Follow our timeline and experience the highlights from over 125 years of Wimbledonâs Football Club.The new stadium seating design is revealed after a consultation with fans.We're sowing the seeds for our future - literally!These are no ordinary stairs - these are probably the most important stairs to go into our new Plough Lane home. Current greyhound racing stadium is (again!) This exciting development is the culmination of an astonishing fan-owned rebirth for Wimbledon’s football club. The club may only be 18 years old, but AFC Wimbledon are no strangers to adversity.Having been founded in 2002 by supporters as a protest against the original Wimbledon’s uprooting to Milton Keynes, the Dons have risen through the divisions, winning six promotions in 13 years to reach League One.While there has been much to celebrate over the years on the pitch, the club have continued to endure some hardships off it. “Yes, the costs have increased, but tell me a stadium which hasn’t? AFC Wimbledon hopes to raise more than 50% of its new stadium cost through crowdfunding.
For nearly eighty years it was the home ground of Wimbledon Football Club, from September 1912 until May 1991, when the club moved their first team home matches to Selhurst Park as part of a groundshare agreement with Crystal Palace. This would allow it to remain competetive on the field despite this major project.“We have now given the official go-ahead for preliminary earthworks to start on the site of our new stadium.” a statement by The Dons Trust reads. | Photo credit: Unknown,September 2018 | The site is almost cleared to start building our new stadium! Not great news for Wimbledon supporters, at the same time no surprise either.Despite all hurdles having been cleared, there's still no certainty over groundbreaking time for AFC Wimbledon's new stadium.
Obviously the more they raise, the easier it is for us with the rest of the debt package.”.From the outside, a shortfall of £11m in the final year of such a long process might appear alarming. In this phase only the 4-floor main grandstand will be built as a permanent structure, strengthened with 400 piles inserted into the ground. As long as the fans have that appetite we’ll continue on that path.”,Like us on Facebook to see similar stories,More Afghan interpreters eligible to move to UK under new rules,Len Goodman looks incredible in throwback photo from the seventies,Everything you need to know about Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes' marriage and TV career,Everton vs West Brom result: Dominic Calvert-Lewin hat-trick inspires thrashing of 10-man visitors,More than 500 organisations sign up for government's Kickstart Scheme to help young into work,Best gaming earbuds 2020: top in-ear headphones that are perfect for gaming,FAST 3-move kettlebell workout for big arms will scorch your biceps, triceps and delts too,Mercedes EQS spied reminding us it will technically be a hatchback,Gok Wan's elaborate dining room looks like a work of art,7 full-flavoured whites from lesser-known grapes for autumn,'Last Night In Soho' director Edgar Wright recalls his beautiful farewell with Diana Rigg,Watch Richard Malone's 'Borderline Hysterical' Models Dance The Lockdown Blues Away For SS21,Arsenal vs West Ham live stream: How to watch Premier League fixture online and on TV today,Germany plans reform to avoid bankruptcy wave due to corona.Nearly a third of us now have a 'smart' speaker and the numbers keep on growing, but LEE BOYCE asks: are they useful or simply a spy in the home? This is the final hurdle of that story.”.AFC Wimbledon, who sit 20th in League One and host Ipswich on Tuesday night, stand out amid the current backdrop of financial struggles in the Football League.While this season Bury have been expelled from the league, Bolton have failed to fulfil fixtures and Macclesfield have been deducted points for failing to pay players, the Dons hope their way of relying on their fans can gain traction.“Because of that model we have that extra pressure to be self-sustainable, which we are,” says Palmer. We don’t want to do that.“It’s about trying to see how far a fan-owned club which is sustainable can go. “They’re proving that now by putting the money in.