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Dundee Wanderers were a Scottish football club based in Dundee. The club were briefly members of the Scottish Football League Second Division. Their home ground was Clepington Park (now Tannadice Park, the home of Dundee United).

The club was formed as Wanderers in 1885 as a breakaway from Our Boys FC (which eight years later merged with East End FC to form Dundee FC). Wanderers merged with another city club, Strathmore, in 1891 adopting the name Johnstone Wanderers. The club became Dundonians in January 1894 in order to apply for membership of the Scottish League. They were successful, but as Dundee FC had objected to their name, Dundonians became Dundee Wanderers in June 1894. They spent the 1894-95 season as members of the Second Division, finishing ninth out of ten. Their performance might well have been worse had they not been awarded two points after Renton F.C. failed to fulfil a fixture against the club, with the Dumbartonshire side instead opting for a glamour friendly against Queen’s Park F.C. Wanderers’ brief sojourn in the Scottish League did produce one record that still stands, however, with the club’s 15-1 away defeat to Airdrieonians F.C. remaining to this day the

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