Honours
Wimbledon were a successful club even before election to The Football League, winning eight Isthmian League titles (including three in a row from 1962 to 1964) and three successive Southern League titles (from 1975 to 1977). Having also won the FA Amateur Cup in 1963, the run of Southern League titles prompted Football League election in 1977.
Even at the higher level, Wimbledon continued to collect honours; the most notable being the FA Cup victory in 1988, which made Wimbledon only the second club to have won both the FA Cup and its amateur equivalent. Despite swift success in The Football League, the club's rapid ascent combined with short spells in the Second and Third Divisions meant that the team only won a solitary divisional championship within the League – the Fourth Division title of 1982–83.
| Honour | Year(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| FA Cup | winners | 1987–88 |
| Football League Second Division | promotion | 1985–86 |
| Football League Third Division | promotion | 1983–84 |
| Football League Fourth Division | champions | 1982–83 |
| promotion | 1978–79, 1980–81 | |
| FA Amateur Cup | winners | 1962–63 |
| runners-up | 1934–35, 1946–47 | |
| Football League Group Trophy | runners-up | 1980–81 |
| Anglo-Italian Cup | runners-up | 1975–76 |
| Southern Football League | champions | 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77 |
| runners-up | 1967–68 | |
| Isthmian League | champions | 1930–31, 1931–32, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1958–59, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64 |
| runners-up | 1949–50, 1951–52 | |
| Athenian League | runners-up | 1920–21 |
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
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