AFC Wimbledon Shirts

System Record

Umbro

Pre-season 2002 a b

Tempest Sports

2002-2004 a

2004-2006 a

2006-2008 a

2008-2010 a

2010-2012 a

2012-2014 a

Admiral

2014-2016 a

Background

The rise of AFC Wimbledon through pyramid towards the Football League is an account that is just as remarkable as compared to the original Wimbledon FC club and a refreshing reminder of how a soccer club can be sustained by neighborhood character without commercial greed. Created in 2002 following announcement your original club would transfer to Milton Keynes, a sizable greater part of supporters moved their particular allegiance to the fledgling staff, which started life in Premier Division associated with Combined Counties League.

The colours chosen when it comes to brand new club had been the mid-blue and yellowish of Wimbledon's rise to the top associated with Football League additionally the crest ended up being in line with the older version worn by the older club.

The club ended up being placed under the ownership regarding the Dons' Trust, a followers' team that committed to keeping at the very least 75% control over the stocks issued. In 2003 a minority interest was sold being buy Kingsmeadow, the bottom the club shared with Kingstonian FC. The club's leader, Erik Samuelson, carried out his full time duties in return for a salary of just one guinea (£1.05) a-year, because "it seems posher than a pound." From its development, AFC Wimbledon were sponsored by Sports Interactive, creators of Championship management and Football Manager computer games, a manifestation of their commitment to grass-roots football. actually, during the pre-season friendlies ahead of the staff played in competitive matches, they wore a strip modeled on that worn when you look at the 1963 Amateur Cup final with Sports Interactive's logo design in the place of a club crest.

In their first period, AFC Wimbledon narrowly missed on marketing, attracting crowds of more than 3, 000, bigger than those attending Wimbledon FC's house games in the 1st Division (then your second level). Here season the group won the Combined Counties tournament and Premier Division Challenge Cup. Across following eight periods, AFC Wimbledon were marketed 5 times and established an English record of playing 78 successive games without defeat.

In October 2006 an appropriate activity allowing AFC Wimbledon to inherit the files of Wimbledon FC was satisfied: the medals and trademarks about Wimbledon FC had been utilized in the London Borough of Merton and it also had been concurred that MK Dons (the successor to Wimbledon FC) will never put claim to your associated with the honours won under their past incarnation. Consequently the Football Supporters Federation launched that the supporters of Milton Keynes Dons will be permitted in order to become people and therefore it might no further interest the supporters of other groups to boycott MK Dons fits.

Last year AFC Wimbledon achieved the Blue Square Premier Division and completed only three places in short supply of the play-off area. Having turned totally professional, the group finished since runners-up listed here season and reached the play-off last where they overcome previous Football League users Luton Town in a dramatic punishment shoot-out.

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