As with several other clubs, Everton for example, Wolves had humble beginnings shaped by the twin influences of cricket and the church. In the 2000 edition of 'The Rough Guide to English Football', the history section on the Wolves page begins: 'The very name Wolves thunders from the pages of English football history'. Formation and the Football League (1879–1893) The two clubs played one another during the 2020–21 season for the first time since 2011–12, the Premier League game on 16 January 2021 coming nearly nine years since the previous meeting on 12 February 2012.įor a statistical breakdown by season, see List of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. Long-standing rivalries exist with other West Midlands clubs, the main one being the Black Country derby contested with West Bromwich Albion. Since 1979, the kit has also featured the club's 'wolf's head' badge. Wolves' traditional kit consists of old gold shirts and socks and black shorts. Following a 39-year absence from European competition, they reached the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals in 2020. Wolves reached the quarter-finals of the competition in 1959–60 as well as the semi-finals of the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup and the inaugural UEFA Cup Final in 1972. The club has also won the League Cup twice, in 19, and finished top of all four divisions in the English professional game.Īfter becoming one of the first British clubs to install floodlights, Wolves arranged televised 'floodlit friendlies' against leading overseas club sides between 19, which were instrumental in the launch of the European Cup (now known as the UEFA Champions League) in 1955. Wolves has won the FA Cup four times, most recently in 1960, and finished runners-up on a further four occasions. Wolves also finished English league runners-up in five other seasons between 1937––60. During 26 consecutive seasons spent in the top flight between 19, it was English League champions three times (in 1953–54, 1957––59), all under the management of Stan Cullis. The club was one of the founding members of the Football League in 1888. The 2021–22 season is the club's sixty-seventh season in total at the highest level and the eighth since the foundation of the Premier League in 1992.

in 1877, the club has played at Molineux Stadium since 1889 and has been competing in the Premier League, the top division of English football, since winning promotion in 2018.

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club ( / ˌ w ʊ l v ər ˈ h æ m p t ən/ ( listen)), commonly known as Wolves, is a professional association football club based in the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, England.

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