List of AFC Wimbledon seasons

AFC Wimbledon fans and players celebrating promotion to the Conference South after beating Staines Town 2–1 in the Isthmian League Premier Division Play-off Final at the end of the 2007–08 season.

AFC Wimbledon is an English professional association football club, currently based in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London. The club was formed on 30 May 2002 by supporters of Wimbledon Football Club, led by Kris Stewart, Marc Jones and Trevor Williams who strongly opposed the decision of an independent commission appointed by the FA to allow the relocation of Wimbledon F.C. to Milton Keynes, to be subsequently renamed as MK Dons.^[1]

AFC Wimbledon was accepted into the Premier Division of the Combined Counties League for the 2002–03 season.^[2] The club's average home attendance at league fixtures for their first season exceeded 3,000 – higher than the average attendance in the same season of Wimbledon F.C., who were still playing in the First Division (now the Football League Championship).^[3] The Dons have also set a record for the longest run of unbeaten league games at any level of senior football in the United Kingdom.^[4] The team remained unbeaten for 78 league matches between 22 February 2003 (a 2–0 defeat at home to Withdean 2000) and 4 December 2004 (a 2–0 defeat at Cray Wanderers).^[5]

The club went on to achieve five promotions in nine seasons, ensuring that they were the first club to be formed in the 21st century to make it into the Football League and making them the youngest of the 92 Football League clubs by some distance.^[6]

Key

The Division is shown in italics when it changes due to promotion, relegation or league reorganisation.

Champions

Runners-up

Automatic Promotion

Promotion via Play-offs

Relegated

Key to league record P = Games played W = Games won D = Games drawn L = Games lost F = Goals for A = Goals against Pts = Points Pos = Final league position

Key to rounds QR2 = Qualifying round 2 QR3 = Qualifying round 3 QR4 = Qualifying round 4 Prelim = Preliminary round R1 = Round 1 R1S = Round 1 Southern Section R2 = Round 2 R3 = Round 3

R4 = Round 4 R5 = Round 5 R6 = Round 6 QF = Quarter-finals SF = Semi-finals RU = Runners-up W = Winners

Key to goalscorers = Number of league goals scored

Seasons

Season	League									FA Cup	Other competitions		Top scorer		Average Home Attendance	References
	Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	Pos				Name
2002–03	Combined Counties League Premier Division	46	36	3	7	125	46	111	3rd	N/A	London Senior Cup	R4	Kevin Cooper	37	3,003	[7][8][9][10]
											Combined Counties League Premier Challenge Cup	R2
2003–04	Combined Counties League Premier Division	46	42	4	0	180	32	130	1st Champions		FA Vase	R6	Kevin Cooper	53	2,606	[11][12][13][14][15]
											London Senior Cup	R1
											Surrey Senior Cup	R3
											Combined Counties League Premier Challenge Cup	W
2004–05	Isthmian League Division One	42	29	10	3	91	33	97	1st Champions	QR3	FA Trophy	R1	Richard Butler	24	2,858	[16][17][18][19][20][21]
											London Senior Cup	R4
											Surrey Senior Cup	W
											Isthmian League Cup	QF
2005–06	Isthmian League Premier Division	42	22	11	9	67	36	77	4th^[A]	QR2	FA Trophy	R1	Shane Smeltz	19	2,706	[22][23][24][25][26][27]
											London Senior Cup	R4
											Surrey Senior Cup	RU
											Isthmian League Cup	QF
2006–07	Isthmian League Premier Division	42	21	15	6	76	37	75^[B]	5th^[C]	QR4	FA Trophy	R2^[B]	Roscoe D'Sane	17	2,512	[28][29][30][31][32][33]
											London Senior Cup	R1
											Surrey Senior Cup	R2^[B]
											Isthmian League Cup	R4
2007–08	Isthmian League Premier Division	42	22	9	11	81	47	75	3rd^[D] Promoted via Play-offs	QR3	FA Trophy	R3	Steven Ferguson	10	2,603	[34][35][36][37][38][39]
											London Senior Cup	QF
											Surrey Senior Cup	R2
											Isthmian League Cup	R2
2008–09	Conference South	42	26	10	6	86	36	88	1st Champions	R1	FA Trophy	R1	Jon Main	33	3,219	[40][41][42][43][44][45]
											Conference League Cup	R1S
											London Senior Cup	R1
											Surrey Senior Cup	R3
2009–10	Conference National	44	18	10	16	61	47	64	8th	R1	FA Trophy	R3	Danny Kedwell	21	3,535	[46][47][48][49][50]
											London Senior Cup	RU
											Surrey Senior Cup	QF
2010–11	Conference National	46	27	9	10	83	47	90	2nd^[E] Promoted via Play-offs	R2	FA Trophy	R2	Danny Kedwell	23	3,486	[51][52][53][54][55]
											London Senior Cup	SF
											Surrey Senior Cup	R2
2011–12	Football League Two	46	15	9	22	62	78	54	16th	R2	Football League Cup	Prelim.	Jack Midson	18	4,295	[56][57][58][59][60][61]
											Football League Trophy	R3
											London Senior Cup	SF
											Surrey Senior Cup	QF
2012–13	Football League Two	46	14	11	21	54	76	53	20th	R2	Football League Cup	R1	Jack Midson	13	4,060	[62][63][64][65][66][67]
											Football League Trophy	R1
											London Senior Cup	W
											Surrey Senior Cup	SF
2013–14	Football League Two	46	14	14	18	49	57	53 ^[F]	20th	R1	Football League Cup	R1	Michael Smith	9	4,135	[68][69][70][71][72][73]
											Football League Trophy	R1
											London Senior Cup	W
											Surrey Senior Cup	R2
2014–15	Football League Two	46	14	16	16	54	60	58	15th	R3	Football League Cup	R1	Adebayo Akinfenwa	15	4,073
											Football League Trophy	R3
											London Senior Cup	R2
											Surrey Senior Cup
2015–16	Football League Two									R1	Football League Cup	R1
											Football League Trophy	R1
											London Senior Cup
											Surrey Senior Cup

Notes

A. ^ AFC Wimbledon were defeated 2–1 by Fisher Athletic in the Isthmian League Premier Division play-off semi-final on 2 May 2006, preventing the club from achieving three back-to-back promotions.^[74]

B. ^ AFC Wimbledon were deducted 3-points and fined £400 (reduced from an 18-point deduction on appeal)^[75] for the fielding of Jermaine Darlington who, it transpired, had not been registered correctly by the club as he required 'international clearance' in order to be transferred from the Football Association of Wales to the Football Association of England and had therefore played in three matches whilst still ineligible.^[76] The 'Darlington affair' also resulted in expulsion from the Surrey Senior Cup and the FA Trophy that season.^[77]

C. ^ AFC Wimbledon were defeated 1–0 by Bromley in the Isthmian League Premier Division play-off semi-final on 1 May 2007.^[78]

D. ^ AFC Wimbledon beat Staines Town 2–1 in the Isthmian League Premier Division play-off final on 3 May 2008.^[79]

E. ^ AFC Wimbledon beat Luton Town 4–3 in a penalty shoot-out after the match had ended 0–0 in extra time in the 2011 Conference National play-off Final on 21 May 2011.^[80]

F. ^ AFC Wimbledon were deducted 3 points and given a £5,000 fine suspended for one year by a Football Disciplinary Commission hearing for the ineligible fielding of Jake Nicholson in a 4–3 win over Cheltenham Town on 22 March 2014.^[81] In addition the club was required to pay the costs of the hearing.^[82] It was found that the player's multiplicity contract had in fact expired on 19 March 2014 and had not been renewed on that date due to the illness of a key member of the club's administrative staff.^[83]

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Further reading

• Couper, Niall, ed. (2012). This Is Our Time: The AFC Wimbledon Story. London: Cherry Red Books. ISBN 978-1-901447-82-8.