DONS v "DONS"!

9th October 2016

Initially based at the National Hockey Stadium, Wimbledon Football Club competed as Milton Keynes Dons from the start of the 2004-5 season. The club moved to their current ground, Stadium MK for the 2007-8 season, when they won the League Two title and the Football League Trophy. After seven further seasons in League One, the club won promotion to the Championsip in 2015 under the management of Karl Robinson; however, they were relegated back to League One after one season.

Milton Keynes Dons run 16 disability teams and their football trust engages around 60,000 people; between 2012 and 2013 the club produced 11 young players who have been called into age group national teams and between 2004 and 2014 the club also gave first-team debuts to 14 local academy graduates, including the England International midfielder Dele Ali. (where is he now?)

The club also operates a women's team, Milton Keynes Dons Women, who groundshare Stadium MK, with their male counterparts, and currently play in the third tier of the English women's football pyramid.

AFC Wimbledon was formed in June 2002 by fans of Wimbledon FC, after that "original" club had decided to up-sticks and move to Milton Keynes, eventually becoming MK Dons. AFC started life in the Combined Counties League, a south-eastern non-league, which was in the ninth tier of English football, but by 2016/17 both clubs were together in League 1. 

On Sunday October 9th, that season - when AFC won at Oxford and MKD lost at home to Port Vale - for the first time the "phoenix club" was above the original club in the League table. AFC occupied 10th spot in League 1, one point and two places higher than MKD. Their complete record is here:

MK Dons v AFC Wimbledon

Games won:	8
Games drawn:	3
Games lost:	2

Date	Match	Result	Score	Competition
02 Dec 2012	Milton Keynes Dons v AFC Wimbledon	W	2-1	FA Cup
12 Aug 2014	Milton Keynes Dons v AFC Wimbledon	W	3-1	League Cup
07 Oct 2014	Milton Keynes Dons v AFC Wimbledon	L	2-3	Johnstones Paint Trophy
10 Dec 2016	Milton Keynes Dons v AFC Wimbledon	W	1-0	League One
14 Mar 2017	AFC Wimbledon v Milton Keynes Dons	L	2-0	League One
22 Sep 2017	AFC Wimbledon v Milton Keynes Dons	W	0-2	League One
13 Jan 2018	Milton Keynes Dons v AFC Wimbledon	D	0-0	League One
13 Aug 2019	AFC Wimbledon v Milton Keynes Dons	W	2-2	League Cup
07 Sep 2019	Milton Keynes Dons v AFC Wimbledon	W	2-1	League One
31 Oct 2020	Milton Keynes Dons v AFC Wimbledon	D	1-1	League One
30 Jan 2021	AFC Wimbledon v Milton Keynes Dons	W	0-2	League One
11 Jan 2022	Milton Keynes Dons v AFC Wimbledon	W	1-0	League One
09 Apr 2022	AFC Wimbledon v Milton Keynes Dons	D	1-1	League One

	The club was founded in 2004, following Wimbledon's controversial relocated to Milton Keynes from south London, when it adopted its present name, badge and home colours. The Old Carthusian FC (old boys of Charterhouse School, now based in Godalming) has the distinction of winning both the FA Cup and the FA Amateur Cup, a record held only by Wimbledon FC.