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The Royal Engineers AFC is a football team founded in 1863, under the leadership of Major Marindin of the Corps of Royal Engineers, the Sappers. They enjoyed a great deal of success in the 1870s, winning the FA Cup in 1875.

The 1875 Cup winning side was:

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Full name Morton Peto Betts
Date of birth 30 July 1847
Place of birth Bloomsbury, London, England

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The 1872 FA Cup Final was the first ever final of the world's oldest football competition, the FA Cup. The match took place on March 16, 1872 at the Kennington Oval, London, England, and was won by the Wanderers with a 1-0 victory over a team from the Royal Engineers.
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The 1878 FA Cup Final was contested by Wanderers and Royal Engineers at the Kennington Oval. Wanderers won 3-1, with two goals by Jarvis Kenrick and one by Arthur Kinnaird. The Royal Engineers' goal was scored by William Morris.
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