What is Wimbledon F.C.?
{{for|the club that broke off from this one|A.F.C. Wimbledon}} '''Wimbledon Football Club''' was an [[England|English]] [[football (soccer)|football]] club. The club began in [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]] in 1889. In 2002 it moved to [[Milton Keynes]] and in 2004 it changed its name to [[Milton Keynes Dons F.C.]] Many football fans in Wimbledon did not agree with the move. They decided to start a new club there, which is called [[AFC Wimbledon]]. The club played in the [[English Football League]] and won the FA Cup in 1988. It was a [[professional]] football club, which means that the players get paid to play. ==First move: out of Wimbledon== In 1992, the club decided that its ground at Plough Lane was too small and moved away from [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]] to [[Selhurst Park]] in [[Croydon]]. This ground is owned by [[Crystal Palace F.C.]]. They stayed there for the next 12 years. ==Second move: out of London, to Milton Keynes== In 2002, the club's owners decided that they wanted to move the club out of London. Nobody really knows why they wanted to move. They said that there were too many clubs in London, that not enough people were coming to watch the matches. This meant that they did not collect enough money at the gate to pay everyone and that is why they could not afford to stay. They looked at [[Cardiff]] and [[Dublin]] before deciding to move to Milton Keynes. Milton Keynes is a new city that is 45 miles (or 75 kilometres) north of London. When they said what they wanted to do, most of their fans stopped paying to see matches, which meant that they had even less money to pay everyone. Before the move could happen, they had to get permission from the [[Football Association]] (the FA). The FA is the association of all the football clubs in England. The clubs elect a Committee to decide what to do about things. Most things they have to decide are easy but this was not easy to decide. Or maybe they knew what to decide but did not want to be the ones to decide it. So they asked thr