Wolverhampton Wanderers is an English football club based in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, which began as a school team of St Luke's Church in Blakenhall. It was one of the twelve founding clubs of the Football League in 1888. Under the manager Stan Cullis, the club became the best in England in the 1950s, winning three league titles, in 1954, 1958 and 1959, and the FA Cup in 1949 and 1960. Its floodlit friendly matches against foreign teams such as Honved and Spartak Moscow helped inspire the creation of the European Cup. Wolves have played at Molineux since 1889, and in recent years have been mostly in the Premier League. The team is nicknamed Wolves and plays in old gold and black.
Before and after
- 1877Invention of phonograph
- 1877Publication of Anna Karenina
- from 1877 to 1892Bone Wars
- 1877Launch of The Washington Post
- 1877Founding of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
- 20 February 1877Premiere of Swan Lake
- from 15 March 1877 to 19 March 1877The first Test match in cricket
- 12 April 1877Founding of University of Tokyo
- from 24 April 1877 to 3 March 1878Tenth Russo-Turkish War
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