The Dons made steady progress throughout the season, qualifying for the play-offs after finishing third in the League.

[99], AFCW plc was placed under the ownership of The Dons Trust, a supporters' group which is pledged to retain at least 75% control of that ownership. However Crawley's relegation during the 2014–15 Football League One season meant the two sides played each other on 15 August 2015 which the Dons won 2–1 after going a goal down. We welcome the Dons Trust Board’s attempts to explore potential alterations to the current confused structure of three boards and various levels of voting rights, but we believe now is the time for a clear and radical change to ensure fan-ownership is enshrined as the inviolable core tent of AFC Wimbledon’s raison d’être, while providing a structure fit for purpose that will enable the club, … The club aim to reach as many children as possible through their football and multi-sports programme by having vital links with their surrounding boroughs, most notably Merton and Kingston, which has allowed them to become one of the main providers of sports coaching in their local community. A majority of AFC Wimbledon supporters have expressed opposition to diluting the club’s landmark supporter-owned structure in return for significant money from private investors towards the new stadium. The club crest, which is based on the coat of arms of the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon, features a black double headed eagle in reference to a local legend that Julius Caesar once made camp on Wimbledon Common, this symbol being his own attributed coat of arms. Manager Terry Eames was suspended on 13 February 2004 and sacked five days later on the grounds of gross misconduct, after evidence was produced which showed him to have firstly made unauthorised and untrue representations to a number of the coaching staff, secondly, that he had falsely informed members of the coaching staff that the club had decided not to support his plans for youth football and required him to make immediate budgetary cut-backs and thirdly that he dispensed with the services of members of the coaching staff citing untrue reasons.

These statistics incorporate results for league matches (including Play-off matches) and results in all major League Cup competitions (including the Combined Counties League Premier Challenge Cup, the Isthmian League Cup, the Conference League Cup, the Football League Cup and the Football League Trophy) as well as results in the FA Vase, the FA Trophy and the FA Cup. The rivalry has since not been considered as significant. […] Lower down the divisions fully fan owned clubs have been climbing the divisions with Portsmouth and AFC Wimbledon showing the successes of fan ownership following failures of corporate […], […] have to be ambitious, the club has seen the heights reached by a fellow member owned phoenix club, AFC Wimbledon, and believe that they have what it takes to go just as far. A football ground isn’t the only asset being brought about by the scheme, 602 residential units will encircle the ground, of which 200 will be available to buy through shared ownership schemes. until 2017, and with Chelsea Football Club Women from 2017.

The club was founded in 2002 by supporters of the former Wimbledon F.C. Previous suggestions and offers of private investment in return for share ownership have been turned down by Dons Trust members, but the current proposal has been prompted by a sudden £11m shortfall in the £31.5m financing of the new 9,000-seat stadium.

[113], ** Wally Downes was suspended as manager on 25th September 2019 after he was charged by the Football Association over bets placed on games, with his assistant Glyn Hodges taking over his duties. Shortly after the club's 1–0 loss against Dagenham & Redbridge on 26 November 2013, businessmen Krishna Ganeshan and Chann Sankaran and three Whitehawk players—Michael Boateng, Moses Swaibu and Hakeem Adelakun—were charged with conspiracy to commit bribery over a failed plot to fix the game.

The Dons Trust is an industrial and provident society registered with the Financial Services Authority as "Wimbledon Football Club Supporters' Society Limited". [94][95][96][97] Since the sale, Kingstonian have had to groundshare with Leatherhead and then Corinthian-Casuals. AFC Wimbledon started the 2020-21 season at Loftus Road after agreeing a temporary groundshare agreement with Queens Park Rangers.

Everyone who has contributed to the club's success and this award should be very proud.

during 1977–78 in order to remember their own first season as a member of the Football League in the old Fourth Division (now League Two).

supporters were very strongly opposed to moving the club so far away from Wimbledon, feeling that a club transplanted to a distant location would no longer represent Wimbledon or the club's historic legacy and tradition.

[40] First team coach Simon Bassey took over as caretaker manager with immediate effect. [6] They are the first club formed in the 21st century to make it into the Football League.

AFC Wimbledon currently hold the record for the longest unbeaten run of league matches in English senior football, having played 78 consecutive league games without a defeat between February 2003 and December 2004. [35] The match set an attendance record of 4,722 for Kingsmeadow stadium, which at that time was full capacity. Membership of WOPA is open to all former Wimbledon F.C. Among the sixty founding members were Glenn Mulcaire, who scored AFC Wimbledon's first ever goal in 2002[110] and Kevin Cooper, who remains the club's all-time highest goal scorer with 107 goals between August 2002 and May 2004, as well as retaining the title for the most goals scored in a season with 66 during 2003–04. [85], Wimbledon will play the first few matches of the 2020-21 season at Loftus Road whilst Plough Lane is being built[1]. On 4 December 2018, Glyn Hodges joined Wally Downes as AFC Wimbledon's assistant manager. This is not to be confused with Wimbledon Independent Supporters Association (WISA) although WISA has as one of its stated constitutional aims "to purchase shares in AFC Wimbledon's holding company". They’ve got the location sorted, having purchased the old Wimbledon Greyhound stadium, some 200 yards from the site of the old. AFC Wimbledon made an equally slow start to the 2017–18 campaign, managing just five wins in their first 20 league matches between August and December. The internal club hearing investigated three charges against Eames; that he made unauthorised and untrue representations to a number of the coaching staff, that he falsely informed members of the coaching staff that the club had decided not to support his plans for youth football and required him to make immediate budgetary cut-backs, and that he dispensed with the services of members of the coaching staff citing falsified reasons.

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One of the most infamous stories in British football is that of the takeover of Wimbledon FC, and owner Pete Winkelman moving the side out of Wimbledon and into Milton Keynes, later changing the identity of the side to MK Dons. In June 2010, Vinnie Jones, another former player of Wimbledon F.C., donated his 1988 FA Cup winners medal to the fans of AFC Wimbledon. It will have an initial capacity of 9,300, with the option of expansion to a maximum 20,000 at a later date.[8][9]. Become a founding member – Decide democratically how funds are distributed monthly. In 2002 a group of Wimbledon fans founded a new phoenix club, AFC Wimbledon. The two sides did not play each other between 2012 and 2015 due to Crawley's promotion to League One.

[111] On 16 July 2006, WOPA fielded a team in the Masters Football Tournament at Wembley Arena, with AFC Wimbledon's backing. such as John Fashanu, Dave Beasant, Efan Ekoku, Neil Sullivan, Dave Bassett, Wally Downes, Marcus Gayle, Neal Ardley, Alan Kimble, Andy Thorn, Roger Joseph, Dickie Guy, Allen Batsford, Roger Connell, Ian Cooke, Roy Law and Steve Galliers. [citation needed]. Upon their foundation in 2002, AFC Wimbledon entered into a ground–sharing arrangement with Kingstonian to play home fixtures at Kingsmeadow in the neighbouring borough of Kingston upon Thames. The 2014–15 season saw AFC Wimbledon face Milton Keynes Dons once again in a competitive fixture on 12 August 2014 in the first round of the Football League Cup, with MK Dons eventually winning the match 3–1. Is it time to return the beautiful game to the fans? In 2006, AFC Wimbledon introduced a new mascot to represent the club, a Womble known as "Haydon" after Haydons Road, the nearest railway station to Wimbledon F.C.