1883-84 season

Overview
The 1883-84 season was Fulham's (then known as St Andrew's) second season playing organised football, and the first season in which we have a few known matches. The club was at a completely amateur stage in its development, and as such, there were only friendlies played with no leagues or cup competitions. Tom Norman, the club's secretary and player helped form the football club into organised, competitive football shortly after a cricket club was formed. He would organise all the fixtures, all of which against local teams. Many of the teams were also other church teams. One such team, Christchurch Rangers, would go on to be a future rival of the club in the form of Queens Park Rangers.

We only know of a small number of fixtures to have been played during this season, though there would have most certainly been more. There appears to be no consistent home ground in which the club called their own. Matches were played on seemingly neutral grounds such as Clapham Common and Battersea Park. They did play one match on Eel Brook Common (a future home venue for Fulham) against fierce rivals Stanley, though this was where the latter played their home games during this period.