Older Than deck / Places, institutions and traditions
Wolves
Football club formed
1877
Wolverhampton Wanderers, who play in old gold and black.
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“Established in 1877”Wolverhampton Wanderers FC: source, retrieved 2026-10-26; quote re-found by the server check
“Formed: 1877”UEFA: source, retrieved 2026-10-26; quote re-found by the server check
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