Wanderers Football Club is an English amateur
football club based in
London. Founded as
Forest Football Club in 1859, the club changed its name to Wanderers in 1864. Comprising mainly former pupils of the leading English
public schools, Wanderers was among the dominant teams of the early years of organised football and won the
Football Association Challenge Cup (known in the modern era as the FA Cup) on five occasions, including defeating
Royal Engineers in the
first FA Cup final in 1872.