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AFC Wimbledon is an English professional association football club from Wimbledon, south-west London.
Full name | Association Football Club Wimbledon | |||
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Nickname(s) | The Wombles; The Crazy Gang | |||
Founded | 1889 (as Wimbledon Old Central Football Club) 1905 (as Wimbledon Football Club) 2002 (as Association Football Club Wimbledon) | |||
Ground | Cherry Red Records Stadium | |||
Capacity | 4,850 (2,025 seated) | |||
Manager | Simon Bassey (caretaker) | |||
League | League Two | |||
2011–12 | League Two, 16th | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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Founded in 1889 as Wimbledon Old Central Football Club,[A] the club spent most of its history in amateur and semi-professional non-League football before being elected to the Football League in 1977 and reaching the First Division in 1986 after a mere nine seasons in the league and just four seasons after being in the Fourth Division.
Wimbledon stayed in the First Division and then the FA Premier League from 1986 until 2000. Most famously, in 1988, Wimbledon beat the then-champions Liverpool 1–0 in the FA Cup final, thus becoming only the second football club (after Old Carthusians) to have won both the FA Cup and the FA Amateur Cup, having won the latter in 1962–63.
Following the publication of the Taylor Report, which recommended that all top-flight clubs play in all-seater stadiums, the club decided that it needed to move from its Plough Lane home in 1991. Wimbledon began to groundshare with nearby Crystal Palace, an originally temporary arrangement that ended up lasting for over twelve years.