Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. Formed as St. Luke’s F. C. in 1877, the club has played at Molineux Stadium since 1889. Wolves has won the FA Cup four times, most recently in 1960, and finished runners-up on a further four occasions. They reached the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals in 2020, after a 39-year absence from European competition.
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Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, England. Formed as St. Luke’s F. C. in 1877, the club has played at Molineux Stadium since 1889 and has been competing in the Premier League since winning promotion in 2018. Wolves has won the FA Cup four times, most recently in 1960, and finished runners-up on a further four occasions. The club was one of the founding members of the Football League in 1888. Wolves’ traditional kit consists of old gold shirts and socks and black shorts. Long-standing rivalries exist with other West Midlands clubs, the main one being the Black Country derby contested with West Bromwich Albion. They are set to play one another during the 2020–21 season following West Brom’s promotion back to the top flight. Wolves reached the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals in 2020, after a 39-year absence from European competition. They have won the League Cup twice, in 1974 and 1980, and finish top of all four divisions in the English professional game. In the 2000 edition of the Rough Guide to English Football, the history section on the Wolves page begins: \”The very name Wolves thunders from the pages of English football history\”. The club’s last pre-war English league title came within a whisker of winning the last game of the 1937–38 title: a 1-0 win away at Portsmouth. They reached the semi-finals of the 1960–61 European Cup Winners’ Cup and the inaugural UEFA Cup Final in 1972.
They won the Third Division in 1923, entering the First Division at first attempt after returning to the Second Division. After the First World War to regain their place in the top division, the club suffered a further relegation in 1923. Wolves won the English League title in 1923 and were relegated in 1923 again. After losing the Third division in 1923 they won the league in 1924 and were promoted again in 1925. They were relegated again in 1926, but returned to the league the following season after winning the league at their first attempt. In 1929, they became the last English side to win the league twice in succession, as well as reaching the final of the pre- war FA Cup Final. In 1932, they were English League champions three times, all under the management of Stan Cullis. In 1934, they won their first English league trophy, the Second League Division. In 1936, they reached their first FA Cup final, losing 0–3 to the first \”Double\” winners, Preston North End. In 1937, they finished English league runner-up in five other seasons between 1937– 38 and 1959–60. In 1938, they lost the First League Cup Final to Portsmouth. In 1948, they beat Everton 1–0 in the final at Wembley Stadium. In 1951, they made a third FA Cupfinal appearance in 1896, and made a second FA CupFinal appearance in 1908, two years after having dropped into the Second division for the first time.
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