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Milton Keynes Dons Football Club is a professional football club founded in 1889 as Wimbledon Old Central Football Club in south London. In 2003, Wimbledon relocated to the town of Milton Keynes north of London with the club changing its name to Milton Keynes Dons in 2004. The club has been based since 2007 at Stadium mk, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The club currently plays in League One, the third tier in the English football league system.
The name Milton Keynes Dons was registered on 21 June 2004, nine months after Wimbledon F.C.'s relocation to Milton Keynes in September 2003 and its subsequent administration and renaming. Being in law the same business, MK Dons initially claimed the history of Wimbledon F.C. as its own. In 2007, as a gesture to keep the link with the club's south London history, MK Dons handed over its trophies won while the club was located in south London to Merton Council. This gesture was in part to ensure the recognition of its supporters' groups by the Football Supporters' Federation, which had previously boycotted the team.
Following Wimbledon F.C.'s relegation, MK Dons played in League One for the 2004–05 season and were relegated again to the fourth-tier League Two after 2005–06. Under the management of Paul Ince, the club won both the division and the Football League Trophy during the 2007–08 season, and were promoted back to League One for 2008–09, where as of 2012–13 they remain.
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