Dundee Wanderers Football Club was a

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club based in

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, Scotland. They were formed in 1894 as a result of a merger between two local clubs, Johnstone Wanderers and Strathmore. The club was briefly a member of the

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(SFL), playing in Division Two during the 1894–95 season, but after finishing second from bottom of the league they failed re-election. In December 1894 the suffered an all-time record SFL defeat, losing 15–1 to

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. Their home ground was Clepington Park (now Tannadice Park, the home of Dundee United).

History

Johnstone Wanderers and Strathmore were both members of the

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in the 1893–94 season, but, after six matches they both resigned. One week later, 1894 when a new club, Dundonians, was formed by merger between the two, and played its first match under that name against