AFC Wimbledon
The AFC Wimbledon is an English football club from Wimbledon, London, which is active in the 2013/14 season in Football League Two, the fourth- highest division in England. He belongs to both the London Football Association and the Surrey County Football Association. The games are borne by the club from the Kingsmeadow. It contributes to the time the sponsors name The Cherry Red Records Fans ' Stadium.
It was founded in 2002 by supporters of Wimbledon FC after he decided to move to the more than 100 km north of Wimbledon location Milton Keynes and later changed the name to Milton Keynes Dons.
With 78 games ( 69 wins and 9 draws ), the club holds the English record for consecutive league games without defeat. The AFC is owned by the Dons Trust, a company incorporated by the fans non-profit organization in which every member has exactly one vote.
History
Due to the migration of the FC Wimbledon was on 28 May 2002 adopted a new domiciled in the district club to found AFC Wimbledon. Became president of the fan Kris Stewart, who had lost his job as a financial adviser on the same day, and now had enough time to volunteer work. Meanwhile, Dickie Guy is president and CEO Kris Stewart.
The club continued from the beginning to the media sent a; the first team has been cast. From several hundred applicants 20 were selected. The great sympathy for the club meant that he had many visitors always proportional to the League who were also willing to pay higher entrance fees. Also, some larger sympathizers support the club financially.
For the first game on 10 July 2002, a friendly against Sutton United were more than 4,500 viewers, and also the first league game of the AFC Wimbledon broke all previous attendance records in the Seagrave Haulage Premier Division (Combined Counties League, CCL). Even in his first season, the AFC reached the third place in the CCL and won the following season without a single defeat the champion.
The club won the CCL championship with a goal difference of 148 at 42 wins and only four draws and then rose to the Isthmian League First Division. The AFC won once in the first season the champion of the First Division and played with it in the 2005/06 season in the Isthmian League Premier Division.
In the 2007 /08 season they reached the 3rd place and thus promotion to the Conference South, where by the immediate mastery of the walkover in the Conference National, the highest non- professional league in England, succeeded.
After only two years in the Conference National, the association could qualify as a table runner-up for the play-offs and after two wins (2-0 and 6-1 ) over Fleetwood Town move into the final. On 21 May 2011, a further piece of Club history was written. The AFC Wimbledon won the final against Luton Town 4-3 on penalties for at the City of Manchester Stadium and rose to the Football League Two.
In summer 2005, supported Kris Stewart and other founding members of the AFC Wimbledon the disappointed fans of Manchester United at the start up their own club, FC United of Manchester. The Austrian initiative Violet - White founded on the basis of their English modeled after the takeover of Austria Salzburg by Red Bull with the sports club Austria Salzburg their own club.