Wycombe Wanderers

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Basic data
Surname Wycombe Wanderers Football Club
Seat High Wycombe , England
founding 1887
Board EnglandEngland Ivor Beeks
Website wycombewanderers.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach EnglandEngland Gareth Ainsworth
Venue Adams Park
Places 10,000
league EFL Championship
2019/20   3rd place ( EFL League One )
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The Wycombe Wanderers (officially: Wycombe Wanderers Football Club) is the name of an English football club from High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire .

The club plays its home games at Adams Park and is nicknamed The Chairboys (for the furniture industry for which the city was famous) and The Blues (the blues). With a 2-1 win over Oxford United at the end of the playoff round, the club rose to the second-rate EFL Championship for the first time in the 2019/20 season .

history

Early history as an amateur club

The club was founded in High Wycombe in 1887 by a group of English furniture makers and played in the Southern Football League from 1896 . Due to a lack of success as an amateur club in a professional league, they switched to the Western Suburban League in 1908 and, after the First World War, to the Spartan League. After the championship in this league, the club became a member of the Isthmian League from 1921 , which could be won eight times from 1956. Wycombe also won the FA Amateur Cup, the most coveted trophy in English amateur football at the time, in 1931 and made it to the final in 1957, but lost 3-1 to Bishops Auckland FC in front of 90,000 spectators at Wembley .

Promotion to the Football League and professionalization

1985 the promotion to the Football Conference was made. In 1990 the club left the old stadium at Loakes Park to move to the new Adams Park. Around this time, Wycombe's most successful coach, Martin O'Neill, came to the club. Wycombe won the FA Trophy in its first full season and repeated the success in 1993. On both occasions, 30,000 Wycombe supporters traveled to the old Wembley Stadium to watch the games.

In 1993 they made the leap into the Football League and played from now on in the lowest English professional league, Division Three (today: Football League Two ). The leap to the Football League demanded the professionalization of the club, which meant that many players had to quit their (often better paying) part-time jobs in order to become professionals. Despite this difficulty, the club made it to Division Two (today: Football League One ) against Preston North End with a 4-2 victory in the final of the play-offs at Wembley in the first year . After a year in Division Two, Wycombe reached sixth place at the end of the season, his highest place in the table and thus only scratched one place past the play-offs. In the 1995 preseason, O'Neill left Wycombe to coach Norwich City .

Notable cup successes

In 2001, Wycombe gained national attention when the team advanced to the FA Cup semi- finals. Surprising victories were achieved against Wolverhampton Wanderers , Wimbledon FC and the first division team Leicester City , before they finally faced Liverpool FC in Villa Park in the semi-finals . 19,500 Wycombe supporters followed the 1: 2 defeat against the eventual cup winners.

2006/07 Wycombe succeeded again in a cup semi-final - now in the Carling Cup . After surprising away wins against the Premier League teams Fulham and Charlton Athletic as well as wins against Swansea City , Doncaster Rovers and Notts County , they faced reigning English champions Chelsea FC in the round of the last four teams . With an impressive 1-1 draw in the first leg at Adams Park, the fourth division team initially kept the match open, but then had to leave the competition as expected after a 4-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge .

Again relegation to Division Three

After a mixed season, the chairboys had to go back to Division Three in 2004, which was then renamed Football League Two . The recovery was missed two years later after a loss to Cheltenham Town in the play-offs. 2007/08 Wycombe had made it back into the play-offs, but this time failed to Stockport County . After a hard-fought 1-1 at Adams Park, Wycombe lost the second leg at Edgeley Park to Stockport 1-0. The former Borussia Dortmund player and Scottish national team captain Paul Lambert then resigned from the coaching post.

Promotion to League One

In the first half of the 2008/09 season, the Buckinghamshire club dominated League Two and was only beaten in November for the first time. In the second half of the season, however, the performance of the Wanderers declined and Wycombe only placed third due to a goal difference over Bury FC that was one goal better and rose directly to Football League One . This was Wycombe's first direct rise since winning the Football Conference in 1993.

After a disappointing start to the season in League One, the club dismissed coach Peter Taylor in October 2009 and replaced the coach of Aldershot Town FC , Gary Waddock . Despite the coaching change, Wycombe was still in the relegation zone after the first half of the season and could not make it through relegation. So you rose again with only 45 points in League Two.

Despite temporarily inconsistent form in the 2010/11 season Wycombe managed with 3rd place in League Two, the immediate promotion to League One. In the following season Wycombe was first involved again in the relegation battle. After many heavy defeats (the highest was a clear 6: 0 against Huddersfield Town live on TV) Wycombe has managed to land several victories himself, which give hope to avoid a further relegation to the 'League 2' for the chairboys .

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  1. ^ Wycombe and Taylor part company