AFC Wimbledon
| AFC Wimbledon | ||||
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| Surname | AFC Wimbledon | |||
| Seat | London Wimbledon | |||
| founding | 2002 | |||
| Website | afcwimbledon.co.uk | |||
| First soccer team | ||||
| Head coach | Glyn Hodges | |||
| Venue | Cherry Red Records Stadium , Kingston upon Thames | |||
| Places | 4850 | |||
| league | EFL League One | |||
| 2019/20 | 20th place | |||
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The AFC Wimbledon is an English football club from the London borough of Wimbledon . He has been playing in EFL League One , the third highest division in England , since the 2016/17 season . The club plays its home games in Kingsmeadow .
AFC Wimbledon was founded in 2002 by supporters of Wimbledon FC when they decided to move to Milton Keynes , more than 100 kilometers north of Wimbledon, and later changed their name to Milton Keynes Dons . The AFC is owned by the Dons Trust , a fan-built non-profit organization in which each member has exactly one vote.
With 78 games (69 wins and 9 draws), the club holds the English record for consecutive league games without defeat.
history
Due to the migration of FC Wimbledon, it was decided on May 28, 2002 to found a new club based in the district, the AFC Wimbledon. The president was the fan Kris Stewart, who lost his job as a financial advisor on the same day and now had enough time for the honorary function.
The club used the media skillfully from the start; the first team was cast . Twenty players were selected from several hundred applicants. The great sympathy for the club meant that it always had a disproportionately large number of visitors who were also willing to pay higher admission. Some more financially strong sympathizers also support the association financially.
The premiere on July 10, 2002, a friendly game against Sutton United, attracted over 4,500 visitors, and the first league game of AFC Wimbledon broke all previous attendance records of the Seagrave Haulage Premier Division (Combined Counties League, CCL). The AFC reached third place in its first season and won the championship title the following season without any loss.
With a goal difference of +148 in 42 wins and only four draws, they rose to the Isthmian League First Division. The AFC immediately became champions there and played in the Isthmian League Premier Division in the 2005/06 season .
In the third season 2007/08 one reached the third place and thus the promotion to the Conference South , where through the immediate championship the march into the Conference National , the highest non-professional league in England, succeeded.
After only two years in the Conference National, the club was able to qualify for the play-offs as second in the table in the 2010/11 season and move into the final after two wins (2-0 and 6-1) over Fleetwood Town. On May 21, 2011 another piece of club history was written. The AFC Wimbledon won the final against Luton Town 4: 3 on penalties at the City of Manchester Stadium and was promoted to Football League Two . Five years later, the AFC Wimbledon moved into the play-off final again in seventh place with a 1-0 and 2-2 win against Accrington Stanley and on May 30, 2016 after a 2-0 win over Plymouth Argyle at Wembley Stadium promotion to EFL League One .
In the 2016/17 season they played through the relegation of the Milton Keynes Dons from the 2nd division in the same class. In the 2018/19 season, the AFC played a league over the MK Dons, as they were relegated again.
Trivia
- In the summer of 2005, Kris Stewart and other founding members of AFC Wimbledon helped the disappointed Manchester United fans to found their own club, FC United of Manchester . The Austrian initiative violet and white has on the basis of their English model after the acquisition of Austria Salzburg by Red Bull with the SV Austria Salzburg founded their own club.
- On the occasion of the first better placement in front of the MK Dons, the long-time fan and sponsor of the club, John Green , announced the filming of the club's history. The film is to be produced by Fox 2000 .
- In November 2019, the book My Time at AFC Wimbledon was published by the German author Daniel Roth, who attended around 100 games with the association's participation.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Pitch battle , theguardian.com
- ↑ AFC Wimbledon set English record , news.bbc.co.uk
- ↑ AFC Wimbledon feel 'sense of wonder' after odyssey to Football League , theguardian.com
- ^ AFC Wimbledon A Local Football Clubs ( Memento from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ SUTTON UNITED 4-0 AFC WIMBLEDON ( Memento from December 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Combined Counties League 2002/03 ( Memento from November 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Combined Counties League Premier Division 2003/04 , wimbledonheritage.co.uk
- ↑ AFC Wimbledon 6-1 Fleetwood (agg 8-1) , news.bbc.co.uk
- ↑ AFC Wimbledon 0-0 Luton Town (4-3 on pens) , news.bbc.co.uk
- ↑ Dons dreams come true at Wembley , bbc.com
- ↑ Mike Fleming Jr: 'Fault In Our Stars' Author John Green Plots British Soccer Pic On AFC Wimbledon. In: Deadline. Retrieved April 6, 2016 (American English).