AFC Wimbledon jump ahead of MK Dons in table for the first time ever
AFC Wimbledon have reached a historic milestone: they are better than Milton Keynes Dons.
With AFC Wimbledon's win over Oxford United, 3-1, on Saturday, they moved to 10th in the League One table. That is two spots ahead of MK Dons, who sit 12th, and, for the first time ever, Wimbledon are above MK Dons in the English pyramid.
MK Dons famously moved from Wimbledon to Milton Keynes, leaving Wimbledon without a club and symbolizing to many all that is wrong with modern soccer. The money had become more important than the sport or the communities so they took a club that had been Wimbledon's since 1889 and relocated it to an entirely different city.
In response to this, Wimbledon FC fans launched a new club -- AFC Wimbledon.
Because they were a new club, AFC Wimbledon had to start at the bottom and they played their first season (2002/03) in the Combined Counties Football League, the ninth division. By the club's sixth season, they had earned promotion to the sixth division and in 2011, less than a decade after being formed, Wimbledon made it into the Football League. It took them just nine years to earn five promotions and they became the first club founded in the 21st century to make the Football League.
Last season, Wimbledon earned promotion from League Two to League One, putting them in the same division as hated MK Dons. The current Wimbledon club and the club that ditched the city. Now, Wimbledon is already better than MK Dons, at least in the table. It's absolutely incredible, just like most everything else Wimbledon has done since being founded a mere 14 years ago.
And if you think that's fun, just wait until Wimbledon and MK Dons square off on December 10. Or, even better, when MK Dons travel to play at Wimbledon on March 14.
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