Wanderers FC

Wanderers Football Club was an English football club from the London district Battersea. It was one of the most important clubs of the country in the 1860s and 1870. The club is in the history chronicled as the winner of the very first FA Cup in 1872, in which they Royal Engineers AFC defeated 1-0 thanks to a goal scored by Morton Betts.

The club was founded in 1859 as Forest FC and was a founding member of the Football Association in 1863. In 1864, the name was adopted and moved the Wanderers club Leytonstone to Battersea. Most players were ex-students. After their first Cup profit knew the Wanderers win the FA Cup 4 more times, most recently in 1878. In the eternal ranking of winners is the club with it still in a tie for eighth place. In the 1880s the club was disbanded.

The name Wanderers was later taken over by many clubs. 3 of them playing in the Football League: Bolton Wanderers, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Wycombe Wanderers. The name was adopted in other countries: by Bray Wanderers (Ireland), Arsenal Wanderers (Mauritius), Montevideo Wanderers (Uruguay), Santiago Wanderers (Chile), Sliema Wanderers (Malta) and SK Viktoria Wanderers . ==Palmares[ Edit] ==
 * FA Cup
 * Winner: 1872, 1873, 1876, 1877, 1878