in the Sussex League Division Two in 2012. The club was formed in 1999 by businessman
Marc White and friends Peter Buckland, Mark Lewington, Ian Davidson, Lee Spickett, and Penny Gregg. White described at the time of the formation of the club he and his friends were season ticket holders at
Wimbledon and had become disillusioned with how the club was being run coming to the end of its
Premier League tenure. The group decided to do something else with their weekends and so Dorking Wanderers were formed as an amateur recreational team. The club initially played in the
Crawley & District League. After their first season in the Crawley League they switched to Division Four of the
West Sussex League, winning the division at the first attempt. In 2001–02 the club finished as Division Three runners-up, earning a third consecutive promotion. After winning Division Two in 2003–04 they were promoted to Division One, and a third-place finish in Division One in 2005–06 saw them promoted to the Premier Division. They went on to win Division Three in
2010–11, earning promotion to Division Two. A third-place finish in Division Two the
following season was enough to see them promoted to Division One. the club appealed to
the Football Association, who overruled the decision after an independent ground grading visit confirmed that the ground reached the mandatory standards for Division One football. The team initially struggled in Division One, finishing third-from-bottom in
2012–13. However, they finished second in
2014–15, earning promotion to Division One South of the
Isthmian League. In the
2021–22 season Wanderers finished second in the National League South, going on to defeat
Ebbsfleet United 3–2 in the play-off final, earning promotion to the
National League for the first time in the club's history. They also won the
Surrey Senior Cup, beating
Kingstonian 5–4 on penalties after the final had ended in a 1–1 draw. The club's
second season in the fifth tier saw them finish second-from-bottom of the division, resulting in relegation to the National League South, the first time the club had been relegated.
Season-by-season record Reserve team In 2015 the club's reserve team were promoted from the Suburban League to Division One of the
Combined Counties League. However, they left the league at the end of the season as the club were set to groundshare with
Dorking during the 2016–17 season. The reserve team rejoined the Combined Counties League at the start of the
2018–19 season. In 2021 they were transferred to Division One of the
Southern Combination. ==Ground==