The team was founded in 2002, when the British Football Association approved Wimbledon Football Club to move to Milton Keynes, a new town in Buckinghamshire. Wimbledon supporters set up their own AFC Wimbledon to oppose this move. For transplanting Wimbledon to Milton Keynes, most Wimbledon fans feel that the club no longer represents the tradition and inheritance of Wimbledon community, so they support the newly established team instead.
When the AFC Wimbledon was founded, the team participated in the "Union County Football League Premier League", and then advanced four times in seven seasons, and the league was unbeaten for 78 consecutive games, which is the record of senior football matches in England so far. In the 2008/09 season, the team won the Southern League Championship of the English Football Council and was upgraded to the Parliamentary National League, which is not the highest level of the League.
The women's team originally belonging to Wimbledon Football Club switched to the AFC Wimbledon after the end of the 2003 season and became the AFC Wimbledon women's team. In addition to the first team, there are also 10 youth teams for boys and girls in the team, ranging in age from 19 to 8 years old.
The holding company of AFC Wimbledon is "AFCW PLC", and the parent company behind it is "Downs Trust" (DT for short), which is a fan group and promises to hold 75% or more voting rights of "AFCW PLC" and completely control AFC Wimbledon. The share capital of "AFCW Co., Ltd." includes 5 million ordinary shares with face value of 65,438+0p and 5 million ordinary A shares with face value of 65,438+0p. 5,000,000 ordinary shares have all been placed and held by Downs Fund, with 3 votes each; In 2003, 2.4 million ordinary A shares were distributed to fans and investors, each with only 65,438+0 votes, and about 654.38+04 million pounds were raised for the lease of Kingsmeadow.
"Duns Fund" was established in the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in 2002 in the form of "Industry and Provident Fund Association", registered in the name of Wimbledon Football Club Supporters Association Limited, and its name is easily associated with Wimbledon Independent Supporters Association. Wisa (short for WISA) was founded in 1995, with the official fan association opposing the relocation of the team, and then striving for the team to return to its original place of residence. It is the first Wimbledon fan group to support the establishment of AFC Wimbledon, but it has been completely independent of the club system.
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