âIt started in mid-2002, when the germ of the AFC idea was first developed, and really began to take hold when the club kicked off its first fixture a few weeks later against Sutton United on July 7
Looking out over AFC Wimbledon’s fantastic Plough Lane home, Kris Stewart and Marc Jones, two of the club’s founding fathers, are reflecting on what has been an incredible journey.
âIt started in mid-2002, when the germ of the AFC idea was first developed, and really began to take hold when the club kicked off its first fixture a few weeks later against Sutton United on July 7.
âSince that day, the fan-owned outfit has risen from the flames of the dreadful period in which the old Wimbledon Football Club was snatched from its supporters.
âIt climbed back through the Combined Counties League, the Isthmian League and the Conference to become a Football League outfit in 2011, and from 2016 spent six years in League One before suffering relegation back to League Two.