| Clubname: | Wanderers |
| Fullname: | Wanderers Football Club |
| Nickname: | The Wanderers |
| Founded: | 3 August 1880 |
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Wanderers Football Club also known as Wanderers is a former soccer club based in Parramatta, Australia. Founded in 1880, the club is considered to be the first soccer club in Australia.
The club was founded on 3 August 1880, by English-emigrate John Walter Fletcher, after he called a meeting at Aarons Hotel, Sydney, to promote the English game of soccer to the new colony.[1]
Wanderers played their first match on 14 August 1880, against the Kings School rugby team.[2] [3] Wanderers won 5–0 in front of a crowd of 1,000 at Parramatta Common. The match is considered to be the first played under the Laws of the Game in Australia.[4]
Wanderers wore a white jersey, cap, knickerbockers and blue stockings, with a Southern Cross badge over the left breast.
The club played games at both Parramatta Common and Moore Park.[5]